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I don't get it either. All people wanted was the existing product with a front light. Instead they add a front light, touch screen, pogo pins instead of USB C.

One question I've tried to answer is: has Iridium ever made enough money to even pay back the cost to put the satellites up. Using Google for all these rough numbers the first cons…

That's how chapter 11 type bankruptcy works. The business continues to run but the debtors are now the owners. There's also chapter 7 where the business shuts down and stripped for…

I didn't even realize there was a RWD model. The website shows 3 options for sale and they are all AWD.

Front light would make it the perfect device. I use it on the go everywhere now, to limit the distractions inherent with trying to read from my phone. But in bed having to pull out…

I ordered the Xteink X4 not knowing about CrossPoint and I was so disappointed with the included firmware: - Almost no formatting on the ebooks you upload (no bold text, missing gl…

> 3) What do you think ASML had to pay Lego to design and create this model? Or maybe Lego has a small division that does custom models like this? Do we know the employee cost for …

Yes! Awesome Prof.

Everyone is talking about the Playdate but I have a related Duke story about undergrad classes incorporating new hardware. My Digital Signal Processing course (ECE major) made a bi…

They were about $3 billion in the hole when they went through bankruptcy in 2002 and the new owners bought it for $43 million (from Wikipedia). In 2025 they earned a return of $-8 …

How did you make the "missing" corner? I'm assuming it wasn't chiseled out. In the last picture is the to-be-removed section made of plaster and then concrete poured around it?

Maybe average cost of next-size-up SSD price divided by a SWAG of a gaming PC lifetime? So if I had to buy a 2 TB NVMe stick instead of a 1 TB stick it's an extra $70 and I upgrade…

The incremental improvements to the engine thrust is par for the course. The exciting thing in this announcement is the new 9x4 configuration (9 and 4 engines in the first and seco…

Is there a way in Obsidian to have a virtual file separator like `---` in yaml documents? For bases to work I need to split my stuff up into tiny documents but I'd prefer to have o…

I want to join in with a Garmin rant. I also made the switch to a Coros after owning 3 Garmin watches. Each Garmin seemed to last almost exactly 3 years before abruptly dying. Each…

Looks like it's $5k/month, minimum 12 months for "secure" images. https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-pwqgz3mnvxvok... You can always follow the "contact sales" form and…

> What are users expected to do exactly? From the bottom of the post I know what they are hoping users will do: > Suppose your deployed Helm chart is failing to pull images from do…

My understanding is that under ACA their profit is capped and if they don't pay out they have to issue rebates: > In the simplest terms, the 80/20 rule requires that insurance comp…

The health insurance companies are paid as a percentage of the amount of care that flows through them. So healthier customers means their profit is 5% of SMALLER_NUMBER.

My first question is doesn't blocking a listing that wasn't listed on Zillow just give the selling agent more of the exclusivity that they were trying to get? My other question is …

Then why reference the "Agentic Era" in the title?

Back when the tariff was first announced I remember seeing a whitehouse.gov announcement saying it was 30% with a $25 minimum per package. I can't find that but the [newest Fact sh…

I feel like I just read The Catcher In the Rye , but for middle aged developers. It was fantastic.

Seriously. I met a guy on Hwy 4 in front of the Starship launch pad that was selling found bits out of his truck. He was asking a couple thousand dollars for a whole TPS tile. I'd …

I hadn't made that connection but it's really apt. People watching Falcon 1 flight 4 get to orbit probably said "It's 165 kg payload, so what? We've been sending satellites to orbi…