Try to read a document/book on the linux boot process and it is VERY complicated if you actually want to know all the steps from POST to a tty login. You can strip some of it away but focusing on one path (UEFI vs BIOS) or just ignoring the instruction pointer movements.

I agree, little nuggets like this are valuable even if know it already.

WTH Are you talking about?

I would just be happy to never have a ICS file every saved to my drive again. Whoever created the concept of a calendar invite saving a ICS file has created me hours of frustration.

>Because tips are important to the income of delivery shoppers, I find that I generally get good produce selections

Wait, you tip to get a good selection of produce to be delivered to you? This is very bizarre to me.

I'm not normally a fan of tips, but this seems like a reasonable use of one to me. The picker isn't paid on the shininess of the apple they bring you -- they're paid to pick as quickly as they can from what's on offer. The potential for a tip incentivises them to go beyond that requirement -- to pick the nicest/freshest rather than the most convenient.

Yep. Instacart. I work from home and sometimes I don't want to go to the store (or it would be difficult because I'm on Zoom/Teams a lot), but I need vegetables, meat, milk, etc. for cooking.

With Instacart & Costco memberships and also ordering from the local discount grocers, I can get food delivered for less than it costs to actually go to the mainstream grocery stores like Von's, and I don't get bruised eggplants or cilantro that's already going bad. The drivers/shoppers are generally quite good at picking out items that can lead to higher tips (that or they're just in it for the love of good produce, but either way you can often tell they're not randomly loading the bags).

I like it, I order on my phone before I get to the place and just pick it up.

Any reason to like the old way is just nostalgia in my head.

There are pros, but ultimately we’re all still apes, we need human interaction and contact. It can’t be completely replaced with technology.

Is ordering a burger really human interaction and contact?

> we need human interaction and contact

Indeed, but not at McDonalds.

Do you really need a human to ask whether you want fries with that?

I thought about this a lot with parking spaces, nobody like big, open, tree-less parking lots. Why not just build them up adjacent to the grocery store.

The answer is $. It costs too much and land is cheaper than building up (In most places).

All recent HEBs have dedicated grocery pickup staging space. I chatted with a staffer once. It is like its own little grocery store where they keep selections of hot, cold and room temperature bags of selected groceries temperature controlled until the orderer comes and they put them together and bring them out.

The ones in Bellaire and Meyerland are two level with parking (aka flooding space) below the store and a smaller parking lot on the second level with the store. Bellaire also has a fancy fuel cell setup for some reason. The single level HEB in Montrose(ish) was built into the site of an old complex of charming but nearly abandoned standalone quad/duplexes with many mature oaks. They seem to have retained nearly all of the trees on the grounds in greenspaces within the parking lot and entryway.

Here's some street view of Montrose. They also had a bike air and repair system when it opened. I'm not certain if it stayed in good repair itself. https://maps.app.goo.gl/KxHAvDqKca4E8L8a7

Thank you, I've replied too many times that if people want low priced housing, it's easily found in Texas. The replies are empty or stating that they don't want to live there because... it's Texas.

So the young want cheap affordable housing, right in the middle of Manhattan, never going to happen.

Don’t blame people they want to live close to where the good jobs are.

How do you handle the constant complaints about clicking on a email link or some other tracking link and it not working?

Or do you not import any lists into nexdns?

I handled that complaint by switching the house in general to eero’s adblocker, which is more permissive than nextdns and doesn’t generally block tracking links (and intercepts DNS requests to outside servers that aren’t using DoH/DoT), and just using nextdns on my personal devices.

Good question, I forgot this happens time to time. I set DNS at the router instead of devices, so just tell them to turn off wifi on their phones when that happens. It's actually slightly more complicated because of parental controls(if you care)... essentially the router gives out its own IP for DNS via DHCP, and the router itself is configured to use controlD.

On my personal computer, I don't remember ever running into this, but if I did I'd just override resolv.conf temporarily.

You can also just whitelist the domain(s) too via oneclick actions in both systems, which was my initial caveat that you can't do that using public adblocking DNS.

There are more permissive hosts lists that allow email trackers. You can also configure hosts lists per device with adguard home or firewalla

Replying late, but show me where you can get a 5g modem, that is powered by POE, allows you to connect via a remote switch and automatically sets it as a failover wan to the router.

That was available 5 years ago?

What is the probability of being born blind?

What is the probability of having schizophrenia?

What is the probability of both?

What is the probability of both + having resources to have it diagnosed?

Some quick numbers:

  1/2500    .. What is the probability of being born blind?
  1/100     .. What is the probability of having schizophrenia?
  1/250000* .. What is the probability of both?
  1/250000* .. What is the probability of both + having resources to have it diagnosed?

[*] Assuming genetic blindness (born this way) and schizophrenia (elevated genetic risk) are not somehow inversely linked.

So, in the US:

  340MM people -> 1360 born-blind people who would develop schizophrenia

Reduce that by half or so, since schizophrenia tends to emerge in or after adolescence. And since it may be confusable at older ages with other brain health issues (is this true?).

So call it 700 people in the US alone. If it is in fact zero, that is significant!

I chose the US because 100% people will have adequate access to this level of medical care. A formal diagnosis is not the same thing as access, but a born-blind person either has parents/family, or has a state warden with access to care. This is also true in many many other countries, but certainly not all.

The US has 4.1% of the world population. Figure 50% of the world does not have this level of medical access. It's probably less than that, but maybe not.

This suggests about 10,000 people worldwide, living today, who would be affected, and in an environment where they would be diagnosed.

and what is the probability of deaths of Alternative for Germany party members?