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AWS is basically a utility. I think it's inevitable that their carelessness around billing will end up with them being regulated like one.

Electric battery storage is a better option, but also your home is a very leaky battery storage for conditioned air. At my last place i got a plan that was nearly free on overnight…

Living in a warm climate US city i noticed roaches almost disappeared once off the first floor, i saw only one in five years in a 7th-floor apartment.

Whenever we get to talking about three letter agencies, i wish people spent more time thinking about their threat model. Is the TLA surveilling me because they're broadly intereste…

Not about the UA flight, but the grandparent's first point. I can see how it's not simply superstition or theater. Critical info gets communicated either over fuzzy radio or 220 ch…

Same, i'm doing a kitchen reno and gave up on Home Depot because of this

Balancing out the other comment - there's two real supermarkets within a fifteen minute walk of me (another American). It's fun to leave meal planning up to whatever is on sale tha…

IIRC there's a legal distinction between mere unauthorized entry and unauthorized entry that involves circumventing any kind of lock

This is also where i'm at with ChatGPT. Its bullshit meter doesn't exist, but it has "read" everything in a way that i can't, so it's bad for truthiness, but it's great for search …

We (us, the people reading here, the demographic building the software and technology and automation) would do well as a community to spend more time on introspection about what en…

My guess is it's cost driven? IIRC insurance would not pay for mine when i was out of the recommendation pool but they did (were legally required to afaik) when the pool expanded t…

The whole mode of taking in trade news has changed. 20 years ago when i bought a Maximum PC i read it cover-to-cover. Can't imagine doing that now with anything other than a book o…

A friend bought land to build a house on where dowsing was culturally pervasive. He knew it was bogus but it was cheap compared to the land price and everybody around was heavily p…

The book is wonderful, as biz-tech-optimist quick reads go, and some of its ideas have stuck with me over a decade after reading it. I'm almost entirely off MSFT products now but i…

The students were nonconsenting lab rats for a bizarre media experiment. They have every right to feel used or betrayed because they were.

We lost something as a society when McDonald's shifted its good prices to their app. I'm able to keep up with the app deals but it's frustrating to spend any brain space on somethi…

Weather Underground used to have a great tool for this that they called Road Trip Planner, but it broke and they took it down several years ago rather than fixing it. While trying …