Yes! We call it the Harbor Freight methodology. When we're buying something unfamiliar, we get the cheapest and use it.

When it breaks, we will have learned about using it and why we use it, on what we use it for, we can make a smarter purchase in the next price tier (or top, depending on the outcome)

And download faster as vectors take up less data space than raster bits

There should be a law that should any book go out of print, to be digitized and made available online. Publishers shouldn't dictate which books are allowed to be consumed once they allow it out of print when digital versions cost next to nothing to make available for a nominal price.

That goes for authors owning the copyright, as well.

It depends on where you live. Take Florida for instance, with the insurance companies abandoning you or filing bankruptcy just before paying a claim. It gets more expensive and as you age, maintenance gets harder to do, much less replace big appliances without paying someone to do it.

If you're young and strong and not working in an industry that breaks you, a mortgage may be smarter (and cheaper) than renting.

Both has pros and cons; one strong con is that if you have a mortgage, you become geo-locked to your land and when you get a job offer that moves you outside of reasonable commute range, you have the extra headache of fixing the property up for sale and having the split attention of working at your new job and keeping in touch with the sales leads.

If you're older, renting may be better as if something breaks, the apartment manager takes care of it.

So there's a hidden cost to owning a home versus renting. You can almost count on renting being a fixed cost each month (rent + utilities + insurance) whereas a mortgage, you cannot.

The real nerds have known this for years; it's not always the look but themes and/or types: t-shirts, jeans, sneakers, done.

For me, I decide between lightweight or heavy t-short material depending on the daily temps, and a stretchy pair of pants with slip-in shoes.

So yes bring on the uniforms!

You can locate a copy at the Internet Archives so you can browse before buying

I park closer to a corral than to the store. Plus taking one from the parking lot increases the chance that it doesn't have a wobbly wheel.

Real-time live AI captioning.

It's not perfect but more words than none.

I hold daily Scrum meetings in Zoom and everyone benefits with the transcript saved at the end of the meeting.

I raid with my guild, with Live Captions window overlaid onto of my chat box.

Mixed nuts. Throw in some macadamia nuts now and then. Unsugared dried fruits will help with the flavor profile

I love peanuts like nothing but it can get monotonous after a while

We have a DBA but with an augmented job description. They write ad hoc reports which some will be passed to the development team to be codified with filters and export options.

I remember DBAs with just database experience in the '90s and they were really busy especially when drive storage and RAM was very expensive.

But today, both are cheap and databases are easier to configure and support, I suppose their job descriptions are more expanded.

Not a good start; showing a sign up page first before trying out the app

Well-made wood furniture is also lighter and easier to carry (particle or plywood tend to flex when picking up)

I programmed a few BATCH commands to switch windows and run certain apps to upload mortgage document files to remote offices

Homebridge (or Home Assistant) and smarten up your home, then add Node-Red for fancy coding of your devices

I don't usually read pdfs on an iPhone but when I have to, I use the adobe reader as it will reflow the text to fit in the small screen

Politics is being blended into religion and vice versa so it still has some life yet.