Personally I’ve started buying generation or two behind high-mid range phones as refurbished. I get a highish end phone for about what I used to pay for a lower end phone. There are better materials which go into higher end devices (I learned this when I worked for a phone manufacturer. Kinda shocking but also makes perfect sense at the same time)

That usually indicates battery wear. Phones doing weird things at specific charge levels is almost always battery wear, especially powering off above 0% or failing to charge under certain circumstances

I had one phone where it was the port, but I’m pretty sure it was water damage. It took one too many falls into puddles while fumbling with kids, carrying stuff and opening doors all at once

Big problem with HEIC is it requires H265 licensing because it’s effectively a single frame of video. This is why Windows won’t open HEIC by default is Microsoft didn’t want to pay for the licensing

On a similar note, my mind always goes back to this Burning GEVO Yule Log video

I wonder if the amount of SharePoint storage will be impacted by such a license chance too. One of my clients at work will be very unhappy with these changes especially if it means they have to buy more SharePoint storage

How did they get so far as producing an entire episode? Seriously?!

Trailer homes can be a very affordable path to homeownership. In rural areas it’s not an uncommon choice to find a plot of land and plop a manufactured home on it. They don’t have the same kind of staying power or value that a site-built structure would have, but it opens the possibility of getting some land and a home separately, especially if you buy an old one that needs some work and move it (and even moreso if you can do some or all of that work yourself)

Living in a trailer suggests more wealth than renting at least

Pretty sure she’s said some pretty Terf-y things in some interviews but I honestly haven’t paid close enough attention so I don’t fully remember

Technically GDP is just a measure of cash flow. So how much the government, private business and individuals spend all dumped together with all spending on imports subtracted. High GDP means lots of money changing hands but doesn’t necessarily care who’s hands, just that money is flowing.

That’s fair. Monty Python is a very specific type of humor, and while very popular amongst some, if you don’t get it, you don’t get it.

In case you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000, it’s actually a reference to the famous Monty Python Spanish Inquisition skit

Fetch…THE COMFY CHAIR!!

404media requires an account but gives you some number of articles per day for free. It’s annoying but they have super good reporting with more depth than many publications without being long winded like some

Oooh now we’re getting into drive formatting choices and filesystem quirks!

I was grabbing some files originally made for some old DOS software a few years ago and the site had a warning for the 20MB text file download. Like, my good friend that’s just the front page of CNN these days! Thank you for your concern but now it just seems quaint rather than thoughtful

Oh absolutely, and at PayPal he had multiple cofounders to do all of the hard work for him

Elon Musk clearly has enourmous skillset at managing startups from their early stages though their explosive growth stages. He’s successfully done so both with Tesla and SpaceX. Unfortunately his management skills are clearly incompatible with running a large company that makes up a notable portion of a market. He should have stepped away from Tesla about a decade ago (possibly as much as 15 years ago). He should have stepped away from SpaceX about 5 years ago. He should be known for growing a promising disruptive startup into a true market player then immediately handing the reigns away and moving onto the next startup, but his ego is simply too big for that, and he doesn’t seem to have the introspection to see the damage he’s doing to the companies he built up

Honestly, while not a scientifically rigerous test, it does demonstrate through absurdity the real risks of computer vision only for driver assist features.

Real world examples including of course the Tesla that plowed into a white truck on a foggy day because it mistook the truck for absolutely nothing among too many others

Seriously what is it with the Archer writers having far more subject matter expertise (and creating jokes by depicting accurate reactions to action movie tropes) than almost any other show?