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Brother the government just labels "profit" differently. Most people would call it grift, pork, or "inefficiency". Government waste dwarfs private sector waste by orders of magnitu…

That's one read. For me it feels like practically (ASML, ARM, SAP not withstanding) their only "contribution" to tech is fines and exporting regulation. Sometimes this works out we…

Was? It's still online no?

I guess I have rather overestimated what a normal amount of wired devices is based on my own sample size. That or the opposite is happening with you. My house has a POE doorbell, s…

How much mental bandwidth do you put into not hitting a car that's in a different city? Even if all 100 layers collapsed to one, that's still only 100 satellites in 2600 square mil…

It would be incredibly unlikely for there to be enough competition at a grand enough scale for it to become a problem. Space is just very big. Earth's surface is ~197 million sq mi…

We are fighting entirely different battles. The main reason I'm focused on those 12-18 inches is drainage. Heavy clay will stay waterlogged for a really long time and basically dro…

It's not a hard transition between the layer I added up top and the stuff below, so bioturbation is happening - but it's a slow process. I've helped it along a little with broad fo…

Avid backyard gardener here. When we moved to our new house in Fort Wayne our yard was a real problem child. It was a new build in an old neighborhood. All the other houses where a…

You simply cannot cram enough cooling and power into a laptop to have it equal a desktop high end desktop CPU of the same generation. There is physically not enough room. Just abou…

That's a common perspective, but it oversimplifies a complex biological reality many people face. The body has sophisticated signaling pathways that regulate hunger and defend fat …

AlphaGo got better by playing against itself. I wonder if the pathway forward here is to essentially do the same with coding. Feed it some arbitrary SRS documents - have it attempt…

Found out I had been worried about my blood pressure for no reason for close to 4 years. When I moved I brought it up to my new doctor and he said "what color was the cuff". Turns …

Honestly I think the only reason you guys shipped as many units as you did was blocking other voice assistants from interacting with Audible. I've had an Alexa/Echo since the early…

As far as I am aware I haven't made any other calls at all. This one wasn't exactly hard to predict given their treatment of scotch.io Both were marketing/seo plays and long term t…

I basically called this the day the acquisition was announced: https://twitter.com/KrisRoadruck/status/1503738797527343105

I wonder how much longer this will remain true. Audiobooks and translations seem like near-term target for AI.

That's the alternative

I ultimately ended up getting an nvidia shield, but at that point it solved my biggest gripe with plex so I just switched back to plex and have been happy with it.

Weight lifting done properly IS stretching. Full range of motion is a big deal for hypertrophy. Static stretching is essentially worthless, and can actually be detrimental to perfo…

Two options: -- Accountability Coach -- Personal trainer Of the 2, personal trainer is probably better if you are new to the gym (been lifting 0-2 years) because they will also hel…

Every time I've asked them about an app for Samsung or LG tvs - the two most popular brands they've pushed back "we're volunteers, we don't use those TVs, it's not on our to-do lis…

Sigh... I don't know how the internet has convinced people this shit requires some magic incantation to cook eggs. I promise you I can cook eggs in any brand new lodge pan you hand…

Literally just cook with it. The main thing with everything except for teflon pans is you need to bring them up to temp before cooking, and you need to use some fat of some kind (o…

I mean they did say they were going to the moon to stay... maybe they meant it more literally than we're reading it ;-)