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I think in 2001 I was making a Linux from scratch system having not gotten enough from red hat and Debian with home configured and compiled kernels

Fun times and no, nothing like the commercial home operating systems back then

As much as people hate Musk, Tesla is unusual in that they allow you to opt out of all connectivity. Get no updates, send no video, audio, or data to the company

We have a clean desk policy at my workplace too, we also don’t take classified documents home

We need to provide a photo of our home work area as part of our application for work from home. It’s needed as part of the employer’s duty of care - managers are supposed to examine the photo and determine its a safe work area

Really all that happens is a photo is attached to the application and never looked at

I doubt American employers have any duty of care towards work from home employees.

I bet the unblurring was about being able to see the documents. AI blur is pretty aggressive at blurring anything that isn’t a face

Lucky kids

I’m 47, and the early games for me were clear. Five year olds don’t get to play arcade machines in 1982, but they do get to play an older relative’s game and watch

And that stuff is memorable

I doubt the post iPad (maybe the post home computer) people have much chance though. 3 year olds have games made for them, though they’re in this thread, naming popular games

Octopus on a Nintendo game and watch (though it’s hard to put things in order, I had a knockoff portable game in 1987 “submarine battle”, and I feel the Nintendo has to be earlier, or what else could the knockoff be knocking off? Yeah game and watch was 1980 onwards)

One program I tested went from (31,12,99) to (01,01,100). Its front end formatted the date and added the century, so it showed 1 January 2000 as 01/01/19100

That wasn’t fixed. The fault didn’t affect processing (the years were wrong but had the correct offset between them) and was only visible to internal users, and also that system was expected to be retired in 2004

As much as that extracted a snort from me, it’s almost true, at least in the sphere of printers that talk one of the few major print languages

Funny, in Australia we have school dances and they don’t get anything like American proms, with the possible exception of girls’ debutante balls which we dress up for

As a rule when talking to management you love the place you work, 5 years? You’ll be there in ten

I mean unless you have complaints you really feel you need to raise

They won’t tell you if they’re planning on firing you. You take the mandatory notice you must give as a target and never give more notice than that.

My mother’s garden was watered with rain water. We don’t have acid rain so there’s nearly nothing in that and that garden is quite productive. Plants get all the nutrients they need from well fertilized dirt

So tap water is also bad? That has no minerals to speak of, at least where I live

Well that sucks

Thanks, that is pretty neat

Are you in the industry, 'cause that doesn’t ring true to me. Why would you spend the energy to evaporate water when it’s so cheap and easy to dump the water on the petunia patch?

Refrigerators collect waste water in a tray on the assumption that the indoor climate will be dry enough for the water to ambient evaporate

Air con is incredibly popular in the tropics where it’s dropping 100% RH to 30% and making a lot of water

When the cold side is for inside air, I think you’ll find that the water it condenses from the inside air is piped outside

If water is dripping from the outside unit, your aircon is lacking gas. Making it into a giant fan.

Water dripping means the cold side coil is cold enough to condense water out of the air. In what way does that suggest it is not working?

If it’s $15 on a credit card, and you’re willing to pay a few more fifteens of dollars later, sure