In a similar vein, I've been using https://brutalist.report/ for a while just to browse headlines. All the links lead to the full regular pages, so the articles themselves aren't "lightweight" like the CNN Lite version…
I do agree that there is a small minority of people who greatly benefit from delivery services due to disability or otherwise, but the thought of tax dollars paying to deliver Tom's crunchwrap supreme because he's a…
sorry, I guess I forgot my /s.
I saw "512GB" and knew deep down it means RAM, but SURELY nobody needs the same amount of RAM as I have total SSD space on my desktop, right? ...Right?
My second monitor is a 11" beige VGA LCD. I'm ready for the regression.
In 2024 I sold a 2010 MBP that still worked. I beat the hell out of it in college dual booting and cooking the cpu playing Trackmania for 12 hours at a time or running Solidworks, then after I graduated it sat closed…
Mmmmm, tasty $75 pi zero
There is somebody that I am having to work with right now that will not respond to a single thing I ask unless it is on a live phone call. I will ask a relatively simple question via email, and then he will call me back…
I'll giddily await the moment when a Waymo gets swallowed by a random sinkhole. I was visiting my brother there shortly after the bus-hole happened, and the winter market had several vendors selling bus-hole related…
Your rental car comment reminds me of the time I looked like an idiot trying to open the fuel door on a rented Kia K5 for almost 20 minutes. I don't have a smartphone and didn't have my laptop so had no way to look…
There's a team who live-stream their dives with a deep-sea ROV, and being along for the ride when they discovered a whale fall in 2019 will always be something I remember very fondly. They returned in 2020 to document…
I tried renting a uhaul very last second a couple years back at the rental location. I was standing in the office, just me and the one single employee working that day. As part of the rental process I had to give my…
I guess it makes sense that there's an elevator of the year award, though it's never something I'd have thought of before. The photo of one of the brake assembly components mounted to a welded tubular skid, bolted to a…
I definitely didn't have to wonder if my career choice would be invalidated by AI by the time I graduate.
I drove ~3 hours to the Vermont-Canada border... and then drove 14 hours home. I'd also do it again in a heartbeat. I almost signed up for a live-work program for a big music festival happening in Iceland, but the…
I'm currently reading Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days by Alastair Reynolds. In the second book, there's a water-world where there are airships, and a whole city held aloft in the air by "vacuum bladders". I'll admit when I…
I think the 2 funniest I found here are "TT Firebird Ribeye" which just sounds like an incredibly specific steakhouse menu item, and "Privacy II", which I just think is a bit on the funny-ironic side that we're all now…
I've done some pretty stupid things in my day relating to various activities far* from civilization (my dumbest being an offroad motorcycle trip by myself for which I was not nearly experienced enough, dumped the bike…
This reminds me of something I saw on a backpacking blog sometime last year. Project Remote, a family that's finding and hiking to all the "most remote" place in each state of the USA. Here's some of the statistics:…
I get all my 2FA through SMS or a Yubikey. It took a bit of wrangling from corporate IT, but it was "Get my yubikey or SMS working or buy me a company phone and pay for service that I won't use for anything else" I…
Luckily our eyes tend to be closed when we're asleep. Evolutionary safety squints.
I saw the "Get $50 off!" and thought "Oh cool, maybe I could get this for $150!" then checked the actual page and saw $499... absolutely not. Also the whole store page just feels off. The weird mix of "beige" and…
I saw the original post first and thought it looked fishy so wanted to see what the comments looked like. My muscle memory for immediately clicking the last link on the right under the post to check out the comments…
This is only tangentially related to early high-quality materials, but since I'm already strolling down memory lane: My dad used to work as an after-hours maintenance tech at a graphic imaging company. For several years…
That hit me, too, specifically thinking about my current gas/electricity provider. I have not heard one single piece of positive feedback from the public, and there's only ever problems. I feel like that's a pretty…
In a similar vein, I've been using https://brutalist.report/ for a while just to browse headlines. All the links lead to the full regular pages, so the articles themselves aren't "lightweight" like the CNN Lite version…
I do agree that there is a small minority of people who greatly benefit from delivery services due to disability or otherwise, but the thought of tax dollars paying to deliver Tom's crunchwrap supreme because he's a…
sorry, I guess I forgot my /s.
I saw "512GB" and knew deep down it means RAM, but SURELY nobody needs the same amount of RAM as I have total SSD space on my desktop, right? ...Right?
My second monitor is a 11" beige VGA LCD. I'm ready for the regression.
In 2024 I sold a 2010 MBP that still worked. I beat the hell out of it in college dual booting and cooking the cpu playing Trackmania for 12 hours at a time or running Solidworks, then after I graduated it sat closed…
Mmmmm, tasty $75 pi zero
There is somebody that I am having to work with right now that will not respond to a single thing I ask unless it is on a live phone call. I will ask a relatively simple question via email, and then he will call me back…
I'll giddily await the moment when a Waymo gets swallowed by a random sinkhole. I was visiting my brother there shortly after the bus-hole happened, and the winter market had several vendors selling bus-hole related…
Your rental car comment reminds me of the time I looked like an idiot trying to open the fuel door on a rented Kia K5 for almost 20 minutes. I don't have a smartphone and didn't have my laptop so had no way to look…
There's a team who live-stream their dives with a deep-sea ROV, and being along for the ride when they discovered a whale fall in 2019 will always be something I remember very fondly. They returned in 2020 to document…
I tried renting a uhaul very last second a couple years back at the rental location. I was standing in the office, just me and the one single employee working that day. As part of the rental process I had to give my…
I guess it makes sense that there's an elevator of the year award, though it's never something I'd have thought of before. The photo of one of the brake assembly components mounted to a welded tubular skid, bolted to a…
I definitely didn't have to wonder if my career choice would be invalidated by AI by the time I graduate.
I drove ~3 hours to the Vermont-Canada border... and then drove 14 hours home. I'd also do it again in a heartbeat. I almost signed up for a live-work program for a big music festival happening in Iceland, but the…
I'm currently reading Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days by Alastair Reynolds. In the second book, there's a water-world where there are airships, and a whole city held aloft in the air by "vacuum bladders". I'll admit when I…
I think the 2 funniest I found here are "TT Firebird Ribeye" which just sounds like an incredibly specific steakhouse menu item, and "Privacy II", which I just think is a bit on the funny-ironic side that we're all now…
I've done some pretty stupid things in my day relating to various activities far* from civilization (my dumbest being an offroad motorcycle trip by myself for which I was not nearly experienced enough, dumped the bike…
This reminds me of something I saw on a backpacking blog sometime last year. Project Remote, a family that's finding and hiking to all the "most remote" place in each state of the USA. Here's some of the statistics:…
I get all my 2FA through SMS or a Yubikey. It took a bit of wrangling from corporate IT, but it was "Get my yubikey or SMS working or buy me a company phone and pay for service that I won't use for anything else" I…
Luckily our eyes tend to be closed when we're asleep. Evolutionary safety squints.
I saw the "Get $50 off!" and thought "Oh cool, maybe I could get this for $150!" then checked the actual page and saw $499... absolutely not. Also the whole store page just feels off. The weird mix of "beige" and…
I saw the original post first and thought it looked fishy so wanted to see what the comments looked like. My muscle memory for immediately clicking the last link on the right under the post to check out the comments…
This is only tangentially related to early high-quality materials, but since I'm already strolling down memory lane: My dad used to work as an after-hours maintenance tech at a graphic imaging company. For several years…
That hit me, too, specifically thinking about my current gas/electricity provider. I have not heard one single piece of positive feedback from the public, and there's only ever problems. I feel like that's a pretty…