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gorfian_robot··on Build a Hidden Lock with a Magnetic Imager
using a magnetic imaging tile to build a magnetic lock that opens with a programmable secret gesture
gorfian_robot··on Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier
downloaded the old warner cartoons and cut the cord.
gorfian_robot··on How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving
sounds like the Primetime movie. good film. surely has little to do with real life.
gorfian_robot··on I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall
he means CA home values are re-assessed at purchase not annually like most other places. so your new neighbor is paying a lot more in property tax than the people that have been on the block 20 years.
gorfian_robot··on Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked
the basic premise of wilderness classes is 'there is no 911, no one is coming for you' so the mentality is different. trying to stabilize the victim first and then to determine is they can self evacuate or you need to send out a rescue runner.
gorfian_robot··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
the leaf is the cheap shitbox this country needs!
gorfian_robot··on Ray Ozzie and the Optimism of Being Early
and now we have sharepoint.
gorfian_robot··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
I grabbed an old Obon festival flyer from 2014 and told chatgtp to:

"look at this image and give me variants in the style of classical japanese artists and graphics designers (be sure to include hokusai and Ikko Tanaka). be sure to tell me about each style. upscale and include the original with some designer words that are plausible"

at least two of these don't look like AI to me and are perhaps better than the original. but a non-designer is likely to pick the more busy ones.

https://files.catbox.moe/5p5m9v.png

gorfian_robot··on Ray Ozzie and the Optimism of Being Early
I still miss Groove.
gorfian_robot··on Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him
Berkshire HQ has exactly 27 people. so I think those comments about culture are spot on. but the issue of "what would walt/steve/warren do?" will eventually bite you in the ass.
gorfian_robot··on macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review
so I have to get a mac from mainland china to opt out? #Weird
gorfian_robot··on The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator (2020)
they use either a propane flame and/or an electric heating element.
gorfian_robot··on Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month
better for what?
gorfian_robot··on Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)
have you met most people? I can't really recommend it.
gorfian_robot··on How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story
I miss 24hr kinkos
gorfian_robot··on The First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable Was a Bold, Beautiful Failure
recent 99pi episode:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/672-transatlantic-fib...

gorfian_robot··on Why Are There No Empires in Age of Empires? (2019)
this guy is a huge dork. I love it. I read to the end and was treated to his analysis on BSG main batteries.

https://acoup.blog/2019/11/29/collections-where-does-my-main...

gorfian_robot··on Does average person understand that all disc media dies too?
oddly specific
gorfian_robot··on Africans Are Turning to Starlink
works fine in the rain. source: oregon coast.
gorfian_robot··on Costco is the anti-Amazon
yep. super good. I've recommended it a ton.

the one on Trader Joe's is also excellent.

gorfian_robot··on Why I Stopped Arguing with People
as they say it wastes your time and annoys the pig
gorfian_robot··on Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com
when they kill it, I will prol leave reddit. the new version SUCKS
gorfian_robot··on Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)
sure have and I will take a maul over an axe. an axe is for felling not splitting. generally prefer a wedge and a sledge for splitting. gotta say some of the little electric splitters look sweet.
gorfian_robot··on Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)
have you ever had to split wood?
gorfian_robot··on "Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds
ambient information radiator. I like that term and have always been interested in it. for a while we had a system monitoring connected to a speaker that produced fairly consistent tonal patterns. when it started sounding 'weird' it usually meant something was off.
gorfian_robot··on The last Romans are still around
plus roads
gorfian_robot··on The last Romans are still around
when visiting the jewish temple in rome someone asked if the roman jews were sephardic or ashkenazi. the answer was 'neither' as there have been jews in rome since before rome and they never left and didn't see themselves as part of the diaspora
gorfian_robot··on "Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds
reminds of a prank we pulled on a coworker back in the xterminal days. every time he hit a certain key it would invoke the 'melt' screensaver briefly. he was fairly unobservant though and we had to escalate to invoking it for 1s every minute before he finally noticed.

the follow on prank was having all the xterminals 'moo' whenever new code was deployed to prod.

gorfian_robot··on Thoughts on the Commodore 8020 smart flip phone?
wouldn't it need to be flipped open? I guess that could work with the right mount
gorfian_robot··on Who Is America's Homer?
example: in 300 years if anyone thinks of "rock and roll" they might remember one band. and that band is just as likely to be Nickelback as is it is the Rolling Stones.
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