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At least protesting is doing something . What's far worse is the people getting emotionally invested and then just arguing on Facebook or going to bed sad. That'll just make you de…

I love being off-grid with just my slow inReach Mini 1. I can communicate in case of an emergency, but otherwise it's a great forcing function to not be hyper connected. I worry if…

I get so many ads on Instagram for things that are available alibaba but with fancy packaging and a huge markup. This seems like an evolution of the drop shipping hustle.

I have a hard time finding quality stuff, even when I want to pony up for it. Do you have a good resource? It's hard to know whether moving up in pricing just buys unnecessary feat…

Afaik SpaceX is only putting 5% of its shares up on the public market when it IPOs (newly minted shares, diluting the existing private shareholders). So the markets only "need to a…

> I don't see Alphabet share price changing much just because of SpaceX being valued 2T instead of lets say 1T Half of Alphabet's revenue increase last quarter came from marking up…

The timestamped part of the video shows an iPhone 15 and 17, both on iOS 26.3. 45% on the iPhone 17 and 25% on the iPhone 15. Only the iPhone XR in that test is on iOS 18. It score…

It's not edging; it enters the street going a consistent speed (usually >10mph) from my driveway. The area is heavily wooded, and I don't think it "sees" the cross direction until …

HW3, unfortunately. Missed the HW4 refresh by a couple of months.

Where I live isn't particularly challenging to drive (rural Washington), but I'm constantly disengaging FSD for doing silly and dangerous things. Most notably my driveway meets the…

Rivian isn't exactly selling well either. Perhaps more interesting is the F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck in 2025 and Ford still canceled it as a failure.

I'm curious what your personal experience is. My eMTBs are just as capable as my manual bikes (similar geometry, suspension, etc). In fact, they make smashing tech trails easier be…

> I hope there's some layer between Apple and Gemini In the press release Apple said they will be running this on their own hardware (both on-device and private cloud). They're not…

Definitely. Our hiring pipeline seized up in 2022 and we've been disproportionately hiring senior+ roles since, and many teams are senior heavy. I think AI is a convenient scapegoa…

That argument is easy to politicize and selectively ignore. See: renewables and EVs.

No. The ICE isn't connected to the drivetrain in an EREV; it's only used to provide power to the EV drive system. The Pacifica is what you'd call a plug-in hybrid (PHEV) because th…

Agreed. Convenience, maintenance, and operating costs were all top of mind when we bought an EV. Environmentalism was hardly a consideration.

The cracks in the media were already visible 30 years ago. Conservative talk radio was taking off, people were beginning to call CNN "Clinton News Network", and Fox News was right …

I memorized the invisibility sequence. Grabbing Oddjob and smashing in that invis cheat was a sure way to make everyone hate you at a party. Oddjob was a good pairing because you w…

I presume they meant owntone https://owntone.github.io/owntone-server/

I embarked on a similar journey last year after YouTube Music took down some albums I listened to religiously. I settled on Plex + Plexamp instead. I'm mostly satisfied, but there …

My situation is slightly different but also in semi-rural WA. I'm on Verizon Home 5g and it's way faster and more stable than Starlink. I'm always surprised when I talk to people t…

Eh, I think the tech stack is less important than the legal and regulatory structure. Most fintechs aren't banks and partner with a Real Bank™ to provide the actual bank accounts. …

Yup. Our operating principle was that if a question was asked in a code review, someone will likely have the same question when reading the code weeks/months/years from now and the…

My hope was that the mini would be a success and they'd eventually had a Pro Mini line, but sadly the mini form-factor hasn't sold well. I would buy a Pro Mini in a heartbeat.