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I bought my Sunbeam in 2022 for $44, brand new. The secret is to buy them in Japan off the flea market sites. Apparently in my case the owner bought it have around as a piece of Americana. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I have the same experience confirming memories with my parents. A few years ago they finally got garbage pick up service again and mentioned it to me.(Tiny area, roughly 1,000 people, so that service was not feasible until recently.) To which I replied, "Oh yeah, it's been like, 30 years since you last had it." They asked how I knew that. "I remember you carrying me up the driveway to drop the dirty diapers in the bin." They were both surprised that I remembered that and could confirm it.

However, the time that a giant plate glass mirror fall off a wall at a department store and crashed through me when I was about two years old? No idea. My parents had to tell me about that one later in life.

> I was an avid Hotline user at the time and connected via Windows. Was there third party clients? Vague memories...

I have a copy of all the official Hotline Windows releases in my archive somewhere. I don't know why, but finding the server software for Windows back when it released was so incredibly difficult. It felt like it was being gatekept.

It's only for the iPhone and still 17,600円 though. 高いですね！～

I'm one of those people. I charge my phone once a week. Most of my interaction with it is notifications on the lock screen.

There is a company in the big cities here called オフィスバスターズ(Office Busters) that sells used office furniture. I got an amazing chair from them for about 40% of the retail price.

The reason behind Fandom buying Gamepedia/Curse is both a blessing and a curse(HAH!) that would require a specific set of circumstances to happen again.[1]

Basically during 2018 Curse's owners, Twitch and Amazon, wanted more head count for Twitch and to cut out anything that was not part of Twitch's main mission. The decision at the time from the Twitch CEO was to completely shut down Curse and fire everyone by the end of 2018 even though Curse was a cash positive subsidiary. That would mean turning off every single wiki with no transfer to anywhere else. It would all just be gone.

So the director of Curse at the time worked his ass off find a buyer for the company. The final options came down to The Verge, Wikia, and one other that I forgot. Essentially Wikia was the only one that could promise to meet all of the buyout terms and a two year transition period of employee benefits for current employees.

I'm not going to call Wikia a savior here, but without any company offering to buy Curse a lot of wikis and jobs may have been lost that December.

[1]I signed some NDA about this, but it has been many years and I don't care.

Former Gamepedia/Wikia/Fandom engineer, I left not too long after Fandom bought out Gamepedia/Curse. You left at a good time. The upper management had no idea what they were doing and were entirely disinterested in the company. Talking with the CEO felt like talking with someone that had no idea what they were doing there.

Hey Criticsquid!~ \(￣︶￣*\)) It's Azxiana[1].

I hate that MCW ultimately ended up with Fandom in the end. Keeping MCW and the other wikis running smoothly was essentially my one huge passion in my life that I lost after Fandom acquired Curse. No one wanted it to happen that way. Even internally at Curse/Gamepedia we were all devastated when we learned that the company was buying bought out by the rival we were striving to overcome all those years. I am so glad to see after the past few years that the wikis are finally healing and going to places that are better for them.

[1] I'm the tech lead/manager that worked on Gamepedia at Curse that administered Minecraft MCW for many years before Fandom bought Curse in December 2018. I'm just writing this here since I figure other readers won't have any idea. ヾ(≧▽≦*)o

> That means writing a test should be easy and running it should be fast (including any compilation steps). As soon as something takes more than 30 seconds, you've lost a lot of people. They've switched tabs. They're on HN or reddit or they've pulled out their phone.

ADHD can make this worse since a time delay means getting distracted for much longer.

I have been working on testing a single issue for months. I wrote the fix the first day, but because it can only be tested in the remote development environment. An environment that I have zero insight into how it works and also requires coordinator cross-team members to work together for several hours together to test the fix! ...Because if we need to make a change pushing takes twenty minutes to test and build the new environment.

Firefox Nightly is listed as supported on the jpegxl.info web site. My understanding is that it does not fully support the specification yet which is why it is not released to production.

https://jpegxl.info/resources/supported-software.html

I would say as a company having an extra foundry in a less earthquake prone part of the world is a good idea to keep the company alive in the case of a major disaster.

Car modders toss catalytic converters all the time too in states without emissions enforcement. It's just not a problem that is handled.

At one point I was working on a startup idea that would produce a piece of electronics for helping with drive train swaps. However, I realized that it would make it very easy to ignore all emission and safety requirements despite my efforts to prevent that. So I dropped the entire idea and moved on with my life. I don't want to unintentionally help other people make the planet worse.(But I also wanted people to reuse/recycle car parts more effectively. Oh well.)

If you are a content creator on Twitch or YouTube you pretty are being held hostage on Twitter due to critical mass. Migrating would require a mass protest of large content creators to choose a new platform and move over all at once.

I lived really close to my elementary school, but since it is a country road people would be going double the speed limit not expecting bicycles. There was just no safe way to ride to school. :(

> raisin french toast peanut butter freak

I want this so badly right now.

There is also a tool that I use called AutoRemesher. It is old, but works rather well for generating high quality quad meshes.

https://github.com/huxingyi/autoremesher

It takes 10+ seconds to load the 1Password extension window in Firefox after some upgrade this year. They really screwed something up.

Can someone here define what "EQ" is since the author broke the rule of defining the acronym during the first instance that it is encountered? The entire context of the article is lost without this definition and makes no sense.

https://www.mcc.gov/resources/story/section-writing-guide-go...

I am a streamer/content creator: Most of what I encounter in order is Sony, Canon, and sometimes time Lumix.

Sony has held the crown for the best auto-focusing system for a long time now which for content creators can be very important. Canon is also pretty good, but Sony really has gone all in making sure their system works really well for many scenarios.(People, animals, face and eye tracking.) Lumix's auto-focus system is passable and only if the lens itself works well with it.

Personally I use a mixture of Sony and Canon lenses on a Sony A7S III along with a Sony A7R IV. I used to have a Lumix S1H that I loved the image rendering, but buying lenses for L-Mount was difficult since it is such a new mount. I would love to use Canon exclusively since their button layouts are far superior to Sony's absolute mess.

I am a very old forum user and enjoyer. I recently joined a new forum and deleted my account a few days later. The first reply to my post was basically paraphrase, "You're doing everything wrong and you don't know anything.", and then the next few replies were entirely off topic derailing what I set out to talk about.

Forums can be great, but they generically are full of cliques.

Confluence search is terrible and never finds what I want even if I type in the exact title.

It is the Baby Yeet meme/Woman Throws a Baby comic by Joan Cornellà.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/baby-yeet

So half of Japan is FREEDOM. The grid here is 60hz in the west and 50hz in the east.

I can hear 16khz sine waves when played on their own. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

During this past Christmas Twitch "meta" I could not even link clips to friends because it would bring up "related" popular clips of what was basically soft core porn. It goes beyond what we want to watch. It affects how I can use and interact with the service to other people.

It works reasonably well, but a lot of times I just never get an alert. The two minutes of shaking I experience yesterday in Osaka I received no alert. Last year there was a very brief level 3 that they blared the dreaded tones on everyone's phones in Tokyo. Stuff like the NERV application are more accurate and I can customize what earthquake levels that I get alerts for.

The fact that they are replacing them with a refurbished product is ridiculous in the first place.

Similar here. I corrected some statistics on a page for a vehicle. I had multiple different years of the owner and service manuals in had to verify these facts and able to source them. Nope, some overlord of the page just kept reverting it with no recourse. I never bother to try editing again. It is not worth my time to deal with that.

Spillover from my video card's 24GB when doing huge renders in Blender.