Why do you say that?

That’s the official count, but we’ll never know what the actual count was. A bunch of people who “voted” for Nader were trying to vote for Gore but got screwed over by the format of the ballot.

Also one of the most identifiable features of them are the floor to ceiling windows.

Some products have discounted prices for Prime members.

So… Yeah, doomsday preppers definitely showed their true colors.

But I think we also saw that there’s a lot of merit to being a reasonable prepper.

I’m lucky to have a reasonable prepper in my friend group. Because of their insistence, I had masks, a full tank of gas, and a comfortably-stocked pantry way ahead of time so I wasn’t yet another person adding stress to a lean/just-in-time/low-margin distribution system that can’t handle even minor hiccups.

Much like the goal of lockdowns was not to completely stop the spread but just slow it so our healthcare system could handle it, the goal of prepping should be to avoid causing shortages when our productive capacity is lowered.

That video was a mess. Miller trying his best to not allow an actual question.

To be fair though, that reporter’s gotta step it up. You can’t give these guys an inch of wiggle room.

Huh? Looks like 2024 to me. https://www.research.howarthlab.org/publications/Howarth_LNG_assessment_preprint_archived_2023-1103.pdf

He does have tons of other LNG papers though.

Instant promotion to… Essential Worker™

Cool vacations tend to be, unfortunately, bookended by extreme boredom and frustration of being stuck in a car. That was probably the most salient thought for that kiddo at that moment.

You can actually pluralize library and probably want to.

A more recent example comes from the med-tech giant Abbott Labs, which used DMCA 1201 to suppress a tool that allowed people with diabetes to link their glucose monitors to their insulin pumps, in order to automatically calculate and administer doses of insulin in an "artificial pancreas." -eff.org

We joke about someday having to jailbreak our own organs, but we're basically already there.

An exoskeleton let a paralyzed man walk. Then its maker refused repairs.

Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will

I'm referencing Game of Thrones.

If that makes you think of Reddit, that's on you.

Lol sweet summer child…

Looks like certified mail, not notarized. But still, ridiculous. https://retrofitness.com/faq/

I’ll keep saying it: We’re watching the information equivalent of Kessler Syndrome in real time.

Recently had to cancel Xfinity. Had to wait for a text chat so I could schedule a cancellation appointment. They didn’t call at the requested time. I called instead to make an appointment for them to call me back.

30 minutes of waiting and questions about what it would take to retain me as a customer or who could take over my account. I told them up front that Xfinity isn’t available at my new address but they had to ask all the questions anyway.

All of this nonsense meant I was 6 days into the billing cycle, so they had already charged me for a full month and held onto the remainder until the next month.

Ugh.

I fully expect that, just like the rest of the account management parts of Xfinity’s site, the page that serves the “cancel” button will be horribly slow to load, frequently broken, and borderline unusable, while the upselling pages remain lightning fast and reliable.

The Switch is ARM and uses several components from FreeBSD and Android. It would not be surprising to learn that they have the ability to compile system components like Virtual Console for an ARM Linux with stubs for Switch-specific stuff.

The SNES Classic is also ARM, and has much less going on than the full Switch OS (Horizon). That could be the core of what they use for the museum displays, considering there’s an ARM version of Windows too.

Either way, devs gonna dev. If you can’t get feedback at your workstation and always have to deploy to your target platform to test anything, you’re gonna move too slow to catch and fix bugs or build flexible enough systems to prevent them.

So much of dev testing is about trade-offs between rapid iteration and thorough fidelity. You need access to both.

From my own experience, I’ve done stuff like:

• built mobile apps that can also be deployed as desktop apps or web apps for the sake of dev testing
• built testing tools for car systems that fake out sensor input
• built HTTP wrappers for cloud-deployed services to allow them to be run locally
• faked out camera feeds for AR apps

It can get janky, cuz not everything works the same way, but most of what you work on is not platform-specific anyway and a good architecture will minimize the portion of code that only works on the target platform.

I can understand that.

There are very real problems with the rental situation in the US, even for people who prefer renting, but the news seems to only talk about the frustration of home-buyers-in-waiting constantly getting scooped by corporate investors.

There's significant overlap in these problems, of course, but it's not fair or productive to paint all renters as "failed home-buyers", even if it seems like it should bolster the movement by inflating the numbers.

You’re not wrong, you’re just not participating in the same conversation.

Like if someone says “Hey, Disney World is an abusive and corrupt enterprise” and you reply “But I like going to Disney World and I don’t want to close it down”.

There should be a way to address the problems without abolishing the whole thing.

But if we can’t even admit the problems because we’re afraid of where it will lead, we’re never going to improve anything.

“No fair, you’re only supposed to enact regulations that voters don’t want!”