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Can you explain this as Richard would have?

Lighting was the killer app for electricity.

1970s

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/01/harvard-led-a...

AI in search I could go for:

"Find that meme I downloaded last year with the girl standing by the burning house"

Creating AI slop though? No thanks.

To drive "engagement". Hardly a surprise. Still a disappointment.

For context, Optus is one of the Australian telcos, and triple-zero is what you call instead of 911.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-19/optus-network-failure...

Totally agree.

Performance is a feature [0]

0: https://blog.codinghorror.com/performance-is-a-feature/

Very sorry for the loss of your friend.

I worked as a cashier at a large UK supermarket when I was a student. In our training we were told that if there was an outage with the cash registers we should ask shoppers to estimate how much their groceries cost and accept what they told us. Payment could be by cash or cheque.

Apparently when this had been done in the past shoppers were generally honest & relatively accurate.

The main reason I use a phone case is to stop the phone slipping from my hand in the first place. My current and previous phones (Pixel 8 & 5) are alarmingly smooth on all sides.

Nonsense.

Saying that as a European who lived in the US for a few years, now residing in Australia.

Related: "The case for boycotting the United States" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/18/us-tru...

Schmidt earlier told The Wall Street Journal that he “misspoke about Google and their work hours” and requested the video be taken down.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220658/google-eric-schm...

A shame, because this was a very small portion of the overall video, which was otherwise fascinating.

In my office, when we swipe our entry cards at the security gates, a screen at the gate tells us which lift to take based on the floor we work on, and sets the lift to go to that floor. It's all connected.

Our Feature Flag values are being retrieved correctly, as far as we can tell, but we're getting 504 Gateway Time-outs from https://app.launchdarkly.com

But there's an art to writing great code, no?

And hear them amplified through the sides of your "mini tower" case.

Skimming past the capital "P", I read this as "why is prettier rock, solid" . . . and was left perplexed, as most rocks are solid.

Wasn't this how AltaVista got its name, but as a whiteboard remnant rather than post-it notes?

What if someone does a hit and run against your unattended car?

If people are willing to pay a price for a home

Poorly-regulated lending means that it's the banks who are willing to lend the money. Home owners pay what they have to out of necessity, not willingness.

(speaking as someone who owns a house in Sydney)

Not if you end up having to help your children buy their house(s).

Can you cite an example of a journalist writing an article that makes such an accusation?

They scream and stemp their feet for sure, but not for long.

It worked in Australia [1]

[1] https://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9212725/australia-buyback

[citation needed]

I somehow agree with both of these points, but am not sure I understand how that can be.

ludicrously fast charger when you go to bed in the evening

This is why I never charge overnight. Just pop the phone on to charge while I'm having a shower in the morning, or in the evening while I'm having dinner. Those time windows seem enough to keep my phone (Pixel 5) sufficiently charged.

My laptop, likewise, should be able to sit at 85% when on the docking station

Samsung laptops have/had this exact feature, which they called Battery Life Plus[1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140101070825/https://www.samsu...

Rather like Trigger's Broom[1]

[1] https://www.adambowie.com/blog/2018/06/triggers-broom/

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