I mean, come on. The freezers are on the Internet, no firewalls, fully accessible to anyone with a browser. Their "security" consists of rotating the admin password daily... to the current date. There are guppies out there that could gain access to these. The root cause here is willful negligence by the retailer's IT department.

The way you deal with Flock and their cameras is that you tell them you are terminating your contract with them and will be remitting payment for the remainder of the contract term. They have 30 days to remove the cameras from your property or arrange for removal. If the cameras aren't removed, you will remove them and store them at Flock's expense until Flock comes to pick them up or makes arrangements for pick-up.

Then you send them their money and, if the cameras are still there after 30 days, take 'em down and put them in storage. The cameras may belong to Flock, but it's still your property they're mounted on and Flock no longer has any right to have their stuff on your property. Don't argue with them, don't get into a debate with them, just do as you said you'd do. Sure they could take you to court, but seeing as they've received all the money they'd've been entitled to and their property is sitting there nice and undamaged waiting for them to come get it the court's going to ask why their case shouldn't be dismissed for failure to state a claim.

When you were last in Luton did you wander around the town, just like everyone else?

Would you care to tell us what the problem is "outside of the home counties"?

No, if you read it says that read performance is pretty much equal to uncompressed DRAM so you don't have to take a latency penalty.

Those "very special" use cases are actually fairly common. I routinely deal with data structures in software I write that are read-mostly: large data tables that are accessed in the inner loop (so need fast access) but whose data is updated infrequently (anywhere from minutes to days between changes, and often the changes are in batches so many changes can be applied in one operation). Being able to put them in compressed memory would free up a lot of normal memory for things that do actively change, which would speed up the application noticeably.

I don't think CRAM is a solution to the current memory price crunch, but it's certainly an interesting idea. The Redis cache software, for example, would probably benefit highly from higher capacity. And of course the same techniques can be adapted to flash/SSD drives where the memory itself isn't necessarily the speed bottleneck.

Wish we had changed Unix seconds to TAI instead of UTC when dropping 32-bit... Who cares where the stars are.

There was a deal between the US and Iran that was negotiated during Obama's presidency. You might argue that it wasn't the best of deals, but it did lower tensions, and constrained what Iran could do.

Trump didn't attempt to improve the deal, he just withdrew from it in 2018, which removed the constraints on Iran enriching uranium. He has done nothing to fix this in either of his terms in office.

Ah, so it took place during Biden's presidecy, therefore it was purely down to Biden, no other factors whatsoever.

Iran is a vile, authoritarian theocracy. So what success has Trump had reducing or eliminating the authoritarianism of the regime? How goes the negotiations to end the war and reopen shipping in the Middle East?

You have a theory, in this case General Relativity, that has been confirmed by testing for many decades. Experimental data shows anomalies that the theory cannot explain. So either:

- The theory is wrong (or incomplete)
- Our ontology is wrong
- Or both of the above

So, what do you do? Do you abandon the theory, in spite of the huge amount of evidential backing, or do you change the ontology while you investigate further?

Yeah, it's a well known fact that all astrophysicists are coining it, they are all as rich as Zuckerberg, if not Musk.

Oh and "Prove it"? As anyone who knows anything about science is aware, you don't prove things in science. Our theories are the best, current explanation for phenomena, but they are both tentative and provisional. Proof is for mathematics, logic and whisky, for science we have evidence.

I live in B.C. and applaud losing the time change, but think the choice of time zones going forward wasn't the best.

I'm expecting major buyer's remorse this winter when people realize that the sun sets at 5 in December and January, and doesn't rise until 9.

...laura

These homeless shoppers are likely to get poached sooner rather than later. With the deep knowledge they build up of any given Walmart store's layout, they'd make good candidates to get hired into the store's online grocery pickup (OGP) department.

I don't know if HEB includes a tip, but I know that Walmart doesn't do tips. When I worked in the front end of a Walmart Supercenter six years ago, associates were trained to refuse tips, and if someone insists, to ring it up as a donation to whatever charity Walmart is collecting for at the time. Often that ends up being the nearest Children's Miracle Network hospital.

https://www.photoncrystal.com/... gives a 10 year warranty on workmanship defects, and a 25 year warranty on the rated output (no lower than 85% of the initial output after 25 years). They give less warranty about how the curve looks than e.g. this company for traditional panels, but other than that it seems pretty comparable.

Save that a single human putting in actual effort can't turn out several dozen PRs a day, every day. That throttles the PR volume to a manageable level for the maintainers.

The answer is a simple "No.". Don't allow them. The vast majority will fail to meet reasonable criteria for acceptance, which is enough of a reason to reject them. For the rest, even if they're acceptable in terms of quality, the sheer cost of reviewing every pull request in detail and sorting the minority of acceptable requests from the swamp of slop will itself damage the project, diverting maintainer time away from feature work and fixing bugs, badly enough that it's not worth it. I think this sums it up nicely:

Why should I spend my time reading something you didn't care enough about to spend time writing?

I would put it another way, always favour those who will increase the wealth of Trump and his family.