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It actually doesn't light up anymore...

They are heavier (altough not as much as Lead-Acid!), which is why they don't tend to be used in "portable" applications like e-scooters.

Last time they charged for an OS update was with Mountain Lion, which was also the last "big cat" OS. That was in 2012, and it was only 20$. The last OS release that was over 100$ (or even 50$) was Leopard, in 2007, at 130$. Back then, the only way to get it was on a CD, which is obviously much more expensive to manufacture and distribute than a download...

I don’t bother correcting people if they think I’m a guy online.

There are no girls on the internet anyway ;)

If the west, especially the US had not invested so heavily in Ukraine, do you think there would be a protracted war right now?

Probably not, Ukraine just wouldn't exist anymore. How is that better?

If any country is guilty of that, I only know of one country in the world

There are a few countries like that, actually. There used to be other ones, too. The fact that one does it does not excuse the other. And no, it's not okay that one does it "because they're the good guys" either (altough I don't think many people outside that country think they're the good guys, really, I certainly don't).

No code is perfect and people can get really self aware about that. I know I have had imposter syndrome in the past where I thought my code was shit, but people always complemented me on the result. Opening up the code can lead to people seeing how shit it really is and call you out on it. The code is probably fine, but it’s a legit fear.

This is a noob fear. Seasoned devs know all code is shit ;)

I use famous computer scientists. Torvalds, Kernighan, Ritchie, Woz (for the MacBook). My most recent one was bought in Hampton VA, so I named it kjohnson after Katherine Johnson (as seen in the movie Hidden Figures, she used to work at the NASA facility in Hampton).

I think it's a good system, and I don't think I'll ever run out!

I've had very good success with Zigbee stuff, TP-Link Kasa outlets (but I've put them on a different router / subnet that doesn't have Internet access), and ESPHome.

Tuya stuff sucks (keeps disconnecting), JuiceBox (my car charger) changed their app so the integration doesn't work anymore, and the Aqara zigbee door sensors never worked for me (they pair perfectly, but then disconnect and never come back on).

So yeah, in my experience, once it works, it works, as long as there's no cloud involved.

For baseboard heaters, I have the Sinopé line of ZigBee thermostats, with home-assistant on my home server. Baseboards are kind of particular in that you have one thermostat per room, so at 350+ for a Nest, it'd be cost-prohibitive as I have like 15 thermostats in the house. Also, they're line voltage, meaning that they directly switch the full power of the heaters, so they need to be well made.

I've had my Sinopé thermostats for 2+ years now, and I'm very happy with them. No clouds involved here.

I still don't understand why it was such a big deal...

I get that blackface is an issue in bigger productions because yeah, they should really cast a black actor instead of putting makeup on a white one, but this was (as I understand it) a high school play where an actor of the correct race was probably not available (I know it would've been hard to find where I went to school), and even then, it most definitely wasn't a paid gig, so the issue around stealing jobs is completely moot.

Is it insensitive? Oh yes. Is it actually hateful towards black / brown people? I don't think so.

"They should learn the value of hard work" is on a completely different level, IMO. As if they don't work as hard as anyone else.

Also tides are not the same on both sides, even if they were the same average level, the tides definitely wouldn't be synchronized. This would result in very strong currents in the canal, making it impossible to safely navigate. The most common fix for that type of situation is to put... locks in the canal.

There already is a reservoir, it's called Gatun Lake. It's not filled using pumps, though, it's filled from the rain.

That rain is what's the problem right now, there's not enough.

Yeah, good code should explain the "what" without the need for comments. Good comments explain the "why".

I can confirm that dual monitors do work on my M2 Max, with the laptop's own screen I'm at three. I use this setup everyday, no issues.

I just never entered my Wifi details into my smart TV. I only use the HDMI inputs on it anyway, so it behaves like a dumb one. It's a RCA TV from Walmart, if anyone is wondering.

I just got into Factorio, and I'm lucky I have other stuff going on in my life, because it's such a big rabbit hole I don't think I'd come out! I never played it or even knew what the game was about, but the announcement last week about the space expansion got me to download the demo.

As a freelance fronted dev, I really love Docker. I don't need to mess up my system installing ancient Java versions or whatever Python wants to easy_install, pip or whatever, I can just run the backend Docker image and go on with my life. Especially when project A's backend has incompatible Java/Ruby/Python dependencies with project B.

You can shit on npm all you want (yes, I was there for left_pad), but at least they got the dependency issues between projects solved.

This last part sounds nice in theory, but it's way outside the scope of what Typescript is intended to accomplish. I've been pursuing a similar goal on and off for 10+ years at this point, I even wrote an ORM for Backbone.js so I could use it on the server as well. Back then we called it Isomorphic Javascript, later on it got renamed to "universal javascript", nowadays I'm not sure.

But yeah, the problem is similar with any code, really... What you're often writing in software dev is just functions, but the infrastructure required to actually call said function is often not trivial. I agree it'd be nice to be able to have different "wrapper types" easily, but I'm afraid their usefulness would be limited beyond toy projects.

Ring roads are what kills villages, though. A lot of them, like the one I live in, don't have enough population for businesses to survive on their own. We need that road that goes through it to bring customers to the businesses. If a ring road was built, all the businesses would just move there. You see this all over America; town centers dying while these big ugly "power centers" with more parking than actual stores proliferate near the highways.

As it is, with a rather touristy road going through it, my village fares pretty well. There are all the necessary businesses (grocery store, pharmacy, bank, etc.), plus a couple seasonal restaurants, and it's still walkable with a nice sidewalk for the whole length of the village. Said sidewalk actually sees a lot of use, and it's kept clear of snow during the winter. Would it be nicer if there were fewer cars? Sure. But I wouldn't want it becoming a ghost town.

Maybe in your neck of the woods, but around here, it's a minority. I'd say about 40% homeschool because institutional school doesn't have enough services for their special-needs kids (ADHD, hyperactivity, giftedness, dyslexia, etc.), about another 30% do it just out of conviction that there's another way that kids can learn (especially the whole unschooling movement, but there's also Montessori, project-based learning, etc.) and there's no alternative school around, the other ~30% is a mix of family circumstances, bad experiences with schools (bullying especially) and yes, religious zealots. The law was drastically tightened a few years ago, mostly because of these religious zealots, so they aren't very popular here.

COVID also changed that landscape a lot; a lot of anti-vax and anti-maskers started homeschooling when institutional schools started mandating these things, but most of these parents soon realized it was much more work than they thought and returned their kids at school as soon as the mandated were dropped.