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My hope was that the mini would be a success and they'd eventually had a Pro Mini line, but sadly the mini form-factor hasn't sold well. I would buy a Pro Mini in a heartbeat.

An ad hominem doesn't have to be irrelevant; it just means that the argument is about the person rather than the position. Attempting to dismiss an argument due to the person's credentials instead of their position is 100% an ad hominem.

But like contravariant said, that doesn't mean the argument is wrong—just that it's a weak argument.

> non-public information that gives you a structural edge in assessing the stock

This can also cut the other direction too. I had a slightly negative sentiment about Google during my tenure there due to the organization I was in. When earnings call season rolled around it didn't matter since the ads revenue line always dominated everything else.

Yeah, when I imagine excess I'm picturing a ridiculously lifted F-250 or 350 juxtaposed with low profile tires.

It was a journey! My wife got me a roaster for Christmas several years ago, and I had absolutely no idea how to use it. After tons of reading, YouTube, and trial-and-error I eventually got the hang of it. I still use the same roaster she bought me, but I upgraded to a double-walled chamber to make winter roasting more consistent and temperature probes [1] to record the roast process with Artisan [2]. Since collecting data is fun and makes it easier to get consistent results.

I don't roast beans for cold brew anymore since I drink way too much and it was becoming a chore, but I still roast ~8oz every two weeks for pour overs.

If you're interested there are a lot of great resources online. Sweet Maria's [3] has been a constant go-to for knowledge, equipment, and green coffee beans. And of course, YouTube.

1: https://imgur.com/T0WW90R 2: https://artisan-scope.org/ 3: https://www.sweetmarias.com/

This is mainly what got me into roasting my own coffee. It was becoming a pain to find high quality dark roasts as all of the boutique roasters turned their efforts to light roasts.

He accidentally hit me with his sock in a Google gym back when he was VP of Apps. Very bad man indeed.

Oh wow, I had totally forgotten about server hunting.

I kept a list of "good" servers (based on ping, map rotation, who played there, mods, etc), but when they were empty finding somewhere else was a complete pain.

I miss the camaraderie on some of those dedicated servers, but I know I wouldn't be able to get into something like that these days.

Dogs have a few genes that are implicated in hyper-social tendencies of people with Williams Syndrome; they do not have Williams Syndrome. WS causes a lot of other mutations that dogs don't have.

It's more likely that the social phenotype that is present with many WS patients emerged in dogs due to evolutionary pressures (explicit and implicit breeding) than dogs emerging due to WS.

> only half of US Catholics have heard about transubstantiation and only a third believe in it

That's a startling figure, but I've been out of the church for a while. I recall that being taught during first communion and confirmation.

SSL also protects against certain classes of third party snooping and injection. It's nice knowing that every piece of networking gear between me and the server doesn't know what I'm reading. Hell, I've seen ISPs inject ads into non-secure pages.

There are also networking policies that prevent non-https connections, so you could be accidentally blocking out users on a strictly managed device.

I swerved into another lane to avoid another car cutting me off during rush hour once. It all happened so fast, and I will always remember how incredibly lucky I was that no one was in the lane I moved into.

I paid for a month of FSD over the summer to try it out, and it was an extremely stressful experience.

It was very twitchy and jarring at stop signs, there are several uncontrolled T-intersections around my house that FSD just flew through (almost striking another car one time), and I didn't like how it always tried to get into the slowest lane on the highway during rush hour.

Maybe I'll try it again this summer to see how it's improved, but some of the close calls last time soured me on the experience. It felt more like I was babysitting a new driver and less like I was being chauffeured around.

Coincidentally the infotainment system in my new F150 has crashed more than my partner’s Tesla. But I really hate the lack of buttons in the Tesla. It feels so incredibly unsafe to have to look at the screen to turn heated seats on.

And I think I like CarPlay more than Tesla’s infotainment setup these days.

Mostly remote monitoring capabilities. You don't get motion/detection/doorbell notifications, and the Protect app needs to VPN in to view cameras when you're not on the local network.

We were using Nest before and these would be huge UX downgrades for my not-tech-savvy spouse.

You can, yes. The bigger problem is that I also bought into their Protect products at the same time. And you lose a ton of functionality if you turn off cloud access.

I'm going to try to replicate notifications and stuff using Home Assistant and shut off the remote access completely, but I might as well have purchased a cheaper and better NVR + camera setup if I need to set up all of this stuff myself anyway...

My EdgeRouter finally bit the dust after over a decade of service, and I decided to "upgraded" to a Dream Machine. I was hesitant due to the security breaches and now I really regret my decision.

> It's also the only timekeeping device that will still work after three days away from an electric plug

I get your point, but I can easily get >2 weeks out of my Garmin Fenix or over a month if I put it in battery saving mode.

Yeah, the median household receives ~$12k in inheritance (average is $46k). And that's lifetime inheritance, so it's spread over several years.

> if you perceive rain as sad (rather than peaceful, like me) it lives up to its rep as dreary as hell

The rain isn't what gets me; it's the monotonous gray skies even when it's not raining.

> a spent battery weighs the same as a fully charged one

A Tesla's battery pack weighs ~3.2 nanograms less when it's fully depleted. Think of the weight savings with a bigger battery pack for a plane! /s

Past success is a weird way to define "indie". The term is usually used to distinguish smaller teams from their bigger AA/AAA counterparts, and I think most people still consider Supergiant an indie studio.

It's interesting because Google has their own competing music streaming platform, but they still seem to give preferential treatment to Spotify. For example Spotify was the only service that worked with the Android clock app when they added the ability to use music with alarms. YouTube Music support didn't land until a year later.

The `rel="noreferrer"` attribute on the link instructs the browser to omit the Referer header on the request. So any browser that respects that option shouldn't be impacted by that code.

At the risk of sounding like a concern troll, I wish people were more thoughtful with tree planting campaigns. Rich ecosystems (peatlands, grasslands, savannas) have been damaged by attempts to introduce trees where they don't really belong. Surprisingly, this can cause a net decrease in carbon capture! And monoculture forests support relatively little biodiversity even though they look so green.

Sometimes planting more trees is the right answer, and we should absolutely do it. But often it feels like planting trees is a cheap way to score some green points without actually establishing healthy, sustainable ecosystems.

Same. I live in a heavily wooded area and it basically rains needles in the fall. I'm up there every other week this time of year with the cordless blower clearing off the roof. Couldn't imagine doing that with a rake or broom or something.

Ohio State University trademarked the "THE" in certain contexts: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ohio-state-university-o...

> Well, never mind, I'm not going to invest the energy into it until it reaches its third birthday.

Even that's not a guarantee of anything. Google Domains made it to 9 years before getting the axe.

> Quickfit is mostly concentrated on their larger/higher end watches, like Fenix and up. Their lower end watches (like the Forerunner 265) still have a quick release spring bar.

Ah, yeah. I was mostly addressing the "rugged watches" comment, but yes that's absolutely correct.

I think Garmin switched all of their watches to the QuickFit system at least 5 years ago.