interesting that charcoal is banned but gas is fine. I’ve never had the grease accumulated on the bottom of the grill catch fire on a charcoal grill, but with a gas grill…

TDK’s revenue has been increasing steadily at least starting from 2010. When was the last time you bought a TDK product?

Yeah data got unlimited here before texts, which caused people to move on to other things. Now texts are usually unlimited, but that train has already sailed.

Can you for example send a video, encrypted and to your computer via SMS? I don’t know how much tech they’ve built over the protocol over in the US, but in many parts of the world SMS was charged per message in your phone bill and things like photos or video cost more to send. People abandoned SMS quickly when 3rd party IP messaging apps like whatsapp came out.

I’ve heard people in the US still use SMS to communicate with eachother. Fucking crazy.

More and more I get to be the first person in the world with a specific problem, because no one else has used this tech with this environment configuration. Developing a solution is sometimes satisfying, but it’s sometimes hard explaining to the PM / customer why such a seemingly simple thing can take months to implement.

Especially thanks to social media. E.g. there’s a video of the ISS on instagram and the comment section is filled with flat earth people and other crazies.

Do you want good adhesive properties or to not taste the adhesive in your food?

the internet is the first thing they shut down to control riots in authoritatian countries