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I only use Amazon to browse selections, and then buy direct from the brand's site. Buying only from Amazon made sense in the bad old days when most sites didn't have their act toge…

It used to be that a release was tried and tested. Now everyone's an unpaid QA tester months after the official beta period is over. And the folk wisdom of "wait until x.1" keeps g…

That's interesting because otherwise tedious chores like washing dishes or cleaning can feel meditative and therapeutic after I've had my coffee.

I came to a similar crossroads when I realized I did not want to switch from windows7 to 10 once security patches end in 2020. I've been using Kubuntu 18.10 since January and have …

The opt-out for rerouting is a truly awful design choice. One time I was driving up through NYC during a heavy downpour where visibility was only a few car-lengths ahead. Traffic h…

The increasing sprawl of non-search widgets invading the search result page reminds me of the AOL years where "the web" was funneled through a narrow portal controlled by one entit…

Fully informed consent should be a bare minimum for this kind of work. Tech should take a cue from the biomedical research community and adopt an institutional review board that ca…

The "hole" is a part of the ventricular system that produces cerebro-spinal fluid that circulates within the brain and spinal cord. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventricular_system…

Most of it is useless (I also prefer minimalist hardware). However the new x570 chipset for AMD motherboards requires active cooling as the TDP has increased from 5-7W to 11W in or…

The root problem is the culture at Boeing and the FAA has shifted from safety first to profit first. The investigative reporting from The Seattle Times[0] indicates that safety eng…

I'm most excited about the modern A72 cores, upgraded hardware decode, and up to 4 GB RAM. They really listened and delivered what most people wanted in a next gen RPi.

Technically, the Zune bug didn't kill the device. The bug sent it into an infinite boot loop until the following day when the leap year calculation could return. But yes, the diffi…

I would trace it to a few factors; most important is the rise of the influencer advertising strategy. It is vastly cheaper to simply pay streamers to hype up your game on Twitch or…

Indeed, design choices accounted for the biggest difference by far. I like that the title frames it as a language shootout to pull people in to see if their favorite language wins …

Even a brand new, unlocked, $1000 Samsung Galaxy S10 comes riddled with adware and spyware, some of it unremovable: "There are apps from Flipboard and Spotify as well as a unremova…

The use of such a vague and overloaded term as "anomaly" is deceptive. The purpose of communication is to inform the audience, and rather than clarify what happened, this statement…

I also had the overheating RROD. The problem with the 360 was the CPU heatsink mounting hardware was insufficient to maintain contact and the board would warp. It was easy enough t…

I found this to be the case for mid-level espresso machines as well. Luckily it is fairly simple to add a PID controller and a more accurate platinum temperature sensor to hold the…

Here is 500 fps film of the Saturn V launch for Apollo 11, narrated by Mark Gray. It explains the sequence of events over the course of 8+ minutes (30 seconds real time). https://w…

Using the search/filter options on the site is useless now. Most recently I was looking for a countertop hot plate/burner to replace one that finally broke (filament burned out aft…

Sony tried to do the same in 2005 when Microsoft released the XBox 360, only they kept pushing back the release date. Thankfully their E3 2006 press conference was such a flop that…

All the major SSD NAND flash producers finally hit volume production of 3D TLC NAND at roughly the same time last year which sent prices falling precipitously. I'm not aware of a s…

| social on their own terms I think that is the key insight. Phone calls and instant messaging before smartphones meant that you had to make a deliberate choice to be available at …

That was the first time I had heard the name Nixon and prompted me to learn about Watergate from the dead-tree encyclopedia in first grade. I've always pondered whether this could …