Refrigeration systems have heaters on the evaporator coils to defrost them periodically. Telling the control system to turn on that heater and leave it on will easily accomplish that.

"As technology and job responsibilities evolve, accommodations may be reviewed to ensure they remain reasonable and workable."

Translation: We'll grand the accommodation for now while our lawyers figure out a way around it.

We have traditional keys locks on the garage and back door. The front and side doors are UWB and they just unlock when I get close. If they stop working, I go get the hidden key and let myself in.

Or just open the garage door assuming power isnt out.

I have carried keys ... or misplaced them in at least 5 years and there are exactly 0 downsides unless you count walking around to the garage door to be life altering

I expected to wake up to this some day, but I did not expect to wake up to it TODAY. This is very sad news but I can say boldly that Patrick Stewart led a full and meaningful life and had a profound positive impact on the world around him.

Good night, Sir Stewart.

Unfortunately I've found that no single search engine does a particularly good job anymore. I end up searching in Duck Duck Go, Google, and even Bing of all things because they all do a crap job of returning good results now.

I suppose if altavista.digital.com was still working I'd try it too.

well, their chips are coming out of a foundry after all...

Not sure about the assembly of small electronics. It looks like that's still a fairly hands-on, manual process.

One of the barriers to automating the assembly of commodity microelectronics is that the revisions iterate fairly quickly. It's difficult to build an automated assembly line that can handle those changes. It usually just ends up being easier to have a person do that assembly work if the product is going to change in a few months and it would take a couple of months to retool for the change.

A broken clock might be right a couple of times a day.

Unless of course someone rips the hands off. Or if it's a digital clock that simply doesn't display anything. Or probably for a bunch of other possible reasons.

MTBF calculations are a bit of a scam in of themselves.

...is normally preferred with a good, crisp apple.

Anyone who used it for more than the 3 minutes of porn you watched?

Seriously no one has cared since you ousted your people for having an opinion that wasnt batshit crazy.

You haven't made a good browser literally ever and your entire focus seems to be political retribution.

Go duck yourself Nutscrape, no one that matters has cared in 20 years

You'd have to either discipline or expel cheaters. You can't discipline cheaters because then their mommy and daddy will stop giving money to the endowment. You can't expel cheaters because the school will lose the tuition revenue on top of that.

There is no financial justification whatsoever for solving the cheating problem.

This anti-AI bullshit has got to stop. If an AI finds a real bug in your program, sing hallelujah and move on with life. Computers will always be able to execute algorithms faster than humans, and with greater depth and accuracy. That's the whole point of their existence - to do stuff that is too complex for humans to do, and to do it quickly.

Bolsonaro: "We cheated fair and square and didn't win, so we're going to sue."

It's the same playbook Trump is going to use to try to overturn the midterm results because "we couldn't possibly have lost because we rigged the election with gerrymandered election maps!"

You'll see. Just wait.