Old Ryobi, or new Ryobi?

Serious question, as I understand the ex-Japanese market rights were sold to a Chinese corp over two decades ago, and the in-Japanese consumer device market rights went to a different Japanse company several years ago too.

Apparently they've gone back to focusing on their roots?

The way I learned it was:

"99 bugs in the code, 99 bugs in the code... Fix one bug, compile it again, 101 bugs in the code!"

(To the tune of 99 Bottles Of Beer)

Mayne the 99 bottles of beer explains it.

But hey, one can't survive 1 week of step-by-step debugging without 99 bottles of beer.

"Your new models are great, but uh... How exactly am I supposed to use them?"

That is, given a lot of users' contexts, the way they can and the way they want to use these models are increasingly disjoint.

I believe it's much to do with blue light emitted by screens:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9424753/

I had heard that that wasn't as much of an effect as some people think - https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260407-the-blue-light-f...

or rather, that its less about blue light specifically, and more about activity and bright light in general - the times where we are active are shifted later, and a profound lack of exposure to bright light during the day is the issue. Even with the massive amount of screen time the average person gets in a day, that much light adds up to less than a single minute of the equivalent of sunlight.

Probably the best thing you can do is go outside as soon as you can from when you wake up, and stay outside as long as you can. Failing that, get some good BRIGHT sunlight lamps. way brighter than you think could possibly be necassary

You've probably got a certain level of trust or delegated authority, but you want input and you're giving your leadership the opportunity to steer the decision if they feel they need to, and you're balancing that against the urgency of action.

By very direct analogy, I think there's a dictum in the US military to the effect that a bad plan executed quickly can be better than a perfect plan that's executed too late.

ETA: ... and you're potentially speeding the decision/action by giving leadership the opportunity to confirm/redirect on receipt of the email.

They literally gamified it? Amazing.

From what I remember:

Equipment was worth more than a capture.

Capture was worth more than a kill (get Intel, trade for Ukranian captives).

Kill was xyz points.

The more points, the more weapons, equipment, and support you got.

This was several years ago, I'm not sure its still in play.

It is. Article from last month.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-e-points-system-stee...

That's fascinating, thank you for sharing. A market economy lets individual optimize from the bottom up.

People talk like Ukraine is the first one doing this. Already in WW2 pilots had similar gamification where proof had to be filmed or with minimum witnesses. It probably goed back even further.

It is more than that. It is also the dealer has the parts you need, even for older stuff. Deere is well known to stock replacement parts longer than anyone else, and can get replacement parts where others would say not possible. network effects and incumbency help as well, but Deere is the most repairable.

Yes, perhaps they do allow for greater flexibility, but that's complex and difficult to do well/reliably, and doing it well/reliably requires signal analysis gear and software modeling that's out of the reach of normal consumers.

I think your point about the loss of case generally stands, but surely the genitive isn't lost?

True, although it used to be a suffix and now it's (just) a clitic. ("The king of England's crown" would have had the genitive marking on 'king' instead of 'England'.)

As opposed to relying solely on engine braking (or the EV equivalent thereof)?

I'd personally prefer a belt-and-suspenders approach.