PSA: many desktop machines without a TPM still have a header for one. You can plug in a TPM module compatible with your motherboard, which costs about $20 from Amazon.
Tires are safety-critical equipment with a minimum bar of performance and externally imposed regulations on them that they function at an acceptable level. This makes them a mostly fungible commodity. Search engines are not, and as Google shows, have no minimum bar of performance that a reasonable person can expect.
Also you buy tires once, and then beyond wear and tear they don’t just randomly degrade one day. With search engines you are continuously subject to the daily whims of Google beancounters.
It’s not the lower/upper deck that is at different heights, it is the station platforms and doors. West coast has track-level platforms so the doors are on the lower deck, east coast has high-level platforms so the doors are above the bogies at the ends of the cars.
Caltrain’s Stadtler trains have both sets of doors, presumably for future standardization on high-level platforms.
Not a myth. The stinging cells work not by mechanical touch but in reaction to chemicals on skin. Pantyhose apparently prevent the contact with skin which would trigger the stinging cells.
I only had to do it for several minutes, long enough to have it boot up successfully and copy off the most important data over wifi. I do remember getting a bit dizzy during the procedure. The laptop was a pretty light PowerBook G4 from 2003.
My theory (based on the sound the drive had been making, which prompted me to try imposing different kinds of sideways acceleration on the laptop until I could hear the drive spinning ”freely”) is that it wasn’t a problem with the disks/heads but a messed up bearing in the spindle motor.
I had this happen once but the force that would cause the drive to work seemed to be gyroscopic rather that pressure on the casing. So I had to hold the laptop at an angle and turn myself around on the spot while I copied the data off. If I stopped spinning around the drive would grind/crash and the OS would hang.
A related concept in finance/trading is “drawdown”. A single trade can have a positive expected value. But over time, if you take a loss you have to get a bigger win to end up back where you started, because you have less capital to work with.
The city of Bellevue WA adopted SCATS a few years ago and driving there seems much more pleasant now. I can drive from downtown Bellevue to the Microsoft campus and often face only two red lights (if you know the area: crossing 20th St/Northrop Way and then turning left onto 156th Ave). Before you would be stuck at a bunch of red lights after the cross traffic was long gone. And almost every intersection now has permissive left turns where before you’d have to wait on an unnecessarily long red arrow. Don’t know how “dumb” their system was before but it’s been a big improvement.
I have been using Fastmail for close to 20 years and this is the first time I’ve noticed any downtime. It’s one of the few services I’m happy to pay for year after year.
Those one wheel things are very dangerous, if the motor cuts out or overloads it pitches the nose forward and slams you into the ground. A 4 wheel electric board is safer, it turns into a regular board if the electrics die or you can just jump off at low speeds. I use a Wowgo 3X which is about as close to a Boosted as you can still buy today.
It makes the capitals stand out more and I imagine it could be helpful for visitors who may have trouble remembering long sequences of Latin characters and may pictorially memorize the capital letters instead.
This is very annoying. In Safari, clicking icons in that style of nav bar instead brings up the browser’s back/forward buttons, and requires a 2nd click in a new location now that the nav bar has been offset by the height of the back/forward buttons.
I do the same, a small amount of water starts heating on the gas stove but I completely fill the kettle. Way faster, and in areas with hydro, better for the environment.
I’m Australian, it is mildly surprising. America is the land of convenience, and I’ve found an electric kettle even at 120v is still faster than boiling water on an electric stove, and much faster than boiling on a gas stove.
I don’t think that’s a good analogy. Mercedes and Hondas have tangible differences in performance and amenities. On the other hand, Chrome, Firefox, Safari etc. are built to operate to the same standard and work identically on approximately 100% of websites anyone ever uses.
99% of users don’t care that it’s the same engine. They probably don’t even know. Looks the same, works the same, what does it matter? They just want to pick the browser name they trust, log in to its account and have all their favorites/bookmarks there. Whichever engine the browser happens to use is the least of their concerns.