Remembered I had an unopened Pi5-8GB on the shelf.

EFF supporter for years. Have so many of their t-shirts (amazing designs, btw). Cindy Cohn is the real deal. Anyone online should go pay attention to them.

Any kids coming from a school-issue Chromebook could get a great upgrade moving to these.

I know people who run Illustrator/Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, Logic, Microsoft Office, and Font Design software on their 8GB Macbooks. Obviously, not all at the same time, but at least 2 or 3 apps together without a problem.

This gives an on-ramp to those users looking for a new, shiny entry-level laptop.

Part of disaster-planning is to figure out the blast radius. If it’s just your house, or a small brownout, then something like this would work. As long as you plug your router so wifi can keep running, or maybe you can tether to a cell.

If it’s a neighborhood-wide outage, chances are internet is down and possibly nearby cell towers. Most of them are suposed to have battery backup.

We once had a six day outage and it turned out the cell towers ran out of power after a few hours. Phone companies brought in diesel generators just to keep emergency phone lines open (with degraded data). All the food in the fridges had to be thrown out after day 3.

It was right after that when a lot of people went and bought gas-powered generators as home backups. Many signed up for satellite data. Those who could afford it got solar panels and home-size batteries.

When this automation fad showed up, many people pointed out that there would be plenty of cases where the training data just didn’t cover edge-cases. Problem is, life is FULL of edge-cases. This is where humans are uniquely good at improvising and adapting in real-time, when faced with previously unknown situations.

In fact, you can argue humans are really, really good at handling exceptions to the rule. Pretty much the textbook definition of “creativity.”

In the dotcom era, the push was to create lots of free services. Once you had enough users, you wanted to see how many would be willing to pay for it. There was a formula that justified getting more investment (it varied by domain). Back then, almost nobody other than Amazon survived the hard shaking of the tree.

We may be coming up to the point where customer acquisition through free service ends. Whatsever is left standing will move to the next round.

Everybody else gets dropped on the floor.

That REAL Pi actually ends at 7 digits. Discovered by a greengrocer named Dennis.

There’s been an easy say to calculate it since 1800s using an abacus.

Edit: thought the /s was implied with, you know, “Dennis.” I knew I should have gone with “Humperdink.”

Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?

Bismillah! No, we will not let you go (let him go)

Will live in my brain forever.

Telling other people what they should NOT do.

👊🏽 Sonic.

MySpace reboot vs Spotify.

Beautiful works!

If viewed on an iPhone or iPad, you can take it into AR mode and drop the piece on a table in front of you, then walk around it. Don’t know if that works on Android.

Just becauase you Can doesn’t mean you Should.

The way money-laundering works, you take ill-begotten funds and somehow churn it into legal tender in ways that can’t be traced back to the source. Another angle is to create corporate entities that show loss against gains, so you can deduct and don’t have to pay taxes on your windfall profits.

In the olden days, these were physical, degrading assets. Like strip malls, real-eestate, and dodgy, money-losing businesses that somehow stuck around forever. At the end, you were stuck with physical entities you couldn’t unload.

Crypto and NFT were just digital variations of the same financial model, minus the hassle of having to manage the property.

Given that the infrastructure description included the DataTalks.Club website, this resulted in a full wipe of the setup for both sites, including a database with 2.5 years of records, and database snapshots that Grigorev had counted on as backups. The operator had to contact Amazon Business support, which helped restore the data within about a day.

Non-story. He let Terraform zap his production site without offsite backups. But then support restored it all back.

I’d be more alarmed that a ‘destroy’ command is reversible.

There’s a difference between ‘repairable’ and ‘upgradable.’ Most of the comments seem to conflate the two. Lenovo isn’t doing a Framework.

It’s a smart move. Differentiates them from other laptop-makers for corporate IT, who can do the parts swaps themselves. Also smart is associating the brand with iFixit and working to get a 10/10. That’ll be what sets them apart from all the others, at least for the next year or two.