It would be nice to be able to control the music track separately, too, for the small minority of us who don't like music.

90% at five days out and 80% at seven days ( https://scijinks.gov/forecast-... ) is pretty good, I think. I doubt you are going to get that good by saying it'll be the same weather in a week as yesterday, except in places like the Sahara.

At the relevant time, I was mainly doing stuff in C, either command line programs or embedded stuff. Windows GUI was really, really intimidating to program for, but Visual Basic was perfect for making a simple GUI wrapper around a command line utility and making the utility friendlier.

In the family, we keep our e-ink Kindles offline, and install books only via USB (Amazon has made it a little more complicated to do that over time, but it can still be done). It's a bit less convenient, but it guarantees that nothing gets changed, and battery life is presumably even better.

I am not a lawyer, but I do wonder about the legality of changing files on someone else's device. I don't see anything in the Kindle Store Terms of Use ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/help... ) that one agrees to allow Amazon to change files stored on one's device. I expect somewhere there is some agreement to system updates, but this is not a system update.

All sounds right, except that lunch need not be any more expensive for in-person work if you just pack a sandwich.

Isn't the difference that this coating doesn't need electricity, but heats up via IR? Glasses with batteries would be bulky.

It depends. I might be willing to judge for myself that a picture frame patent is invalid on grounds of obviousness, and any courts that ruled the patent valid were just interpreting the law wrongly. But the compression algorithms for video are not obvious in the same way.

Almost two decades ago, I actually signed onto an MPEG LA license so I could legally use xvid for personal projects. The license requires no royalties under some number of encoder/decoder units (I think it's something like 10,000 or 100,000, I can't remember). Every six months they still send me an email asking how many units I've sold, and I typically say none.

That said, I am not 100% sure that US law forbids infringement of patents. It is possible that the law simply creates a right of action against the infringer but doesn't actually forbid infringement. In that case, I am being excessively scrupulous.

I'd love to be able to use ffmpeg for video conversion, but since I'm in the US, I worry that I'd be infringing on patents, so with regret I use (licensed) Adobe stuff instead. (Yes, I know that no one will come after me for private non-commercial patent infringement. But my moral beliefs require obedience to the law when the law is not fundamentally unjust.)

It surely depends on the individual. In math and often in physics, you just have to know a relatively small number of principles and can derice the rest as needed. Some people do a lot better at that than when there is a lot of stuff to remember.

One can presumably surround the device by a Faraday cage and not interfere with other people using GPS nearby. There may be unfortunate consequences, though, if doing so violates a contract one agreed to.

My own complaint is quite a bit different. I don't see why such a simple site as craigslist requires javascript, and has zero functionality if javascript is disabled.

A stationary bike is not boring if you watch or read while using it. I tend to have a TV show that I only watch while exercising, for motivational reasons. I went through the Expanse and Space 1999(!) that way.
That said, my preference is still for outdoor biking over stationary.

It wouldn't surprise me if the idea that sweaty is bad is tied to North American culture.

It seems to me that unidentifiable but tasty ground meats like "taco meat" are a great candidate for partial or complete insectification.

Whether it'll be a bad idea to keep on using is not clear. Once almost everyone moves on to a new version, there are likely to be fewer attacks on the old version. Probably in between there is a period when the old version is used by enough people but not maintained and hence an attractive target, but if you can wait that period out, it then may well be safer than using new stuff.