And a quick Revise and Extend:

My kids each have Meta VR headsets. They're gathering dust. So it's not like we haven't tried some...

I remember on my single visit to the Googleplex (on behalf of a F100 company where I worked at the time) meeting someone with Google who was walking around with Google Glass on.

It made the guy look like kind of a dork, and his smug attitude didn't help the impression. I couldn't have been paid to wear the things in public.

The general failure of VR and AR headsets to rule the market points the way here, and none of these Silicon valley guys seem to understand: PEOPLE DON'T WANT SHIT ON THEIR FACE.

It's so simple, so easy to get: Is this product going to succeed?

Google Glass?
3D Cinema?
Home 3D TVs?
Meta/Occulus headsets?
Magic Leap?
Apple whatever their thing is called?

Ask the basic question: "Does this shit go on your face?" If the answer is "Yes", the product is not going to succeed. If "No", you might have a shot.

Dollar General is more of a "General Store" - that is, it includes a variety mix of things from hardware to groceries to OTC drug store stuff and housewares. It's _everywhere_ in rural America.

It does not promise a $1 price for everything, and the headline is misleading.

Dollar Tree and Family Dollar have operated on the "single price" model, though I'm not vouching for their current operations.

Sorry, you're now BANNED FROM /. for the crime of reading TFA!

Or, 3D print a prototype for fit and a ground test, then send your file out to get a metal sintered version from a print service bureau.

In amateur rocketry, there are constant questions about heat resistance of both 3D printing filaments and epoxy. As amateurs, there's kind of a 'try it and see' mentality. But good Lord, you're not RIDING in the thing!

FAFO!

For great justice.

And cats and pr0n.

I live in Georgia, hadn't heard about the data center issue here, and TFA doesn't source the claim. Believable, but where, when, who? Anybody have that story?

Last rolling flat (not cold in the driveway) was on the way to a job interview. Pulled over, jacked the car up, put on the SPARE FUCKING TIRE, arrived late and asked for a minute to wash hands properly.

Got the job.

Didn't have 3 hours to waste on AAA.

That was with my dearly-missed candy white 2007 GTI.

Do it with a steamroller for a flatter organizational structure.

...To Remove Lawyers.

So much better.

Podcasts are an audio-format medium, delivered by an RSS subscription feed.

What the article is talking about are videos, not "podcasts". The medium is different, and the subscription and delivery mechanisms are different.

Further, the content is different in character, as an audio medium doesn't expect you to state at a screen while you consume it.

This isn't a matter of simple pedantics. The cheese is being moved for an entire industry, to the detriment of its subscribers and creators. As production costs go up, and attention to a screen is required, podcasting may just disappear.

How sad.

Wow, I'm on AWS and had zero downtime, apparently because I'm on a plain-vanilla Lightsail VPS. It's a tiny prod installation, but apparently too small to fail.

Maybe something positive to be said about "old ways" if you don't have to have instant scale...

Last time _I_ revealed _my_ camera for a toilet, the cops came!