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This is a great setup. I’m approaching the age where I just want things that work and for no one to move my cheese

Any form of hacking products to be more useful is a win in my books! I can see the multi room play being a nice thing on the odd occasion. Perhaps if I had kids and had to move aro…

I feel certain products just dont need apps or 'tech'. Speakers should not be 'smart' anymore than a powertool needs an app. It just turns products that should otherwise be long-la…

"Heavier vehicles are safer for their occupants.." Only if the other vehicle is smaller/lighter. SUVs were relatively uncommon when this perception of safety was established. Its n…

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What a crap business model these companies have if they rely on haggling over legal loopholes to operate. The business case, at best, is the status quo remains with material threat…

The BT46B being banned after a single race is a bit of an urban legend. It was not banned and was perfectly legal to run for the remainder of the year. The background to why Gordon…

These sorts of articles dont reflect how the US gov funds itself: 1. Gov spends $100 and taxes $90 2. Commercial banks then have $10 (100-90) in reserves at the Fed 3. Treasury is …

Thats really impressive students are doing this. These tools are non-trivial to use and it shows great initiative from them. I could see these tools being used proactively as part …

Have you used the Polars ( https://www.pola.rs/ ) package? It does what Pandas does with a fraction of the RAM and twice the speed

I am certain I'm in the wrong here but I'm struggling to understand Arrow's USP. I (originally) assumed it meant python/R users would be able to get around memory limitations when …

You will own nothing and love it

>> Have a handful of executives who can't wait to get back into their comfort zone - the office - and that office spending budget will find a way to get spent you could have just s…

Totally agree there. It is not a replacement and it is trying to solve a different problem. I dont believe Julia contributers are lying awake at night upset that other languages ex…

'highfalutin ivory tower' is a great name for a band :D Naturally you are correct and I am wrong to dismiss it as unimportant. What I'm saying is that the majority of R/Python user…

If we removed dplyr, then R scripts would absolutely scream so I find the speed argument for 'why switch to X' unconvincing. If users cared so deeply about speed, almost no one wou…

Based on this reply I assumed the topic was all about context-switching in a kitchen-environment. What a weird way to strawman

My guitar teacher has switched to using Rock Out Loud ( https://rockoutloud.live/ ) and its made an enormous difference. Music is no longer distorted and the lag is negligible so w…

Fascinating! I hadn’t heard of this before. The closest I’ve found in the same vein is a 1994 article by Edward Luttwak who predicted another wave of fascism in the western world d…

Credit growth expands the money supply and stimulates economic growth so long as that expansion is ever increasing (park what that means practically). This mechanism of credit grow…

Plug away! Thanks for the weekend reading!

Your solution is similar to mine, but I've gone a step further and put in times in my calendar when I'm available for questions/updates/requests etc. It doubles up as the admin-par…

Imagine your car only tops out at 250mph. Pffft how embarrassing. Top speed is a pathetic and long-ago irrelevant metric as its immaterial to driving enjoyment (or anything really)…

> I would bet on EV planes replacing regional jets Energy density of batteries are around 1/40th of that of kerosene (0.9 mj/kg vs 44mj/kg) so we are talking 44x the energy density…

Many cities (in the USA) are mandated to have balanced budgets, limiting the size and scope of providing UBI-style benefits so something like this is difficult to role out without …