jaredandrews

Nah.

"Estate tax"

I remember in the early 2000s there was a similar reaction to Harry Potter. My family attended a rather extreme church at the time. One day the pastor started the sermon with: "We need to talk about Harry Potter". I thought "Ohhh nooooo, here we go".

He proceeded to berate the congregation, reminding every one that Harry Potter is a fictional children's book. Witches aren't real. Wizards aren't real. You know who is real? Satan and he's coming for ya, but not thru this fairytale book. Always thought that was pretty funny.

lol, thank you for posting this. I love those gas station egg salad sandwiches and any time I buy one with friends present I always get roasted.

I must also share, "how it's made - pre-packaged sandwiches": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS_hnmHWEcg

This video has always fascinated me because this particular factory appears to operate "just in time" for many clients. Always wondered if it's just this one place making all these types of gas station sandwiches in America.

Was coming here to make this same comment lol. Not just wasteful, but inefficient and insufficient!

I got my first bidet at an apartment several years ago. Some people thought it was weird and my roommate always had a funny line he would use to change their minds:

"If I took a piece of poop and smeared it on your arm right now, would you just take a thin a piece of paper and wipe it around a few times? NO, YOU WOULD WASH IT OFF"

This is the bidet I recommend and give as a gift to the bidet curious: https://www.amazon.com/Luxe-Bidet-Neo-120-Non-Electric/dp/B0...

I of course now have a 300 dollar one with a heated seat and warm water, which I can't recommend enough.

I was working on a hobby project recently and wanted to do it without JS. For some reason, I thought there was a way using HTML forms to form a URL.

That is, imagine I have two `select` dropdown with a set of numbers in each, and a `submit` button. I thought there was a way to construct a target url based on the values of `select` without using JS. So you might select '2' and '5' from the dropdowns and hitting submit would send you to 'mysite.com/2/5'. As far as I can tell, I was wrong. Anyone disagree?

It's not as good.

Your last sentence sounds like civil forfeiture and I certainly think it should be outlawed.

As far as cashless society winning, I dunno, I'm definitely worried about that outcome, but it's straight up illegal in my state to not to accept cash in a retail establishment and a good number of bars I go to don't accept cards at all. I use cash all the time and I find it way more convenient than a credit or debit card. My wallet doesn't randomly prevent me from opening it at a grocery store I have been to a thousand times and stop me from paying for groceries.

You are definitely right about that.

I tend to work on apps that do not rely heavily on Google Play Services. BUT I should also add that this CalyxOS phone and an /e/ foundation phone I have, are 2 of about 10 Android phones of varying manufacturers and SDK levels which I am constantly rotating thru while developing. I like to make sure I am testing my stuff on a broad array of Android devices, including non-google ones. I certainly wouldn't recommend that anyone use a non-google Android phone for _all_ dev purposes when targeting mainline Google Android phones.

I should also note that MicroG[0] attempts to solve this problem, with admittedly mixed results, but I have positive feelings about its future.

[0] https://microg.org/

I flashed my Pixel 3 to the CalyxOS [0] with Android 12 on Friday. It has been at least 6 years since I have put a custom OS on an Android phone... I was shocked at how smooth the process was using the provided installer. Took less than 30 minutes. This particular phone, I use solely for Android dev. Based on my initial experience with CalyxOS, I could definitely see myself switching to it for my daily driver.

[0] https://calyxos.org/

If you find yourself feeling like the author (why so serious mane?) here's a tip, go on google dot com and type "$(theCityYouAreIn) standup comedy". This is where the real shit happens and has probably always happened. I go to comedy shows in my home city all the time and go to random open mics in literally every city I visit, always a great time.

My go to spot when working on my Honda motorcycle: https://www.hondashadow.net/

> Nope. Ever thought about gardening instead?

I'm not really a backend/server person... Is this an inside joke that I just don't understand?

These sort of artifacts are fascinating. It reminds me of a t-shirt I saw a man wearing in Thailand in 2012. I was in rural Isan and spotted a Thai man wearing a t-shirt with an image of the falling towers, above the towers were portraits of Bush and Bin Laden with text like "Bush VS Bin Laden".

I never saw a copy of this shirt again in Thailand (which was strange because Bangkok has many, many t-shirt stalls filled with shirts that would be controversial in the west). I googled it and discovered that there were actually many variations on this shirt[0], but I never saw the same design as the one the man was wearing.

Weirdly, this mystery was sorta solved for me this year. A Rudy Giuliani parody account I follow on Instagram posted an image of this controversial handheld game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laden_VS_USA

The image featured on the game is the exact same one I saw on the shirt. And yes, several people on YouTube have acquired and played copies of this game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XNJM_Kamyg&t=142s

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=bin+laden+vs+bush+shirt&tbm=...

Something I have started doing is decoupling functionality from my phone. For example, I bought a cheap 4GB mp3 player a couple months ago. I bought a standalone alarm clock too. Basically I have tried to reduce the number of things I use my phone for. This means I no longer even have my phone with me a lot of the time.

The other change I have made is keeping my phone on silent by default and blocking notifications for almost everything.

This guy building computers on breadboards: https://www.youtube.com/c/BenEater

Okay, so how is everyone feeling about MicroCenter now? I used to live in Allston and would ride my bike to the one in Cambridge, it was sick. I live 45 minutes (in no traffic conditions) away now and rarely make the drive.

I assure you it was not snark. Your example is not something I would have thought of and is interesting. Probably because I am 29 and for my entire adult life I have assumed all digital communications I participate in can and will be used against me at a future point (which is why I just use my real name here on HN).

And while that is all horrible, I have played Dungeons and Dragons my entire life without persecution and none of the bands I listen to who are the same age as me have been harassed by the government. Not something I can say about the lates 80s and 90s from my understanding of it. (I am referring to the DnD panic and the legal harassment that destroyed the Dead Kennedys among other bands who the Govt pursued)

Thank you!

When could you speak freely without repercussions at any point in history?

In staying with the theme I will provide you with the Conservapedia entry: https://conservapedia.com/Secular_Talk#Kulinski.27s_.22best_...

It will probably shock you to learn that both sides declared victory.

> is there a gop.wikisomething.org

https://conservapedia.com/Main_Page

I have been aware of this site for a while. I always thought it was a parody because everything is so over the top. But a few years ago the admin got in a fight with a left wing YouTuber I watched and I learned it is apparently a real and serious project.

I'm an Android developer and I have stands for 2 phones between my split keyboard (the Kinesis Gaming model, used to have the Advantage which I also love).

I keep the phones between my keyboard to focus on during development which doesn't address the more interesting part of your question.

I have many old phones around now, some that can't even be updated to support the minimum OS of the app I am building. So I have tried to figure out what to do with the old phones.

Most common android reuse case: IP Camera. There are a few different apps which turn your phone into an IP Cam. I have used old phones to watch my 3D printer, explore under the floor in my house (phone attached to stick), to watch/record plants grow, and as a security cameras. The problem is, often with these old phones, streaming live video will drain the battery faster than the charger can charge it. I'm still looking at workarounds for this latter issue. Depending on what you are trying to film it can be surprising how "good" the old Android cameras are.

I usually use this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pas.webcam...

The other thing I have done is turn them into dashboards, this is more applicable to tablets though.

At the beginning of the Pandemic I wanted to get more familiar with React Native, so I made the motorcycle maintenance tracker app that I always wanted. I finished it in April and have been using it myself since then. I finally released it over the summer: https://pirsig.app

It's definitely half-baked because its missing a lot of features. But it works perfectly for my use case which is all I really wanted.

The very beginning of the article almost makes it seem like the curators of this collection are just projecting their ideas about these guys on to the photos. But the entire collection (scroll to bottom) makes it clear they are not.

I was a rural living 12 year old when my state (MA) legalized gay marriage. I had this funny perception at the time like: "wow the gay people mobilized to make this happen like 2 years ago and here it is. Democracy is amazing!" It was a couple years later when I realized what a long fight the whole thing actually was. This image in particular struck me [0], it would be 104 years before they could get married.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/9OyXYmNN4C45HBz-tNU1J...

I understand that. But I find the diversity of positions available to be low in the collective space. I'm curious, do you work in a collectively owned setting? What is your tech stack and customer base? Do you ever hire new people from outside your network?

Hey thanks!

I joined a mailing list recently that discusses tech coops: https://npogroups.org/lists/info/tech-coop Some interesting discussion.

I found a repo with a lot of information and companies here: https://github.com/hng/tech-coops

It's really unclear to me how you would go about joining an existing studio like this. At least in North America, there are so few, I think the answer is to start one yourself.

First I foolishly gave the "Weather Channel" app a try. Don't know what I was thinking there, ruled it out after a day. I am now using Climacell. I like it so far, though it is noticeably slowly than dark sky.

Probably going to try out all the other apps in this thread, so thanks for asking.

Anyone here ever get one of their older devices?