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> my life feels like I am a drone > Not being female is a huge disadvantage these days. > All things males can only dream of. Are you saying that the same dynamic do not occur when gender roles are reversed (pops stayed home while mom worked; mom does, pops gets house and pension)? No disrespect intended, but you might want to find someone to help you unpack and process these things you’re saying; no good will come of projecting on to gender dynamics and letting resentment fester.

Can you cite the offshore wind farm induced fish desert? I’d be interested to understand the dynamics.

> radicalized youth

Two of my teenage sons play sports and at times it feels like all content consumption roads eventually lead to “manfluencers”[0]. If they’re watching content on lifting techniques, sports discussions, or gaming—not uncommon topics for teenagers—the recommendations are riddled with rabbit holes into the so called manosphere.

[0] https://www.psypost.org/rejected-and-radicalized-study-links...

The feature works the same on iPhone. Looking through my duplicates just now, the detected duplicates that had a dozen or so photos to merge, are either high speed sports photography bursts or astrophotography—the rest were just mostly two photo duplicates. I suspect the threshold for determining a the photo as duplicate is too high for successive* photos to be considered such, as with your campfire example.

With that said, I’m surprised Apple hasn’t implemented a feature to group/bundle successive photos beneath what is determined to be “best.”

[*] Note: successive photos being separate shutter taps/actuations (potentially several seconds apart), where bursts are continuous (generally as fast as hardware allows, ms apart).

When not commuting on metro, I always favored 295 even if traffic was slightly worse. It’s been decades, but I still vividly recall the trees being calming, even with traffic.

I clicked the headline expecting a chuckle and left with an unexpectedly warmed heart.

> “We wanted to strengthen the connection between the children and the older generations in the community. There are so many amazing people here. I thought it was such a shame that no one knew about them,” [...] “Since the card game went viral, so many kids are starting to look up to these men as heroic figures.” > Kids have started attending local events and volunteering for community activities — just for a chance to meet the ojisan from their cards. Participation in town events has reportedly doubled since the game launched.

there's so much more I want to comment on--it's not screen-based, increased cross-generational interaction, strengthening community, elders having their stories known--but what I love is that these effects will compound into even greater benefits for the community.

If you’re using Apple Photos, the feature is there. It will detect both exact copies as well as (nearly) identical visual duplicates. Look under utilities.

I have ~2.5TB of photos in iCloud, via Apple Photos. Excluding the various sized previews, I doubt many originals have been accessed in quite a while. I also have about 1TB Lightroom library archived to a different service; representing countless hours of photo processing work spanning over a decade. Haven’t touched that one in years. Neither are crap. (Yes, both have other backups and, yes, I’ve probably forgotten to sync one of them).

I was an engineer at Cisco in the 00’s and my FIL, a chef, just assumed I worked for Sysco and would tell people when they’d get deliveries. I can’t remember how it came up, but it went on for more than a decade, well after I’d moved on. Still makes me smile when I see a Sysco truck.

Now, now, that’s just a Terrible Lie

To be clear… are you suggesting that b/c one party started doing something damaging that we should all forgo trying and continue doing something that is a clear and present danger to our atmosphere’s ability to provide UV protection?

I’m also curious what issues you suggest Europe focus on that would require abandoning these straightforward, if slightly more costly, manufacturing efforts.

TBH, for non-tech folks that upgrade cycle has likely stretched a good bit beyond 3-5 years. 3-5 was the norm 10 years ago, but I’d wager needs-driven upgrades, opposed to marketing driven, are closer to 7-10 years outside of obvious niches.

Sample size one: My spouse is using either a 2013 MBA and wants to upgrade, mostly b/c the enshitification of web sites. Basic productivity was okay-ish for her work (document creation, pdfs, spreadsheets, etc), but even Gmail now suffers with more than a tab.

Edit: thinking more, I don’t know if I agree with myself here.

I do—daily, too.

Amen. Still great cars, especially for the price, tho parts are increasingly NLA. My M54 is still going strong (compression terrific) other than my oil control rings could use a top end soak. Peak BMW design — inside and out.

Iirc, it’s only the US and Japan that acid wash their eggs, thus stripping the natural protective layer, and require refrigeration.

still loving my 12mini. size is perfect, batt is only issue.

Currency is zero sum, prosperity shouldn’t be.

Challenge there is limiting exposure to damaging UV rays while maximizing near IR

Sure, physical pain is absolutely part of life and unavoidable. Yet, it is not an effective tool for either parenting or raising dogs. This has been consistently shown, both for raising children as well as dogs, in research over past few decades. All you do is condition fear and creating emotional trauma that will leave them less able to cope and process emotional pain later in life without resorting to “getting out the belt” for their kids.

Patenting is brutally hard, exhausting, and often unrewarding work. But if you’re burnt out and find yourself reaching for the belt because your hour of free time is being disrupted by some undesirable behavior then just step out of the house for a few minutes. Young kids (and puppies) crave attention and removing the attention is more effective than giving attention by conditioning a fear response.

I’ve been looking into pump upgrade options for my Silvia, but I’d given up on gear pumps assuming they’d be too large/expensive. Do you have an additional info /specs on your pump? Hard to find it on the site.

I’m most intrigued (and politely skeptical) about the grinder. How’s the grind distribution look (and fines) compared to other popular espresso grinders? My Rocky was great two decades ago, but not today; my other grinders are targeting clarity from light roast pour overs. Need a new grinder for getting my Silvia up and running again.

FWIW, I’m basically your target audience. I either need a grinder and pump or grinder and machine. Will be following. Either way, congrats on the huge solo effort.

How much of your woodworking is CNC? I’ve been thinking about selling a slightly different take on fountain pen trays, but I’m just routing by hand and/or with jigs.

What about arabica do you detest, specifically? What of origin, processing, roasting, and brewing differences?

Arabica produces such a varied spectrum of cups, it’s really quite head scratching to hear you write off the entire species, yet still hear you drink robusta.

To be fair, Hammurabi’s code is often taught in middle/high school social studies (history).

s/framework/abstraction/g

With that said, yep, I do like robust/stable and purposeful abstractions.

Came here to say this. I finally read it last year for first time and was delighted. It has aged rather gracefully as well.

This should be the top rated comment. This [1] is the tactic that is used by government agencies to actively work around protections afforded by the Constitution of the United States.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/04/26/constituti...

I was being prepped for wrist/arm surgery years back and the anesthesiologist got a bit flummoxed and muttere, “huh, that’s strange… let’s get an ultrasound” while trying to administer a nerve block on my arm. I asked what and they ”oh, it’s nothing to worry about, but your nerve isn’t where it is supposed to be…”, and then knocked me out before I could ask anything else.

I’d hate to see how their knives are washed

Hobbies I geek out on gear: fountain pens, coffee, backpacking, tools (especially fine woodworking or cabinet making).

Hobbies where my skills have reached a point of equilibrium with my gear: bikes, photography, electronics, knives, auto detailing, cars.

For me it has a lot to do with disparity between my current ability level and being able to recognize whatever a realistic upper end is to my potential (80th percentile). Basically, if there's a skill-gap, I'm more likely to fall prey to "better gear" rather than gear that solves a specific problem.

When I recognize my skills have reached ~80% of my potential, I lose interest in new gear and either work around specific gear limitations or understand what is possible within the limitations and embrace the constraint. Beyond that, I only acquire new gear to solve hyper-specific problems w/o reasonable workarounds, or if there's some super-specific niche/quirky/vintage thing that I have an emotional attachment to or otherwise identify with.

Conversely, if I have an unrealistic perception of my potential, then, well... there's probably lists of shiny things to show for it.

In the US, sparky is common slang electrician among the trades, but far loss-so for end customers who are looking to hire one.