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"Never mind that most Ideas sets get a significant design overhaul before reaching production anyway." You've answered your own question -- selection criteria extend beyond physica…

I cynically fear that once "they" successfully ban Glyphosate from store shelves something worse will come along and take its place. And by "worse" I mean less studied, perhaps mor…

"I literally just spent most of today messing with my 2018 Samsung TV trying to get rid of the bloatware they pre-installed removed." Can you elaborate?

C# designers have always made good choices about syntactic additions. Contrast this to modern C++ designers who jam in every new addition with the goal of total inscrutability.

But also from Wikipedia: In Carpenter v. United States (2018), the Supreme Court ruled warrants are needed for gathering cell phone tracking information.

Everybody discovers too late that protocol buffers doesn't have any typing and then hacks on a header solution of their own. Tale as old as time.

"Can we even go back to Usenet without Google Groups?" No. Any group that doesn't have some kind of pre-post vetting idiom is going to have spam and abuse problems. This wasn't alw…

I've had four cats, two love tuna and two hated it. We ran of cat food and tried to feed them tuna and they wouldn't eat it.

Expand-a-band-band... patent stash!

Building a user community of Reddit's size is not something the CEO could reproduce or even repair if severely damaged which is something I think they've lost sight of.

"Opium" poppies are still grown at George Washington's estate, Mt. Vernon ( https://www.mountvernon.org/the-estate-gardens/gardens-lands... ). Since it's also in Virginia I assume …

It wasn't required. It was a moonshot that worked.

English has had a long trip to the language it is today. It doesn't help that at the latter stages of its development writers disagreed on or disregarded the rules of spelling.

> “I challenge any one of you to outwork me, but you won’t,” Maybe he has to work so much because he's incredibly inefficient.

If I could answer it would be a solid "maybe". If you're willing to consider the Translation Lookaside Buffer as part of the contents of RAM then, if the claims are to be believed,…

I share this frustration; sometimes communities move so fast that you cannot participate.

Why not just use off-the-shelf equipment with modified external antennas? Use OpenWRT on cheap equipment that will accept an external antenna.

You could turn it on by sending the correct Hayes command before connecting. It's really annoying! And it can't be turned back off again until you disconnect.

Sounds like these developers aren't very good -- they have one out of four traits of good developers. I suspect the "smart" attribute is held to such high esteem by your corporate …

I was shocked at how many keypresses it takes to make it slightly warmer in a Tesla.

I assumed it was invented when a developer cut down an edge connector breadboard and shoved it directly into the USB port then et voilà it's a development board.

That's a solved problem whose solution is called ipv4 over ipv6 tunneling.

Trademarks are only supposed to be infringing if they're creating confusion in the marketplace. The boundaries of a trademark are supposed to be within a single "industry". "Americ…