The Air Force has a program to support just this kind of innovation. If they allowed a media outlet to come in and do a story you can bet this had been approved all the way up the chain. This dude probably just earned some official reward bucks, too

I have lived with many cats. Most were normal but one, when he was a kitten, could drop a deuce that would clear out a football stadium. Eye-watering bad. Etch the window glass bad. On top of that, he didn’t know how to cover his stuff. Raked the sides of the box, the wall next to the box, the floor outside the box, you name it, but never got near the actual poop. So it just sat there steaming until someone else went over to cover it for him or scoop.

Our vet told us it was related to diet and gut biome, and that he would probably grow out of it. We despaired for a while but he was right and eventually it got better. He’s about twelve years old now (the cat, not the vet) and still stinky but not nearly as bad as he used to be. Still hasn’t figured out how to cover his stuff though.

You are indeed, but it points to a fallacy in the original question. It's not universal basic income if it is stipulated that you have to do something to receive it.

This is essentially a plot from a 1970s US television murder mystery. If you're interested, look up the Columbo episode "Blueprint for Murder"

I wish I could use it but I can't. The folks developing UT are awesome but they are a very small group of unpaid volunteers and this stuff is painfully difficult to do.

One of the biggest problems is the lack of VoLTE support for making actual phone calls on most phones. Last I looked (which was admittedly more than a month ago) only a few models supported it, and it is the only supported mobile voice protocol in several countries. You can work around this with a SIP (Voice over IP) account and some geekery but it's not ideal.

Another issue is very limited software. There just aren't that many developers creating software for the platform.

I ended up on /e/.

I think it's important to understand that if the whole Internet just shut off in an instant, life as we know it would cease to exist. I'm not talking about a cultural change. I mean millions of people starving and freezing to death because literally everything you take for granted today is ordered, scheduled, and delivered using the Internet. That means no food deliveries, no fuel deliveries, no imports or exports, no trains, trucks, or planes moving, no payments or money transfers. Nothing. Oh, and all the emergency services that you're going to need will be unable to respond because no phones and no communication from dispatch centers. We don't know how to do business without the Internet anymore, so if it goes away, there goes your way of life. Building that back to the "old way" will take way longer than you or your neighbors are likely survive competing for essentially nonexistent resources.

But for those who manage to survive, I would say party like it's 1899!

It doesn’t, but if I recall correctly there were a lot of owners complaining that the brushed finish would discolor if you touched it with your hand. Body oils and salt left finger marks everywhere from people touching the car.

I used to calibrate industrial gas detectors. They generally have an active air sampling path with a pump and a sensor in the gas flow path, and we would calibrate them by flooding the sensor chamber with a test gas at a known concentration. For the type of sensor you have none of those conditions exist (no controlled gas flow path and no pump) so there is essentially no way you can accurately test their response. You essentially have to trust the manufacturer to have made a good product. The one thing you can do is look for an install date and (hopefully) an expiration date, if you can inspect the back of the detector without setting off any central alarm system. If you really don’t trust the owner’s sensors, you can always buy and use your own. Just make sure you place them carefully according to the manufacturer’s instructions.

Also, your detectors are probably combo smoke/CO, but not natural gas. You would smell the odorant in the gas long before the concentration becomes dangerous so a detector would be redundant.

I've done online education both as a student and as an instructor of adults. The truth is that it doesn't come close to matching an in-person classroom experience.

As an instructor it is really hard for me to create engaging lessons even in person. I get a lot of blank stares and zoning out. That may be partly on me but I think it's because a lot of students are just there because they're required to be there. They aren't interested in what I am teaching even if I'm excited about it. At least in the classroom I can give them gentle nudges to engage and there is some live interaction to encourage them.

If I have to teach the course online it is likely to be very hands-off. The general format is read some content, watch some videos, do some homework and maybe a quiz, and engage in some forced online interaction. At the place where I was learning, that interaction was one response to a prompt, posted on a student forum, and two responses to other students' posts. Those posts had a mandatory minimum word count requirement to meet the grading requirement. There is sometimes interaction with the instructor on the forum if they are very motivated and aren't too busy, but most instructors are adjuncts and probably have other work they are doing. Some are, like students, not motivated and are just there to do the minimum to get paid. Also, group projects are difficult to manage. There are no in-class labs, and in some situations an online simulation does not come even close to a hands-on learning experience.

We have done live online classes where I teach but we have very small class sizes and it tends to work better since we can encourage interaction with each student. This isn't possible with larger classes and again, there is no social incentive if students are all sitting alone staring at their phones/tablets/laptops.

So from my experience online education tends to be isolating for students and not at all motivating. It is also a surprising amount of work for the instructors and does not tend to add value to the course.

I am also encouraged to use AI at work and also hate it. I agree with your points. I just had to learn to live with it. I've realized that I'm not going to make it go away. All I can do is recognize its limited strengths and significant weaknesses and only use it for limited tasks where it shines. I still avoid using it as much as possible. I also think "improved productivity" is a myth but fortunately that's not a metric I have to worry about.

My rules for myself, in case they help:

• Use it as a tool only for appropriate tasks.
• Learn its strengths and use it for those things and nothing else. You have to keep thinking and exploring and researching for yourself. Don't let it "think" for you. It's easy to let it make you a lazy thinker.
• Quality check everything it gives you. It will often get things flat wrong and you will have to spend time correcting it.
• Take lots of deep breaths.

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I feel targeted by this. Also how did you get into my house?

Not sure if this meets your needs but you might check out DoorBird. They claim to work with several NAS solutions and have an API, as well as the usual phone- and tablet-notification and communication through their own service.

You might check out the hdparm utility. It should allow you to set drive sleep parameters.

I won't be able to take this seriously until it proves it can successfully make a phone call over VoLTE.

I think it will depend on your location. In the Midwestern US it seems that CompTIA certifications are more sought after. I'm not sure about other countries or regions.

• A few spare buttons of various sizes, since you can lose a button and be unable to find it.
• Some straight pins to hold torn edges or a patch in place while you sew.
• A few safety pins because sometimes it's more expedient to pin now and sew later.
• A thimble because pushing a needle through tough fabric can be painful on your fingers.

Maybe an edge case, but playing around with this I notice that if I create an ordered list at the same level directly after an unordered list, the preview displays it as an unordered list. This doesn't seem to happen if there is a separator between the two or if the ordered list is indented. Is this expected behavior or is it worthy of an issue?

Sometimes my attempts at humor are, uh, odd

Unfortunately most people probably won't read past the first paragraph, but this seems to me to be disingenuous reporting. The lead mentions only one of four serious charges under the UCMJ and buries the other three charges as an "oh, by the way" sentence in the third paragraph.

This dude was sentenced to 12 years for four serious crimes, not one, but the article makes it sound as if only one was important.

This is why it's important to read the whole article.

I didn't read the article so act accordingly, but here's my personal experience.

If I remember correctly, fine filters are a relatively new feature in dishwashers. In the 1970s a standard dishwasher (at least in the US) had a "macerator," which was a water pump with a grinding function that tore food into tiny particles that could be flushed down the drain. This probably required a much more powerful pump motor than you get in a modern machine and a specially designed, heavier impeller than you'll find in most consumer dishwashers today. Large items were blocked from entering the impeller by a coarse screen that was large enough to admit softer food bits but small enough to block things like flatware. As I recall, there was rarely a need to clean anything. The macerator cleaned itself.

The new designs are probably cheaper to manufacture (better for the manufacturer's bottom line) and use less energy (better for you), but do add the requirement to clean the fine filter. I don't recall ever having an old dishwasher break, but it was the 70s and a lot of that stuff was much more solidly built than today's plastic planned-obsolescence appliances.

Hopefully this helps.