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It bothers me. There are too many things that are either not standards-complient or support different parts of the USB feature set that compatibility is a wildcard.

I carry a large backup battery when I travel for work. It can keep my laptop going under load all day, allowing me to not care at all about proximity to outlets when working. It also allows me to painlessly recharge phones by just handing it to someone.

Last week, I was running something from someone else's laptop (enterprise HP, like mine, but different model). It got low, so I pulled out my battery. Plug it in... No power. I could see the voltage fluctuations of it negotiating, but nothing after that.

It was actually the system Cloudflare uses to catch and block bots that went haywire.

They had a fake database you could query that would pull content from a bunch of different shard databases. They updated the config so that systems querying it could see the shards in addition to the main dummy DB. The tool that pulled data out of it assumed that it could only see the dummy, however, so it just asked for everything when it pulled a report to pass to the filtering system.

The filtering system assumed the report it received would be properly formed and crashed if it got one that was malformed.

Accountants tally the numbers and hand you the totals. Twisting them is unethical and can lead to them losing their licenses.

Analysts manipulate the numbers to push a message. No ethics allowed.

Signed, an analyst raised by an accountant. Interacting with other analysts is infuriating.

According to the article, Oracle made $18b from cloud services this year. They are projecting that to grow to $144b in the next five years, with almost half that growth being this deal.

Absurd.

My earliest remembered favorite is The Little Red Car by Bernice Orawski. Cute little kids book with lovely illustrations about a car having the worst day of its life.

I'm a bit over halfway through the series right now, burning through them at a book every week or two.

The series suffers from sprawl. There are 3-4 'a-plots' at any one time, which can be a bit frustrating. I'm loving them though.

One of my earliest favorites too.

I've got a weird one. Saints Row 4, near the end. Such a strange, unexpectedly emotional experience.

If it was an electrical issue, they wouldn't have been able to just turn them back on, which one of the pilots did.

The two switches were moved to off sequentially with the right amount of gap for a human doing it quickly. One of the pilots then questioned why they were off, and they were then both turned back on individually a short time later.

The possibility the FAA was investigating was whether the latches on the switches may not work, allowing them to be moved unintentionally. This was unlikely due to the timing, but they still had to eliminate it.

Yes. Nothing is truly incompressible. The speed of sound can be viewed as a measure of how much a material can squish on the atomic level before the next atoms move.

They are blind, not obtuse. Norton ≠ Notion.

A split combo of the two is pretty common.