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It protects the cans from denting...

My observation as that there are ways to prevent the vermin from getting to the feeder and eating directly from it, but that birds are generally pretty messy eaters and will spread seed / feed widely across the ground while eating from the feeder and that this is what the vermin end up mostly eating.

The second one was the first iPhone with 3G networking (which had broadly been considered a required feature for smartphones when the original iPhone was introduced without it.)

I won't try to defend the 3Gs ;)

We just started doing meaningful bird photography (as opposed to true birdwatching) last year and I agree with you.

The couple of times we've gone with guides who are serious birdwatchers, it is impressive to watch their abilities in this area of multimodal species identification (and male/female/adult/juvenile) in challenging visual and audio environments (and recall of species names in Latin, English, and Spanish).

Meanwhile I'm out there with my camera like "Hey, look at that beautiful red+blue bird!" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My parents were a Nielsen household for about 20 years (after I had moved out) and they really, really, really loved Law & Order in its many incarnations.

Pretty sure they are singlehandedly responsible for years of renewals...

You mean by funding and supporting the rollout of the mRNA vaccines?

Not confusing for me at all. But nice try.

"Because software was a mystery, a black box, upper management gave us total freedom and trust."

If only!

Unfortunately, it's often the case that the blast radius of the footgun (ouch, mixed weaponry metaphor) is bigger than the person who's holding the gun, and other users' security may be compromised...

Yes, we had phone books. And it was useful. But they didn't generally include personal information such as birthdates, salary, etc. And it was easy to opt out. Additionally there were not a bunch of online services with financial impacts that used phone numbers are primary keys.

And, importantly, they were physical in a time when it was hard to collect and collate the data in all of them. In 1990, there were about 5,000 distinct "white pages" phone books in the US. And OCR was pretty crappy.

Also, in all the places that I lived, mobile numbers didn't end up in the phone books, only residential landlines did. I don't know if that was universal.

Yeah, honestly I'd prefer the remote, simple hotel makes a physical photocopy which at least has a chance of being thrown out after a couple of weeks vs the government of "random country" gets a digital copy which will never, ever, ever be deleted.

I use my password manager to maintain unique answers to all of the useless verification questions about pets, movies, teachers, etc. Only way to scale it.

Is your implication that COVID was intentionally created in an American bioweapons lab with the goal of creating something both highly deadly and highly transmissible for use in future conflicts?

Great site - and lessons are still valid.

How you can tell it's from 1997:

The master fell silent, but on his way out he pocketed a 20 Gigabyte corporate backup tape that was lying around.