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"connected power inverters produced in foreign countries" I think home devices that phone somebody-elses-home are a cancer anyway. [1] https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-4…

I found reading "The Box" about the change to containerized shipping to be an interesting way to gain perspective a huge change, from the outside. On one hand, you could see how it…

I always liked 99.57CR

> Am I missing something? lol. the original statement was that AI written code is a mess "under the hood" And I tried to say - cars were "simple/fixable under the hood", then emiss…

Not criticizing function, criticizing elegance of the solution. Eventually with time elegance was achieved again. another analogy would be opening some computers to add memory/ssd/…

I wonder. I remember before emissions, what's underneath a car hood was relatively organized and simple. Then with emissions it became a maze of vacuum hoses and so much other nons…

My expertise in unrelated things tells me the dunning-kruger effect is in effect. As the cost of attention goes down, and the cost of communicating bad ideas goes down, capturing a…

"the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function" -- F Scott Fitzgerald Person…

I stand corrected. I looked it up and it is .1 seconds (100ms) The basic advice regarding response times has been about the same for thirty years [Miller 1968; Card et al. 1991]: -…

"it converted my gambling app into a three-armed bandit!"

also: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=MU&ia=web

I've already been burned via amazon a few times recently. Most recent one I bought a multi-tb hard disk, but got an old multi-gb disk shoehorned into legitimate box. Couldn't just …

Remember that vizio makes more money from "processing" your data than from the tv itself. I think we need car-based ad blockers.

maybe they deep-sixed that definition in the marketing documents.

that started with another US car manufacturer, tesla. (although tesla had casting hiccups with the suspension components of the model x) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga_Press

> '90s going online ... '20s going offline It feels to me like the change from: - old: going downtown to the restaurants and shops of your small village to enjoy a relaxing evening…

By the way, you should know some people have trouble with the *-itols, causing a range of uncomfortable gut problems. not only xylitol, but sorbitol, mannitol and maltitol. Also re…

I remember reading once somewhere: If some app responds in 10ms or less, it is INTERACTIVE . makes you think.

I am denied by cloudflare CONSTANTLY on one system. I have an old os (macos 10.11), running the highest firefox esr I can run, and I get denied by cloudflare. But not always immedi…

"Sexual Activity Tracked By Fitbit Shows Up In Google Search Results" https://techcrunch.com/2011/07/03/sexual-activity-tracked-by...

subscription "ai-powered" dishwasher with personalized user ads, most of the chip dedicated to "personalized" not spots.

maybe it is deliberate to throw off the spies.

We all want to search in a trusted way. Mistrust gets in the way of sales. But nobody wants that. They want you to buy their product, not the best product. I rarely see a store whe…

I thought there was an article a while back where devices could also log when sex was going on.