I fly 200ish flights a year so figure 70-80 nights away.
2025 was 100% hotels but 2019 was about 80% Airbnbs.
Airbnb will never get my business back. Ever. The professional scammer hosts are so good at finding a way to nail me for a fee. Iâ(TM)ve taken perfect check out video and still had to spend hours fighting fees.
Airbnb allowed making guests do it.
They lost so much money to hotels theyâ(TM)re banning hosts from requiring it.
It has happened under both.
https://www.cs.wisc.edu/2025/0...
And DARPA has a whole program for it:
I bought a Ford F-150 XLT (the full-hybrid pickup) and was very disappointed to find that several of the features (Including Blue Cruise and navigation) were subscription-based with an initial free period of a year or so.
Other than that the vehicle is fantastic - but was very pricey when I bought it, so having to pay over and over for the features was a very annoying surprise. (They quit working rather than quit updating when the subscriptions run out.)
... a bunch of cancer progression theories based on cell culture progression had to be thrown out when it was discovered that the cultures were being contaminated by a particularly robust and aggressive cancer cell culture, HeLa, which had contaminated lab equipment like environmental chambers or survived equipment sterilization and eventually took over culture lines in labs.
Free speech includes lying.
Merit should always consider strictly value.
The $5K a year just gives you a $300 per person per visit discount. So pays itself back in 15 visits or so.
Plenty of us nerds can afford this and want to see news about this.
microwave labotomy
Another poster mentioned that it's actually focussed ultrasound.
Still sounds like breaking a piece of a system by stirring the brain with a knife (lobotomy) or burning it out with heat (cauterization), electricity (electroshock) or mechanical shock (blow to the head) - just carefully focused without (substantial) damage to other parts of the brain or its casing.
Ultrasonic destruction of a piece of the brain's reward/punishment/desire/avoidance mechanism rather than persistent unwanted fat.
It is surprising how often I encounter strings with NULs in the middle. Bytes have 256 different values, and sooner or later someone wants to transmit all 256 values in what was an ascii text-based conversation. HTTP is a good example. The conversation starts as a normal group of strings, until the header says "Content-Length:" and a bunch of binary data follows later.
Another issue in C is that strings are used for both immutable strings and for string buffers. Java makes it clear that string buffer is going to be something that grows, and a string is immutable. This allows optimizations like keeping the string length and maximum buffer size handy when the buffer is being appended too. C does both functions with the ever present char * type, for better and worse.
Garbage regulations like IP create these behemoths. If you want freedom, stop regulating monopolies into existence.
Statism creates billionaires.
You might want to read up on how current hybrid vehicles actually work, 'cause it seems you have more than one misconception going on.
I have. For instance, my latest vehicle is the Ford F-159 XLT,, the full-hybrid model of the F-series pickup truck line. Power train is:
- 6 cylinder dual-turbo engine. (runs low power but approoximately doubles output when a lot is needed.)
- 47 HP motor-generator "pancake" on the engine side of the ttransmission, to scavenge / return power to./from a 1.5 kWhr lithium battery.
- 10-speed automatic transmission, working with the lithium battery;s main alternator to fine-tune match the engine/mogen to the current driving situation. Max power of engine plus hybrid mogen; 430 hp.
- full four wheel drive.
So it's primarily a gas-engine power train with an electric-car motor mechanically coupled to the engine shaft. Many other hybrids, from the venerable prius onward, are similar, with plug-in variants having a big scavaging/peaking battery good for pure electric operation of tens of miles rather than a minute or so and a wall-powered charger added.
What I'm looking for is essentially a pure electric - totally electronic "transmission" consisting of alternator(s) between the batteries and the motor(s), plus a tiny engine-generator able to burn gas and feed some teens of KW of charging power into the batteries when running down the road or parked near it.
Bell Labs Unix -- Reach out and grep someone.
