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I got a kick out of the section about the Y10K problem in the docs for the new datetime-local input type:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...

marshall_lawon New York Times [Tech] Workers Are Fed Up with the New York Times' Union-Busting

> Another engineer, Shay Culpepper, said that someone in senior leadership told her directly that if the union is recognized without it coming to a NLRB vote, people will quit—an assertion the Times declined to address.

I really enjoy Times journalism, but I couldn't stop myself from chuckling at the irony that they have "no comment" here.

marshall_lawon So, you want to build a CubeSat?

10 years ago the cheapest launch options were in the $1-10M, and that's if you could even find a secondary / ride-along deployment. most satellite launches then would simply purchase a whole rocket, on order of $100s of M.

While this isn't consumer pricing yet, the orders of magnitude cost decrease because of lower cost / smaller satellites have made this much more accessible, and it's only going to continue as launch costs come down.

marshall_lawon So, you want to build a CubeSat?

go LSF! are y'all attending SmallSat this year? the Kubos team would love to meet up if so :))

marshall_lawon Nexus 4 available for purchase again today at 12pm PST

finally secured my 16GB Nexus 4. Tips / steps I picked up from various posts in this story:

- If you see "Sold out", just refresh. I had to refresh many times at certain points just to see "Add to cart"

- Sometimes the "Add to cart" just fails, go back to the product page and try adding it again.

- Once you have the item in your cart, don't click on "cart" again, because your can (and probably will) lose it.

- Even though "Proceed" is grayed out, you can (and should!) click it again freely.

- Make sure to use firefox developer web console, firebug, or something similar for your browser, so you can hit "proceed" as soon as the series of 3 http requests has returned. they looked like this for me (I had to enable "Log" under "Network" for firefox web console):

  [16:03:00.085] POST https://play.google.com/xhr/ce [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 70ms]
  [16:03:00.085] POST https://play.google.com/store/checkoutcart [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 450ms]
  [16:03:00.538] POST https://play.google.com/xhr/ce [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 59ms]

- You will see "Due to high traffic.." and "Oops! .." errors constantly. Don't give up :)