It’s been a few years since I last looked at them but I believe one of the most notable uses was the icon. If you had a custom icon for an application or the thumbnail image for a photo.

I remember playing around with NTFS streams. They’re usually used to store random metadata about a file. The size of which doesn’t appear in the normal file size calculation/display in Windows. So you can have this 2kb text file that has an alternate stream with a zip file of the entire discography of a band stuffed into it. Longest file transfer of 2kb ever. Another gotcha, the second you copy that file to a file system that doesn’t support the alternate streams they just vanish. So all the sudden that long file transfer is super quick.

This mostly just reads like Ford had a bad quarter and they chose to frame it by this comparison. The drop in Mustang sales(31.6%) wasn’t even the worst drop from the article.

Sales of the Ford Explorer and Expedition have fallen by 19.1% and 37.5%, respectively. Other models, including the Maverick, E-Series vans, and Transit, have also seen declines compared to the previous year.

Seems like the F150 was the only thing doing well.

Somebody I know that does sim racing on a team has a dedicated internet connection just for racing. A few too many times of somebody starting up something like a Netflix stream in the house and it would spike his ping enough that it had dire consequences to his rating. That just seems crazy to me. He justifies it by it costing him like 3-5 races to play catch up after an incident. Doesn’t really help in your case as your ping was consistently poor though.

Running like the good old days though when modern cell phones didn’t exist and the house only had one computer…you just plug the modem directly into the computer. No router/wifi.

My state use to have emissions and safety inspections. It was like a 600 page pdf for all the safety stuff that had pretty annual updates. People would consistently work around it though. A handful of years ago they voted to kill off the safety part under the guise that it would be cheaper for residents. What really happened is everybody and I mean everybody just raised their emissions testing price to what it used to be for both. Safety took 15-30 minutes to do as they had to crawl around and poke and prod a ton of places. Emissions they just plug in the computer and 2-3 minutes later you’re done. So workload decreased and the price stayed exactly the same…

Sure, now residents don’t have to swap wheels(tires that extend past the body is a super common mod that was an instant fail) and other things to pass safety every year so that surely saves cost if they were paying somebody to do it. Also the cost of actually fixing things like replacing bald tires and burnt out lights.

The amount of cars with no brake lights, treadless tires, etc. is so much higher. Was walking through my work parking lot and one car’s tire had the steel cords showing…oof.

The US was buying pork from China (article says they make up ~50% of the world’s supply). Not understanding these ‘cheap pork’ comments…

U.S. pork imports are now facing a 172 percent tariff, the U.S. Meat Export Federation said, according to Bloomberg News.

I work for a large company and do interviews. We have our own recruiting department and also use third party agencies. The candidates all talk to the recruiter both before and after the interview. Not us. The recruiter sets up the interview between both parties. So even if they sent an email we’d never know about it. Recruiters don’t forward on stuff like that back to us.

I absolutely hated the platformer aspect of Eternal. I don’t want to have to perfectly time a chain of jumps or die…repeatedly. 2016 was an absolute blast.

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I’d love to see self certification go away entirely. They do the same thing with motorcycle helmets.

NHTSA does not approve helmets, or any other motor vehicle equipment, instead relying on a self-certification process. However, we conduct tests on some helmets to make sure they meet our standard.

They release reports about those checks and a guy online aggregates them and they have a 43.9% failure rate as of 2023. With helmets we can just grab something with the DOT rating and one of the other ratings that aren’t self certified.

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Not only that but every house I’ve ever lived in has a pressure reducing valve right after the main shutoff. My current one drops the 150psi city pressure down to about 60psi for use in the house.

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Every 20-30 minutes…

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