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It's arbitrary. We generally refer to "West" as 'West of the Mississippi River'. Mid-West as Ohio-ish to around the Mississippi River (i.e. Midwest (Ohio, Indiana); Upper Midwest (Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois)).

A lot of us still refer to Texas; Iowa; Nebraska; Missouri; etc... as just 'mid-west'. California, Oregon as 'West Coast'; Washington as 'Upper/Northwest Coast'; Arizona/New Mexico as Southwest; and Wyoming/Nevada as West.

Goes back to the days of expansionism in the early to mid-1800's, Texas and the Mississippi River were the "East/West" dividing line. Texas, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma also have the standard 'west' cartoon and movie stereotype (cowboys; saloons; tumbleweed; desert; etc...). In the mid-west it's more field or forest. And freezing cold wind. Lots of freezing cold wind.

Please don't make assumptions on something you don't know anything about.

Even many northern US states (around the same Latitude as Madrid, north), on average, are 30-35+ every day during the summer and 0C to -10C in the winter. Many Canadians have air con.

So yes, heating and air con is a requirement in many areas. I live in a northern state, and we regularly have full weeks that are 38-40C.

Can someone explain to me exactly how this works? It's not the oscilloscope producing the sounds, correct? Rather the visualizations from an audio file?

EDIT: Excellent, thanks!

What's really scary about this, is that it can be edited by anyone before being posted online to make you either look like a victim or an instigator. It's then picked up by the media (which apparently are just influencers or Redditors now). People will always view that initial video as fact, even after the full evidence is posted. This can ruin the rest of your life, the damage has been done.

While editing videos has always been an issue, it wasn't possible to gain notoriety, make money, or instigate racial/class/political/whatever warfare as easily as it is now. You just need to post an edited video and whatever side you want to instigate, you can.

Generally (and for the last 20 years or so), the excellent SomaFM[1]. Mostly DefCon and Groove Salad with some Synphaera[2], AAC streams all saved in a playlist in Strawberry, has been my regular goto.

Otherwise, I've been on a Synthwave/chillwave kick, since it reminds me of my younger years (80's/90's... rose-tinted glasses and all that). The Midnight; Brian Eno; Tycho; Tangerine Dream; etc... or whatever comes up on Tidal and Spotify.

My favorite though is Spotify's "Synthwave from Space" playlist[3] from aofd3. Otherwise, hard rock/metal, classical, ambient/"concentration" style playlists, etc... anything really, depending on what I'm doing. Sometimes just a local terrestrial radio station is good enough.

[1]https://somafm.com/

[2]https://somafm.com/defcon/ https://somafm.com/groovesalad/ https://somafm.com/synphaera/

[3]https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4sgUux9hmykyWYmVoe4W6p?si=...

If it was "long distance", you still had to by the minute. There were plans out there that allowed free weekends or other deals, but generally this was true nationally. If it was a local (same first 3 digit prefix of our 7 digit numbers, XXX-1234) or "1-800" call, generally it was a free. There were caveats, like in major cities, sometimes it'd be long distance to other areas, but generally "local" was the same three digit prefix as yours.

Anyone that accidentally dialed into a "long-distance" ISP or AOL number found this out the hard way.

It would be a missed opportunity if they don't have their secret base inside a volcano.

Yes. I think TNG is overall a better, comfortable show, but DS9 is more of a "space-opera" (akin to Babylon 5 or Battlestar Galactica), with a few one-offs episodes. Ronald Moore wrote both BS:G and DS9, so you see very similar styles between the two.

As of kernel 6.2, discard=async isn't needed anymore. It got a fix in 6.3[1]

[1]:https://www.phoronix.com/news/Btrfs-Discard-Tuning-Linux-6.3

While I agree with you (KDE user myself), I think the two primary desktops (Gnome/KDE) are serving two different purposes at this point.

Gnome seems to be catering more towards a 'hybrid' approach, easier to use with touch, laptops, simple out of box. The touchpad gestures are phenomenal and usability with portable/touch devices is really good. Wayland integration and scaling is miles ahead of KDE at the moment.

KDE is catering towards customization and traditional desktop use. There's more out-of-box features and using it on traditional desktop with keyboard and mouse make it really stand out. Their workspaces and KDE connect features are incredible.

Average income in India (in USD): $422/mo.

Average income in US: $4585/mo.

Considering most streaming/online services are out of reach for Indians, due to cost, and not for Americans, there is significantly lower impact on cell service. 4GB/$15 is isn't unreasonable for most people and can provide plenty of data for Spotify/Waze/browsing. Of course, that varies a lot when you start streaming movies over your dataplan. You'll hit 4GB in no time.

It's usually way over exaggerated in the US. The "I'm suing for $50000000 because I was the stupid one" is rare, which is why it hits the news.

While it's true we have lots of lawyers, you need them for everything from making wills to starting a business. They're not all criminal/civil and I'd be willing to bet that a lot have never seen the inside of a courtroom, they're just there to make sure all the T's are crossed and i's dotted properly in legal contracts. My company is rather small, but has four lawyers just to interpret EU to NA trademark/copyright/contracts/etc...

When it comes to "who's actually more litigious", the US doesn't actually come close to Germany; Sweden; Israel; or Austria.

"Here is a list of the top 5 most litigious countries by capita: 1. Germany: 123.2/1,000 2. Sweden: 111.2/1,000 3. Israel: 96.8/1,000 4. Austria: 95.9/1,000 5. U.S.: 74.5/1,000. The Top 10 also includes the UK (64.4); Denmark (62.5); Hungary (52.4); Portugal (40.7); and France (40.3)."

https://eaccny.com/news/member-news/dont-let-these-10-legal-...

Ahh, you're right, I remembered wrong. Gates stayed on as a board member.

Didn't Microsoft and Apple both do this in the early-Mid 2000's? I believe Bill Gates and Steve Jobs both 'retired' but were both brought back upon poor performance?

Serious question, as I don't know much about vehicle physics: Why not just put a bunch in the (now empty) engine compartment and gas tank area to spread them out a bit? Do they weigh a lot more then a fully built ICE engine+transmission/clutch assembly+full gas tank?

I don't understand why automakers aren't taking traditional small ICE vehicles and throwing the electric components in it. Besides having to spread the weight of batteries out a bit, is it really much harder (I'm not an engineer by any means)?

I'd love to see an EV version of the boring Corollas; Civics; Fits; Imprezas; or Yaris out there, instead of them doing... whatever it is they're doing (mostly redesigning everything bigger and, in my opinion, uglier). I think to me, and to a lot of people, a car is just a car to get them from A to B, and don't want it to set them back $30-$40k.

Except for a few Chevy Bolts and Nissan Leafs out there, the vehicles on the road seem to be Teslas and larger, fancier makes from traditional ICE manufacturers.

Let me guess, the Spotted Lanternfly? They are all over here (SE PA).

It was entertaining watching the old man (easily 85+) from my neighborhood walking around with a broom brushing them off trees and smashing them with his walker.

Looks like it handles a lot of items 'Shut Up 10' and 'Windows 10 cleaner' does. Great to have everything rolled into one spot, customizable, and easy to understand. Great work.

More often then not, someone doesn't pick up from the developer and it just... fades away. Shame, Latte is a fantastic project and is incredibly customizable and uses less resources off KDE's bars.

Honestly, At this point, KDE is just as light as XFCE and Gnome is pretty low too. From my testing, minimal KDE on Arch or Gentoo install pulls it ~450-500mb at boot, Manjaro and Suse around 550-600mb.

Fresh Gnome on Arch or Gentoo I've seen ~650 at boot and around 750 with Ubuntu, around 650-700 with Fedora.

Gnome's Wayland implementation is much better then KDE at this moment, but KDE is quickly catching up. Nvidia still lacks, even with their EGL support. I use a Nvidia 1060 6gb on an updated (KDE 5.24), but several year old Manjaro KDE install with XOrg as a daily driver, and it's very smooth for me. Games work great. Maybe some occasional stuttering on my monitors that are 144 and 60hz (xorg limitation).

Gnome's gestures and by far and away better then KDE's too (at least as of 5.24, but 5.25 adds many more).

Consider adding WXPN to your repertoire. They're out of the University of Pennsylvania in Philly. Incredible selection of music and commercial free. https://xpn.org/

Better power handling per performance ratio, at least when compared to previous Intel generations.

Better integrated graphics, especially with the upcoming line, if what AMD says holds true.

Non-toxic approach to business.

Dr. Lisa Su has done incredible things with that company, and I'll happily support a group that recognizes the need for experience in top tech positions vs. MBAs/Lawyers/Fund Managers/etc...

Bravo to McDonald's for that. My company (I'm an American working for an international one based in Germany) is doing the same thing. They're also building temporary small houses for our Ukrainian employees and families on corporate property in Poland and Germany. They also tried paying our Russian employees full wages too, until local Russian authorities and NATO/EU sanctions stopped that.

That, and they matched Euro for Euro employee contributions to any Ukrainian relief effort they donated to. Outstanding response, I think.

Really, unbelievably cool satellite images. I don't know much about satellite imagery, is Himawari-8 always pointed to that area in the Pacific, or did we expect it to explode and was purposefully pointed towards the island?

Here's what I honestly worry about: queue the conspiracies, "New islands don't just explode like that! That's the Fauci-Gates COVID-5G nuclear testing site sheeple!"

...cause Krakatoa definitely never happened.

Me: Hesitation at last job moving absolutely everything (including backups) to AWS because if it goes down it's a problem I'm a firm believer in some kind of physical/easily accessible backup.

Coworkers: "You're an f'n idiot. Amazon and Facebook don't go down, you're holding us back!" <-Quite literally their words.

Me: leaves cause that treatment was the final straw

Amazon and Facebook both go down within a month of each other, and supposedly they needed backups

Them: shocked pikachu face

Actually, yes. Paternal/Family name is Hispanic; First name is after my great-great-great grandfather. That gives me an "ethnic sounding" name.

My first and last name aren't typical Anglo-Saxon (i.e. John; Mark; Bill; Ken; etc...).

I'm white with a "more ethnic sounding" name.

I wasn't getting callbacks or interviews by filling out that information on job applications or in Linkedin. Despite having 9+ years in Tech for a major company.

The day after I removed my picture off LinkedIn and stopped answering the "race" question on applications, I started getting tons of calls.

YMMV, but that was my experience, so I'm not shocked.