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pewpew_··on Dear people who work at the airport
Flight arrival and departure times can change suddenly without ample notice. That was never a good way to locate your flight.
pewpew_··on Quality of drinking water varies significantly by airline
If you have good dental hygiene missing a brushing shouldn’t be a big deal. It can wait until you reach your destination.
pewpew_··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
I was attempting to use self checkout for some lunch I grabbed from the hotbar and couldn’t understand why my whole foods barcode was failing. It took me a full 20 seconds to realize the reason for the failure.
pewpew_··on Merry Christmas Everyone
Sam, things always work themselves out for the better. You will be fine, keep moving forward.

Merry Christmas!

pewpew_··on Behold GoldenEye 007 with four screens – dream come true or travesty?
Pistols / power weapons + License to Kill. Nothing was more satisfying than catching someone with the shotgun.
pewpew_··on Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004)
NVidia Riva TNT2 Series! I spent the better part of a summer doing odd jobs to earn enough to purchase one from the local Electronic's Boutique. Great memories :)
pewpew_··on Proposed EU rules would require clothes to last longer and be easier to repair
I needed a way to charge multiple Nintendo Switch Joycons for the kids. On Amazon the charger was around $20. On AliExpress the same exact charger was $3. I wasn’t in a rush so I paid the $3 and it arrived in a little over a month.
pewpew_··on Samsung plans $17B chip plant in Taylor, Texas
I live in NJ, directly across the street from a fire station. I also occasionally work nights to connect with team mates in other time zones.

You will always see the flashing lights but they have never blasted the sirens at night.

pewpew_··on Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Could Be Unmasked at 64B Florida Trial
From the first and second paragraph of the article:

"A seemingly run-of-the-mill trial is playing out in Florida: The family of a deceased man is suing his former business partner over control of their partnership’s assets.

In this case, the assets in question are a cache of about one million bitcoins, equivalent to around $64 billion today, belonging to bitcoin’s creator, the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. The family of the dead man says he and his business partner together were Nakamoto, and thus the family is entitled to half of the fortune."

pewpew_··on NYT journalist hacked with Pegasus after reporting on previous hacking attempts
You don’t need any input from the user/target. Once the malicious code reaches the device the exploit works its magic.
pewpew_··on ‘Rust’ crew describes on-set gun safety issues and misfires days before shooting
A friendly reminder:

1. All firearms are always loaded.

2. Be sure of your target and what is beyond it.

3. Keep your finger off the trigger until you’re ready to shoot.

4. Keep your muzzle pointed in a safe direction. Do not point the gun at something you do not want to destroy.

pewpew_··on School or Prison
> meeting some mental quota the teacher has for the appropriate # of people that should have to use the toilet during a given period of time.

In grade school, every time someone asks permission to use the bathroom they stop the flow of the lesson and valuable time is lost. In college the idea is that most of the students are responsible enough to handle the bathroom and food.

pewpew_··on Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them
This is my solution. 15-30 minutes before bed and maybe another 15-30 minutes in the morning on the weekends before the kids rush our bed around 7:45am. I'm using a Kindle Paperwhite.
pewpew_··on Students Left Behind by Remote Learning
> Teaching is not collaborative work, and I would not be comfortable giving a peer review to someone who I never interacted with, outside my lunch break.

This feels like an assumption to me.

My wife is a public school teacher. There has always been heavy collaboration between her and her colleagues, even more so now with remote learning. There are certainly unmotivated and lazy teachers and the other teachers know who they are.