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You're not wrong. I use a lot of niche tools in my work, which often means cloning from git, modifying the code, dealing with dependencies(recursively sometimes) and building from scratch, which works 90% of the time, but when you find a tool that works exactly as needed and all it takes is an 'apt get install', that just makes my day.

I have a dog at work who jumps up on my lap and "helps" me work.

Planes can and often do land themselves without pilots on board. It's not a graceful setdown, but it's far from guaranteed to be a fireball. They just gradually lose altitude until they reach the ground, which if it is sufficiently flat, they then scuff across until they come to a stop.

It happens far more with heavy vehicles than it does with cars. A truck tyre will be inflated to somewhere around 90psi, vs the 30ish a car tyre is. Fleet service technicians for heavy vehicles will place wheels inside a metal cage before inflating in order to contain any explosions which may occur.

I had a great manager at a previous job who used to say that regardless of what the business does, if you're running a team, then you're in the people business.

I barely use compression at all. Additonal storage is cheaper than wasted time when you're working with lots of data.

Well, yes, but also no. The heat released by fossil fuels absolulety increases the total energy of the atmosphere, but the other half of a zero carbon society is that it is powered by renewable energy sources.

If we are generating electricity by slowing down atmospheric winds or capturing sunlight incident on the planet surface, then any "waste heat" from the usage of that electricity will be energy that was already present, and therefore have no net heating effect.

Illegal yes, morally wrong, I would say no.

If(and it's a big if) this is an accurate statement, then defending a presumably innocent person from harm should take higher priority than complying with jurisdictional boundaries.

They're typically not a physical toggle though, but a simple board which passes a message to the lcd controller board. You can also send these messages via your display connection.

Thats true for a lot of storm drains. Typically less so for household waste drains in developed countries.

"Wedged" implies that they were under some sort of elastic strain. Is it possible that something like a footstep on the floor provided just the right unbalanced force to release that stored energy?

I would advise against that myself. If your partner or your hotel cleaner find a diaper sitting out somewhere they probably wont hesitate to throw it in the bin. Then you find youself digging through a dumpster and ripping open diaper after diaper hoping its the one containing your wallet and nothing else.

Older diesels had a handy feature for it too, in the way of a hand throttle.

It was hunted to near extinction by introduced predators and considered extinct for several decades until a handful of survivors were located in some very remote areas.

When the survivors were found, the department of conservation moved them into a breeding program on some offshore islands where they would be free from predators. Since then the population has slowly grown and predator eradication programs on the mainland have had enough success that we're now taking a calculated risk on moving some of them back to their original habitat.

Double-clutching is for rookies. Real drivers match the revs and powershift.

I've always been fond of the idea that no person should be able to chop down a tree which is older than they are.

It was there first. Work around it.

Is slinging an ethernet cable across the road from power/phone poles an option?

Welcome to Antarctica, friend! The buildings at Scott base are all fitted out with handrails that the occupants use to ground themselves periodically while walking around, because static buildup is such a serious issue down there.

Funnily enough, there are cases where that occurs. The Zed Mini is a great example, where the orientation of the cable affects it's ability to fully utilise USB bandwidth. I don't recall the reason off the top of my head, but I have shared stories with a number of people in the computer vision sector who have torn their hair out over those cameras only to discover that they don't work properly when the cable is "upside down"

Don't just put it on your license either. In many places that isn't legally binding. Have a conversation with your partner/children/parents who are going to have legal authority over your body while brain dead and tell them you want to be a donor.