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Sure, maybe it's not a _requirement_, but now we're all in more pain because the reporters are more interested in Fame than Safe Remediation.

At least in part because some of Taste is fashion.

Job's Done

> tracking occupancy patterns, correlating signal presence with known devices, identifying sleep cycles

Wait til you find out about Wifi and GSM!

We should know what’s in the retardant, yes.

The alternative to retardant at the moment is uncontrolled wildfires.

But once the scam has permeated the system, it's to your advantage to participate, because you pay either way.

Join the Rands Leadership Slack ^1, where you'll find other individuals in the exact same situation as you.

Whether you want to interact now or just read through the (long) history of how others have handled these situations, you'll find the nuance and encouragement it'll be hard to find elsewhere.

[1]: https://randsinrepose.com/welcome-to-rands-leadership-slack/

Seems like many devs don't even like to code. They just want to get paid.

(Not suggesting there's something wrong with that, per se. But good luck getting someone's who just in it for the money to go above and beyond.)

That's it! Thank you!

Found the text: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.x...

I can't see any way this holds up in court. What am I missing?

Developers don't care about cost of operation, only cost to build. If there weren't efficiency rules in building codes developers would still be building houses with paper walls here for $750K.

Swamp coolers are not effective during at least July-September, when the dewpoint regularly rises to 65°F+ for weeks at a time.

Drier than the south still isn't dry enough when it's 117°F with a dewpoint of 65°F. You'll end up with output temps in the high 80s (or higher), and the output air will be extremely wet.

Were they running t2.micro instances or something?

We're running 270k+ RPM no sweat, and our spend for those containers is maybe 1/100th what you're quoting there.

The idea that Rails can't handle high load is just such bloody nonsense.

You can build an abomination with any framework, if you try.

Once it goes beyond alerting, this is going to kill someone.

A driver will be on a 2-lane road (1 lane each way), and attempt to pass the driver in front of them. A car will be coming the other way, and they won't be able to get in front in time.

They'll try to slow and get back in, but the other cars will have filled the space. They'll have nowhere to go.

Perhaps in this example the driver shouldn't have tried to pass in the first place, but removing an "out" from this situation, in which everyone gets to go home to their families, is a horrible idea.

This is probably not what anyone who reads this title is expecting it to be.

On the other hand, there's a project on iOS, "Rubyist", that embeds mRuby and lets you actually write, parse, and execute ruby code within your app. It even has some hooks for calling into some iOS APIs (Widget APIs, most notably). It's a fun idea, but might be a dead project. https://rubyist.app

I wish there was a canonical Xcode project getting mRuby imported into an iOS/Mac app, so anyone could use it as a starting point for their ideas. I dunno, maybe one is out there and I just haven't found it?

Curious: what version of Rails was the codebase was running, and how long it had been around before it landed in your lap(s)?

Profit does not rise proportionally with costs as reliability increases (i.e. it costs a lot of money to make it more reliable, but you don't get to charge substantially more). The electric company monopoly does not have incentives to spend money to be more reliable. All the downsides of widespread power outage are externalized onto the customers.

Have you ever been to the American West? It's nearly all suburban. You would literally have to raze what's there and start over if you wanted to be able to efficiently transport people with public transport.

tl;dr Ad-driven revenue models let you distribute your content to the widest possible audience while still making money.

The marginal cost of digital distribution is (basically) zero. As a result, you have an incentive to chase the widest possible audience. This is going to drive your pricing downward to reach as wide a market as possible. The math is like this: A 1000x audience size is worth it even if you lower prices 99%.

At the same time, advertisers would like to reach as large an audience as possible as well. And, in many cases, you can charge _more_ for selling ads to a larger audience. (Either the ad goes to a huge number of people, as in traditional brand advertising, or you have more niches to target.)

So you simultaneously have incentives to drive your own prices to zero, because it drives up your audience size, and that simultaneously increases the prices you can charge for ads.

From an on-paper business perspective, it's simply the best model. It's why TV, Newspapers, and Magazines all did this before the Internet, and it's why the incentives are bent even more towards ads in a zero-marginal-cost-distribution environment today.

Yes, in the real world there are tradeoffs to all of this, but these are the major incentives at play.

This is a terrible article.

> air conditioners – which work by sucking in indoor air, heating it via compressor and then dumping that heat outside

And on and on.

300+ days of sun, access to jobs, no snow, nice climate half the year, cheaper than California.

> Based on this code, we can say that the photos that reappeared were still lying around on the filesystems and that they were just found by the migration routine added in iOS 17.5. The reason why those files were there in the first place is unknown.

Unless they have a way to roll the ADS-B info, it should be pretty easy to work all this out.

Hard to imagine this will actually make jet tracking sites/accounts/etc disappear.

The best way to get a job _has always been, and will always be_, knowing somebody.

Networking is an essential life-skill, and worth all the discomfort it takes to get better at it. (You don't have to be the top 1% of networkers to be successful).

> At least one person has been injured after reports of an explosion at the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.

> A man, reported to be a worker at the site, was taken to a hospital with serious injuries, according to Phoenix Fire officials.

This. YouTube video sponsorships, too.

The progress Dark Sky International (and friends) has made is very encouraging.

I have been extremely pessimistic about the dark sky movement making progress at all given how desperately fearful of any darkness the areas around me seem to be (daylight-bright streetlights, storefront signs to rival Vegas, etc.)

Truly dark skies are magical. I'm so glad they'll be around at least a bit longer.

This violates the "One Tool" constraint that OP requested, but the Standard Ebooks tool chain is available on Github for anyone interested: https://github.com/standardebooks/tools

Title here, "From Seattle move in a straight line due East. What country will you hit?" is subtly different from what the article is describing: "From Seattle, face due East. Now, continue forward in a straight line..."

I always wondered who y’all were and why you did this.