My experience with Bridgestone (in Ohio) has always been that they look great on paper, but never in real life. I got a set of Michelins and was much happier.

You should change it to something more common, like Bort.

My point is that every company is a tech company.

It’s easy to think of tech as being companies that primarily produce electronics or operate information services, but that’s not the case. Every company uses (and often creates) technology in various forms that benefit from standards and interoperation.

Connected devices benefit from standardized Wi-Fi. Cars benefit from standardized fuel- both in ICE (octane ratings, pumps) and electric (charging connectors, protocols). It even applies to companies that make simple molded plastic, because the molds can be created/used at many factories, including short-term contract manufacturing.

FTFA:

A few years and one pandemic later, the company filed for bankruptcy on Monday,

It’s also in a bunch of comments already

It’s very much the Oracle model.

A long time ago, Oracle DB could handle workloads much, much larger than any of their competitors. If you needed Oracle, none of the others were even a possibility. There are even tales that it was a point of pride for some execs.

Then Oracle decided to put the screws to their customers. Since they had no competition, and their customers had deep pockets (otherwise they wouldn’t have had such large databases), they could gouge all they wanted. They even got new customers, because they had no competition.

Fast forward and there are now a number of meaningful competitors. But it’s not easy to switch to a different DB software, and there are a ton of experienced Oracle devs/DBAs out there. There are very few new projects built using Oracle, but the existing ones will live forever (think COBOL) and keep sucking down licensing fees.

VMware thinks they are similarly entrenched, and in some cases they’re right. But it’s not the simple hypervisor that everyone is talking about. That can easily be replaced by a dozen alternatives at the next refresh. Instead it’s the extended stack, the APIs and whatnot, that will require significant development work to switch to a new system.

We still might.

You forgot the furnace and water heater. If those are electric, it can easily max out a 200 amp panel.

Also, the fact that you’ll never use the full 50 amps on the range isn’t really important. There are calculations on how much you can overbook your panel. Once you hit that limit, electricians and code won’t allow it.

Can confirm with Qmerit. Needed a service upgrade (that was not possible due to unrelated factors).

Other options included disconnecting a different circuit, or installing a charger with load sensing. Both would’ve been about 15 minutes of work, and were an extra $600 on top of the $1000 that GM was paying.

This is actually a regional bit of language, specifically the region of the US. The term ‘state’ originally meant (and in some places, still means) an independent and sovereign entity/government. Under the terms of colonial America, each state was truly independent, so the term makes complete sense. Even the original attempt at uniting the colonies (under the Articles of Confederation) maintained that independence.

But that failed and was promptly replaced by the US Constitution, which made the states much more like provinces. They became a piece of the whole, with significant influence from the larger entity. But we kept the term “state” when referring to them.

I find it mildly interesting that despite all of the perceived differences in intelligence, and the scary colors of the chart, every single state is between 94.2 and 104.3. IOW, there is no meaningful difference in IQ at the state level.

He’s dead? I didn’t even know he was sick…

(/s for anyone not familiar with his work)

Air conditioners are exactly a heat pump. As are refrigerators. The only difference is that it’s turned around so the hot side is inside.

The typical heat pump setup (in the US) is not reversible. That means you would also have the AC heat pump next to it, capable of moving heat in the other direction.

Not to discount your experience, but heat pumps are remarkably efficient. It would actually use less gas to convert it to electricity at an industrial scale, and then use that to locally power (recent) heat pumps, than it would be to burn the gas inside your home for all of its heat.

It sounds like your area has some politics in play that are either subsidizing gas or surcharging electric. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it does put a thumb on the scale.

For many, maybe even most Americans, NYC might as well be a fictional place. It’s featured heavily in countless movies, TV shows, books, etc. It’s more common than Westeros, Middle Earth, or Hogwarts. And people are expected to understand these settings, at least as much as NYC.

And that’s all before you consider places like Batman’s Gotham that is very clearly NYC.

As soon as the merger was announced, I think every major corporation using VMware started to evaluate options. Many are stuck in the lurch because of planned refreshes and the like, but are making plans to move away.

Part of their hubris was to overcharge for their commodity offerings. There are many hypervisors out there, and switching to them will be relatively easy for most use cases. If you aren’t fully invested in the VMware ecosystem and advanced tools, the switch will pay for itself quickly.

I almost included that exact clip, but felt like it was too off topic. Glad that I’m not alone on thinking that

I remember seeing an analysis that said the reason nothing sticks to Trump is that there’s just so many negative stories that none of them really gain traction. There’s nothing simple like “But her emails!!!” To get anyone riled up.

Why are we looking to a Newsweek article about Nate’s blog, instead of the blog post directly?

Last update: 9:30 a.m., Friday, September 20. The theme of the week remains mostly strong state polls for Kamala Harris, like this batch from Morning Consult, which helped her even though Morning Consult has consistently shown some of her better numbers.

Indeed, today marks the 3rd time so far in the election that the streams have crossed in the forecast — Harris is technically the favorite in the model for the first time since Aug. 28 — but the race is a toss-up and that will happen a lot when the forecast is so close to 50/50.

Source

Note that these margins are still razor thin. Voter turnout (and related factors) will be absolutely critical to the final results.

From the lawsuit itself:

CAH is the sole member of Hole Holding LLC

They actually created a subsidiary for their giant holes/useless land