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The article just says that SpeechAnalyzer size is "system." It actually treats each locale like an on-demand resource and Apple doesn't document how much space each one takes up or…

My Belgian Tervuren and I have a basic herding title and about 4 years of herding experience. The sheep movement is excellent. You could make it even more realistic by having them …

You’re so wrong. ‘“I think some faculty worry that everyone is going to discard willy nilly and then before you know it there won’t be anything left,” Walker said. “No, libraries h…

Exactly. Basically a cardboard shell with realistic covers.

I stayed at an Airbnb that had fake books on the shelves! I looked them up and they aren't even especially cheap. But they probably get stolen a lot less.

You're confusing the other library in the article with the (unnamed) one mentioned in the title, the Chester Fritz Library.

Sensationalism. That's routine collection management. Here's another article about the same library, the Chester Fritz Library, acquiring one of the 11 remaining copies of a 444-ye…

Amazon has been slowly killing kindlegen since 2020. First they dropped the Linux binary, then stopped distributing the standalone CLI entirely. The only copy left is hidden inside…

AG Charts is in a simple/powerful sweet spot.

Related to that: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/05/software_prob... Defense attorneys in a DUI case got their hands on the source code for the breathalyzer. It turned …

A depression cuts both ways -- lower tax revenue, but lower labor costs too.

An electrical issue could cause a gauge to misreport. E.g. vibrations cause a bad ground.

Cheap flights, expensive parking. Paine Field doesn’t have massive garages like SeaTac. I’ve taken the flight from the article and my airfare was lower than my parking costs for ju…

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/russian-su-34-fullback... “The statement went on to add that the crash was caused by an issue with one of the engines during takeoff, but the …

I had a parasitic drain on my Tacoma from my Automatic device (OBD-II reader / GPS tracker). I parked in a garage with no cell service and it drained the battery by constantly tryi…

Possibly including John von Neumann, one of the greatest polymaths ever. Everyday life now would be different if he had lived to a normal life expectancy instead of dying to aggres…

If you like this, I recommend "Big Dead Place" ( https://www.amazon.com/Big-Dead-Place-Menacing-Antarctica/dp... ) by Nicholas Johnson, a garbageman at McMurdo.

They moved due to overcrowding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Library_of_Washington... .

Whistleblower here. It took 25 months from when I reported the fraud until the settlement.

The first line of the article is: "Roughly 70 percent of all Chinese fireworks entering the United States come here under the control of a Chinese businessman who has used his infl…