> Just in my toilet, I’m supposed to have an app for the seat, an app for the flush and one for the ventilation.
There should be some sort of unofficial rule that if you’re writing something that strains credulity, you should actually link to something that explains it.
I guess my only question is, what does Digital Ocean have to do with any of this?
If the author’s goal is to sever ties with all American companies that he possibly can, I think the post could have been a little more clear about that.
Just out of curiosity, why run "local-local" when you could just set up a Mini or Studio at home and query it over http? [edit] whole conversation about this in another thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433413
I’m personally considering retiring my MBP for a Studio + 15" Air whenever this MBP ages out.
I actually do this with my MBP - it's a LLM server when I'm working - and then when I'm not it's just a really great machine for video editing and other media work.
Hah. I forgot about that promo. That must have been the second version of Spectre (VR) or a console, I don’t remember having consultants when we worked on the first one, and we hadn’t connected with Moses Ma (whose offices those were) during the first one.
Yes it was Spectre VR, I slipped in with Michael Lyons and did some work alongside him on the AWE32 integration, which was brand new then and part of another promotion, and then we did some network things and fixed the BBS a few times. ;)
Moses was a riot, very exuberant.
It was an honor to have anything at all to do with Spectre, I was a pretty big fan of it .. until DOOM hit. ;)
When you say “never repair the damage,” do you mean that the practicality of refilling the stores is impossible due to demand requirements, or something else I’m missing?
The caverns the oil are stored in are old salt mines that were repurposed but that means the walls and pillars are made of salt. They pump water into the caverns to float the oil to the top when they extract it.
The water itself already dissolves the salt but if you get down to 70 million barrels then you start getting salt water touching on the plumbing which corrodes it, as well as the last bits of oil are sludgy and can also foul the pipes.
The strategic oil reserves were not built with an expectation of being used perpetually, they had a lifetime expectation of 5 full drawdowns and we’ve repeatedly done fractional drawdowns.
I only learned this a year ago and felt like we as the public have been mislead as growing up and as an adult the government always presented drawdowns as something that wouldn’t be a problem, we could always just top it back up later. And although I hate ever doing both sides arguments that’s been the impression I got from every admin since Clinton.
i'm not an expert in the oil industry, but my understanding is that caverns they have made are full of liquid to keep them from collapsing. For every barrel of oil they pump out, they pump a barrel of water in, and push more oil to the top and grab it out. And that once a certain percentage of it is just water, it changes its density, and all the calculations for its 'holding' strength were assuming a certain density range..
Lack of a decent RSS client is one of the major things keeping me on an iPad over an e-ink tablet. I wish manufacturers like Remarkable would get serious about having software platforms.
Not sure why this is getting downvoted (or why IE6 is being brought up in 2026). But yes, banks are super-highly regulated and for good reason. They’re subject to all sorts of accessibility laws, there’s loads of precedent here.
I tried repeatedly with several credit unions, with poor results. The final straw was the patelco hack that made the entire bank unavailable for over a week. In the aftermath they implanted crazy security measures where talking to a rep required 6 layers of increasingly invasive authentication. But... The hack was of the bank infrastructure. It had nothing to do with individualized fraud, all accounts were affected --it was just security theater. I went back to a major bank after that.
it would be such a blessing to America if the cool-midlife-crisis-move went back to sports cars and got more of those SUV urban assault vehicles off the road
This is a thing about Sanders that gets lost in the discourse. He’s famously soft on guns for a Democrat, for example, because that’s what his voters want from him.
This isn’t to suggest he’s some kind of empty mouthpiece for Vermont — they’re obviously electing him for his beliefs — but he’s also very cognizant of whom he answers to.
There should be some sort of unofficial rule that if you’re writing something that strains credulity, you should actually link to something that explains it.