China, India and AI data centers are the cause of all of this. But the little people of the world will be told to not use their air con or drive personal autos.

Not age, experience.

Anybody who is any good, can easily make Senior in 5-6 years, and Principal in under 10. So what age, exactly, are they discriminating against?

Why wouldn't it be OK to pay more for somebody who is experienced, than somebody who isn't? An experienced worker is more productive, and can coach and guide younger workers. That's worth more to the company. They're also more expensive. Age has very little to do with it.

they can't even call it an iPad "Mini" any more!

Don't worry, nobody will ever pay you for labor, let alone use it -- it would have to be valuable for either to happen.

You guys are literally talking about killing people like Steve Wozniak. And the reason for it? A number, that he didn't even decide, rather a market did. And before that even brought him to billionaire status, they were worthless for an entire decade after he had already left Apple. You guys are literally using Mao's playbook here, and he did exactly this to people exactly like Woz for no reason other than they were especially good at what they did, and they got paid well for it. After Woz was worth more than 200 billion, he literally gave most of it away.

But you guys can't think at this level. All you two understand is a desire for power, and a desire to kill anybody who stands between you and power. That's why you're so susceptible to manipulative assholes like Mao, Pol Pot, Marx, Engels, Lenin, Guevara, Castro, Kropotkin -- all born into wealthy or otherwise affluent families, by the way, and you guys have already bought into all of their crap hook, line and sinker.

When the music stops, do you own the asset, hold an enforceable claim against someone who does, or merely possess a token whose value depends on everyone else believing the first two things are true? Turning the difference between owning an asset and holding a token that claims to represent the asset into a shell game.

California has at least two desert biomes I can think of off the top of my head, namely Mojave and part of the Sonoran, though they don't call it that there. Desert also doesn't mean "low water", see for example Antarctica, which is a desert biome. Likewise, "low water" doesn't mean desert.

The misstep made by GP is that pistachios only really grow in arid regions which are usually desert, so you kind of have to grow them in a 'friggin' desert'. The problem is growing them commercially in regions without much ground water to begin with.

Sometimes heavy is defined in terms of response time, in particular real-time or near real-time processing. That's why in computer science complexity can be measure in terms of space or in terms of time.

In my 20s, when I was doing minimum wage work, where what you're saying is often but not always true, especially if you work for some old short lady who can't reach the top shelf. You haven't had enough variation in either the kind of work you do, nor have the environments you've worked in and the people you've worked with had much variation to realize this, hence you only understand naive, broad statements like the ones you often make. That's why you've also never been paid very much despite being in a unionized state, and you always think you deserve more than you're worth because you don't understand the idea of things being valued but hard to find generally carrying a higher price tag, where labor is no exception.

You'll never see this in your lifetime, but for anybody else reading this, if you ever work highly technical / highly skilled jobs, especially ones where you're being asked to do things that literally nobody else has ever done (at least, not publicly) the manager doesn't necessarily need to be able to do that work. This is even more the case when you're doing multi-discipline work, where often your manager is paying you more than they themselves get paid.

This is why you make $20/hour working in a salvage yard, where somebody like me brings in ten times that amount. And no, that's not an exaggeration, in fact it actually understates what I have already brought in this year.

Tesla experimented with this and discovered many people would charge up at work, then use the power at home in the evening leaving just enough charge to get back to work in the morning to recharge. A great life-hack to cut your utility bill, but the downside was the battery cycling dramatically reduced the life of the cells. If used properly, such as only during power outages or emergencies it is a very handy solution. When used daily, it will cost more for early replacement of the battery than the owner will save in utility bills.

What's your beef with the Maverick? If it's got a bed, it's a truck. ( esp. so if it's at least 4' wide so as to fit ye olde sheets of plywood )

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F... Engineering Explained on the Maverick and its truck features.

in all cases i tried only the left is stopped whereas the middle and right both play without any intervention. and hitting Esc doesn't stop them. ( at some point in Firefox it used to. and at some later point had a SuperStop extension that made Esc work again... but i don't have it anymore, though idk if it's incidental or it stopped working)

tried in FF, Edge, Brave on Win11 and FF on Android.

Getting a second useful job out of the most expensive part of an EV makes sense. If I'm already buying the truck, a reasonably priced way to keep the fridge and lights running is a pretty appealing extra, but the roughly $650 figure needs some context. Ford says outage backup also requires its Home Backup Power Panel. Then there's installation. Moving the inverter into the truck is a useful saving, but I'd want the complete installed quote before comparing this with other backup options. There's another detail in Ford's announcement: peak-rate energy management requires an active plan or trial. What's that going to cost? A recurring fee belongs in the calculation alongside conversion losses and additional battery cycling. Making the hardware affordable is a good start; the electricity savings still have to survive the subscription bill.

spy on you?

I've always hated how PXE boot always seems to be enabled by default. One of the first things I do with new servers is to update NIC firmware and turn off any PXE boot and iSCSI mount options. Things shouldn't be turned on unless actually needed. Insecure defaults play a huge role in this.