We never actually had a literal “Bieber Box”, but the joke took off.

Hot shards were definitely an issue, though.

Yes, we used the Yahoo! “Feeding Frenzy” paper as the basis for the design of Haplocheirus (the timeline service).

Amazing to see this happening. I wrote the non-moving Immix collector at Twitter for our Ruby runtime, Kiji.

Good luck!

It is also occasionally a wedding venue.

For those who demand synchronous proof of low expectations to commit.

Nothing wrong with repurposing Taco Bells as wedding bells.

It really is quite a nice Taco Bell.

As a current semi-pro trombonist, I had the same reaction.

Relevant aside: Alan Kaplan has been recording Jacob Collier transcriptions for his YouTube channel. Check out “Moon River”.

Sweden is not Switzerland. And he died almost ten years ago.

He lived in Switzerland for over 40 years.

I have an SN2700 in my rack, next to a pair of Arista 7060CXs (as a point of comparison). These are wildly under-rated devices outside of the STH fanbase.

You may be surprised at how quiet and low power these Mellanox switches can be.

Quiet in the terms of DC grade switching, I'm not sure you could get away with such a switch in a home environment. The 100G optics need plenty of airflow to keep cool so it's not just a case of swapping the fans for something smaller

You can use a 100g DAC within a single rack (which is also cheaper). I only have a tiny bit of 100g at home and just do 10g optics for the connection out of the rack. Of course, that's my weird setup and it won't work once I want 100g to my office.

The rack I’m referring to is in my home. YMMV, of course.

I have had two brake activations in as many weeks, one on a dado stack (don’t ask). Neither destroyed the blade. Both blades will be back in service within a week.

Just putting out there: the popular idea that blades are always trash after an activation is not true.

That said, cheap big box store blades without carbide teeth will die a horrible death.

Carbide teeth are actually the part that gets destroyed on SawStop activations. Carbide is very brittle, so the sudden stop fractures it.

Yes, and they are consumable and replaceable by design, which goes to my point: the blade is not irreparably destroyed by the activation.

The missing teeth need to be replaced and the plate needs to be re-checked for runout, but most carbide-toothed blades are repairable.

How much does it cost to repair a carbide toothed blade, and how accessible are shops that can perform those repairs? Is it realistic that most consumers would be able to get a blade repaired rather than just running to the hardware store and getting a new one? Not being snarky; I've just never been under the impression that repairs could really be done for less than the value of a new blade.

I’m paying about $50 service fees for the two blades currently out for repair. The 10” replacements cost over $200, and the 8” dado would require buying a new stack… around $250. The same folks who sharpen and true my blades do the repairs. They’re local to me here in Maine.

Ruminating a bit:

Cheaper blades are replaced more often with use and can’t generally be sharpened; SawStop tech doesn’t change the lifetime of a blade unless an activation happens. So, if you’re already willing to run to the box store for another blade semi-regularly, whether one survives activation perhaps isn’t material?

On the other hand, somebody who doesn’t regularly use their saw is probably both more price conscious and less likely to need sharpening/replacement often. I assume they care most about whether an activation forces them to buy a new blade (and a $100 brake). I suspect those are the people who propagate “SawStop = trashed blade”. For them, it’s true.

A carbide blade costs about $100.

I still keep a maxed out Octane2 in running order for posterity. Occasionally logging in to it reminds me just how a desktop environment should feel. We truly have lost something since then.

If you feel nostalgic you can run https://docs.maxxinteractive.com/ on Linux.

“Cum tree” doesn’t do it for you?

The title of the article is "Bradford pear trees..." which seems to be the accepted name.