The creator also made the Jack Ryan TV series which, aside from the titular character working for the CIA, has absolutely nothing to do with Tom Clancy's character. They turned him into Jason Bourne. Looking at his other productions, it isn't boding well.

I stopped listening to TWiT not too long after they kicked Dvorak off. I think Leo didn't like him arguing about stuff. After he left, Leo would bring up a news item, the guests would say "Yeah that's cool" and they'd move on.

Not everything has to be drama-filled nonsense, but maybe a different perspective or two would be nice.

He got his start writing a wine column, but his editors noticed he was using a computer to do it, and put him on the fledgling computer beat in San Francisco. He has killer stories. Calling up Microsoft for information on a story at 9PM on a Friday and having Bill Gates answer the phone. Competing industry parties on mega-yachts. Producers at CNET-TV, before TechTV/G4TV, having no idea what they were doing. He'll be missed.

Yeah, all the hip/cheap/new coders all know node/JS inside and out, so that's what they program in. Your desktop application is basically a web app running on a webkit/chromium container talking to a local webserver backend. It *looks* like a real desktop application, until you look at a process tree and see node, and python, and chromium, and a half dozen other things running so you can see the battery status of your UPS.

I'm 90% sure it's all node or electron. CyberPower's UPS app is node based, along with Python/Twisted to talk to the UPS itself, so it has an entire server backend and Python installation to talk to a UPS.

Logitech does something similar. My Triathlon mouse occasionally triggers a driver update that installs some sort of shim that keeps asking to install the Logi+ app from the app store. You just uninstall and it goes away, for a few months at least.

I wouldn't mind installing it, it does offer some nifty tweaks, but at ~300MB it weighs in a bit hefty for a mouse options control panel. I can't imagine what other junk is in there I don't want or need.

I regret to inform you that you have woefully underestimated it. The actual retail rate offered to consumers is closer to $2200 US per gallon. Sources: internet-ink.com, cbc.ca. This $14 million fine is only worth like, seven thousand gallons, or less than 200 oil barrels of ink.

Why the hell is the US military using cell phones? The US has spent billions of dollars building out secure radio communications systems. They need to have servicemembers turn off their phones and drop them into those faraday bags when they are deployed.

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Where are you getting that he doesn't like code review tools? Keep in mind that he isn't expected to run them, he's expecting the submitters to run them, which is why he gets testy when he finds obvious errors in submitted patches.

Troll estate sales. I bought one last year for $10. It's a spare, as I have a half dozen, including one with an integrated mouse stick, a narrow version without a keypad, and the monster honkin' version meant to be used with the weirdo PC-based 3270 client. I think it weighs 10 pounds.

What does this have to do with "disposable computers?" For context, I'm still using a slim iMac to run some old Firewire audio gear. It works fine.

The windows equivalent would be Microsoft telling people to stop using some janky encryption overlay on top of FAT32, and switch to native NTFS encryption.

github burn /dev/cdrom0 https://github.com/Octocontrab...

I can go over to my friend's house for free. Our neighbors come over to our patio for free, too. Sometimes we make pies. If you want to get really technical, though:

Nominal cost for a nice pie on the patio:
Tub of raspberries on sale (in season) at Costco: $6
Sugar, flour, salt: I'd estimate $1, but I'll be generous and say $2
Coffee - 2lbs bag from Costco usually costs around $16 and makes about 15 big pots of coffee, so $1
So that's, rounding up, $10 to entertain about 8 people, or about $1.25 a person. I'd say that's doable for most people, it just takes some time.

Engineering car safety is notoriously hard. Almost every design choice is a compromise of one thing or another

Crumple zones make cars a lot safer without adding significant weight and reducing fuel economy. It means, though, that even minor collisions can total a vehicle, or cost multiple thousands of dollars to fix.

The most dangerous accident for a car is a rollover. One of the reasons is the roof can cave in and hit your head, injuring or killing you. One way to fix this is to reinforce the roof, which adds weight high on the chassis, and makes rollover accidents more likely, increasing the likelihood of other injuries from rollovers.

Lastly, you have legal pressures complicating everything. If you go ahead and reinforce the roof, you'll be sued for increasing the likelihood of rollovers. If you reduce reinforcement and the roof caves in, you'll be sued for that.