...and what do you expect?

If you want a proper "smart home" solution, you have to get an integrated package. Those aren't cheap and aren't things you can generally get via amazon.com.

I spent way too much on mine. But my outdoor lights turn on at 15 minutes before sunset and turn off at a random time between 10 and 11pm. I've got a couple thermostats which will warm up the first floor on weekdays to 66 degrees on weekdays half an hour before I go downstairs in the colder months. Also have a music system that can play any playlist off my server in any room of the house, or play a radio or internet radio station or even the audio of a TV station. Everything via physical switches or via a phone app.

Systems in the future will do more and cost less. Hopefully they'll be as secure and integrate as well or better than what I have now.

Is it worth it? Of course not. (Well, it may be worth it so that I don't have to turn off the outdoor lights when I'm already in bed. Because there's no way my wife's getting out of bed for that.)

There's evidence that women are more discriminatory against women, so it's possible that an increased female workforce would encourage a greater wage disparity and fewer management opportunities.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070318083402/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/newspapers/sunday_times/britain/article1265356.ece

At those numbers, it means that a female graduate has >2x the chance of being hired at Intel than her male classmates.

Shielded Ethernet cables are grounded at both ends.

A $10 ethernet cable will give you the same as a $10k cable. 0% packet loss.

What can this do that emacs can't?

Keyboard shortcuts that don't give you carpal tunnel in 2 minutes flat.

"Audioquest claims these cables are directional and an arrow on the connecter indicates the data flow from source to receiver."

lol

Yep, goes right through to post-secondary too.

http://www.statista.com/statistics/185157/number-of-bachelor-degrees-by-gender-since-1950/

"In 2012, about 0.76 million male and 1.03 million female students earned a bachelor's degree in the United States"

Girls consistently outperform boys in school. In all subjects.

The education system doesn't work as well for boys.

So it's super-efficient and all... if you intend to move no farther than 10 ft forward.

For greater distances, you could, say, keep the balloon constantly inflated with some kind of pump. And then, to save unnecessary weight and complication, you could do away with the balloon and let the pump shoot out the back of the vehicle directly.

I shall call my invention a hydrojet. Genius!

Read that as SystemD bug.

On the one hand I was confused how systemD was involved in the launch.

On the other hand, I was happy someone was fixing bugs in it.

I was in an economics class with a good friend. The class was given an assignment in which they had to calculate some nonsense. The teacher said that any language code or pseudocode would be fine.

The friend and I were the only engineers in the class and apparently the only ones to use recursion to get to the answer. He used head recursion and I used tail recursion. Everyone else apparently solved it with itterative loops.

The TA knew my friend and I knew each other and threatened to report us for cheating. I told her to go ahead and show our code to the prof or even a CS prof. The logic that my friend and I were so different in the code that the fact that we both used recursion was the only similarity.

We hadn't cheated and kinda thought it was funny that it looked like we did.

Now, I wouldn't be surprised if we got our code scanned into some database and a computer said we cheated and we would have no recourse.