verisimilitude

I picked my username so I'd remember that very word...

LTL, the next frontier in logistics optimization

If you ever need to replace that MDF, try this: https://epoxytops.com/phenolic-resin-countertops/

I'm using it for my next workbench top.

They're _excellent_ for wiring devices into junction boxes in construction; particularly when connecting the higher gauge luminaire wires of an overhead light to romex. For some reason they're polarizing among electricians in the US (they carry all necessary listings for use in the US...). By contrast, they're widely accepted and used elsewhere.

These infections are a huge problem. My neighbor missed 2 _years_ of college recovering from a C. diff infection. And you are correct: fecal transplant is the way, for now.

Per the article, these bleach (sodium hypochlorite) resistant spores are a HUGE problem. At my office, we clean surfaces with quaternary ammonium compounds, and those are supposed to be superior against spores. But still, if the required contact times to disinfect surfaces keep increasing in healthcare settings, we are going to have a major issue where only the most resistant spore-forming bacterial strains survive (basically, we'll be selecting for the strongest... you know, evolution).

Here's the relevant legalese from Toyota: "By purchasing or leasing a vehicle equipped with an active Connected Services system, you specifically consent to our electronic collection and use of your account information and vehicle data and our storage of such data wherever we designate."

"Fun" right?

"We want to be ready when video-on-demand happens. That’s why the company is called Netflix, not DVD-by-Mail." https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/23/netflix-ceo-reed-hastings-on...

Yours is the correct answer (B&W laser). Ours reports 8,620 pages successfully printed. The laser cartridges last an absurd amount of pages, and they don't dry out. I've had to replace our Brother printer's feeder cam lever (part #LY2579001) twice. I expect I'll have to do that a few more times before I'm done with this printer. But, what do you expect after 12 years?

Am I the only one who never gives out their real phone number? I give the same fake one to every single business that asks for it, including CC verification stuff on websites. Never had a problem, and really seems to cut down on junk calls...

Hmm. If you are saying we are all interconnected, relying on the diverse resources, products, and gifts from around this small planet to do the things we want to do, e.g. care for our sick, advance the common good, protect the vulnerable, provide stable sources of food _so that_ our global population can grow in a safe, equitable, sustainable manner toward lives full of fulfillment and wonder, away from subsistence living that steals time and health and hope from those stuck with no other choice, then, yes.

But if you mean the US should take credit, then, no.

Agreed! We need an electrified version of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_cooler_(cabinet)

Also not OP, but another yes to Synology - I have also found them to be worth it. I've been running mine (DS1517+) for 5.5 years continuously now.

I wirelessly back up my Macs and then use Backblaze B2 for offsite backups of that. I've found by combining this with the snapshot features of btrfs that this has been reliable.

My Synology is wired to my home cat 6, and the only thing stopping me from getting 10GbE to the devices that need it most is the stubbornly high prices of 10GBASE-T switches (I keep hearing it has something to do with heat (?)).

If you choose to mirror your drives, you can achieve some really good read speeds, which is nice.

I too have noticed this. I believe the Dark Sky website and app will continue to become less accurate... I think the explanation is (somebody who knows more please correct me): Dark Sky's technology was acquired by Apple and integrated into the Apple Weather built-in app... and the decision was made that any improvements/updates/maintenance on the Dark Sky service itself are accessible exclusively through that Apple Weather app now. As a user of the Dark Sky website, I feel sad.

Thank you! You are correct. Off to my friendly local Apple.

Not to make this my personal tech support but... I thought my 2017 model was 'vintage' status and not repaired at Apple anymore? I'll see what I can find out...

Caveat: repair now available for Mac Notebooks "with the M1 family of chips" - this is reasonable, I think. However, I do feel badly because I have a 2017 with a noisy fan that needs to be replaced, but I don't think I'll ever be able to get the precisely OEM Apple-blessed one. This is important to me because of the non-annoying whoosh sound that the varied blade spacing of the OEM fans normally provide. My options are (1) used or (2) rando cross-your-fingers 'brand' fan. I guess I could just try a variety of those no-names and use the least annoying one.

God, this is such a good point. This gap between scheduled hours (~20) versus expected dictation of 'available' hours (~40) is one of the things powering the obnoxious "side hustle" idea...

I wish your comment had more upvotes -- it is an accurate critique of both the journalism and the chief problem. Thank you.

Anecdata: I live in Minnesota. It is cold here ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Minnesota_weather_reco... ) -- and here in my fourth decade of life, never had an issue with brake fluid. I've seen issues in the cold with: electronics, radiator fluid, washer fluid, ignitions, batteries, tire pressure, bushings, plastics, even fuel back when EFI was less common, but never issues with brake fluid.

Road salt is our big problem here, but that's true for everyone who has winter.

FWIW my neighbor has a Tesla and loves it...

Since I don't listen to much music on my phone, I've actually taken in a step further: my Apple Music local library music files are stored in a .sparsebundle on my NAS. I wrote a little Obj-C app to automatically mount and unmount that sparsebundle when I open and close Apple Music (née iTunes) on MacOS. This prevents the sparsebundle from becoming corrupted, as they tend to do.

Then, I use that same little Obj-C app to detect when I'm away from home and open a VPN connection to my NAS's network. So, wherever I am, I can stream music on my laptop from my local library.

After doing this for a few years instead of paying for Apple Music, it has already saved the cost of the NAS and its hard drives.

Energy Recovery Ventilators or Heat Recovery Ventilators are absolutely essential (and, I think, part of code in many places!) in this era of tight and sometimes extraordinarily tight (e.g. Passivhaus) home building.

When we bought our home, the HRV wasn't working and once I replaced a bunch of parts in it, the difference in the quality of the air was noticeable just in the fact that it smelled fresh like the outdoors.

In your deep dive, you probably ran into the evergreen debate about running ERV/HRVs in the summer... I just gave up, turn it off when we run the A/C and open the windows occasionally... BUT I think you could probably run a humidistat/hygrostat hooked to the HRV (a common option in the new units, I believe).

I've thought along those lines as well. I don't know if this helps clarify, but I did learn, for example, FedEx is actually quite strong without Amazon: "Last year [2018], Amazon accounted for 1.3 percent of FedEx’s total revenue." https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/07/business/fedex-amazon-shi...

I think what people do right now is an always-on Mac Mini with external drives connected. The Mac Mini strategy introduces a failure point at the USB->hard drive connection. Pretty low-maintenance, until the $3 USB thingy dies!

Apple's exit from the router business came at precisely the wrong time: they could sell an integrated smart home / mesh network / router / local+cloud backup that also provided macOS/iOS/tvOS software update caching / content caching. My guess is they didn't do it because they felt they could make more money charging for cloud-only services (they love their services revenue) rather than selling networking devices.

Given prions, I would imagine this would be a step backward for public health.

I was hoping that would come up! No, probably: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#S...

Here are some CSS selectors I block on YouTube to remove recommendations and other annoyances:

div#secondary .videowall-endscreen .ytp-pause-overlay .iv-promo-video .ytp-cards-teaser .ytp-button

That first one is super-nice -- using that, I no longer need superhuman self-control to prevent my brain from falling into a YouTube black hole powered by millions of iterations of A/B testing targeted at my lizard brain. I just watch one video and then... close the tab.

Look, I realize this is a meta point: but has anyone else noticed how TYPICAL the discussion in TFA is at the official Apple support forums? The atmosphere is absolutely poisonous there, in the strangest passive aggressive way -- every time I search for help there, I find tons of replies that are useless, and about 5% of the time I find a helpful tidbit. There's one user in particular, whose name I won't mention, who posts EVERYWHERE with just condescending garbage, and yet they have massive forum points (level 10, or whatever).

It's very odd -- something about the moderation or something has created a community there that is extremely hostile to accurately identifying and quantifying real issues in software and hardware, and allergic to useful solutions.

Developer forums are much better, though.

I can't think of a better way to actually maintain a clear understanding of what's going on at a place like Shopify.

Good memory: Lutke's blog is responsible for a lightbulb moment of mine back in 2007, regarding cache invalidation. The post is long gone, but it was entitled "The Secret to memcached" -- the advice, which is incredibly obvious in retrospect but wasn't to me at the time, is to manage cache invalidation by adding a unique ID to the cached asset, and letting the cache fill and expire items on its own. Going into it, I had assumed I should be removing cached items in the code that was utilizing the cache. I was ignorant. I still am, but less so about memcached. Thanks, Tobias!

I have that same one. I've had it for years and years.

Here's a message for your future self: that printer has a very important, very small piece of plastic inside it that occasionally breaks and it won't grab paper internally. The part number is LY2579001 and here's how to replace it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcZ5gF0t7Kc

External VDIs -- that's exactly my use-case, but I've stayed back on Mojave. Any bug page I should follow to see if this gets resolved for Catalina?