I have never received a dime of support from family, so I’m hell bent on getting her every advantage possible.
I feel that. My parents ruined their finances and have been unable to support me in adulthood, so I make sure I set aside money for my kids and set them up to have options when they’re adults
Line go down means stonks are on sale!
Realistically speaking, Intel is an industry juggernaut with extremely valuable IP up the wazoo, extremely lucrative contracts with major partners, etc. the number of extremely good Intel chips, the number of consumer and business use cases where an intel chip is the best choice.
I really don’t forsee them going out of business, and I don’t see them ceasing production of x86 processors. The lead time on new processor development is almost a decade, so the next several generations of Intel Processors are too far into production to be prudent to cancel (and probably will be perfectly worth releasing and selling assuming these microcode and fabrication issues are limited to 13th and 14th gen)
I think the biggest shift would come if there’s significant flaws in the 15th & 16th gen processors. That would certainly be enough to need to significantly alter their business model away from x86 processors development, because that would be about 3 years of horrible sales and tarnished reputation and that would be more than enough time to pivot existing IP that isn’t affected by this into workable new products, even if it’s just “let’s run the E cores at 3x the power budget” or “drop the voltage to nothing and sell only mobile chips” or even “let’s drop the process node on 12th gen and play with that for a few years”
The state of Michigan exists on both sides of the great lakes (which are effectively freshwater oceans, containing their own maritime economies, marine salvage operations, maritime weather and even famous lost ships) so there’s the Michigan mainland which contains major cities like Detroit, Lansing, Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids, but then there’s the “upper penninsula” which is heavily wooded and some consider a continuation of the “north woods” of Wisconsin. Map for context:
I’d be more concerned about that if I were looking at my current economic situation continuing for the long term, but realistically once both kids are in school (which might happen within 12 months even!) my wife can start working, plus I haven’t reached the coasting phase of my career yet, so I have plenty of opportunity to increase me income.
This year’s tax credit will be paying off the last of the nasty debt accrued from my wifes various jobless phases before I went back to college and started making just enough that she didn’t need to work anymore, so that’ll be $200ish/mo back in our pockets to start building a proper emergency fund then figure it out from there. Plus my special needs child should have Medicaid very soon which will be another $200ish/mo back in our pockets as well given his very expensive appointments that had us to hit the deductible before March
As someone currently raosong 2 kids on a single fairly meager income, it comes down to budgeting, extreme price sensitivity and using the annual child tax credits as a cash injection to rebalance everything every 12 months and/or subsidize major needed purchases
That looks like the passenger pickup area of an airport, and honestly looks a lot like LAX specifically. Y’know when you’d need a phone to contact your ride and let them know where you are waiting to be picked up
My current work acquired a company with a very poorly provisioned IT department. Their networks all happen to be in the low 192.168.0.0/16 so users VPNing in often end up with wonky IP conflicts. I’ve heard warnings about similar when selecting subnet ranges, so I just stick with low 192.168.0.0/16 ranges for home networks from which I might potentially VPN into a network I don’t control, and I use 172.16.0.0/12 or 10.0.0.0/8 at work as needed and as aligns with our wider topology.
I will also add that I encountered some fun challenges at a small bank I worked at where they clearly under-planned their network and carried a bunch of wonky configs as vestigial networking adaptations as they grew. They did do a cool thing where they made each branch its own /24 subnet so you could tell at a glance exactly what branch someone was connecting from, plus branches could theoretically limp along with an ISP outage, but they didn’t the extra steps of setting up edge servers so the end result was a full branch outage during an ISP outage
Personally I do a Tailscale tunnel to my home network, if nothing else but so that services don’t log a hotel IP
sets subnet to 10.0.0.0/16 so I don’t have to type a yee yee ass class B/C address everytime I wanna do something with an address
Personally I find 172.16.0.0/12 addresses are easier for me to quickly type accurately than any other private range. 192.168.0.0/16 is just too many similar-but-different digits, and 10.0.0.0/8 is too many similar/the same digits before I get to the digits I actually care about, so both are more error prone for me
172.31.254.0/24 range is for manual assignments and 172.31.255.0/24 range is given out by DHCP. I do not need that many IPs, it’s just for convenience.
I do similar for my home network, mostly for a combination of future proofing and ease of use.
Realistically it would probably make more sense to segment it with more networks, but I’m only going to go so far with complexity for my home production
Recent sauce: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/googles-abuse-of-fitbit-continues-with-web-app-shutdown/
TL:DR they shut down the far more powerful web app to force everyone into the phone app which is buggy as heck and missing many features compared to the web app
Honestly I suspect Bing will eventually surpass Google. Its reached the point where its better than Google for web search
My wife’s currently rocking a refurb 7 and the battery life is actually exceptionally good, easily lasting a full day of near constant usage. I’m guessing they’ve corrected some of this through software improvements
To be entirely fair, the glass doors are terrible for refrigeration efficiency because the glass is far less insulated than the door with the screen is. It might actually save electricity by powering a screen that shows a picture of the product over a insulated door than just having a glass door.
This implementation looks ugly as heck of course but if there’s a big enough energy efficiency gain I suppose it might be worth the trade off
Dude these things struggle to fit in American cities! My mother in law was taking my wife and I to a concert in Chicago and last second we had to change plans and drive our car because hers was too big to park in our reserved parking space. My small crossover which is tiny by rural farming community standards was a tight squeeze. Her truck also took up literally half of our 3.5 car wide driveway (my house is a former rental)
Eh I feel like it’s easier to chalk up to organizational incompetence
My problem with timers is it always goes off when I’m in the middle of something, so I turn it off because it’s annoying and then forget for another 2 or more hours that I needed to get it out. I remember faster without a timer to silence for some reason
my response was sarcasm and an intentional fallacy in the form of an appeal to incredulity for the sake of rhetoric
My bullshit-english translator is a bit rusty, but all I’m getting out of this is “I intentionally wrote a wildly incorrect comment just for funsies” in which case fuck off
My experience working support for a phone manufacturer has informed me that once an average user installs an app it tends to stay installed indefinitely, but they may or may not be aware it’s even installed. A gentle nudge notification of “hey look at me” every once in a while might very well be amazing for engagement