A month or so ago, for the first time in years, I drove up highway 14 through Mohave, CA, to Ridgecrest, CA. The size of the solar plants that exist our there, and are still being built, is mind boggling. They're measured more in square miles than in acres. But, that land isn't farmland and never has been. It's dry scrub that gets almost no rainfall and has no easy access to irrigation, otherwise it would already be farmland. Donald Trump can go fuck himself.

I'm guessing that any place with a huge mosquito problem probably has millions of them in just a few acres.

Yes, we do care. I have Frigidaire refrigerator that's probably 20+ years old. Various plastic parts of it have broken over the years, vegetable drawers, door shelves, that sort of stuff, and I was able to easily buy replacements online.

Ditto for my food processor. The main bowl cracked after eight years or so and I was able to easily buy a replacement.

Also, about your claim about 1950's versus 2025 owners manuals, show an actual citation, please, or you're just re-posting lies you found on Reddit.

Came here to post the obligatory XKCD comic strip, but I see my work has already been done for me.

I've only ever owned a car with a manual transmission until we had our second child and we bought our first minivan. Ever since then it's been only automatics. Back then it was common knowledge that manual transmissions would give you *slightly* better gas mileage and that they were more reliable and cheaper to repair if something did go wrong; no idea how valid that common knowledge still is.

Every once in a great while I need to borrow a friend's pickup truck that has a stick shift. It takes a bit before my ancient memory takes over and I don't have to think about how to do the next shift. I don't miss them though.

How does anyone that's cooked more than one meal in their life not already know this? Of course a sharp knife will reduce the onion spray that irritates your eyes.

Use General Sherman techniques with ad blockers. Report *every* *single* junk video as spam. Make their life as difficult as possible.

Minor detail: Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln only appeared in Disneyland after the 1964 World's Fair, iirc, but I agree with your point. Did Disney seek permission from Lincoln's ancestors beforehand? I'm guessing not. You'd be surprised how many youngsters today don't realize that there actually was a guy named Walt Disney. I think the Disney Family Museum in San Francisco was partially started to correct that.

I'm assuming it's controlled by wireless of some sort, maybe from a phone app. Does a zipper company think about security, or will there be outbreaks of people having their zippers unzipped, if you follow my drift?

Back when it was the convenient place for a hobbyist to go for common electronic components. Needed a 555 timer, or a LM7805 voltage regulator, or maybe some random 1/4 watt resistor? That's where you went. About that time they also branched out into electronic toys, they kind you might have seen in the early 80's. Eventually they were just cell phones and batteries (remember the Radio Shack Battery Club cards?) Many years before that Radio Shack was owned by Tandy Leather, who sold, well, leather stuff. Weird.

"Git still can't track branches. If you delete a branch, it's entirely gone from history"

If you decide that a branch is no longer worth pursuing, why would you need to delete it? Just leave it in the repository and move to a new branch just in case you ever want to go back to wonder "what the hell was I thinking when I created that old branch?"

"And there's no timestamp for when you created a branch."

I agree with this criticism. I haven't found a quick and easy way to locate the commit in the parent after which the branch split off on it's own. Using something like SourceTree, you just have to scroll down until you eventually find it.

As someone that started with Visual Source Safe (pray for my soul), then over the years moved to CVS, than Subversion, and then to Git, I think I'll stick with Git.

If the origin site (GitHub, BitBucket, whatever) went down in flames overnight, it would only be an annoyance to our programming team, not requiring hoping and praying that the backups still work.

I keep Git repositories on my home NAS server for things as mundane as packing lists for various types of family trips. It just works, IMHO

At first I thought, well duh, just use EXR since it can accommodate an arbitrary number of layers. Though they're usually used for matte layers, you could assign a layer per range of wavelength, that sort of thing.

What the article seems to be getting at however, I think, is instead of just doing compression in the X & Y direction, also do compression in, I guess, the Z direction? i.e. across the spectrum of interest?

So while you're off at work, or wherever, you plan on leaving uncooked food sitting in the oven at room temperature?

Enjoy those food born illnesses.

The plaintiff's lawyers work on contingency. If the court rules for the defendants, it's not like all the members of the class now have to pony up for legal fees. It's the same for many personal injury cases; the plaintiff's lawyer only gets paid if they win, so they're motivated to win quickly and not just pad hours forever that their client would then have to pay for.

And, as a previous poster already mentioned, the purpose isn't to get thousands of dollars for each member of the class, it's to punish the defending corporation so that they're less likely to pull similar shit in the future.