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> And besides it has branding value I wonder if it's so some brand manager can put "78% of XX managers have heard of our brand" on a slide after running a survey near the billboard…

Those issues could be diminished if ISPs actually handled abuse requests and shut down people's connections until they removed their malware.

My experience is real-life friends are more fleeting because you met them through geographic circumstances like school or work that change. Whereas your online friends are there no…

What kind of crashes? Could you have bad RAM and the crashes start once the bad chip get put into use?

Australia has been subsidizing home batteries

Although I guess now Australia has ludicrous levels of solar per capita - they're famously launching 3 hours/day of free electricity to try to soak it all up.

> I'm not aware of any common programs breaking into the terabyte category (even in most research) Wouldn't that be the commercial LLMs? ChatGPT, Claude etc are estimated to be in …

Yeah I've never had a $20 coffee maker or toaster die, they're too simple to have anything go wrong. It's always been when I splurged on a slightly fancy one it has broken, since t…

Thunderbolt cables also have mini coax cables inside of them rather than twisted pair. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBWnb0ZIlEA

The CalDigit TS3 dock has two different USB 3 controllers inside of it, each driving half the ports. One from Fresco Logic and one from ASMedia. I can't recall which one right now …

YMMV - I have three RTL8156 2.5G dongles - one in my Synology NAS, and two in different spots where I usually sit down in a chair and plug in my M1 Pro or iPhone to charge (on USB-…

When I first came here 15 years ago it was always more about "Bay Area Startup News" than Hacker News, it has definitely always had a heavy capitalist slant. I'd go as far as to sa…

They did for us. After having it there for a the better part of a decade. The luck of the draw with unreasonable reviewers.

By App Store rules (5.6.1), you're not allowed to ask for reviews through any method other than the Apple modal dialog. This means you can't make it non-obtrusive or customize to a…

> the summary screen showing the stats and points from your session just had, down at the bottom, “Do you love this game? Consider leaving us a review in the App Store!”? Apple App…

It looks like the building used LP Gas from a tank, and the was an automatic shutoff valve at the tank end and in each individual shop in the food court, but that still leaves all …

I've used my iPhones for underwater photography with just a normal clearcase and never had any issues

> As they become more common and age Induction cooktops have been common in Europe for 20 years now and I've never heard any complaints about them breaking down

I've always wondered why automatic earthquake shutoff valves weren't a requirement. Apparently they're required in some areas of the US by surprisingly recent code (2013 in Los Ang…

If only a 7.1 earthquake came along to cull the herd every now and then?

Many emergency shelters have not had their building safety confirmed so parking lots are opened to allow people to sleep in their cars, as they are warned to avoid "economy-class s…

GPS reference data shows the ground has been displaced as much as 84 centimeters https://news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/na-k10015189191000

This article has confirmation that there was a report of a gas leak, and if you scroll down there is a dashcam video of the explosion https://news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/na-k1001518872…