Back around 1979, when gasoline prices started soaring with OPEC production limits and the Iran crisis, gas pumps didn't support three digits for the per-gallon price.
It turned out to be easier to set them to price per half gallon than to upgrade to support three digits. Those arrived pretty quickly, but for a while judging prices took a little math.

There's no reason why exchanges can't trade on, say, 1/10 shares, with a requirement to purchase 10 of them.

Less of my TV watching is OTA these days, I'm currently subscribing to Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Sling and HBO Max. Out of those, only Sling subjects me to commercials when I record (never watch live) "cable" station content or watch their "collected" episodes.

The TiVo has a hidden, but well-documented feature to entirely skip commercials, which is apparently based on crowdsourcing -- the skip points aren't set until some time after the show finishes (encouraging time-shifting). Even then, occasionally a show won't have commercial skipping turned on (Colbert in particular seems to suffer from this).

Sling's commercials can be skipped in 30-second increments depending on the network. "Collected" eps are less likely to permit skipping.
Frankly, if the commercials are of high quality (movie trailers, for instance) I'll watch them. But if I never have to see Kars 4 Kids again, I'd probably be willing to pay a pretty penny.

It doesn't even take authoritarians or law enforcement: All it takes is an insurance company lobby saying that it makes homes, cars, whatever safer, saving $XXX billions, to encourage new laws (on the order of seat belts, ABS, backup cameras, etc.). Certainly self-driving cars will be mandated that way: as soon as they're proven safer than human drivers, insurance companies will lobby for them to be mandatory.

Still, what could possibly go wrong? “Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that’s how it always starts. Then later there’s running and screaming.”

I used it maybe three phones and one or two printers ago. It was kinda cool to be able to print at home from anywhere, but at the time few apps permitted printing, and there aren't a lot of printer settings available.

I've had better results from Epson's Android app. Good settings support, good apps support.

A lot of independent bookstores see Bookshop.com as taking money and faces away from them. Shops that had their own online presence are getting shortchanged, there should have been some way of referring to local bookstores directly, rather than them just getting a cut of proceeds.

No, that statement doesn't say the disease is defeated. It says the government
"has taken decisive actions to engage scientists and health professionals in academia, industry, and government to understand, treat, and defeat the disease."

Break that down and you see "has taken decisive actions" -- that's not defeating the disease
Those decisive actions "engage scientists and health professionals" -- that's not defeating the disease.
Those scientists and professionals are merely engaged "to understand, treat and defeat the disease."

So in reality, all they're claiming is that decisions were made to encourage things that might happen.
That's the same as Owl landing on Winnie the Pooh stuck in a honey pot in the flooded river and saying, "A rescue is being thought of."
Except there's no rescue being thought of either.

It's probably consigned to the trash bin forever, as there is no money from Warner Bros. (now AT&T) to re-render the graphics, much of which are likely lost. Note that it was not shot on film for budget reasons, and a previous widescreen release was done by clipping the top and/or bottoms of scenes.

The subject line above abbreviates Larry Wall's motto for Perl: "Make the easy things easy, and the hard things possible."
There's of course plenty of room for debate as to how well Perl made much of anything easy, but as a long-term IT guy, I've seen generation of generation of low-code/no-code systems fail at the second part: you just plain run into a wall, which *might* be climbable but often isn't.

The newer systems are definitely better: Salesforce's Lightning provides enough hooks that the hard things are possible, but it's a sharp learning curve.
But programming has changed significantly since I first played with MUBAS on a PDP-11/03 and TRS-80 Model 1's: User interfaces are a lot more complex than 80x24 (or less) text (although almost universally based on HTML/CSS now). Databases are more powerful.

And we've been encapsulating functionality: is calling from libraries and object models that different from low-code systems? I look at a Macintosh System 5 event loop, to an Excel VBA script to Ruby on Rails to Lightning and you've got a pretty steady progression.

With Win 10, you hit the windows key, then type "Blue" and the bluetooth control panel and settings items both appear in the list.
So I never go to the control panel first anyway.

And then, why are there two? For Power, there's three or four different panels to manage it -- make it simpler.

Not only did they build a rich, complex world with multiple cultures, but they never dropped a thread. If something happened early, you'd likely see the consequences later.

And the Korra sequel (which I never did finish watching because Nick messed with scheduling, yes I know I can get it any time now, but I'd probably have to start over), took that world building and turned it on its head: What happens if civilization advances from just-barely-industrial into, say the Jazz Age: there's suddenly organized sports, factories, cars, etc. in 40 years, and it makes sense. Gorgeous design overall.

Back in the early days of the internet, I used the "Bender stop trying to destroy the world" approach, and set a password to something that nobody would ever associate with me.
But when I first saw a list of common passwords that shouldn't be used, sure enough "baseball" was on the list -- and I changed that one immediately.

So consider what everyone else's passwords are, not just yours.

I got the same message on a link to tor.com's monthly book giveaway. (John Scalzi's Redshirts)
The article has no mentions of Coronavirus.

The number of drugs that make it from Phase I Clinical studies to market is a percent or two. Safety issues that don't show up in petri dish or animal experiments can easily derail such products.
And this is a novel drug, it will get a lot of scrutiny... But it's a major advance, it will get prompt, likely fast-track review.

It's a lot better than you've heard. Get a bucket of popcorn (or go for the skittles, it'll match the color scheme), sit back and enjoy.
The casting is perfect to the anime, the over-the-top attitude is just right, and it felt like an extended episode (or rather pair -- there were a lot of 2-part stories). The dialog was delivered like the machinegun-fast dubbing, it never took itself seriously and it's truly fun.

I told this to a previous boss, and he fired me on the spot (he was kidding).

Hey, I got about 27 movies for a $89 annual fee two black friday's ago -- and that's in the first seven months before they started restricting. That's a great deal, and certainly a better one than the $20/month I'm paying for AMC (soon to be $22). So I had a one-a-day, any-movie-I-want contract for a year, and they pretty much just said, "the terms have been changed. Pray I do not do so again" (and yet they did). Limited per month. Limited access to first-run. Limited access to each theater it seemed. Basically, you couldn't go see a movie for months there. It got better for a bit, but not much, and I bailed.

But once they stopped letting you drink from the firehose, suddenly going out to the movies wasn't worth $10-14 a ticket, because I'd already paid for "unlimited" and expected about a value of maybe $4 to see a first-run blockbuster (that I could no longer get into).

They were terrible business people, and if they had started to make real money, there's a lot of angry subscribers who'd have been all over them for breach of contract -- not worth suing a company with no money.