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Not the whole bin, but the operator managed to scrape off the hinged lid and both wheels from my recycling bin a few weeks back. Sent them photos and they sent me a new one.

I once spent most of the summer in a WW2-era building with no AC in the southeastern US (Ft Benning). I imagine it is both hotter and more humid in much of India.

Short answer is that you get used to it. There was a surprisingly effective swamp cooler that worked about half the time (we got pretty good at troubleshooting it) and several ancient pedestal fans. You can sleep in very nearly any environment once you become sufficiently sleep-deprived.

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

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.

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.

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.