‘This old Tony’ disassembled one on YouTube a few years ago if you want to know what is inside. He didn’t try to get it working after and if he doesn’t have confidence in doing that, then you shouldn’t either. As others said the pressures are dangerous, higher than your normal air compressor so what his videos to see what is inside them throw it away. They are fairly cheap considering.

Not what you are asking for, but maybe what you want: https://invidious.io/ is a youtube front end with some features that might or might not make it what you want.

Even hand coded projects need more than 6 months before I’ll replace anything in my stacks. Too many projects start with great intention but then the founder gets bored (life gets in the way?) and they go unmaintained. Really I’m looking for projects that enough developers have got involved in that I can be confident it won’t go stagnant. I could be one of those developers, but I don’t have enough time to contribute to all the different projects I use (I barely have time to contribute to the one project I maintain)

For the simple cases, a language package manager is easier to write and makes things easy. However, simple cases aren’t at everything and for the more complex cases, such as what C and C++ is commonly used for, a language package manager is not complex enough to handle all the little weird special cases and so it would be a bad idea.

Those who use a language for something complex will not use the built-in package manager. Realistically though, very few people are writing complex software and so this objection, although real, is probably a pedantic thing that doesn’t affect you.

I can’t say for sure from pictures but my guess is everything is safe for in water use and so no worry. It doesn’t take much to drain the water out

Depends but i would say quarter is way too much. Generally dimensioned lumber is close enough that right on is just fine but rough cut needs more tolerance. My habit was often a 32 less and the rest breaks off with no danger to the blade.

Treated wood should be treated through and so no need to treat the ends

Circular saw with the blade set such that it just barely will cut all the way through.

I’ve been a professional before. Where it mattered we cut the ends off in place that same way.

Afternoon siesta. There is a reason most hot climates have a culture of an afternoon nap in the shade.

Don’t forget to drink lots of water. Not soda or coffee, simple water. Carry a water bottle with you everywhere and make sure you empty and refill it regularly. As the scout camp I was at last week constantly says “Hydrate - or die!”

Here is a question you need to figure out: Switch is in the on position, and you use the remote to turn the light off, what happens when the switch is moved to off?

According to my wife the only satisfactory answer to this question is when the remote turns the light off the switch moves to off and so you cannot turn it off in this case! (she wants the same behavior from the old 3-way light switches that have been around for decades)

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What would you think about learning Pascal, or Ada instead of C? They are also low enough to be useful to explain everything, but have more guard rails. (and without being the latest fad that Rust is)

How much noise can you take. Audio recordings Studios can get very good but that can get expensive too. Still it would be worth looking in those forums for people looking for help with street noise as those people know what works

Get lucky - just as this was starting I saw a failed disk notification on my NAS so I ordered a new drive just before they went up. Then I realized it was a stale notification for the drive I replaced a year ago so I have a spare should one fail.

somebody is going to want cash in

Maybe. The hard drive makers have long experience with boom-bust cycles. They are likely trying to figure out if this is real, or just a blip and in a two years (when the new factory opens!) demand drops again.

If there is new capacity in the future my guess (guess!) is that this is a case of a new factory to replace the old, and they just keep running the old for another year instead of scrapping it right away.

Start with a problem. What you trying to solve. Hosting music is different from backing up your computer. That is different from a home dashboard.

Because I have no idea if the questioner is going to do that beforehand

problem is a phone only works if you have it on you. Grandma falling often is a case where she doesn’t have a phone (often grandma in this case is in mental decline and wouldn’t think to use the phone if she had it).

A privacy respecting device that can hear “help” and general cries/grunts to get help when needed is what the world really needs. This is much more complex than the ask, but it is the real need here. For me what the OP was asking is enough, I just need to inform a kid in a different room dinner is ready.

Fortunately, you don’t have to evaluate everything yourself. There are other people to do things to when they talk. I reevalued AI and started using it because back in December someone I trusted said hey you should try it it works great. I had previously tried it a year ago and it didn’t work but when someone I trusted said try it again I tried the new models and suddenly they were working and so now I say AI is good. Don’t confuse good with perfect. There are certainly a lot of things AI does poorly. However, it is very helpful in doing complex tasks that I could do, but would just be too tedious.

When things are new it is often quick for a bit. Then it slows down. My prediction (which has been wrong before!) is that AI has reached the peak of the change.

However you should ALWAYS be ready and willing to change your opinion on anything when new evidence comes in.