The thing is, there are lots of places in America where schools are doing pretty well, at least on average. Massachusetts has schools that are on par with the top systems in the world (not every school in Massachusetts, but in aggregate). But those places tend to show that they value education by fully funding and…

I would have definitely made a deal. Just because you’re right doesn’t always make the fight worth it.

I’ve always been vaguely aware of this since the beginning... I’ve always thought that if it was me, I’d have just taken the dollars and moved on, before a lawsuit happened. If you go up against a multinational corporation, you kinda have to know that it’s going to take a toll on you, even if you “win”.

The production designer is the believer

He created the Daleks.

It’s not just the card though, but everything that adds up. Those joycons look painful to use. I use the 3Ds as a reference. I really really wanted to play the Super Mario Bros and Luigi’s Mansion. I tried several times. Just gave up because of the cramping. To play the Swiitch, I would have to get a Pro controller…

Non-conformists are hypocrites since they all seem to conform to the same non-conformity stuff.

“...It’s safe to assume the component will be processing at least one metric shitload of energy”

I was in line at Wal-Mart a little over a year ago, just as students were arriving at UNH. There were two freshman women in line ahead of me, with their mothers. The cashier told them if they have any problems, seek out her son, who is a campus police officer. Well, knowing how that works out, I spoke up and said,…

You should change the headline - even if just for this woman's sake - yes, she had an abortion but she did so for a very specific reason and it's click bait to leave the headline as is. I was horrified by the title and then immediately realized it was misleading.

It wasn’t the contact lenses that caused the damage, it was the panicked reaction to pain. Eyes that burn need to be flushed with fresh water, not dug at with fingernails.

What about the brave heroes that stopped to kick the rocks and gravel out of the road the camaro threw there. They’re doing gods work and saving the public from rock chips and cracked windshields. They’re the real stars of this video.

If ever there was a reason for that high schooler to kick you ass it’s this Bad Take, Samer.

Reading on it seems the vast majority are taking them cold out of the fridge and nuking them in the microwave, or dumping hot liquid into them. A concave, tempered glass dome is going to grenade under those circumstances. The geometry is already such that stresses created from uneven thermal expansion are going to be a…

Reading on it seems the vast majority are taking them cold out of the fridge and nuking them in the microwave, or…

Conditional Access - basically a “dongle” card that responds to a security challenge with an appropriate response. Lots of different systems in place (Satellite and Cable Boxes use modern versions of these), but the basic idea is that it can respond with an appropriate pseudo-random code value, or even a set of…

Your first paragraph sums up my whole point really well :) When you think about it, there SHOULD be a lot of soul-searching that goes into the decision. It’s a big purchase with a lot of responsibility. It’s too big of a purchase to simply chalk up to broad generalizations that by no means apply to everyone.

Yeah...as someone who grew up in the southwest where flash floods can definitely suck you in and pull you down with the current, his hesitance to jump into the water makes sense. Something tells me that many of the snarky mc snarklesons on jalopnik aren’t exactly Michael Phelps either. Also—from the time he realized…

Do not judge. People panic easily and act irrationally in situations like this. As someone who did rescue work during (really serious) floods, I know. I remember elderly lady (ignored evacuation earlier) who rescued with her dog from her totally flooded house, got panic attack about forgotten keys because she did not…

Developing on IoT core for the Pi is seriously fun. It’s an infinitely better experience than cobbling together some Python on Linux and lets you have pretty UIs.