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Hock Tan's only goal is to increase stock value. Period. At the expense of anything and everything else, stock value.

This. 100%.

I read an article a long time ago that drew a direct correlation between the need to contain/separate livestock in the American West and the battlefields of World War I. Basically,…

...or Spokane. "Spo-cane" is one I've heard not infrequently.

Sad day in the food world... William Post, who helped create Pop-Tarts died today as well. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/14/business/william-post-dea...

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https://eyes.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html shows the current status of the DSN, including bandwidth for each stream. Pretty interesting.

Back in the mid 90s, I spent a full year migrating my company and ~800 users across six sites from Exchange to Notes. I had no experience with Notes, and absolutely hated it when I…

+1000 for Trex!! I use it daily, thank you for creating it! I am impressed how it handles handwriting and crappy screen grabs.

You're assuming there will be any trees left...

REK can also handle most jets if necessary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reykjav%C3%ADk_Airport

Youth is wasted on the young.

The WTC towers were constructed to withstand a 1970s jet (707, DC-8, etc) that was on approach to JFK/LGA, hence at low speed and not full of fuel. This was not the scenario on 9/1…

Pretty simple, really. Pick a couple random files that should be in the repo, restore them from a random archive, check the md5sums against the source. If the md5sums don't match (…

The fact that as a customer that is impacted by this, I only found out about it when my backups and automated test restore failed is worrying. I get that things happen, but not rea…

The process of data sonification can help scientists better identify patterns in complex data and create beautiful music for the public.

They did have a couple of years with good commercials, though. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9v5p4

If I were a gazillionaire, this would be my yacht. Updated (sympathetically) to modern standards and efficiency, and open to the public as a museum ship when not in use.

Their biggest miss was not hitting the fuel dumps and repair facilities. Taking out a few ships, even carriers, would be easy to replace. Wiping out the logistics support capabilit…

Mr. Fring would like to see you in his office. Now.

"...an attacker with physical access to your Mac and device..." If someone has physical access to my Mac, I've got more things to worry about than them swiping my phone data.

Washington state's Department of Natural Resources have published a batch of high-resolution LiDAR images. These are stunning visuals of the topography, and they have very thoughtf…