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Um... we need to hear more about the steampunk telegraph office

Glorious. This is the first time in 40 years of programming that I've encountered the term "waka waka" for the "<>" pair. My google-fu failed me when I tried to look it up today, perhaps due to search pollution generated by the Cameroonian/Shakira song.

About 3 weeks

A little off topic, but: we who have chickens know that fresh eggs last for weeks if left unwashed.

The dogs that win prizes often disturb me. I feel like there must be a bunch of inbreeding going on, and maybe for features that look interesting but aren't necessarily good for them.

Is this concern misplaced? Not a dog show expert so maybe I'm just revealing my ignorance.

I am uneasy about it for no logical reason. I have an emotional attachment to pennies because as a not rich kid in the 60s, even finding a penny brightened my day. Back then they sold "penny candy", for example a roll of Smarties, and it was actually a penny. There were maybe half a dozen options. You absolutely could bring a buck in and get hundred pieces of candy, modulo the 6% sales tax in SoCal.

Middle school in the mid 70s: a penny rolls around the corner and I pick it up. A school bully and his friends taunted me at length. They'd launched it hoping I'd do exactly what I did. I just thought to myself, one day I'll be a fucking millionaire and you'll still be a squib. That came true. I am damaged enough to be smug about it to this day.

The next year that same kid and his friends beat me up, giving me a TBI, a permanent hole in my memory, and what apparently was a new personality. Twenty years later he was found dead in a dumpster. When I heard about it I did not weep for him. That is of course my defect. I am not proud of my perpetual grievance.

I saved spare change in jars until my 50s, and every once in a while took them to the bank and bought something cool, or just took them out and played with them with my kids.

So for me pennies are some kind of odd little vestige of control over my life. Completely inane, I get it. They're annoying af and too expensive to manufacture. Everything's electronic anyway these days. I'll miss them though.

Agreed. That was just a starting point for the convo. Seems like any reasonably fast method would either result in damage from particles or would be incredibly slow. Sometimes a blower doesn't do a complete job.

Of course it’s Australia

How did you dust bust it? Wipe it by hand with a microfiber cloth or something?

I have decades of experience as an unaccomplished nobody and I concur.

Agree completely. I should’ve used a different term.

Glad you’ve got all that time on your hands. I am still working on the fusion reactor portion of my supernova simulator, so that I can generate the silicon you so blithely refer to.

No. It's sad that you would think that way.

The obvious correct answer is Bob Weilbacher, who fired me with no reason given from my cherished $3.75/hour job in the mailroom at Cal State Fullerton back in 1979.

> When they have sex, people expect to ejaculate and feel good, not have their intercourse morph into a drag race with a clown half-way though.

speak for yourself

I played bass for Snatching Bats

It would take a feastful of foods to make me smell more attractive. In other news, I used to be able to identify people by smell but I am thankful to have lost this ability.

ZZ Top's name before it was ZZ Top was Moving Sidewalks

My intuition is that we would adapt just fine. Maybe we'd have to drop to assembly more often, read the chip docs closely, etc. Unheard-of performance benefits are still being found from Commodore 64s and first-gen IBM PCs, for crying out loud. What if we wrung every last cycle out of the Samsung or Intel chips?

Not sure that tracks. Cars became infinitely more complex due to compliance with federal regs and the chicken tax.

Downvoted for the unhelpful first sentence.

I'll give you a can if you're willing to visit Redmond, a suburb of Seattle.

Because I’m an idiot and assumed it was a typo. Thanks—had no idea that was a thing. Enthusiastically upvoted your comment.

The responsibility weighs heavy on my shoulders

What's your fave?

NOT CAHOOTING

I get this same problem (whistling sound) coming from my AirPods Max headsets. I think it has something to do with partially obscuring the mic.

Thanks for giving me the chance to clarify. You're right, of course. I was using it in the spirit of the phrase "violent disagreement" which is meant figuratively.

I knew you had it in you

Not sure what a "cold chain" is but yes, it's shipped ice-filled styrofoam containers. Without it the cheese would sweat, which freaks people out.

Had no idea! Love this! The website looks like it dates from WWII tbh