Is this Vegan?

Says so right on the box.

A U.S.-made Robot, designed to play sports.

Remembered I had an unopened Pi5-8GB on the shelf.

EFF supporter for years. Have so many of their t-shirts (amazing designs, btw). Cindy Cohn is the real deal. Anyone online should go pay attention to them.

Any kids coming from a school-issue Chromebook could get a great upgrade moving to these.

I know people who run Illustrator/Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, Logic, Microsoft Office, and Font Design software on their 8GB Macbooks. Obviously, not all at the same time, but at least 2 or 3 apps together without a problem.

This gives an on-ramp to those users looking for a new, shiny entry-level laptop.

Part of disaster-planning is to figure out the blast radius. If it’s just your house, or a small brownout, then something like this would work. As long as you plug your router so wifi can keep running, or maybe you can tether to a cell.

If it’s a neighborhood-wide outage, chances are internet is down and possibly nearby cell towers. Most of them are suposed to have battery backup.

We once had a six day outage and it turned out the cell towers ran out of power after a few hours. Phone companies brought in diesel generators just to keep emergency phone lines open (with degraded data). All the food in the fridges had to be thrown out after day 3.

It was right after that when a lot of people went and bought gas-powered generators as home backups. Many signed up for satellite data. Those who could afford it got solar panels and home-size batteries.

Gas station down the street.

The sample essay is… interesting.

When this automation fad showed up, many people pointed out that there would be plenty of cases where the training data just didn’t cover edge-cases. Problem is, life is FULL of edge-cases. This is where humans are uniquely good at improvising and adapting in real-time, when faced with previously unknown situations.

In fact, you can argue humans are really, really good at handling exceptions to the rule. Pretty much the textbook definition of “creativity.”

In the dotcom era, the push was to create lots of free services. Once you had enough users, you wanted to see how many would be willing to pay for it. There was a formula that justified getting more investment (it varied by domain). Back then, almost nobody other than Amazon survived the hard shaking of the tree.

We may be coming up to the point where customer acquisition through free service ends. Whatsever is left standing will move to the next round.

Everybody else gets dropped on the floor.

• History podcasts ❤️
• Technical deep-dives
• Science explainers
• Local, county/city-level history
• DIY (and mishaps)
• Music: instruction, remix, reaction, and ASMR
• Cackling, celebrity gossip
• Movie and SFX tech and nostalgia (Star Wars, Star Trek)
• ASMR
• Transportation porn
• Board games
• Crypto and finance/investment bros
• Crafting
• Alternative energy: EV, solar, wind, and heat pumps.
• Cooking, including terrible-tasting stuff (like hot wings)
• OMFG: unboxings

Agnostic, for development. iOS and Android.

Daily driver is iPhone, but I keep a Pixel with stock Android for staying uptodate with services and latest updates.

Used to keep a phone around to run stock AOSP, but nobody runs that.

If you have a password manager, you can set the answers to random, junk strings. My first pet? Why, dear Flag!spl@tch9. As long as the answers match next time.

And if they give you the option to create your own question, that could be a random string. As well as the answer. Static noise is your friend.

It’s lazy security.

Pre, or post-9/11?

That REAL Pi actually ends at 7 digits. Discovered by a greengrocer named Dennis.

There’s been an easy say to calculate it since 1800s using an abacus.

Edit: thought the /s was implied with, you know, “Dennis.” I knew I should have gone with “Humperdink.”

Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?

Bismillah! No, we will not let you go (let him go)

Will live in my brain forever.

Telling other people what they should NOT do.