You don’t lock the doors of your house because you have something to hide, you lock it because you have valuable things you want to protect.

Your dad’s fear is not the government (whether or not it actually should be), but he should have a reasonable fear of criminals taking his money. Technology has made it easier than ever to be robbed but also created better locks than ever to fight the criminals.

With $300-worth of burglar tools

I’m surprised Valve isn’t a member either

Everybody has a side hustle

For all the breathless enthusiasm from the author, I feel like he’s overselling a lot of the impacts:

For Chief Technology Officers and IT procurement managers, the viability of Linux on Apple Silicon introduces a complex variable. Historically, engineering teams demanding Linux were relegated to Dell XPS or Lenovo ThinkPad units, which, while capable, often trail Apple in battery efficiency and thermal management. If the M3 becomes a first-class citizen in the Linux ecosystem, organizations may face increased pressure to support Apple hardware for backend engineers and DevOps professionals who require native Linux environments rather than virtualization.

Corporate purchases typically purchase new products either direct from the manufacturer or from the authorized resale channel. The M3 was introduced over two years ago and the only products I see Apple still selling with the M3 architecture are the Mac Studio (M3 Ultra) and iPad Air (M3). So any IT manager looking to procure a MacBook for an employee would need to find new old stock still in resale channel inventory or purchase a second-hand device, all for something that the article admits is still in an alpha stage of usefulness.

The progress the Asahi project is making on Apple Silicon is fantastic and important, but I think it will primarily benefit private individuals, not businesses. Perhaps in the future as the developers become more adept at reverse engineering hardware and if Apple makes fewer changes between generations then Linux could start supporting active Apple products, but it’s not there yet.

With Apple putting M-series chips in iPads and Linux gaining support for those chips, I’ll be very curious to see if we start seeing more Linux tablet support for iPads.

Do you mean specifically from online advertising? Because unless they live in an impoverished country and never buy commercially purchased products they almost certainly have purchased something they’ve seen in an ad. Many people think they aren’t influenced by advertising, because they haven’t seen an ad for Coca-Cola and then immediately gone out and purchased a bottle of Coke, but advertising can be very influential in subtle ways that many people don’t even notice.

I didn’t know it was owned by a Chinese company, nor publicly traded

Newegg was established in California by Fred Chang in 2001, but Lianluo acquired a majority stake in the privately held company in 2016. By 2021, it had merged with Beijing-based Lianluo Smart Limited, with the company being renamed Newegg Commerce, Inc., finally taking it public. At the moment, Lianluo currently owns 54.5% of Newegg.

No, this year’s storm hit on a weekend, and didn’t really get going in Raleigh until nighttime. Most people stayed home. That year’s storm arrived pretty much as forecast but a lot of people ignored the forecast because a storm forecast a couple weeks earlier had fizzled out. It was around lunchtime on a weekday and everyone thought they could still stay at work and drive home and it wouldn’t be a big deal. Then the snow came quick and heavy and everyone panicked and tried to go home at the same time, unleashing rush hour traffic on bad road conditions with traffic jams blocking the plows from treating the roads.

Gummy vitamins, felt something crunch. It was one of my fillings and it got jammed into my gum at a point where it was wider than the gap in my teeth and my dentist had to send me to a periodontist. Needed oral surgery afterwards because of the damage.

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I could never do most medical care jobs. About the only thing I could do is work in the pharmacy, and even then they sometimes have to give people vaccinations. I might be able to do that but that’s still pushing my general squeamishness.

Back in the early days of x-ray technology some shoe stores would x-ray customers’ feet to make sure the shoes fit right

In the US credit cards are the most common, which typically charge the merchants a 3-5% processing fee, so I’ve seen more and more places offering a discount for paying with cash.

Letting the days go by

No work if we lose electricity! My area’s looking like we’re going to be mostly ice. Hoping that’s more sleet than freezing rain!

Looks like a piece of rawhide my dog’s been chewing on

Exactly

I’m unsure if his response is more on the policing language side or more on the advisory, watch out, if you’re going to work for a government agency that is funded by politicians there’s a certain expectation for public decorum that has to be maintained so some congressman looking to score points doesn’t use you as a reason to cut funding. My guess, given he tried to help reinstate the internship, is that it was the latter.

If that was their concern they’d be advising less AI investment, but reading the article they’re pushing for industry to do more investment, that only major investment and adoption shows benefits.

It’s THE Homer Hickam?