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Yes and no.

Taking advantage of the very real waterproofing of the phones I have owned (past and present), I will just wash the damn thing off under the kitchen tap if it gets dirty, which I have with one of my previous phones done with a high-pressure restaurant-sink-style spray nozzle (I was making beer, and boiling the wort kicks a lot of sticky crap into the air).

That phone was fine afterward, and continued to work for several years after.

Also at a more basic level, it is (at least in theory) an assurance that they actually tested the damn thing, and didn’t just slap a largely meaningless (and as already noted, “bigger number better”) rating on the thing, as is largely the style of our times because consumer protection is dead and regulations are meaningless.

This is exactly the kind of should be done properly, or just not at all. Test it and rate it for the people who do care, or STFU, put the unqualified but perfectly reasonable label of “water resistant” on it, and the bulk of people who indeed do not care (or will be confused) will be no worse off than they are now.

Anything else is just annoying.

Yes, but I also get into a rage about manufacturers being dicks about it. People by and large don’t seem to understand the IP rating scale is in fact two largely-unrelated scales, and companies slapping IP ratings on their products use that in what I feel are underhanded ways.

The values IPx1-IPx6 correspond to varying levels of resistance against directed streams of water. IPx7-IPx9 are degrees of resistance to submersion. The latter does not imply the former, not even a little bit.

It is in theory entirely possible to build a device that could withstanding being put in the bottom of a swimming pool that’s being slowly filled with water, but failed from the higher pressure of a small amount of water falling on it from a certain direction.

But you still see phones listed just as “IP68”, which tells you nothing. The better manufacturers will explicitly write the likes of “IP65/IP68”; showing that it reaches the 5 rating of “water jets 12.5litre/minute” but not the 6 rating of “powerful water jets 100litre/minute”, but also IP67 “immersion <1 metre / <30 minutes” and IP68 “immersion >1 metre / >30 minutes”.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_code#Second_digit:_Liquid_ingress_protection)

I’ve always heard this as

“the two hardest problems in computer science are naming variables, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors”

Yours is a nice subtle variant, I like it.

If their case is too solid, try eating more fibre.

Carrot sticks and hummus are my go-to for this situation. It might not be the lowest calorie option, but still healthy without at all feeling like I’m torturing myself in the process.

Like so many things, there are degrees. Yes you can sit down with a big bowl of celery, but making yourself miserable isn’t going to help you keep up the good habits.

Thanks for the heads-up, added the internet archive torrent to seed up to 25MB/s

Have seen this one here in New Zealand too.

Was a company selling house insulation for $14.88/m², and the owner was a similarly reprehensible individual:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-shooting/111410111/nazithemed-company-owner-charged-with-possessing-objectionable-material

This is grotesque.

That is fair. I guess my statement was ambiguous but of all the things I’m least bothered by its inclusion. At this point in my life I’m not actually sure I still own anything that could plug into a 3.5mm jack though.

Also to keep the computer symmetrical you actually need a third hole to match the location of the Kensington lock slot on the other side :D

I might be in the minority here, but I’m perfectly happy with the USB-C only setup. My work laptop is a Dell, but has the same design as that top Mac with just two Thunderbolt ports on each side of the chassis.

Headphones? Bluetooth. My machine actually has a headphone jack, which I have not used once since receiving it.

RS-232? That’s also Bluetooth, not as if USB-C to RJ45 serial console cables aren’t widely available though.

Ethernet? Well in the rare event I need one of those it’s more often going to be a Thunderbolt SFP+ adapter because most of my work is with fibre. In the rare event it is copper I’m quite often needing to use two at once, so would need at least one dongle even if the machine did have a port built in.

HDMI? Well you can buy a tiny adapter (about the size of a book of matches) that has a USB-C socket on one side and a HDMI plug on the other (about $13 on Amazon: https://i.imgur.com/iwmsa4L.jpeg). I already have to have a USB-C to USB-C cable in the bag for charging, it can do double-duty as a video cable.

The trick is to be smart about the dongles you do carry. The predominant style with a short cable terminating in a bulky body with whatever socket on it is almost always the worst style, sitting right next to your laptop getting in the way of whatever you’re trying to do.

The biggest advantage though is having USB-C ports on BOTH sides of the machine, so the charger can plug in on either side. I think people have forgotten how much it sucked not being able to do that. You’d be surprised how many machines that have a 50-50 collection of USB-C and other ports put all the USB-C ports on one side so they’re never in the location you need them to be.

Fully aware this isn’t going to work for everyone, but people really need to stop pretending like it only has downsides because that absolutely isn’t the case.

The facilities team at our office would previously build a C-shaped box out of MDF or plywood to sit a regular, fixed-height desk on top of.

To be fair they did a nice job, they were sturdy and would have recesses for the desk’s legs to sit in to prevent sideways movement. But the problem then became “what about when those people wanted to sit”, so tall office chairs - that didn’t match the rest of the chairs in the office - had to be bought, undoubtedly at considerable expense.

The new, all-standing-desks use-it-if-you-want-or-don’t-it-doesn’t-matter-to-us regime seems to just avoid a lot of unnecessary shifting of furniture.

It should be a great idea, but I feel like the quantities involved are too vastly different.

I’m seeing estimates of 300kW/hectare (30MW/km² or 77MW/mile²) for heating glasshouses. With individual datacentres frequently confirming multiple gigawatts, the land area required just doesn’t match up.

This is not to say it isn’t worth considering, but it would be a rounding error in the datacentre’s heat output before you ran out of space to build more glasshouses.

There’s a secondary concern of water consumption. You might extend that to ah but what if we could use that to grow the plants too? but the evaporated cooling water out of one of these systems tends to be anything but clean. Maybe that’s a more solvable problem.

I started with an assumption there might have been a when component to that question, but nope, apparently we’re taking about 2025 and not 1995.

Somewhat amazingly though, brand new dot matrix printers - not just new old stock, but newly-manufactured units including modern USB and/or Ethernet interfaces - and even the big cartons of tractor-feed continuous paper are still readily available.

As dot matrix printers have not gone the way of the dodo, also neither have carbonless triplicate forms, which they are uniquely able to print on. Seems that’s still a big selling point for these printers.

It’s an old trope, but it is of those things that pictures truly cannot capture, too. The ship is unfathomably large.

I didn’t have a camera lens wide enough to reasonably get the entire thing in frame, from any location in the building.

We took gin, a bottle of tonic water syrup, and a lemon. The tannins in the river water it was mixed with making it look like a cup of tea in no way detracted from the experience.

Your other trick is to decant the alcohol into a stainless steel drink bottle. Saw so many people pulling glass bottles of spirits out of their pack, lotta extra weight to lug about with you.

Compose key, hyphen, hypen. Because while it’s a less common usage, visually I prefer the shorter en dash – over the em dash — anyway.

Also for people missing the Unix-style compose key on Windows: https://wincompose.info/. Memorising numeric codes is for chumps :)

number in question is ratio of energy used by entire facility to energy used by silicon only (i forgor how it’s called)

PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness).

I’m considering a similar one.

Our kitchen ceiling lights now have a Shelly relay in their circuit. I’m considering a smart bulb in the rangehood - unusually, it fits a full-size A60/B22 bulb, so basically any standard smart lighting is an option - so it can be synced with the rest of the kitchen lights.

Also who wouldn’t want to be able to have green light while cooking?

“Surveillance-minded” (hereafter, “Helicopter”) parents were almost certainly already doing that.

It just required a sharp knife and a tube of contact adhesive previously.

In ours, the coolant is referred to as “PG25” (distilled water with 25% propylene glycol, plus corrosion inhibitors and other additives). It’s widely available, and pre-mixed so it just gets poured straight in.

Your problem is going to be quantity. it might be cheaper per unit, but buying less than a 200 litre drum (if not a 1000 litre IBC) will prove to be a challenge.

I’d suggest a rethink, honestly.