You might correct one thing, but by the time you did that they already dug up three new pieces of garbage.

Gish Gallop

pro tip for fast defrosting? cut it up in smaller pieces, while its frozen.

This is also a pro tip for cutting chicken breast into cubes - it’s way easier to do while it’s still partially frozen.

The bottled water expiration date is not exactly because the water will go bad, instead it’s the bottle itself. After some time, the plastic starts to break down and leech into the water. Storing the bottles somewhere cool and dark will slow that process down though.

That being said, if the seal isn’t broken, it’s not going to make you sick even if it’s well past the expiration date.

I recently bought a monitor from Canada Computers, it was a brand-new box with the manufacturer’s seal intact. The attendant still opened the box and we both inspected the monitor, then he re-closed it using their own tamper-evident tape.

Best Buy will do this as well but in my experience they will only do so with items being sold as “open box”.

Unless you’re using an instant-courier type service (i.e. uber/doordash), goods are usually delivered as part of a regular route by the delivery driver. Your USB pen is only one of hundreds of packages being delivered by that driver, and that driver will be following a fairly consistent route each day. I’d say it’s about as efficient as taking public transit to the store

Hustler and Playboy did in fact employ very talented journalists back then. Naked ladies aside, the quality of the articles in those magazines was quite good.

Some reference: https://thehundreds.com/blogs/content/reading-playboy-for-the-articles-13-must-read-journalism-literature-pieces-from-playboy-magazine

Tech bubbles they’re re-starting the crypto bubble, there’s the AI bubble, the streaming bubble, ads on ads on ads bubble, cloud-all-the-things bubble, the centuries-old “use illegal foreign labour to keep costs low and profits high” bubble… that one isn’t really tech, but it has kept the American economy inflated for quite a while…

I think the next step is them re-starting sub-prime mortgages

More taxes, and use that money to create a publicly-owned competitor. If the private sector wants to compete, they’ll either have to be better or cheaper than the public option, or both.

Also, re-nationalize the infrastructure. In Canada, taxpayers paid for hydro and telecom construction, then all of that infra was included in the privatization of those sectors. Bell has been profiting for decades by charging people to use the copper that was installed on the public dime.

Could be Canadian, we call it a 60 here

Even with the lithium mining, an EV will reach “pollution parity” with a comparable sized ICE vehicle anywhere from 6 months to 5 years on the road, largely depending on what is powering the electrical grid (coal fired electricity being the 5 year), with the average being 1-2 years. That means that an EV from 2023 on average has caused less total pollution than an ICE vehicle of the same age.

On top of that, there has been significant progress made in recycling these batteries so that less lithium needs to be mined, as well as using other metals such as sodium, both sodium ion and sodium iron batteries are commercially available.

Software updates can be deployed regionally either based on carrier or by product SKU. If there are different SKUs for North American vs EU phones, which is almost universally the case because of differing regional requirements such as radio technology, target price points and so on. That means that phone model ‘X (NA)’ could have a different update schedule than ‘X (EU)’.

Why? money, of course. There is a small cost to supporting a SKU for updates, even if it’s the same software that’s already being deployed to another SKU. That increases if the two SKUs have different processors (Samsung does this). On top of that, longer update schedules means people aren’t replacing their phones as often, which means theoretically less sales - though I find that claim dubious as many people replace their phones long before they lose software support.

So yes, while it’s possible that a company might honour a 7 year update schedule outside of EU, it would be by their choice to do so.

and aren’t disqualified by one of their dozens of contingencies

one of which is having HIV

There is definitive and concrete proof that hydration has a 100% mortality rate.

… I don’t think there’s any combination of those that are good. Best option still has you shitting blue.

From someone who does this for a living… vary your names and addresses. Less chance of collisions if your suite teardown fails to clean up properly. Depending on your needs, having a hard-coded unique name/address per test can be fine, or if you’re using Python, there’s a library called Faker that will generate ISO-valid test data. It’s also a bit easier to see where a teardown failed if maybe an exception got swallowed.

Both, really. Shitty social support in that he likely had an F-tier education, leading to being obsessed with power.

PS/Xbox controllers have more internal space, so their joystick modules are much, much larger than what goes in the joycon. That means they can have more material in the potentiometers, meaning less susceptible to wear and dust/dirt intrusions.

PS Dualsense joystick

Switch Joycon joystick

That can be such an annoying one to get to depending on where the nearest oil patch is.

switching out that 32oz soda for a zero-calorie option and going for a lettuce wrap instead of a bread bun will save you close to 400 calories, most of which are sugar. Asking for an unsalted patty and unsalted fries will save a few hundred mg of sodium as well.

If you’re in the woods, you have access to a virtually unlimited amount of fuel. If you’re in a desert, the fuel source is nuclear. This is a technique taught in survival courses/manuals and military field guides all over the world.