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DRAM pioneers don't die, they just stop their refresh cycle.

The assumption here is that Boeing is responsible for these.

What exactly does Boeing gain from murdering whistleblowers after the fact? At this point Boeing's reputation is already tarnished and they're already going to be under a microscope, so what does murdering whistleblowers even achieve?

I don't know which sites you use, but Kayak and Google Flights both let you input the number of checked and carry-on bags you're traveling with and include those fees in the comparison.

I'm okay with bag fees. There is a real cost to carrying extra bags. I pack light and don't see why I need to subsidize other people if it's bundled.

On the other hand, fees for things like seat assignment (regular seats, not just the exit rows and such) are just an annoying cash grab.

If they had a ready alternative market they could just do that instead of flipping out over Germany decided what can and can't be imported into their own country.

Botswana is a landlocked country.

It's kind of pathetic to make silly threats that everyone knows they have zero ability to carry out.

There are reasons to want your own modem, to avoid overpaying via rental fees, for example, but what security or privacy do you imagine you're getting by buying your own modem?

You're literally plugging it into their network and they can see everything that goes on the pipe whether they are on the LAN side of it or the Cable side.

There's a stronger privacy argument for using your own WiFi access point though.

In my experience, Jira isn't great out of the box but it's pretty good if you take a few hours to understand how to configure workflows, field configurations, forms, and boards.

For example, at my last company I had the development project configured with about a dozen different ticket states, but you created a ticket with a simple form with the title as the only mandatory field but there were optional fields for details and screenshots.

Developers could move a ticket into "in progress" or "can't reproduce". The latter transition showed a form with a mandatory explanation field, and it would automatically get assigned back to the person who created the ticket.

On completing the ticket, the developer has to put in a pull request and can only moves it to the Code Review state and had to pick a different developer to assign it to.

It sounds a bit tedious when you describe it but in practice everyone worked off a board with three or four columns appropriate to their role. They move tickets to the right to advance them or to the left to reject them. There were also automated transitions triggered by things like CI tests, deployment etc.

Children are capable of understanding the difference between pretense and reality.

My 4 year old loves playacting scenes and games from Bluey but he also understands that I'm not an anthropomorphic dog. Or, for that matter that our dog can't do most of the things the dogs on Bluey can.

This is why "save the earth" is a silly slogan. The Earth doesn't need saving. An environment suitable for humans on the other hand...

Glad to hear the copyright troll got his comeuppance. I just wouldn't have expected a large estate to be in the receiving end of the trolling.

Same here. Especially considering the ones supposedly "look like shit".

The whole thing reads like a no-so-subtle brag about how his mighty photographer's eye can spot details that mere mortals can't.

If that's the case it makes more sense to say "too bad show x isn't more popular".

Regardless of your opinion of the show I don't understand why you'd be "depressed" about other people's entertainment choices.

I'm saying don't use Facebook. Nobody is forcing you to use Facebook.

You can get privacy without paying by not using Facebook. Getting someone to host your pictures and provide you a platform to share them isn't a fundamental right.

They are not autistic IT professionals.

What does autism have to do with having the professional integrity to understand what it is you're writing about before publishing sensational claims?

More credible than $random_hn_guy

Theres tons of negative press about them and I bet a lot of it is stirred up by fake news marketing

What are some examples of this "fake news marketing" that you're claiming?

Selection bias at work here. Most sites that have been around along time have redesigned at some point, and you always get some vocal users complaining about it.

Glad to hear that! I love pool because it's so easy to pick up the basics and have fun, but there is always more to learn.

You don't actually move in fixed increments with the arrow keys. You start moving, initially at a slow speed then faster as you keep it pressed up to a certain maximum speed.

You'll only get the same results if you have exactly the same timing every time you tap the key.

That said, I've been prioritizing the touchscreen controls because that's where a majority of traffic comes from. I don't want to neglect desktop users entirely though!

Exactly this!

It's very much intentional. Beginners often try to adjust their aim while down, usually with poor results. Instructors will universally teach you to aim while standing, and get up and reset if things don't feel right when you get down.

I've taken lessons with several instructors including a former world #1 player ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mika_Immonen). He would make me get up and try again if I made the tiniest aim adjustment when down.

The "aiming" state is in fact when you're standing.

https://millionballs.app

It's a web app to help you improve your real-life pool (billiards) game. You can practice shots and learn to visualize the angles. Eventually, I want to go way beyond basic shotmaking and teach patterns, but it's already useful in it's current state at least to beginners and intermediate players.

I've posted about it before but I've made a lot more progress since then, including making it mobile-friendly.

Conversely, if highly selective schools stopped using them, students who prioritize those schools won't take them.

Headlines with "quietly" are one of my pet peeves. It's a general purpose go-to to make anything seem insidious.

TIL: Yahoo still exists in 2023

What a godawful page design. Who thought it was a good idea to break and article into pieces you have to swipe horizontally to scroll between and then also scroll vertically to see each page?