When I lived in a tiny apartment, and had a tight budget, I felt completely unseen at the supermarket—I have no place for the surplus, and to get the discount I have significantly increase my spend. Thank goodness for “dollar stores”, who shift the other way to decrease the items value to keep it at the same price point (ie. 1/2-sheet paper towels in single packs).
What NPR affiliate station you listen to? WNYC runs a quarterly week-long pledge drive. The rest of the time you might hear a “funded by listeners like you” drop, but nothing like the regular cadence of commercial radio. The minute measure is not over the same period.
Our small business needs to use Windows (at this time) for some Windows-only software. We work to configure each box as bare and simple as possible for all the normal reasons. I can’t imagine this will make our work simpler while maintaining our data security.
Emperor has no clothes. Instagram is full of videos by mechanics explaining this or that brand/model is stupidly engineered. Known problem. And mechanics do not have a seat at the table where these matters are discussed and decided upon. Unless he plans to change that…
TATA owns Jaguar/Land Rover and they got ransomwared into complete shutdown. the UK Gov't is giving them $1.5 Billion to get back to working, because it is tanking their entire economy.
Really shows how little they care about the needful for the things they own directly, then extrapolate that out to all the consulting they do. Complete shit.
The old IBM model Ms were often washed in a dishwasher - don't use soap, but hot water cleaned them out. Most circuit boards are (or were - I haven't looked in 20 years) washed in hot water near the end of their assembly. Just air dry for a day before use. Ideally you should was in deionized water (or at least rinse with distilled), but if you don't do this often most regular tap water is good enough)
The old model M's also had easy to replace keycaps so you could take them off and wash as often as you want. Only downside is the need to put them back on in the right place each time, which is tedious.
Not all electronic components are water safe, but most are. I have no idea how you figure out if your device is or not without taking it apart. If you do this "often" expect that screws will rust, or minerals will build up - each causing problems. However if you just wash once a year you can get a lot of junk out.
I dishwash my keyboards (Kinesis contoured) every year or so. Just rinse thoroughly, don't use high-temperature drying, and wait for it dry completely before powering on.
I have put multiple cheaper keyboards through the dishwasher over the years. No heat, no soap, and I make sure to thoroughly dry it of course. I wouldn't do it with a mechanical keyboard for obvious reasons, but I have done it many times with membrane keyboards.
I suspect the Model M was dishwasher safe (if you popped off the keycaps so they don't get lost - put them in a separate dishwasher bag). ... and there's a fair bit of material out there of people trying some variation of it.
Well. Yeah. The criticism of digital ID writes itself.
Given the US president’s inflammatory rhetoric about “Democrats” and “radical left”, this passage is an ominous prediction:
“Welfare can be rationed through digital checkpoints, ensuring that only the “deserving” poor receive aid. Policing is strengthened through biometric databases, making dissent and protest more dangerous.”
This mirrors the reasons for resisting Voter ID laws.
And given story after story written here on HN about corporations who are unaccountable for their poor data handling, given digital services routinely deny users fair resolutions for bad algorithmic actions or ambiguous “policy violations” and without human arbitration. (Ha! Or just Byzantine department compartmentalization).
If you’re not chilled by the thought of Universal Digital ID for every single bit of life’s necessities, why no? Are you team Ellison? Do you think there will be room for _you and your family_ on the Ark?
To put it in the words of John Connor: “That Terminator is out there, it can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with, it doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear, and it absolutely will not stop… EVER, until you are dead!”
LOL. Years ago I was listening to an interview with a MIT Media Lab alumnus, who answered an audience question about Star Trek. Of course she’s a fan, she explained, but Star Trek is a work of fiction, and her work in the lab, while imaginative, is not fictional.
Similarly, anthropomorphic technology is entertaining, but stop there. At least that’s the notion I subscribe to.
When I lived in a tiny apartment, and had a tight budget, I felt completely unseen at the supermarket—I have no place for the surplus, and to get the discount I have significantly increase my spend. Thank goodness for “dollar stores”, who shift the other way to decrease the items value to keep it at the same price point (ie. 1/2-sheet paper towels in single packs).
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