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In the southeast states in the US, we experience "the pollening" each Spring, which can leave 1/8" or more of thick crusted pollen on solar panels. I wash ours at least monthly Mar…

I'll bite. Yes, it's a lot of money. It's several months worth of nice healthy groceries for a family of 4. It's my annual deductible on my health insurance. It's slightly lower th…

Ha! I did the exact same thing about 2 months ago. It saved me a lot of headache and research.

We were experiencing abnormally high electrical bills and I could not figure out what was happening, so I downloaded the granular usage data (15 min increments) from Duke Energy, e…

Kids go through changes in how they perceive their engagement with activities. At a very young age, they have little self-consciousness and will happily spend lots of time engaging…

Paris is working on some type of underground cooled-water network for AC in industrial settings. https://56paris.com/en/cooling-paris-from-below-the-city-s-u...

I have an idea for a hobby project to build a cocktail-table style curling video game for my local curling club. The official dimensions of a curling sheet are approximately 150 fe…

OP, if you're up for trying something different, curling is an extremely social sport that welcomes newcomers. There's a very active club in Utica. https://sites.google.com/uticacu…

My employer is in the midst of migrating petabytes of data from Snowflake to DataBricks. They’re sold on the “all in one” nature of the platform and believe they’ll save significan…

Regarding documentation, I think the DuckLake docs would benefit from a relatively simple “When should I consider using DuckLake?” type FAQ entry. You have sections for what, how, …

> ... they failed to keep the momentum and stopped taking risks. This is a problem that infects all of the large studios now, from Epic to EA, Ubisoft, etc. My read on it is that i…

It's a shame they didn't pick a name different from Apache Superset https://superset.apache.org

I’ve always been mildly bothered by the LED lighting in my home, as if it’s simultaneously bright but not illuminating. In simple consumer terms, if I wanted to shop for a variant …

Disney made a movie about this called Night Crossing in the early 1980s. More recently, there's a 2018 German movie about it called Balloon. [0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt008281…

I always wonder why people settle on a number like 49,000 when 50,000 is sitting right there, looking you in the face.

It must be about oil.

“Buy the rumors and sell the news.” Just typical market stuff.

As a parent with two kids that used Scratch during 2020 or so… be cautious. The web community was an unregulated social network with follows, likes, comments, and a wide age range …

If you can afford to support yourself, which I’m sure he can, there’s a serenity to working on small projects that are nothin the public eye. It may simply be that he craves some q…

In the world of tattooing, it’s frowned upon for a tattoo artist to take another tattoo artist’s original work and replicate it without permission, yet it’s common practice to take…

Brogue (Community Edition) also is awesome! https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE

No, it enabled them to find him quickly. There was other evidence, but with no previously know connection to the victim and the perpetrator having no prior criminal record, I was t…

There are legitimate reasons to want a camera either at your front door or surveilling your property. These can range from an increased sense of security to having documentation to…

When a man murdered a woman in front of my house last year, our Ring camera's photos of his car led to his arrest within 24 hours, so not entirely useless?

They already took it down, unfortunately.