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Well, I would rebut and ask why you call a 4x4 with a little open-roof boot a "truck".

I think most would refer to this as a "pickup", but I can easily see how this new Hilux is more of an SUV than any kind of real 4x4 offroad truck.

That's how we define spices, but what is "spice"?

Yeah, the actual smarthome stuff sucks, but protocol-wise they're all compatible so you can use any zigbee hub most of the time.

I think the question this raises is: Is Wordpress an application or a framework? Because what it's like at the moment is a half-furnished apartment where it doesn't come with a kitchen sink, but does have a bed for some reason.

If it's an application, a lot of what people need doesn't come in the box.

If it's a framework, a lot of what's built in isn't necessary and it doesn't let users pick what flavour of wordpress they want.

I was thinking about this the other day when I was using my 11 year old X1 Carbon. It was used an abused for most of those years and aside from the battery which doesn't have the life it used to, everything else works just as well as it did when it came out of the box (oh, and the 3G modem that will stop working soon)

My 2017 MacBook Pro on the other hand was comparatively coddled, yet in spite of Apple's quality engineering... one of the keys doesn't work, the coating of the screen has worn in places, the USB ports don't hold cables without them falling out, the touchbar occasionally flickers, it can overheat with worse performance than the X1.

Some of these are just luck (but the 2017 MBP was probably Apple's worst product in recent memory for me), but what can't be attributed to luck is the support. Okay, neither Apple nor Lenovo really supports either of those machines any more, but the Macbook will not receive the Sonoma update, and as a consequence at some point will no longer work with the latest XCode. The X1 on the other hand is still running the latest Windows 10 and probably will do for another 5 years.

That's what I would normally have assumed, but 100C seemed a little hot for water just sitting in a big cistern

> the temperature of the water in the heat cavern will vary between +45 and +100 degrees

I'm not sure if I should be assuming Fahrenheit or Celsius? The article isn't clear on the units here.

The carbon in the wood used to build houses will slowly (or rapidly in the most unfortunate cases) release back into the atmosphere by various mechanisms.

This appears to me like an elaborate "carbon laundering" scheme?

Producing concrete involves decomposing limestone into calcium oxide and CO2, which is done in a furnace powered by fossil fuels and then just released into the atmosphere. Concrete cures by capturing some of that CO2 again.

This plant takes more limestone, decomposes it using "renewable energy" (i.e power that could have been used to displace non-renewable sources, but isn't), but stores the CO2 in a tank, which is then just put back into concrete. Concrete that would have naturally slightly offset itself anyway?

The net effect is surely just a bit worse than nothing?

I quit WhatsApp and I'm now excluded from group chats with my family and friends.

Well, Yahoo bought Tumblr only, er, 10 years ago. Netflix had some great years since then and and my suspicion would be that Yahoo wouldn't have provided the investment needed to not be completely crushed by the competition.

I'm sure there's some alternative universe where Yahoo bought Netflix and ruined that instead. It's not that they bought the wrong company, it's that they just don't get it.

The latter. You write your shared libraries in Kotlin, compile it for multiple runtime targets, then call your Kotlin code from whatever runtime you're using.

Most of the YAML-configuration has been deprecated and is now in the process of being removed. With the exception of manually-configured MQTT entities and some database configuration, everything is mostly done through the UI now.

Good to hear - though I've seen this being deployed a few times now and it seems to have been mature enough for a while.

Has anyone really had a chance to use Compose Multiplatform on iOS? I've love to get an an opinion on what "Alpha" really means in this case

Most of the projects I've been working on have been about playing it safe by sticking to React Native or MAUI/Xamarin - but they're both kind of getting a little bit behind with Swift UI and Compose now.

The constant ritual of writing the same thing twice for 2 mobile platforms must have wasted more developer hours than anything I can really think of.

Intuitively I would say those look like GAN profile pictures to me.

Trying to more objectively analyse them, the things that give it away are

- Generic out of focus greenery background that is both a little too bland for professional headshots but also inconsistent between them.

- Odd details around the ears

- "pseudo earings" in the hair detail where the ears are covered.

- Finally, what the heck is going on with Breanna Miller's left shoulder?

I think the suggestion is that to the uninformed, "n*er" or "n***er would appear to be a censored n-word.

This is a completely impractical thought experience as usual. If a ladder is launched at your garage at relativistic velocity, it would be best to play it safe and leave the doors open to reduce the chance of a collision - let it pass through and hit your neighbour's house instead.

Also, I chuckled at the "Man falling into grate variation". "A man (represented by a segmented rod)" - very abstract.

Prefab concrete was popular in some areas of western Europe too, but fell out of fashion for housing probably partly because of its association with drab, dull public housing projects.

If the "glue" you're referring to is what I think I've seen, it's still much thicker and filling than what you can see in the video below (where you can still see light through the gaps)

Why don't bricklayers use this magical substance? If there's nothing to even out the courses, then unless your bricks have absolutely perfect dimensions, it's going to go all wonky quite quickly.

> The system uses a construction adhesive that's stronger than mortar and dry within 45 minute

Notably absent from this demo. And probably a harder problem than just placing bricks down.

> "MNAO analyzed some of the code and determined that the code provides functionality same as what is currently in Apple App Store and Google Play App Store"

Surely you cannot copyright "functionality" even in the US, is this not a bogus DMCA? Is there anything that average folk can do against these notices when they're sent to companies like GitHub?

Alcohol will never be on the table for a ban, but there's been some movement on having a New Zealand style phase-out of tabacco.

See also: Autopilot.

I think the disgust can be justified in some circumstances, when marketing is used to oversell or just outright deceive, in this case and others which involves taking advantage of common ignorance.

Not sure if id call it ruined just yet, but I was searching for some products on reddit the other day having not done for a few months and there was just so much more astroturfing than I remember. I bet GPT isn't helping here either.

Replacing anxiety with pain on a bed of nails?

One oddity not mentioned here that I came across recently, (which probably would go into one of those "things programmers don't know about postcodes" blog posts).

A system that used Postcodes for geocoding (not a great idea) was choking on PO Box codes that belong to districts (such as W1A in the London W district), but don't really correspond to actual street addresses.

This also catches some people out who will unintentionally use the PO Box postcode alongside the full street address of a business for example.

I've also worked on the TV Licensing systems (yes, the one that sends you scary letters every year). That has its own database of postcodes and addresses and I got to spend lots of time on the funny rules there.

> I've never seen a more useless support channel

The Apple support forums are the same. Full of self-righteous fanboys and broken or irrelevant links to "documentation". I think there's only one real Apple employee that actually makes an effort to answer questions.

> I'm trying to respect the client wishes

More patience than me haha, I remember the last project like that I was on with a small group of contractors - we spent the half of the first few weeks working around all these theatrical limits. We had an HTTP Proxy that could run over RDP. Fortunately nobody was really looking (or caring).