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I've used CCC the chrome extension for a long time. What is newsworthy here? Is the landing page new?

(real question) Why is transactional email considered a cesspit?

US spy planes flying near china is definitely not new, nor limited to this administration:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_incident

Some of the IOGear KVMs do provide hotkey functionality.

Don't you think you might be viewing this through an excessively partisan lens? Before Jerome Powell was the Fed Chair, he was a 5 year veteran of the Fed Board of Governors, having been nominated by Barack Obama. His appointment was approved in votes that included the vast majority of Democrats.

Are his dovish views all that different from his predecessors, Janet Yellen or "Helicopter Ben" Bernanke?

You seem to be insinuating that he is an undeserving lackey, something like a Betsy DeVos. But I just don't see the evidence for that.

>> the democrats don't know enough to read the writing on the wall.

What are you suggesting exactly here? That the Fed is hell-bent on inducing general inflation, even at the cost of skyrocketing asset values?

It would be nice if these name suggestions also came with meanings/etymology where available. Sometimes a name might be phonetically compatible but have an unfortunate connotation.

There is an easy way to sidestep the multicultural name problem. For the first name choose one from the language most familiar to the place where you choose to live. This minimizes annoying mispronunciations. Then choose a name from the other language, and have that be the middle name. You would have a much wider range to choose from, and most will probably find they are forced into fewer compromises this way.

Do you mean their potential for war with China? Yes.

> if you don't have kids- don't weigh in on these issues

I agree, but would also add that even if you do have kids, they probably have personalities and circumstances unlike everyone else's kids. And that in all likelihood your sample size is too hilariously small to be able to produce useful broad generalizations from your experience.

> we'd plop them in front of the TV then struggle pulling them away from it afterwards (google wifi is great for deus-ex-machina internet outages...).

I can totally relate. One day our kids will figure out that our fiber internet service is actually quite reliable, and that I've been using the ASUS router app to disconnect specific devices at needed times. My 9 year old is starting to suspect something is amiss. "Daddy, can you stop buying chromebooks? Maybe you should buy another brand. It stops working all the time but your computer never stops working."

>They resist standard DC... but what about AC at a certain frequency, or pulsed DC at a certain frequency?

Um.. yes. This is actually exactly how you model coupling capacitors when analyzing circuits. You use them to connect two nodes. Apply DC and no current flows through once the capacitor is charged. Apply AC and the signal is transmitted to the other side. The strength of the transmitted signal is dependent on frequency and of course whatever else you have connected to the circuit.

"parked at sea" has that meaning. There would be no complaints here if the headline was "SUVs Get Parked At Sea,..."

A good defense lawyer never puts their client on the stand. While this is not currently a criminal trial, the same principles surely apply.

If Boeing starts talking, then the focus moves from debating whether more training was needed and who was responsible for deciding it wasn't (corrupt FAA? customer pressure? honest mistake?) to whether the company is hiding something.

The first is a better scenario for Boeing than the second.

Why is it assumed that mom & pop stores will opt to carry healthier options?

Turkey also: https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/29/turkey-togg-electric-cro...

I'm starting to think that the most significant consequence of the mechanical simplicity of electric cars is not the additional per-car reliability or potentially lower TCO. It is that manufacturing cars has suddenly become accessible to a much wider and geopolitically more diverse set of industrial bases. Maybe electric cars will be the new textiles where developing economies are concerned.

He has recently written about something similar: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-24/we-had...

I personally don't see the crime here though. What does it mean to place orders you don't intend to execute? (It is not like they have some way of reneging on the transaction if their bid/offer gets hit.) And in the manipulation of prices, why would simply flashing new non-executing orders on the screen cause market makers to change their prices? Don't the market makers have some responsibility / agency around deciding what to price something at?

I can accept the pretty smart part (I've never seen the GMAT but I'll accept it for the sake of argument) but what part of getting an MBA filters for "possessing soft skills, being personable, ready to meet with clients or manage people and probably well-connected"?

It sounds like you agree with the ISA concept but are only unhappy with the price. I'm guessing the terms are this way to discourage the less motivated.

Have you ever encountered any web sites that you feel went above and beyond in accessibility? I have sometimes wondered while debugging a site for accessibility concerns, fixing the nth input focus problem or what not, whether it would be preferable to actually just design an entirely separate optimized audible experience instead of forcing the user to infer the shape of a designed-for-sighted people website by tabbing all over the place. I imagine that a working implementation would roughly resemble a keyboard navigable phone menu, with the main point being that it would not necessarily correspond to the visual design, but would still offer all of the functionality expected and probably in a more efficient way. Is this a thing? Should it be a thing?

Related to the website if not the article, but I wish this website did not hijack ctrl-f.

I think the better phrase is simply "bureaucracy".

Hmm what is the modern file sharing thing that we are supposed to use that is not Samba? if I wanted to share some directories on my LAN that can be browsed/read/written to by non-technical users without extra software what is the right thing to use these days?

I know what my kids would do. They would take nothing but Jello, play with the ice cubes in their water glass for the remainder of their mealtime and then later they will lose their shit because they feel hungry.

Hold on now.. Neither the article nor the article it links to have any details on what it means by matching performance. No benchmarks are given or even mentioned, only many words written about how it has a 3ghz clock speed and how 3ghz is an "international mainstream standard".. Given the nontechnical nature of the publication, I would not be surprised if the clock speed was the only thing they were measuring by.

Because there is a good chance that the project manager is on a much crappier compensation ladder. So it isn't really a promotion, more like a sideways move onto a higher-stress but lower paid train.

very cool. Please make your next demo about retirement planning.. or kids' college fund planning...

That is interesting, in the scenario that they deliver to your secret street address, are retailers able to give shipping time estimates? Or is that less of a thing in the UK due to distances being shorter?

That doesn't make much sense. Someone in a position to invest millions (or take out millions in loans) would more likely be paying someone else wages to do the work, whether 18 hours or whatever. From what I hear contract poultry farming has become almost a turnkey sort of business. You contract with one of the poultry majors, they supply you with a lot of the supplies you need for whichever niche you occupy, and then basically guarantee buying your entire output.

I like the basic technical idea behind Backplane, which is that your backend servers "dial-out" and connect to the edge load balancers. Does anyone know why this technique is not used more? Or is it actually common but I just haven't heard of it? If so who/where is it actually done this way?