Just during every quarterly earning report

> has anyone cared about net income in decades?

Uh, you mean net income also known as "net profit"? So your question is effectively "has anyone cared about profit in decades?"

Well... yes

It doesn't need to be twice as good, it needs to generate more net income.

I'm gonna be honest, I've never understood the appeal of a smart bulb. I installed dimmer switches in each room of my house and bought LED bulbs that get redder when dimmed (like incandescent bulbs naturally do). I turn on the lights when I walk into a room, turn them down when it gets dark outside, and turn them off when I leave or go to sleep.

To those who do find value in WiFi-connected bulbs: what makes them worth it to you? I'm genuinely curious, because if Home Depot's lightbulb aisle is any indication I'm the odd one.

> Automation is not about having an app for your lights, it’s about not having to think of trivial stuff like turning on a light.

I have lived in America my entire life, a relatively comfortable life, and this sentence makes me feel extremely alienated from first world culture.

Rachel nailed it, as usual. I was an early adapter and have a houseful of Hue stuff, but over the last year or so I've switched to buying Nanoleaf bulbs. Hue is a little nicer, but not enough to make their terrible app worth the hassle.

I've seen a few recommendations now for the Ikea Dirigera hub, so fine. I've ordered one. Assuming it works as expected, I'll migrate everything next week. So long, Philips. I liked your stuff, but why'd you have to get greedy? Was being twice the price of your competition not enough?

Having a deeper understanding of the different JOIN flavors is critical. For example, I don't think many people realize how deceptively dangerous OUTER joins are:

  SELECT user.user_id
  FROM users
  RIGHT JOIN purchases
    ON purchases.user_id = user.user_id
    AND user.user_id=123

By leaving the user_id=123 constraint in the JOIN instead of putting it in the WHERE, you've just exposed everyone's purchase data to the user. Easy to miss too if your tests don't fully create fixtures for multiple users. This becomes even more dangerous as we're entering the world of LLMs generating SQL[1]

1. https://docs.heimdallm.ai/en/main/attack-surface/sql.html#ou...