I was skeptical of the rumors that Gabbard was some kind of foreign sleeper agent, but if Roger Stone is standing up for her, then perhaps she is working for the Russians…

Read a lot of portfolios to find one where the work was split between freelance photojournalism and commercial / wedding photography.

I looked for a professional in the area who had a photojournalism background because I was more interested in accurate photos of what was happening all around the party than in glamour shots of my wife and I. The pictures turned out amazing and I treasure them.

Main moral is to figure out what you want first, then look for that rather than trying to explore the whole space.

That’s bigger than any workspace I’ve ever had in my entire 20+ years of working. It has a window and drawers and some modicum of privacy? How did this office drone get so lucky as to avoid the last few decades of open plan double-hot-desked bullshit?

https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/

This is what I always recommend

Webpass used to be great. The instant it became Google Fiber, it seemed to be totally abandoned; no rollout to new buildings/neighborhoods, no speed improvements (most locations still top out at 1Gbps and local favorite Sonic has rolled out 10Gbps fiber throughout the Bay Area), and prices are stubbornly high ($70/mo for 1Gbps versus $40 from competitors). Oh, and there’s still no IPv6.

I’m sure Astound will be even worse but Google has been an awful steward of this service.

(this is the same reason that big solar systems require an oversized busbar on your main panel)

I think the risk is more that someone has a 15A-rated outlet on a 15A circuit breaker, plugs a solar panel into one socket and then a power strip with 30A of space heaters into the other socket. Breaker doesn’t trip because the main panel is only providing 15A, but the outlet lights on fire.

Not sure why that isn’t a problem in places these are more common.

Good word.

You’re absolutely right - it hadn’t even occurred to me that the paid support tier is probably just going to be ChatGPT in a trench coat. Ugh.

I was on the bus yesterday and was watching someone copy numbers out of Excel, paste them in Gemini, ask it “what is the total of these numbers”, then paste the answer back into Excel. I truly despair for the brains of some of the most AI-pilled folks.

MySQL often has moderately higher performance (particularly for workloads where you want your data clustered by PK, which is how InnoDB is natively structured) and its replication system is much more flexible than either of PostgreSQL’s. I like Percona personally, but MariaDB is fine too.

To answer your specific question: no. There have been and continue to be lots of CPUs that have things that could plausibly be called a “bit size” that aren’t a power of 2. Note that the “bit size” can refer to a few things (the width of the bus between the CPU and memory, the native size of a pointer, and/or the native width of the arithmetic units). I’ll give examples of each.

On essentially every “64-bit” computer, the bus to memory is not 64 bits wide. For example, the Apple M4 ARM CPUs are 64-bit but have a 128-bit memory bus over which they communicate something like 43-bit physical addresses. ARM has always been this way; the original 32-bit ARM1 had 26-bit physical addresses.

As to pointer size, the best example is probably the currently-being-developed CHERI architecture which is 64-bit arithmetic but 129-bit pointers.

For an arithmetic unit example, the floating-point unit on Intel CPUs was traditionally 80 bits wide. These days, it’s emulated on a 128-bit wide SSE unit but you still see 80 bits in code a bit.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/91/

Who would’ve thought those Arkady Martine books would be so prescient?

A startlingly high fraction of US businesses rely on a combination of tax evasion, accounting fraud, and wage theft to make the business work. Everyone knows this, but it’s still sufficient reason to keep reporting minimal.

Doesn’t this just bond neutral to ground? It’s definitely illegal and will kill you if some other device has a short and makes ground hot, but at least it’s not a suicide cord

So this is just binary red/blue? Seems iffy given how diverse states are (eg there are about as many Republican voters in “blue” California or in “red” Florida because California is way larger). I wonder what this would look like at the county level…

Safeway gives them so few hours, will we really notice? I’ve gone to the Rockridge Safeway at times and been certain there were no staff there at all (self checkout only, meat desk closed, pastry area closed, nobody stocking shelves)…

no, I’m sure the majority is in poorly paid roles: janitors, food prep, entry level techs

The average Windows user might not care, but the average Windows license buyer is probably a corporate IT department, which tend to care about compliance quite a bit…