I have friends with an EV that just rent an ICE car for road trips.

exactly this. EVs are definitely not for road-trip-every-week families, I rent a car 4-5x per year (my other car is EV as well)

Concur entirely. After reading _The Making of the Atomic Bomb_ (highly recommended, BTW) you know the steps to make a U-235 enriched atomic bomb. The difficulty comes from obtaining the enriched uranium.

This is why Japanese pens are the best.

Microsoft is already pivoting away from consumer products.

Amazing book. Tied with _The Making of the Atomic Bomb_ as my favorite non-fiction book.

Damn.

I love Making, and I'm currently on a Nick Lane/biology bender. Eigth Day is new to me. On my way to the e-book store of my persuasion ...

Exactly. And no one with any sense gives an intern write permission for the production database. I don’t trust myself on the production database when I’m coding anything that involves migrations.

And I don’t suppose there were backups for the mission-critical production database?

There are devices that allow you to connect your binoculars to standard camera tripods.

He said he was tethered to the phone during the Skype call. The laptop probably doesn't know it is using a cellular connection.

That's not to say it couldn't try to guess, though. Not that I'd have thought of this unprompted, but low bandwidth, high latency, and an IP address (as seen by the update server) assigned to a mobile carrier. Seems like a good time to throw a pop-up and say "We think you might be tethered. Are you sure you want to continue downloading four gigabytes?"

As an aside, and if it doesn't already, DHCP should have some way of altering clients that they're on a metered connection.

The parent comment is talking about iOS though.

Definitely worth a read. I misplaced my copies during a move many years ago but recently got them all as e-books. Unfortunately, they weren't quite as good as I remembered.