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Never put your company name in a password. Always use one of your competitors. They should have used ‘BritishMuseum’ or something

I think there’s a bit more nuance with this one. I’m all for safety and all that, but the fact that one company, SawStop, owns the patent for the blade stop system that they’re trying to mandate is a pretty big issue. Sure they’ve pledged to not enforce the patent if the mandate goes through, but that’s entirely on their word, nothing in writing. The cost of a saw would go up if they don’t waive the patent enforcement and manufacturers have to pay to license the technology (or some other related patent that the system can’t function without). Also, if the saw manufacturers are also making saw blades, they’d probably end up selling more blades as a result of the blade stop, since iirc, the system shunts a hardened steel block into the path of the blade as soon as it detects an electrical current from your finger (or a hot dog in all the demos lol), which stops and breaks the blade in the process. Dunno if that would make up for lost sales due to higher prices, tho.

None of this would effect table saws that already exist, and higher prices may drive people to buy more used stuff, rather than new stuff.

On top of dealing with the SawStop patent issues, there’s other things that could also help with table saw safety, like designing blade guards that people don’t want to remove cuz they get in the way, that aren’t addressed by this mandate. This NPR article from 2024 kinda talks a bit more about the whole issue around the blade stop mandate.

Not to say that this mandate shouldn’t happen, I’m more concerned about it being implemented in a way that won’t drive people away from buying saws with a blade stop system due to price

Oh definitely for that price you could come up with something to clean the balls, but our current Secretary of Health would probably say thats unnecessary and ruins “survival of the fittest” or something and then pocket any extra cash earmarked for safety

100% the next cause of a global pandemic is gonna evolve from that ballpit. The old Mcdonald’s Play Place’s were worrying enough

Eight Sleep’s products rely on cloud connectivity to control temperature and track biometric data. When AWS went down, users lost access to the app that manages its water-cooled coils, leaving them stuck with whatever setting was last active.

Insane oversight to design the bed (or any product like this, really) such that it can’t be adjusted without the internet.

completely uncharted territory. No one tried to cook a potato until Sam Altman graced us plebs with ChatGPT

good thing the crabs cant read this meme

He saw how Nvidia was creating a nice circular flow of money in the AI industry and decided he wanted to try it too

Oh my phone is on the list of devices now. Maybe I’ll give Lineage a try if I feel like hopping ROMs again

See, not too many people remember the time before Internet Explorer, but “murder” wasn’t a word back then. Not even a concept.

It least Instagram straight up doesn’t give a changelog, rather than letting you read dumb exposition that tells you nothing. (Thats still crap tho)

security of our bottom line!

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only good things could be happening in the anal database

i need this in needlepoint on my wall. For the next time I get stuck in Vim

with one glance, that horse can understand the pain that is Haru Urara Arima Kinen

At my local supermarket, a Code Red is $3, a Can of Pringles is $2.50, and just a glance at the prices of different cuts of beef, it seems like you’d pay at least $13 for a pound of steak. Things like Rice and beans would probably be around the same price as the processed food or cheaper, but probably not anything that includes meat.

in today’s economy? That’s fine dining Mr. Moneybags

the true inspiration for those vertical mice: Hot Dogs