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Questions that come to mind:

Was Steve Jobs rich in 1982?

In 1982, was the cost of a "real" Tiffany lamp within the reach of someone at Jobs's 1982 wealth/income level?

What are the chances that the item Jobs owned was a knockoff or a mass-produced item?

I imagine that Steve Jobs was the kind of person who would buy a $5000 lamp even if he was only making $20,000 a year.

So not the "someone paid $4million for an (specific) item with a celebrity connection" that I thought it was.

While there is nothing nearly as extensive as the Path, there are a few isolated underground plazas that each connect to a handful of adjacent high-rise buildings. The ones that immediately spring to mind are the Penn Station complex under Madison Square Garden (and Penn Plaza office building among others), and Grand Central Terminal. I think i've seen others, but I can't remember details.

I don't think they're as commonly thought of as a "I'll use this to walk from point A to point B while avoiding traffic/weather" option, but for people in the connected office buildings, they provide (somewhat overpriced) options for lunch/shopping as well as public-transit access without the need to go outdoors.

If there's a non-obvious workaround, why not post a link to it?

"Just Google it" isn't as easy as it used to be...

Initializing a new (or power-washed) android/ChromeOS device _requires_ a Google account, so if you don't have one (or claim not to) they device initialization process will generate a new Google account for you. Even if there's no phone number or SIM card in the device.

I've had a number of Android/ChromeOS devices over the years, and I've had each one generate a new Google account. None of these accounts have phone numbers associated with them.

I generally don't use these accounts for much more than downloading free apps from the Google Play store -- maybe more extensive use would trigger a "You must add a phone number to this account to proceed"?

The grocery co-op near me has occasionally faced the prospect of the formation of an employee/worker union. I imagine that unionization is a thing that doesn't happen (or get seriously discussed) in a workers' co-op.

I find this distinction vaguely fascinating, but (apparently) not enough for me to actually get informed about it.

Usually, in the process of reducing my error-generating code down to a simpler case, I find the bug in my logic. I've been fortunate that heisenbugs have been rare.

Once or twice, I have ended up with something to report to the devs. Generally, those were libraries (probably from sourceforge/github) with only a few hundred or less users that did not get a lot of testing.

I also suspect it strongly correlates with knowing the term "diamond-frame". In addition to bicycle-repairers probably knowing the term, it's also used among people who like/know other frame styles--in my case recumbent bicycles.

I have a chromebook that doesn't have video-out ports, but a relatively basic USB-C hub with HDMI-out port sufficed to get it connected to my HDMI monitor. Not sure if that's a counter-example, or something else entirely, but it may be relevant either way...

That Plugable adapter is interesting -- the page doesn't claim it's an "active adapter", and it only costs $15. In my mind, "active adapter" always translated to "costs $50 or more".

AKA "Meetup but not tied to Meetup" (and French!)

I decided to go with the assumption that it was a middle-of-a-ship square, thinking you would more likely have mentioned if it was one of the other two types. Then, based on the numbers around the outside, you can quickly determine whether the ship is horizontally or vertically oriented, and fill in two more squares as a result (and rule out a few more squares as a result of that). the rest of the solution proceeded quickly after that.

I used to do these Battleships puzzles regularly around 15 years ago, when I regularly bought/read Games magazine, which included them. My process, especially for harder puzzles, involved darkening (or otherwise tagging) the boundary between pairs of squares, as I determine that a 2-or-longer ship could not span that particular boundary. Usually based on a logic of "Well, if there was a 2 or longer ship there, there'd be a problem for the next row/column over" or just "there can't be a 2 or longer ship because I'm only allowed to darken one more square in that row/column"

This web-app version doesn't appear to have a mechanic for marking boundaries -- I frequently find electronic versions of traditional puzzles to (understandably) lack the flexibility to support the ad-hoc annotative solving process I developed over the years of solving these kind of puzzles on paper.

Links to information would be appreciated, even/especially if it's a complex task to do this.

(I never put a lot of effort into this, because having the Google account be anonymous/fake-named was generally tolerable for my privacy standards)

> same phone number (now a requirement) can only be used for 2-3 accounts.

I've wondered about this. Every Android/ChromeOS device I've ever bought, I had a new Google account created for it (during setup, instead of using an existing account), and only a few actually had phone numbers (I don't generally use smartphones for telephony). Is "Google account" synonymous with "GMail account" these days?

I've had this idea for an experiment where I get such a device (without a simcard), and see how many times I can iterate the Initialize-Device-With-New-Google-Acct-PowerWash-Repeat cycle, and how many Gmail accounts I would have as a result.