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It's a truism that every accident is actually a chain of events, or at least it was 30+ years ago at Embry-Riddle. Lower stakes situations recognize this with the "5 whys" techniqu…

Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower

> taxation of stock buybacks (which is a way to pay dividends without paying income tax on them I don't think you've got the mechanism correct here. If a corporation has cash, they…

See this all the time in Phoenix metro: A light rain just pulls down all the dust in the air and deposits it on the car. It has to be fairly sustained to wash away the initial dust…

The founding date for the original REO. I don't think they have an unbroken line back to the original

Story up thread is about an ambulance ride by the San Francisco Fire Department charging a grand. So in essence the EMS funding is the fire department funding and it’s still unsolv…

Technically, probably CloudFront.

> That's not hypothetical — it's a real measurement on the base model Mac Mini. Hmmm

Recently bought an SBC with a QCS6490 ( https://radxa.com/products/dragon/q6a/ ). Curious to see if the vendor winds up using this as a base.

My Great Wall SUV had a Mitsubishi engine and a GM computer.

For as long as the article is, surprised that it neglected to mention that the WS-10 started as an unlicensed copy of the CFM-56.

Waiting for an M413 motion detector to be commercially available.

And I thought rewriting 3rd party packages to work with AFS was crazy

It was probably a decade ago, but I used to have this extremely cheap e-reader that ran off AA batteries, used a monochrome LCD screen (no lighting) and was based on a microcontrol…

I think there's a finer point here: US consumers don't want to pay for local UAW labor. GM&Toyota did fine out of the NUMMI plant, and companies like Nissan and Mercedes are making…

I didn't see anything in the press release about notifying riders that they're not a quantum superposition of vehicle and pedestrian that can collapse into whatever legal domain th…

Isn't there a thermal cost to AVX instructions? Or, thinking of other reasons, if you're splitting up physical hardware into a "vCPU", it it possible that AVX doesn't map cleanly?

Is it true that it was sold for $10? There’s a common phrase in Texas deed transfers similar to the below which just means “The sale price is none of your business” Common Texas bo…

A "401(k)" is not a monolithic entity. In practice, most employers offer a choice of funds, with the most popular being a year-targeted fund that rebalances between equities and bo…

> Index funds are largely held by passive investors such as pension funds. Pension operators are not typically passive. It's a different story to say that maybe they should be give…

In the US, unless you have that much cash lying around, you have to borrow the money from a bail bondsman. They typically charge 10% for loaning you the money, and they're out the …

Finally, I can factor 21 at an industrial scale!

That's Kyndryl: They spun it off into it's own entity after "IBM Global Services" had such a (deservedly) poor reputation that they were scraping the bottom of the barrel for clien…

I was recently using Copilot to implement a small feature within a very large codebase. About 75-80% of the time, the code that was added matched the current style (warts and all).…

An employee-owned co-op results in extremely high risk concentration. If your co-op experiences a downturn, you are likely to lose your job and see the value of your share of the c…