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Nope. There really isn't much reason to. The winters are mild, and Arizona is far enough south that there's still a good amount of daylight in the afternoons, at least compared to …

That book was a delightful surprise. I never expected that the chapters about giant, intelligent spiders to be the parts that kept me hooked. I'm not sure I could have cared less a…

> Personally, I feel the solution to insufficient teacher time is to use peer grading much more, and spot checks. Get kids to read and revise each other's works frequently, and tea…

Agreed. I lived in the southeast valley for 16 years. At the start of it, we were fairly near the edge of the sprawl, and now you have to drive another 20+ miles to get out of subu…

Phoenix regularly has overnight lows above 90F. It's pretty bad.

That study [0] had so many flaws it's not even funny. 1. It only had 12 participants 2. One of those participants was excluded from the final results 3. They didn't test the partic…

Best feature coming in iOS 13 is an option to silence all calls from non-contacts. I installed the public beta for that alone because I get so many of these types of calls, and it'…

Which foreach are you talking about? Array.prototype.forEach, for...in loops, for...of loops? The first only works with arrays and array-like objects. The second works on objects a…

Right, and I absolutely agree with that. When I bought my house, I had no expectation that utility services would be the same. While my neighbors and I have some complaints about t…

Thanks for the link! I've looked briefly at LTE internet service but hadn't seriously considered it because I'm just on the edge of decent cell service. While my phone usually disp…

I agree that the marginal cost of providing those services to rural homes is higher than urban/suburban homes. However, I think you're vastly overestimating the actual costs incurr…

Asking about marital status or number of kids isn't just a red flag. The Equal Opportunity Employment Commission often views it as evidence of illegal hiring discrimination. If the…

> That's an entitlement problem not an affordability problem. People feel entitled to live in certain locations. I would like to live in/near the city where I was born, lived a goo…

My 2016 Jeep Wrangler has Chrysler's garbage voice control. When I say "settings," half the time it hears "español" and changes everything to Spanish, and also switches the digital…

I lived and drove in the Phoenix metro area for many years, and there are very, very few areas that are as dense as most other cities. On top of that, the infrastructure is relativ…

> Fast internet everywhere - 100Mb/s+ cable, 5GHz Wifi, 4G cellular I used to say that. Now I live in a rural area, and the fastest speed that's even available is 5Mbps (and the up…

I suppose the theory is that open source is better (a) because you can audit it if you want to, and (b) it's more likely that someone out there has audited it. In practice, (a) fal…

You might enjoy this article from about 6 months ago (as I did). It doesn't get into torx or hex drives, but covers quite a bit of history of Phillips-like drives. http://www.instr…

I think the intent there would be that you can't intentionally degrade unrelated parts of the service. For example, if Facebook disabled your ability to view or upload photos becau…

I have the same issue. My favorite part is the sleepless nights: PVC -> anxiety about PVC -> can't sleep -> extra anxiety about missing sleep -> panic attack. Anecdotally, daily ca…

I've always been under the impression that concepts like thread/continuation-local storage were generally discouraged, but I never fully understood the reason. Obviously, you'd wan…

I'm not an expert in IR or computer vision by any means, so take this with a grain of salt. Air has such a low thermal mass that it doesn't measurably affect most IR sensors. Hot p…

> The concepts are clear to those with a Computer Science (CS) educational background, but since the large mass web developers come mostly outside of this arena it is a hindrance. …

IANAL, but in the US, I think only government agencies are barred from introducing illegally-obtained evidence. I could be wrong, but I think that if I (as a private citizen, not a…