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Guess, you just saved them >$10M of wrong orders ?

8. Today I figured out the problem. The granola company and the coaster company buy THEIR boxes from the same people I'm trying to by mine from. And the barcode scanners at @amazonca are picking up the old sticker - from the box company!


you would think the granola and coaster companies would have caught on when they started receiving their own products instead of more boxes.


Unless a box of boxes costs less than they can sell a box of granola or coasters for, in which case this is the ultimate free money machine.


Round robin for best performance and to prevent failure of single person

Mon - Person A

Tue - Person B

Wed - Person C

Thu - Person A

Fri - Person B ...


Round robin can work but you probably also need some weighting, it might be worth investing extra effort in one person if the stars align but still keep in contact with others until the deal is sealed.


Check ChromeOs spin off CloudReady. Used for similar case (with old laptop) and never heard back any issues. Also, zero maintenance time is big plus.

https://www.neverware.com/ https://www.neverware.com/freedownload

*Whether you’re a business, a school, or a home user, CloudReady OS is the fast, easy way to convert your hardware to the security and manageability of Google's Chrome ecosystem.


Saw/read somewhere same.


I truly welcome this. Are there any real benefits of Lightning type charger over USB-C ? I didn't find any.


Last post on this had people claiming that the lightning connector lasts longer than usb-c (which matters for phones that are plugged in potentially multiple times per day).


Looked wikipedia. "An unusual natural phenomenon, ice disks occur in slowly moving water in cold climates and can vary in size, with circles more than 15 metres (49 ft) in diameter..."

There has been few more of them around the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_circle


Enjoyed the article. Thanks for write up.

4GB RAM sounds terrible even for browsing and basic tasks.

I'm looking to switching to one of those devices in future, so far on trusted Thinkpad x230 (no FHD, $150 USD) for travel purposes.

Can anyone comment on "no NPM yet that I know of though" ?

Does node development work normally ?


Using a reasonable OS (Linux etc), 4GB is absolutely fine for browsing and basic tasks, and indeed is often fine for development and other more-than-basic tasks as well, depending on how exactly you work (Emacs/Vim instead of an IDE, for instance).

Is 4GB considered too little under Windows these days?


It amazes me no end that when I turned 18 I was contracted to work on a Cray J90 with a staggering 128 Mwords of RAM at a financial institution, and that today 4GB is considered tight for running a consumer OS with a browser with more than a few tabs open.

I really cannot fathom what could possibly require so much memory. It’s just taking some hypertext markup, some scripts, and rendering a web-page.

I genuinely do not understand. I’m totally baffled.


and I think back to the old B6700 ... for which we bought 1.5Mb of core (yes, actual hand threaded core) for $1M in the late 70s ..... it supported 40 terminals


Abstraction upon abstraction running containers inside VMs, basically turtles all the way down.


4GB is terrible under Windows 10 (you'll be swapping all the time, which means either visibly thrashing if running a spinning disk, or wearing out a SSD with excess writes). 8GB is considered a mildly tolerable amount, and 16GB is almost the standard for "real" use. Yet under Linux, even as little as 2GB can make for an incredibly snappy and productive experience. Go figure.


More or less. The main culprit is web browsers. Chrome will happily use 4gb by itself these days...


Heh, Firefox doesn't have that problem at all. I don't think I have pulled more than 1 GB on it? But then again I usually only have 10-20 tabs open at the most.


The Great Suspender is life.


For reference, I have a Thinkpad x200 with 8 GB of RAM (it has an Intel Core 2 Duo). I installed Debian with XFCE, and it idles at 300 MB of Ram, and I have yet to use more than 1.5 GB of RAM. I say that to say I think 4 GB of RAM is plenty if you use it for casual computing tasks.


I use a 2011 Dell Vostro w/ 4GB RAM and a 2010 era Core i3 as my media machine, hooked up to my TV. Handles 1080P Youtube/Netflix and Acestream streams very well.


"4GB RAM sounds terrible even for browsing and basic tasks."

Yes, it does.


Typing this on a 2GB Thinkpad T42p which seems to work just fine for browsing and basic tasks - and then some.


I use OpenBSD with cwm, Iridium, nvi and Unix utilities as my "IDE".

I lack nothing.


Amazing photos inside


Clicked for curiosity.

Does it count as hacking ?

// Solution Partner's ASP.NET Hierarchical Menu Control // Copyright (c) 2002-2005

+ very old Dot Net Nuke running probably (assumption, not been digging more) unpatched IIS


People reported similarly lame takeovers of minor US govt sites last week as a wartime cyberattack, so sure.


That persons must have very strong stomach. How can justify in front of mirror ? How much $$$ they received for covering it ?

Naive questions: Are they obligated by law to disclose ? Are they being somehow personaly punished / liable ?


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