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That was cute and a little magical. I may build one with my 8yr this winter break.

One suggestion - it looks like you could have a standard 'learn the cube' program where the webcam is off to one side of the robot, to remove that little bit of friction.

AWS just KILLED EC2!!! Well, EC2-classic. And they did so with two years of notice and support to transition all customers. Really a class act of migration. I'm not sure Google won't just send out an email on a Friday before a long weekend and then kill the servers the following Monday.

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/09/farewell-ec2-cl...

Thank you for that awareness. I didn't look at the source before jumping to conclusions. :)

Still, that is mightly close to 2x, and a little bit of rounding would have made the message clearer (and likely stayed within the error bars of the original paper (which I did not read))

"1 in 5 said they had gotten emotional support from a friend in the past week, compared with 4 in 10 women." -TFA

There was no need to change the demoninator - it was done to confuse people by having them compare 1 vs 4. It's hard to take the rest of the article seriously when they game the numbers to manipulate people so obviously.

I feel like there is a real problem here, even if it is played a little too hard for the article. I do a lot of parenting but am lucky that my college friends all married and reproduced around the same time. So now instead of 12 people hanging, gaming, and BSing, we have 30-40 people in a glorious mob of activty. Thing is - the kids kinda entertain themselves reducing the parenting load for everyone. And everyone know how each family does stuff, so any 'random' adult can provide guidance or escalate to their parent. I don't know how I would do it without the group - likely I would try to build one from my kids new friends without the 20 years of common history.

I wonder how much of it went to this bitcoin miner for reducing their usage.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-bitcoin-min...

Thin, grassy, acidic espresso is a sign of 'third wave' coffee... the idea that you could roast the beans juuust enough to convert the sugars and keep a bunch of neat flavors in a mild and bright cup. But they walk the line of juuust enough roasting very close, which often results in under roasting especially in copy cat producers. Underroasted coffee is marginally ok in pour over / chemex, but is horrible in espresso.

There is a 'fourth wave' coffee pushing back on this trend that anchors more to big dark espressos sometimes even using robusta beans for extra creama and caffeine.

This is call a 'ristretto shot'. In some of the starbucks reserve locations you can get a large volume of ground coffee and a ristretto shot, and it is very creamy without as much acid/tannins.

Also, the ristretto shot is often used in flat whites - one of the main differences (the other lesser one being milk texture)

I’ve played around with the FLIR lepton a good bit and it can be pretty cool. I think the best current hackable platform is the Tcam. It is about an ESP32 combined with a Lepton. Great if you can use the iPhone app or setup a server to interact with it.

https://store.groupgets.com/products/tcam-mini-rev4-wireless...

I think the counter is better as “online communities and the broader internet stole our children [and taught them boundaries]

Turns out, the USDA has a pretty wide gap in approving funding for farmers that can be explained by race. Seems like it may still be an on going issue, or that a history of systemic factors have contributed to it. Either way, we ain't there just yet boss.

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/19/1156851675/in-2022-black-farm....

I believe either the data from the adaptive cruise radar, or the data to control the steering is encrypted. I don't know if lock controls are. It was a small but important subset

How to get AirBNB support to notice your hackernews post - evoke the recent hotness of GPT!

Once you acknowledge their bias, they do know an awful lot about banking.

Ever wonder how we could get actual zombies? This is how. The article notes "the the pigs with <mad scientist fluid> in their veins jerked their heads around when their brains were injected with dye contrast." They assume that the spinal cord, which apparently can independently control some movement, was responsible.

Or they're getting closer and closer to zombie pigs.

From the ‘product obsessive’ that brought the world Adobe’s creative cloud - a product set that helped move forward the subscription economy and was roundly panned.

There is a plug in hybrid Rav4, and it is delightful for what it is. Fast acceleration and light off road capability make it good for city driving, backwoods gravel, and even some rutting out jeep trails.

Electric motors don’t (by themselves) prevent burning rubber. The more sophisticated traction control systems though…

This can really be seen comparing Amazon to HP. Amazon had about twice as many affected people, but the circles make it look about the same.

Technically, it has grains. As it hardens, the liquid steel stuff clumps together not too unlike bread, with the boundary and grain size / mix being factors that affect the quality of the steel.

https://thermalprocessing.com/metal-urgency-determining-aust...

You can refi the interest rate (maybe). You can never just change the amount owed.

Kasparov created a version called 'Advanced Chess' that was a human & computer team. I don't think it ever took off though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_chess

In the US, if you donate over $200 the donation is public record. That record can be associated with any number of marketing databases to figure out how to get in contact with you. Also, politicians trade lists sometimes - that's a thing too.

All these years later, there is an answer to years of lounging. Thank you for the closure. :)

I thought it was a pun on the chemical and the database properties (hydrofluoric acid vs Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability)

I always wanted the epic boot up sequences like they had in that movie... in Windows for a bit you could change your boot image, but I could never get it to be an animation.....

1) Properly diffused air ducting, so there is no 'cold draft' when the system kicks on.

2) Steam shower / wet sauna

3) Security system with home automation to warn of surprising movements before they reach your door

4) small aquaculture setup for fish and veggies

5) solar / battery backup

6) solar water heater

7) whole house fan - when it is hotter inside than outside (front comes through, some weird fall/spring days), it will cycle all the air in the house in 30 minutes

8) dedicated zoom studio with lighting, sound, sound deadening, mic

9) library with sliding ladder.... always seems like the epitome of cool

10) stretch rack in bathroom (https://www.roguefitness.com/rogue-stall-bar-3-0)

11) induction cooktop

12) plumbed coffee machine

13) kitchen appliance storage (rotational or other high density method)

14) we added cans through out the halls, kitchen, and dining areas - it made a world of difference and I wish I had done it earlier

15) through wall aquarium

"Property taxes are higher, but housing prices are lower in TX than CA. From what I've seen they are a bit of a wash (tax rate is double, but housing prices are 50% or less)."

This was true years ago, but the cost of housing in Frisco TX and San Diego CA are about the same now. If anything, San Diego may have an edge because it has many older, smaller properties that keep the overall cost down compared to the newly built up mcmansion land of Frisco.

They are offering the free credit check provided by Uncle Sam- not even footing the bill for one of their own

Amending the bylaws is a process that should also be in the bylaws. But normally it takes a 2/3 vote to change, which is the highest bar and therefore would allow whatever motion to also pass.