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I spent the entirety of my elementary through high school life on a military base and schools on it.

1. On our base, school involvement was “easier” for the enlisted parent. They usually worked consistent hours and were available for after school involvement. They weren’t generally working late and night shifts allowing time to be involved with sports and other school activities.

2. Healthcare was provided and for regular services it was consistent and available. While we didn’t have to pay for it, we would often spend several hours at urgent care waiting to get seen when one of kids was not feeling well. It was a little strange that when I went to college, I had little understanding about how to go about seeing a doctor.

3. We had a small school which allowed everyone to know each other by name, even if we weren’t friends on day to day basis. We knew who was enlisted kids and who were officer kids and who were staff kids. This didn’t generally color attitudes, just part of who we were. It was a good community.

4. We had access to technology early and part of what led me to career in tech.

5. It was a very diverse environment of kids. It was just the way it was and I never gave any thought to race growing up.

6. We had a decent house on base (1950s brick) with each kid having their own room. If there was issues, like ceiling falling in on kitchen, base housing fixed the issues.

All of this took burdens off of my parents and us kids. I try to provide my kids with opportunities I had or even more than I had, but it certainly is a much different environment to do so.

QUIC handles the packet ordering and retransmission of lost packets before it is handed to the upper layer of the application. However, if you are just sending one channel of video packets through the pipe, it probably won’t buy you much more. Where QUIC additionally excels is being able to send and/or receive multiple streams of data across the “single” connection where each is effectively independent and does not suffer head of line blocking across all streams.

I was a on a jury back in 2002 where the prosecutor was presenting cell tower data to show the suspect was in the area. We are at 20 years from then and people are still committing crimes with their phones on, and the phone is more part of daily lives now.

Not sure the service could afford it. 250 episodes/year times 60 years is 15_000 episodes to license.

It the difference between length and indexing. The new int[0] is providing the 0 as length. Mostly when seeing the construct arr[i] you might think of ‘i’ as the index.

There are 3rd party data providers like Yext that can syndicate the data to different location services customers. Businesses can create and update in Yext and then data gets updated by the location services. If a location services company sources data from multiple independent locations providers such as Yext, Four Square, Yelp, web scraping it can get a profile that a place exists.

I am there with you, but with regular Philips LED bulbs from 2012. When I moved in 2013, I took those bulbs with me and they have been going strong 10 years now. All other LED bulbs in the house have been replaced a couple of times.

I have some 11 year old Philips LED bulbs that were early on the LED development and crazy expensive; maybe $60 each. These aren’t Hue, but plain recessed type screw-in bulbs. These have worked consistently great with dimmer switches with no strobing, humming or low voltage issues. I can’t find good bulbs like that anymore. Quality and reliability went down as cost went down and competition went up. I have Hue bulbs in one room, but lag in control of wall switch communicating to adjust lights is terrible compared to direct dimmer control.

Ring sensors use zwave; so 900MHz range. The hub works either hard wired and probably over WiFi or with cellular backup.

I have been running it on a couple PI Zero W’s for three years running nodejs controlling LEDs. Probably not too write heavy, but no issues.

> I live in a suburb of 50 000 people, we have about twenty charging stations in total.

The infrastructure will get built in time as there is a greater need for it. Within my city of 40,00 there are probably over 100 charging stations. Though we are next to a larger metropolitan area. Most all have been added in last 4 years.

Contacts permission was introduced in iOS 6. Before that, an app could just read and write the contacts data.

I came across about 50 Mach E vehicles a couple of weeks back stored in unusual location, between a country club and upscale mall. Struck me as odd given the spot doesn’t generally get used for new vehicle storage and just the sheer number of them.

This happened early in the life of the iPad. Insurance companies wouldn’t include it in personal articles since there was high theft rate. That subsided over time due to ubiquity and software security.

Not beautiful, but I use HomeSeer on Ubuntu. It is commercial, but after spending a couple thousand dollars on all the home hardware and server, spending a bit on software makes as much sense. It is reliable with my automations. I have added custom devices and automations through scripts that publish MQTT messages. For simple remote control, I tend to eschew their UI and have HomeBridge publish device access to HomeKit.

Mine is $280/mo, but has 6 phones and 4 other devices. So ~$30/device is good? No phone cost in there, just service.

More families have two incomes and relocating requires finding two jobs.

Credit cards can be given to 13 and above. I don’t believe there is an age tied the specific account number.

The amount of CPU resources wasted on windows defender is immoral.

I have LG ThinQ washer and dryer. A version of ThinQ API uses AWS MQTT for communication. I find it helpful to send TTS notifications and followup reminders to Sonos when the washer is complete, until the door has been opened. The appliance knows when the door is opened/closed yet the API does not include this detail. Had to add separate contact sensors for that purpose.

I have 2019 Bolt. I don’t use any of the native infotainment UI. The navigation probably required OnStar subscription and why you were getting connected to a person to take credit card. I use the screen with wireless CarPlay adapter. Very few problems, more with the adapter, and never had to pair the phone more than once. The car is fine, though I would replace it. I drive so little I can not justify the cost of new car, even with trade-in.

Does the average person remember the brand of lightbulb they purchased at Walmart or the hardware store? I would hope the buyers at stores would have better sense to buy half decent brand vs utter trash available through 3rd party sellers online. Not much hope though.

You can use privacy.apple.com to request a copy of all photos and other digital data. It will send emails with download links when bundled.

There is a 5-year contract in place, so a little different than just a credit card on file that is failing to charge based on usage. Also, it was reported they aren’t using the compute power as expected in contract, so the bill may not fully relate to actual resources consumed.

If Linode on Akamai follows the Slicehost on Rackspace model, the product will only last 3 years or so.

Back in university days, I worked for a small department that had NetWare 3 Server. It was mostly used for printer sharing and email, using Pegasus Mail as the the client. I mostly remember a separate PC that ran Charon gateway to bridge the TCP/IP SMTP divide to provide larger Internet mail relay.

The educational pricing for NetWare 4 wasn’t too bad and spent one summer planning and upgrading to it. Since it was small department it wasn’t too bad to administer, but could see the writing on the wall about the difficulties dealing with NDS clients on Windows and Mac workstations.

Don’t know what happened to the systems after graduation, but assume some of it was eventually consolidated due to security. All the desktops and servers had direct Internet connections and were not NAT’d nor had hardware firewall. That could not have lasted too many more years in the late 90’s.

The unforeseen consequences of the former will break the latter. Schools, Test Proctoring companies, Game companies will "force" users to install the ADDITIONAL option to run whatever is required and then simply extend their reach beyond what is appropriate.

Most hotels are small businesses. Business ISPs are expensive for the amount of bandwidth that then needs to be shared across rooms. They need ways to limit who is accessing it.

The more expensive the hotel, the more likely the customer is business traveler and can expense the cost or won’t be too inconvenienced by add-on charges.

The hotel cannot offer a cheaper public rate than Booking.com or Expedia, even though they take 15% or more. The hotel has to include other perks not available or limit the availability of the offer to members. The aggregators can run promotions that discount the rates, which the hotel still covers the difference.

Back around 2006 the consulting company I worked had internal team go all in on a developing framework around MDA and Java. Sales would offer it to a client as a way to validate the model and interactions and then generate all the code. Even for basic CRUD app there was so much left out of generated code and was too easy to get the code and model out of sync. I came in late on a project to help solve performance issues. That short stint gave me more insight into that world than I ever wanted.