StrangeATractor

I mean, what others report to you will be filtered through your sensory organs. What's to believe and what's to doubt?

(the mistake of the solipsists is the assumption that they themselves are real)

Pretty sure if you bet against them consistently you come out ahead.

The problem with bureaucracies is that even if someone did see the bigger picture, no one person is able to change the system to get desirable results.

Maybe one or two people could, but they didn't get to that position by rocking the boat.

It's perfect, being forced to use it by the school they'll come to hate it.

Yeah it seems so dried out you wouldn't have too much to worry about.

As for boiling tea for sanitation, I took a wilderness first responder class and they taught us that you could bring water to a boil at any altitude a human can breath at (without holding it at a boil for 15 minutes as some claim) and it's considered sterilized. In Cusco, that would be around 191F/89C (humans can breathe quite a bit higher up than Cusco). Not a bad tea-brewing temp!

Also, I suggest trying kukicha. It's high in l-theanine and lower in caffeine. Tasty too.

Nobody with taste would have allowed the Zune.

"Between Silk and Cyanide" was a great book with some very interesting and funny stories from SOE. I recommend it.

I'm still mad about Scholastic censoring His Dark Materials, one of my favorite books as a kid. If you read the censored passage it wasn't in any way offensive or inappropriate.

You used to be able to get an uncensored edition from Book Depository, but Amazon is shuttering it just a few years after buying it.

There are exceptions depending on what you're doing, but generally speaking 95% of your cordless tools will be one brand.

This isn't a secret in construction, you buy one brand of cordless tools and stick with it. DeWalt sells tools so cheap you wonder if they're a loss leader. A single battery (one of the big 60V, 12Ah ones you use for circular saws and angle grinders) is $285 on Amazon. The biggest cordless circular is $178, the biggest grinder is $163.

You'll want at least two of those batteries per day if you're doing any serious work.

The real pain is when they they change the battery's interface, which will happen every so often. They stop selling the older stuff and eventually you'll have to upgrade and buy the whole product line all over again.

This attitude is the slow death of amateur radio.

I agree. It's one thing to delegate labor to a machine, but I find myself very uncomfortable when the machine takes the role of creative expression. Art is a form of communication which transmits feeling, experience and emotion, but there's nothing a machine puts into this, there's nothing being transmitted, it's just a rendering, it's just pushing your buttons that make you go 'neato.'

I fear people will start taking the beautiful and profound for granted, it'll just be content.

Bookmarked all of them, thank you.

I've been seeing a lot of talk like GP on HN lately. I'm starting to wonder if it's organized.

Not as bad as I expected. The main thing is to not eat super spicy stuff on an empty stomach.

I haven't watched Hot Ones, but I suggest everyone try the Apollo sauce.

I got reaaally drunk one night and poured half a bottle into a bag of Doritos, shook it up and ate them all. It was an odd mix of agony and euphoria, I was getting waves of sensation radiating from my mouth and going down my back and into my legs.

It Works For Me!™

Seriously though, compatibility issues seem the exception to the rule nowadays. Getting wifi or display drivers working used to be...challenging, if not traumatizing. You could put that shit on your resume nowadays. "I set up X11 with native resolution and got WiFi working most of the time in 2003 without damaging hardware."

It's 2023, do people still have driver issues on Linux? Last I had to worry about that was when Ubuntu was <10.xx. It works well on random machines IME for the last two decades almost.

(Admittedly, I've done well by staying away from nvidia)

Can't speak for $250/mo, but I've definitely lived in places where ISP's weren't required to expand in, meaning a big chunk of residents had zero internet options. This wasn't too far out of SEATAC, actually.

Not a fan of Musk, but the calculus becomes pretty simple at that point for someone who wants a home internet connection.

Just came in here to say that Fromm is great. Highly recommended.

OSHA would have something to say about it, but the Executive Branch would like to keep a muzzle on them to avoid more fallout next election.

Relax, unless the grains were grown next door and you got that batch of corn or flour you'll be fine. Otherwise it's going to be very diluted.

There are tons of carcinogens around, East Palestine is the least of your worries unless you live near there.

(I have zero scientific background)

Hamachi, now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

I'm going to guess you're in your early- to mid-30's.

Anyone else remember having their mom's boyfriend getting you to remove the animated porn lady walking on top of the windows bar while explaining that he had no idea how that got there?

I don't disagree but the Piranha is damn cool. Crew of 9!

Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Losos-class_submarine

I'm fuzzy on details but I remember reading it had some pretty crazy thermal expansion. I think the pilot had to wait quite a while (hours?) before opening the cockpit to give the plane time to cool enough.

One part that was pretty relevant to AI today was how songs were written by machine. Not sure why but that always stuck with me.

This is the new 'social media expert'.