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I\u2019ve been thinking about my parents, who are in their mid-60s. During my first 18 years, I spent some time with my parents during at least 90% of my days. But since heading off to college and then later moving out of Boston, I\u2019ve probably seen them an average of only five times a year each<\/a>, for an average of maybe two days each time. 10 days a year. About 3% of the days I spent with them each year of my childhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When choosing what to do with your time, choose wisely<\/a>. Your library has more books than you could ever read. Your friends and family have hearts and desires the bots can never fathom. Your mind, once you remove the noise of the world at large, is still capable of imagination, creativity and flow. Find it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This book is for programmers who are fluent in at least one other language and want to understand what MUMPS was, how it worked, and what made it historically significant. You do not need any prior MUMPS<\/a> experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marfa<\/a> Public Radio is literally never asleep. It operates 24\/7 (except when lightning strikes) and there\u2019s so much that goes on behind the scenes to make this happen\u2013 fundraising, compliance, protocols, emergency response, maintenance\u2026the list goes on and on. Do you lay awake wondering what FCC compliance entails? Ever wondered what NPR’s code of journalistic ethics involves for the newsroom?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Chinese were involved in the bidding<\/a> contest at the time when Airbus ended up taking over the former C Series, so there\u2019s certainly some resentment there. That\u2019s ten years ago. They have long memories,\u201d said Christian Kley, head of single-aisle market development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sony is contacting PlayStation Store users who bought movies<\/a> from the platform that were distributed by StudioCanal\u2014like Terminator 2, Total Recall, and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind\u2014to say that \u201cyou will no longer be able to access your previously purchased content from Studio Canal<\/a>, and it will be removed from your video library.\u201d There\u2019s no mention of any refunds or make-goods for the affected users. Sony simply says the films are going away \u201cdue to our content licensing agreements,\u201d once again reaffirming the fact that you are never truly buying anything that\u2019s digital, just temporarily renting it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The more accurate picture is that wine consumption has dispersed rather than declined<\/a>. The glass poured at a hotel wine bar, the bottle ordered at a restaurant, the flight at a downtown tasting room \u2014 these register in restaurant receipts and transient occupancy tax revenue but not in winery reservation data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But luckily the injury hasn\u2019t interfered with her work at all, coming just when she was about to take a few days off anyway to play tennis, and so won\u2019t affect the many millions she earns every year, almost none of it from whacking a ball with a spaghetti strainer<\/a>. Which is why, being an old-fashioned guy, I admire Emma so much: because despite having a full-time job, she manages to play lawn tennis to such a high standard in her spare time that she occasionally goes deep in major international competitions. Like Suzanne Lenglen or CB Fry or something. It\u2019s positively Edwardian. And so, when she eventually wins Wimbledon<\/a> (the ladies\u2019 singles title, not the Uniqlo franchise), I shall cheer her to the rafters as the first amateur to do so since Billie Jean King in 1967.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your 22-byte button now arrives in a 2-megabyte<\/a> bundle, assembled by a config file you did not write and cannot read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this post we go through some of the link-rot <\/a>studies and look at them from the perspective of the Wayback Machine to see how much of the dead Web can be rescued. Table 1 shows the status of the dead and rescued Web at a glance as sampled by a few different studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of the day, the US and the rest of the world can play along with China, avoid its blackmail over Rare Earths and other materials, and gradually decouple<\/a> from its supply chain. Despite technological progress, suppressing domestic Chinese demand could leave Chinese people poorer in a few decades. It\u2019s hard to predict what will happen in a decade or two, but the reality in Russia should tell the Chinese that something very wrong can indeed occu\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As he points out, we’re already at a stage where, in 2025, “China surpassed<\/a> the United States in the number of new investment projects in Germany.” And, given that you need new investments and new industrial projects to reindustrialize Germany, it’d be completely schizophrenic to attempt reindustrialization while simultaneously closing the door to such a major provider of new investment projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xavier University men’s basketball coach Richard Pitino<\/a> testified on Wednesday that his team had a spending budget<\/a> of “a little over $14 million” for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the blackpill was seeing the terrible quality of the software and interacting with the contractors. coming from silicon valley, i couldn’t believe how low the talent and quality bar was for selling software to the government. it’s clear, as the OG USDS people explained to me a decade ago, the primary skill these vendors have is securing government contracts. it’s a huge moat. delivery of quality product be damned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We fired the vendor<\/a> and took over the project. they’d been working on it for more than a year, and there was another year before they were going to deliver it. at first we tried to bend it to our will, to actually connect all the various data sources and get to a decent UX for case workers in the mine to use, but we soon realized we were going to have to rebuild the whole stack from scratch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our second oversight was, like others, not anticipating the staggering degree to which China would be able to slash its oil imports. Crude imports are 5m barrels a day lower than a year ago, despite the fall in prices. China has cut its demand and shored up supply. Its oil reserves are opaque<\/a>\u2014many barrels are hidden from satellites underground, and there is a blurred line between official reserves and corporate inventories. But they have been shown to be a powerful buffer. Perhaps a newspaper whose critics bang on about a clanger in 1999, when we wrongly predicted oil prices falling to $5 a barrel, should have known better. We woz wrong then, too. Fortunately, we can report that investors who say we are a guide to what to bet against are cherry-picking our failures. With the help of AI we analysed 7,000 of this century\u2019s leaders. When we are moderately out-of-consensus, our record is good. Our more outlandish predictions are, unsurprisingly, more likely to be wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here Coolidge’s faith enters, and I won’t sand it off; he credits the whole lineage to the colonial clergy<\/a>, and notes that Jefferson himself said his best ideas of democracy came out of church meetings. You can take the theology or leave it, but the structural claim survives either way: the idea was homegrown. Profoundly American, in his words. \/11<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The climb to Alpe d\u2019Huez is one of the greatest theatres in sport thanks to its 32 appearances on the route of the Tour de France since 1952<\/a>. Legends have been born and dreams dashed on its 21 hairpin bends, where race leaders part crowds of more than 600,000 screaming spectators (according to the tourist office estimate, though no one really knows because it\u2019s free, unticketed and barely controlled chaos).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tehran\u2019s strategy rested on a simple asymmetry: Populations tolerate<\/a> acute devastation better than chronic and increasing inconvenience. For Iran, fighting an existential war, devastation was something to be endured<\/a> \u2014 martyred leaders and generals, bombed airfields, and sunk ships only hardened<\/a> regime resolve. For the US, with more limited interests at stake, inconvenience became something to escape. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday\u2019s award compensates for lost revenue caused by Google\u2019s preferential treatment of its own comparison-shopping service<\/a> over independent price-comparison services, conduct that also drives up costs for consumers, Klarna said in a statement after the judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New home battery<\/a> installations reached a record 673 megawatt hours of energy storage in the first quarter of 2026, according to the US Energy Information Administration. That trend was driven by states with high electricity prices that have implemented policies to incentivize home battery installation, Bloomberg News reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, the Van der Heydens replaced the rigid spout with a long, flexible leather hose<\/a>. Called a \u2018snake\u2019 (slang<\/em> in Dutch), this hose could reach deeper inside buildings and aim more precisely at hot spots than the nozzled pipes of the Hautsch engine. Finally, the brothers added an air chamber so that water could be pumped out in a continuous, high-pressure flow rather than intermittently on the down stroke. This feature, they hoped, would keep the engine from freezing up in cold weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been thinking about my parents, who are in their mid-60s. During my first 18 years, I spent some time with my parents during at least 90% of my days. But since heading off to college and then later moving out of Boston, I\u2019ve probably seen them an average of only five times a year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17276"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17308,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17276\/revisions\/17308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}