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Ahh don't know why I missed that one.

IKEA likes to find ways to get you into their physical stores because they know you’re going to end up buying more than just the items you came for.

If only they actually had a decent density of stores in the US. I live north of a major metro area (Boston) and I have to drive over 1.5 hours to an IKEA. I used to live in Raleigh, NC and the closest one was over 3.5 hours away.

Although maybe this is part of the strategy, getting you to travel a long distance to there stores in order to keep you there.

preferring to let the local car dealers buy new town charters with no infrastructure.

I'm curious what this is referring to.

Kinda hope they have a good way to migrate Skype numbers. I have one that I used sometimes when I don't want to give my real number. I have been meaning to look into alternatives. I think I can port it to some other provider, but haven't found one I liked.

In theory when you live within walking distance to a grocery store it becomes much easier to do many smaller trips, rather than a once weekly "shopping trip". Your right though this article doesn't really talk about that.

We live in a city down the street from a grocery store. We sort of treat the store as an extended pantry. When we need to make something, we just go down to the store and get the stuff and make it. Door to door time to the store is 2-3 minutes, the lines are usually never long because it's a smaller store but they have about as much staff as a larger one.

Whenever we need to get a little more we just bring one of the carts from the store up to our apartment via the elevator and bring it back.

As for the rest of the things. Again if you can walk or take good transit there is no need to drive.

But will it support Login.gov?

But will it support Login.gov?

Good

Ah yes. Except most software the US Government uses was developed by contractors .

Yeah but wasn't it though Barclays?

This is one reason I wish belt drives where more common.

Python and Lua are already well suited for the typical scripting tasks (plus there is good old Perl). And I would actually recommend them for any non-trivial scripts as the maintenance is so much easier.

I have some personal rules of thumb/guidlines around this, if a bash script does any of the follow it should be put on the docket to be converted to a Python script/app:

- a nested for loop with more then one level of nesting.

- anything involving arrays/list.

- anything involving json beyond simple queries.

- more then 5 functions.

IINAL BUT, This depends on the state you live in, New Hampshire for example I believe your liability is much more limited.

If high payed tech workers are being priced out, imagine how it is for people in other roles.

It looked like there was a box on the pole they were hooking into made for this purpose.

I saw this movie and was interested at the tech that climb the telephone pool to hookup the transmitter.

Was this a common thing back in the day? Did random poles have equipment that non-telephone company people could hook into for remote use like this? I can think of many different use cases for this in the days before widespread mobile telephones.

I'm pretty familiar with telephone history and technology but can't seem to find references to these or what they where called. Anyone have any pointers?

Interesting video on this https://youtu.be/hlmIfhJkVxg?si=0mV8KO4E_7uBLYRR

Thunderbolt is sorta that.

The problem we have in the United States is we have a lot of growing cities, like in the sun belt were I am, it is illegal to build "missing middle" housing in a lot of places.

I have a Home Pod mini in my kitchen which is powered via USB-C. Right now Its just using Apple's 18 w power brick. One of these days I mean to to install on of those mains outlets with built in USB-C ports:

https://www.leviton.com/en/products/residential/usb-wall-out...

It will eliminate a bulky adapter and let me use the plug for things that actually need AC, like my toaster or kettle.

One wonders if it will start becoming common to have all plugs in newer/refab houses have these and they will be okay enough for most people.

This is a little different then what your talking about, but both could be the norm. I imagine the form of what your talking about would be that power strips with a bunch of type - c ports on them (and maybe some AC) replace the power strips we use now.

Yeah, but they wouldn't give a damn about a greenback-a-dollar, they'd probably spend it fast as they can.

Mass Suburbanization is bankrupting American cities

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI

It was only really beneficial for a small and arguably already well off population of largely white, middle and upper middle class people. And in the process of doing that excluded the rest of society from its benefits.

Sprawl particularly exasperated inequality by basically requiring everyone who wanted to succeed to own a very expensive (both upfront and overtime) thing.

Doesn't seem to like diacritics (ie accents)

Tried my name in France with/without the accent.

Seems weird for a site related to Europe.

Its too bad we can't build new places like this, and make this a more affordable option for people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWsGBRdK2N0

Is it me or are a lot of these the "Do X using a Rasberry Pi" really just "Do X on any linux box, maybe a Rasberry pi, but anything that runs linux and has the port you need will work.

One of the reasons might be because a lot cities in america are going bankrupt just trying to maintain all the car centric infrastructure that has been built: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_FCUbeVWK6...

Atleast epic's MyChart runs on Android and iOS.

Its worse then gambling. When you gamble at a Casino, atleast there a chance you can win money (albit rare). With the mobile gaming pay to play inapp purchases, you never win that money back.

I to have also been avoiding Amazon, and mostly just ordering stuff directly from companies.

Most of whom use Shopify, it doesn't do all of what your suggesting but shopifys "Shop" app seems to handle the tracking part pretty okay.