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I can't even flirt better than my dog.

When I was a teen I would have enthusiastically agreed with this but now I understand that it describes me too.

I do but in all fairness, I have an entirely grey beard.

Apparently, it is not uncommon to misdiagnose autistic people as having ADHD. So I wonder what role that might play here.

Even if Jeff Beck wasn't your favourite guitarist, he was your favourite guitar player’s favourite guitar player. Pretty much no matter who your favourite was.

This link doesn't work for me.

I watch this YouTube channel "Watch Wes Work" which is a dude that runs his own auto repair service in the frozen wasteland that is Illinois. After seeing him work on older rusty vehicles, I have the desire to see one of them get driven into a large pool of Evapo-Rust and left for a week or two.

This extraordinary claim seems like it needs more to back it up than an offhand comment by Elon Musk.

I gotta wonder how much of a "staffing shortage" they would have if they raised the pay 10-15%. Everywhere else I see claims of employers having difficulties finding and retaining competent employees, it just happens that they're low wage, low respect jobs with unpleasant & unreasonable management. Hotel cleaning staff is probably no different.

Of course it's not new. This sort of thing was very well described by Umberto Eco in his list of qualities of what he calls “Ur-Fascism".

https://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list...

Surely this is unsurprising. It seems like nearly everyone who makes a big deal about "Free Speech" hasn't really put the effort into fully and authentically understanding it.

I do not believe it is fair to characterise the moderation of stories related to Elon Musk and Twitter as "being suppressed". There are currently dozens upon dozens of submissions about Musk & Twitter, most of which are either low effort, low info, or outright duplicates.

Looking at what is being posted and comparing that what is allowed vs removed, it's clear that what is being removed are almost entirely duplicate submissions. This is an entirely reasonable and uncontroversial moderation policy / practice.

My understanding is that most of this went to his own organisation which is seemingly a faux-charity. If that's correct seems like something he might have learned from Donald Trump.

For folks that enjoy the idea of fooling around with ancient and weird computer tech, I can recommend the YouTube channel Usagi Electric. I'm there for the valves but there's plenty of other stuff, including 8" floppy drive repair shenanigans.

https://www.youtube.com/@UsagiElectric

It's the one I ripped out of my Logitech Squeezebox Boom when the display finally died back in 2011 or so. It's less than 10 minutes long and is designed such that the point where the loop restarts is not noticeable.

This is almost certainly a manufactured excuse, just like Walgreens.

Yeah, I have Ménière's, so I also have tinnitus. An important part of my own habituation is that I quit paying attention to all pop science news about it, including upcoming treatments, prosthetics, and clinical trials.

If at some future time an actually effective treatment, prosthesis, or medication is developed, it will hardly be possible to hide from the news. Until that point knowing about all the things that were tried and didn't work doesn't really help me.

Also, hopefully this might help someone: For playing my ambient sounds on loop, I use an old first gen Raspberry Pi with a set of USB powered speakers running mpg123 (a command line audio app) which I edited into the RPi's rc.local script (run on boot) and yt-dlp (YouTube download and transcoding).

There are literally tens of thousands of different audio ambience tracks on services like Spotify and YouTube of every possible description. It's astounding really. So occasionally I ssh in to the RPi, grab some track off of YouTube, rip it to mp3, and then play it for a while. Otherwise it plays the same heavy surf track I've been listening to for over a decade. I know every moment of that track and there's something weirdly comforting to that.

Right now I am listening to "Rain on Tent" and on my laptop is some sort of upbeat morning Jazz cafe thing which is probably not entirely man made.

This seems like a reasonable response to unreasonable circumstances. I am not sure there are other options that allow folks to maintain their professionalism and to prevent management's intentional lack of planning from becoming a personal emergency.

I look forward to seeing the replacement for the Antonov An-225, Mriya.

They should make each politician present, show a card next to their name with the actual and correct amount of money he has given them.

oh no... he should be talking a lot... like really, really a lot.

A couple of the YouTube channels I subscribe to have purchased NABU machines out of that large lot of NOS that is apparently being sold off. Should be interesting what they wind up doing with them.

This was posted a couple of days ago and I found it pretty informative.

https://tmewett.com/c-tips/

Edit: I guess search isn't indexing stories for a while now.

Here is that post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33773043

We keep reading about big tech firms being fined for regulation violations but it seems like they just treat it as a cost of doing business and keep doing whatever it they want. Perhaps it's time to start significantly raising those fines until real change is seen.

I saw this described as "Man whose house is on fire, responds to all the onlookers and gawkers by saying 'this is the most people I've ever had over'".

It's a minor thing I know... but the man's name is Eugene Victor Debs and it's usually printed as "Eugene V. Debs". So the "V" stands for Victor and not "versus". The title makes it seem sorta like a lawsuit "Eugene vs. Debs".

lol, Reddit's Chat has been a disaster since the day they rolled it out.

It doesn't seem to me that jettisoning the employees responsible for regulatory compliance is a sound management strategy.

I think this is an interesting design tension. On one hand it's simple and cheap to make. On the other, electric resistance heating isn't the most efficient, even with the storage mechanism (and a lot of places don't have cheaper power at night).

It's interesting that in an employment marketplace with mounting evidence that reducing working hours improves worker efficiency, performance, and quality of life, Elon Musk insists on doing the exact opposite. This seems like vandalism.