Even if a board is double-sided, it is common to avoid putting major ICs on both sides, unless the space constraints are severe. Often, people will only put passive components on the bottom side.

The one I really don't get is that they funded Adam Neumann's new company after the collapse of WeWork. How stupid do you have to be to give that guy any more money?

https://docs.rs/rusqlite/latest/rusqlite/

Modern problems...

You can look at the full user tree (https://lobste.rs/users) and see if there's anyone you know who might be willing to invite you to join.

It may be sufficient to just disconnect the antennas from the WiFi module, that will help prevent any network connections.

It was a bit of a bold move to base this on a Model I. That system had an unreliable expansion interface, limited memory options, and emitted a lot of EM interference.

https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact...

I saw this plane decades ago when it was in an auxiliary hanger, before being moved to its present location. It was in decent shape then (you were allowed to walk through it), and hasn't spent decades sitting outside.

Obviously, Columbine III is not in flyable condition, and will likely never fly again.

For x86-64, the peripherals are mostly standard, with the sometimes exception of suspend / resume support. So a regular Linux distro will often just work with little tweaking required.

Look around and see what you've got laying around!

There's quite of bit of quackery just with nutritional supplements, too. And people and companies try to bypass the FDA all the time with fake cures, the COVID-19 epidemic was just the latest version of that.

The FDA is over-zealous with their testing requirements. However, without them we will see an explosion of fake cures for everything. The legitimate pharma companies will lose money, or otherwise start cutting a lot of corners in the pursuit of profit.

We need something like the FDA to keep things in check.

That... does not work in most programming languages. Especially so for showing indent levels correctly. Generally speaking, the language server (or whatever) is parsing the entire file.

Why would you ever do that? What's the point?

There are many other examples, but in C and C++, if you don't start parsing at the beginning, you're definitely going to get many things wrong. What if you start parsing in the middle of an identifier? How can you possibly expect to get something useful from that?

Angela Collier talks about Dark Matter here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbmJkMhmrVI

And talks more about how often MOND is brought up in comments on her own video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS34oV-jv_A

I've never used our Alexa for shopping. If I said something like "Alexa, buy more filters", even being very clever and looking at my order history, it would still get something wrong. And then I'd need to use another device to actually make the order.

While it seems to work fine on the speech recognition part, in that Alexa understands the words I say, it never seemed good enough to actually navigate a task like ordering the right kind of filter.

I knew there was some behind-the-scenes scripting going on, but I didn't realize just how much...

We mostly use our Alexa for kitchen timers, reminders, and video calls with family. Occasionally for playing music too. No, I don't want to subscribe to Amazon Music Unlimited.