I've always preferred "Recombinative". Clearly conveys the generative /process/.

I recently stayed in a furnished rental during some business travel. The lease move-out checklist included an item "sign out of all accounts on the smart TV".

... if it's done right, of course.

But then again, I also implemented time restrictions on my children's accounts with a cron job that killed all their processes at bedtime. And I insisted that, as a condition of being able to play Roblox, they had to "friend" me and their siblings in the game. (But Roblox doesn't even support Linux. grumble, grumble...)

You're probably misremembering 2004. The "Acquisition Central" webpage only had a teaser annoncement that several systems would be migrated into it in 2011, and the actual go-live was in August 2012. On August 14th, 2012, the system homepage still carried a notice that

(I actually worked on that project, from 2010 to early 2013, but you'll note that I cite only public information above.)

For the last couple years, the male subset of my children's church youth group used Discord for coordinating activities, and I learned about my daughter's activity plans via email. As of last month, both subsets are moving to WhatsApp. I'm not sure if this particular change is "too little, too late" to have kept them, or if indeed it drives some of the youth and their parents away faster.

There's a proposal to build a "small" (24 MW) data center literally within walking distance of my home. utility press release newspaper article I haven't submitted my own public commnent on it yet, and I actually might be weakly in favor of it. It's "different", planning to use the waste heat as part of the city's municipal hot-water supply (used to heat State Government buildings and other downtown buildings).

The site in question is currently deep-discount overflow parking for the city's minor-league baseball stadium and downtown offices, but in fact even before COVID the parking garages were never full for some reason, maybe telework, maybe overall government size reduction, maybe some work moving elsewhere in the state, maybe more people carpoooling and using mass-transit. Across the street to the south is a recently rebuilt Wendy's, and then the freeway; to the east, an oil-change place, and then a railroad track. Some houses within hearing distance, but a lot of noise already.

I have a nonzero reputation on Stack Overflow, but I haven't written an Answer since May 2024 and the last of my Answers that has more than one upvote is from 2020. I for one hope it does weather the storm, but the high bar to making a "good" contribution is a challenge.

And the comparison to Wikipedia is apt in some ways; but Wikipedia also has a lot of content on history, politics, and religion, and in the past had (perhaps still has) some editors who wanted to make sure certain modern social causes were mentioned in all related articles. Stack Overflow itself doesn't have that. The subject area is purely technical.

Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/378/

From their status page...

> Oct 20 1:26 AM PDT We can confirm significant error rates for requests made to the DynamoDB endpoint in the US-EAST-1 Region. This issue also affects other AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region as well. During this time, customers may be unable to create or update Support Cases. [...]

> Oct 20 12:51 AM PDT We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region. This issue may also be affecting Case Creation through the AWS Support Center or the Support API. [...]

As usual, InfoSec TayTay called it almost 2 years ago: https://mastodon.social/@Swift...

The number might also be somewhat inflated by people who have a "work" account and a "personal" account, or an "employer" account and a "contract client" account, or who have switched jobs within the past year.

https://theguildshow.fandom.co...

https://xkcd.com/463/

https://mas.to/@mekki/11423000...

The proposed mechanisms are discussed in a cited paper from 2011: https://www.bmj.com/content/34..., which, itself, cites a paper from 2000: https://www.ahajournals.org/do...

TL;DR: "Possibly caused by an increase in the transport rates (TR) of highdensity lipoprotein (HDL) apolipoproteins apoA-I and -II" (De Oliveira e Silva, et al., 2000), but "The mechanisms by which alcohol influences high density lipoprotein cholesterol...are not fully understood" (Brien, et al., 2011).