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> Regardless, a retractable "XJACK"[0] from the PCMCIA days might have been a better choice for this Ah thanks for finding the name, I tried to describe it in an older comment [1],…

For me, Sync only worked well to make phone calls ("Call Joe") And during a brief period, I also had a windows phone, where you could say "Call Cortana". Cortana was registered as …

It might be network slowness, one day at the rental counter all the paperwork had to be done by hand (and visa contacted by phone to process payment) because their system was down.…

Observability isn't just a rebranding of Monitoring, it's Monitoring + making it the most actionnable possible via standardization. Specifically, how to make the sum of all monitor…

> but get fed with all of their garbage "liked" content and can't filter that out. I definitely filter those out. About once every 6 months the tweets "liked" by people I follow po…

> The little modular port attachments seemed like a novelty at first, but now it feels absurd that you'd buy a laptop with a bunch of "hardcoded" ports that you can't ever change T…

If you're looking for an actual demo of the product, it seems that the weather map on https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/maps?lat=47.6032&lon=-122.... is powered by leaflet. I reall…

Right, that's something I was wondering when Boom was announced a few years back [1]. Will radiation be even worse for the crew if the plane body is made of carbon-fiber vs thicker…

MOOCs are really great for appeasing your FOMO in that area and giving you a more well-rounded education! You can basically take 101 intro course of any field from great universiti…

Not familiar with old Russian system but there are oral exams for math in France when you apply to "École d'ingénieurs" (engineering school), and it still exists today: It's basica…

> The main reason why VSCode is 'winning' the 'editor' wars is because Microsoft is spending tons of money to build a great product. Emacs, vim, and other open source projects can'…

> you would need to dig a dedicated subway tunnel The tunnels and their exits next to interstate highway already exist per the article, so at this point the construction costs are …

Right, but like every project, "temporary" can go a long way :) from wikipedia: > The DSTT was used only by buses from its opening in 1990 until 2005, and shared by buses and light…

> Even with dedicated lanes (which is costly and unpopular) they still need to go around obstacles like buildings, follow the roads, yield to pedestrians, pull into stops, etc. Spe…