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This is a pretty big claim to make. Do you have any sources that back it up?

Ugh, that does look bad. I didn’t realize it was on the side. Reminds me of the mouse with the charging port on the bottom.

If I owned one of these and had external speakers, I’d consider getting a basic USB audio adapter and using that so it’s out of sight. Bonus: it keeps your headphone jack free for actual headphones.

Pitching changes lead to a commercial break - and current coaching strategies lead to frequent changes. Combine that with everyone consistently swinging for the fences vs. putting the ball in play with runners aboard, and the game gets tedious to watch.

The part about built-in speakers is interesting. How often would you be connecting/disconnecting them? Seems like the kind of thing you'd connect once and be done with it.

OPNSense saves an AWS keypair. When it detects my IP changes, it updates a Route53 record using the AWS API. It’s one of the options alongside a bunch of other DDNS providers.

The AN-225 was in a category of its own. In fact, the Dreamlifter was modified to fit components for the 787, but it actually has a lower max takeoff weight (803k lbs) than the original 747 it came from (875k lbs).

Meanwhile, the Beluga XL only has a max takeoff weight of 500k lbs.

The AN-225 had a max takeoff weight of 1.4m lbs.

My router supports Route53, so I just pay the $0.50/month for them to host the domain. I don't foresee Route53 going away anytime soon.

I’ve gone the caffeine route before, and it works but only until the crash. The heart palpitations aren’t worth it, IMHO.

I’ve had a subscription to Brain.fm for a bit over a year now. Supposedly it doesn’t work for everyone but I find the act of picking a 60 minute Deep Focus block, probably just as much as the music itself, really helps me keep my head down.

My vehicles are insured, and car thieves don’t treat vehicles with care. Once it’s been stolen, it belongs to the insurance company. I don’t want it back.

I've never come to understand the disdain for tweet threads. Sure, a blog would be nice, but as a reader I have no idea if it's going to render correctly on mobile or be inundated with terrible ads. At minimum there'll be a braindead cookie banner taking up 1/3 of the screen. Meanwhile, the author now has to go set up a blog somewhere, link to it, moderate comments on two forums, etc. All because people can't read with a faint horizontal line between coherent thoughts? Or is there something I'm missing?

Only 12MB? I'm guessing it's basically just a webview?

The Onion is satire; that's not a real quote.

This was the same era that Linode had the compromises listed. It's a pretty apples-to-apples comparison, though I agree it has been almost a decade since.

Not really a compromise but there was a point where they weren’t wiping block devices by default: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6983097

Not sure if that’s changed. (Hopefully it has!)

The accusations are not against Asians. But the inciteful rhetoric has coincided with an uptick in hate crimes against Asians.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7364747/

I’m totally open to the idea that it was a lab leak of some sort. What I’m opposed to is certain political figures presenting that theory as fact, without evidence, for political gain at the expense of an entire race of people.

Another answer is "approximately 72% of what it was just one month ago."

That may return IPv6 if you have IPv6 connectivity, which might not be what you're looking for.

I just do this, myself:

IP=`curl -s checkip.amazonaws.com`

Doesn’t seem to work for me on Safari/iOS.

Couple alternatives:

* Search Google or DDG for “my ip”.

* http://checkip.amazonaws.com/

It takes more effort to wear an N95 than nothing. But it’s certainly not impossible, and for most people (including my overweight, out-of-shape self), it’s not insurmountable.

It’s like wearing pants. You’d have a lot more mobility if you didn’t, but we do it anyway.

I'm quite happy with the work environment of my current job. But I bet I can earn more money, so I'm interviewing. I'm specifically only applying to companies I'd really like to work for, though - I'm not trying to keep myself afloat.

After all, why not? It's not like you have to take a day or two off to potentially fly out for the on-site these days. It's been years since I played the interview game, so I need to keep my skills sharp. And if I get a better offer at a company I'd like to work for, why not take it? If the offer's not better, I can politely decline.

Snapchat? All the kids are on Discord now.

I would love for more places to serve things like Bubly/La Croix/etc or Fresca, both of which I enjoy at home but rarely out and about.

I’ve tried quitting caffeine in the past, but the problem I run into is that I’m actually not a coffee drinker, but a Diet Coke drinker. I don’t enjoy the taste of plain water. So at a restaurant/drive thru/etc, my options are diet soda (with 0 calories) or something caffeine-free with hundreds of calories. When you’re trying to budget calories, that hurts a lot.

At least I’ve been able to reduce my overall consumption of caffeine a bit, but I haven’t been able to cut it out completely.

NPM makes an interesting trade off - with the current scheme, security updates which improve the security posture of the application are accepted by default. Those are far more common than malicious updates. Would pinning dependencies lead to larger problems? Imagine if a log4j-like issue showed up tomorrow; most NPM-managed software would just require reinstallation to be fixed.

The power requirements to achieve that though are insane. Battery life will be small; heatsinks will be massive.

I keep a few moving blankets in my trunk. Good for protecting my car/items in trips to the store, cheap enough I don't care if they're ruined, and they'll also come in handy if something like this scenario ever happens to me.

Because these files aren't going backward in time, and it's quite unlikely this code will be in use in 78 years.

Besides the obvious (e.g. "not to be talked to rudely"), what positive outcomes did you expect to get out of this encounter?

If I was in my old apartment(s) in downtown Seattle today, during COVID, I’d probably be up on the rooftop with a small cooler of beverages, warm jacket, and a good pair of headphones.

Pre-COVID, I’d be somewhere like the 5 Point Cafe or another dive bar.

Or, I’d be working on one of my hobbies.