We just got a Roku 4K something a couple of months ago and have issues with the network stack on it failing. Roughly 1 out of 3 or 4 boots will lose connection - first to the remote (then you can’t do anything) and then a moment later the rest of it. Requires a hard reset by pushing the button on it.

Maybe time travelers have determined that killing Hitler results in an even worse outcome

I like her recipes.

TBH I don’t store anything valuable/fenceable that’s easy to carry in our shed. Power tools are the prime target for this kind of stealing so they stay in the garage. You could always lock the door with a pad lock but that’s easy to bypass and the doors themselves are easily forced on most common storage sheds.

“took a lot of the critiques to heart in terms of what was spoken about after season one, first in terms of incorporating more of the French culture” and prioritizing “diversity and inclusion.” She also claimed it was “a gift to be given these comments and creative critiques, to be able to listen and grow and create…

Just an aside, but it’s interesting: The tomato, which is indelibly linked to Italian cuisine now, was originally imported there from what is now Mexico. It was transported back from European expeditions. It took a long while to gather acceptance as the tomato is part of the nightshade family - famous for its…

My guess is somebody’s arm slipped or jerked as they were applying pressure. A wide badge like that might be a little more tricky to apply than a narrow one. Or they were new and didn’t have the technique correct. Obviously, better tooling can help with this.

And very regionally at that. The Dublin bottler has a small territory comprising a few small Texas towns. In the 2000's they started selling it beyond where it was very popular due to the sugar instead of HFCS, but other bottlers/soda gangsters got in a tizzy about the encroachment on their territory and filed suit.…

Oof that 10k jump for Turbo. I wonder how negotiable that is.

Are you expecting something else? It’s the same with Volvo, Lexus, BMW and Mercedes. “Leatherette”, “MB-Tex”, “Nu-Luxe”, “SensaTec” are all vinyl.

RTG’s are still launched. Anything going out further into the solar system has to have them because there isn’t enough solar energy to power things. The recent Mars rovers have them. They are designed to survive a launch accident and/or re-entry by encapsulating the plutonium in a ceramic and a putting that in a very…

My guess is this was a sharp ping vs. the extended moderate amplitudes of a launch and outside of the design tolerance

Zima was basically alcoholic Sprite. Many of the similar drinks like Smirnoff Ice, Mike’s Hard Lemonade etc. that followed were in that form - boozy (and very sugary) soda pop (technically malt liquor).

The insurers likely did have contractual requirements that may not have been fully met. The insurers will be doing most of the legal fighting and will probably try to deny claims on that basis. A judge will probably rule by casting some percentages around - insurers cover this %, organizers that %, and so on. It will…

I follow a few interesting abandoned-in-russia instagrams and it is amazing the amount of hardware just sitting around, rusting. Lots of military vehicles but also entire factories full of equipment. Saw a bread factory that shut down one day with loaves still on the conveyors 18 years later. Seems that legal ownership…

Chipmaking equipment is very specialized and supremely expensive. Only a few companies in the world even produce the tools and its an extremely expensive enterprise - fabs run 24/7 to have the scale to make it economical. The automakers wouldn’t have enough volume for this to make sense - their cost per chip would…

exactly!! JIT is not resilient at all. Processes need to be looked at to take into account the cost of being unresilient.

It may work logically but there could be electrical differences that have to be tested out and validated. The space shuttle went through this - it used 8086 processors in critical areas. Once those were no longer manufactured, nasa scavenged them on ebay and other places. The cost of redesigning and revalidating new…

This is where JIT (just in time) manufacturing practice falls apart. It’s efficient until something systemic breaks and then all hell breaks loose. Especially when you don’t own the means of production of the part in question and the entity that does either locks up the production line with other orders or retires it…

But only 38k for the past 10 years. From the “Financials” page: The song has earned $11,746.52 from performances in the last 12 months. It has earned a total of $38,164.19 since 2011, with more than half ($20,665.94) coming in the last two years.