For me it’s for traffic. There’s about 4 major routes I can take between my home and office, and with different traffic changes (wrecks, construction, conventions, etc) the difference between them can be over an hour.

It’s why I can’t use Organic Maps despite being a contributor to OSM.

That’s what happens when the boomers refuse to let go.

I get it.

Our dachshund was born on my 40th birthday.

Rotisserie Chicken is cheaper than groceries. The expensive “luxury” is the grocery in this case.

Anyone else remember their Blade Runnder game?

That’s because they’re guaranteed to sell all the water when there’s a storm anyway. There’s a reason there’s laws against raising prices in an emergency.

He’s not saying use a grinder. He’s describing polishing as micro-grinding.

Different Arkane teams in different countries made Prey and Dishonored.

Prey was Arkane Austin, which was forced to make Redfall as a Live Service game to pump up the value of the companybefore being sold to Microsoft, leading over 70% of the Prey team to leave during the development.

Redfall flopped because Arkane Austin wasn’t a Live Service developer and they had zero interest in the game, and Microsoft closed the studio.

I have a very stubborn brain that will usually do the opposite of what I want.

My method is to try and turn on a movie or something I really have to pay attention to. I’ll start struggling to stay awake to keep track, and that will knock me out.

DMCA is interpreted very widely.

It criminalizes circumventing anything that could be used to protect copywritten information. So they just add copywritten stuff where it isn’t needed to criminalize anything they don’t want you to do. It’s why washing machines now have proprietary software and circuit boards instead of mechanical switches and why printer ink cartridges have chips on board.

Bilbo Baggins is in the files. By conflating “in the files” with “took part in the crimes” a lot of innocent people will be falsely accused.

And that’s the point.

Trump and team want so many innocent people to be called out that it provides cover for the guilty.

The response to this mess is gonna be everyone sticking with Discord, not because there’s no alternatives, but because there’s too many alternatives.

That’s not true. Packet loss is a thing. It’s the same reason some USB cables suck and others are awesome.

It matters in digital signals more than I expected.

A bad-quqlity HDMI cable over a long run will start getting a bunch of noise on some of my displays that shows up as random green specs popping off due to signal loss, whereas better cables will give a clean signal.

And back when more broadcasts were analog and I ran tech for a road show, I’d occasionally pick up random stations on poorly-shielded cables that would get amplified by powered speakers. The cables essentially became antennas. Though I haven’t run into that in over 20 years.

Poorly-shielded cables and speakers also used to have a lot of issues with cell phones. Anyone else remember the series of 3-beeps you could sometimes hear on speakers a few seconds before a phone in the room started ringing?

She’s also young.

Trump is a walking corpse. He’ll never have to face justice. But Bondi will probably be around long enough to be a target when the reckoning comes.

Things were bad in the 80s in general.

Look at movies from the time. Revenge of the Nerds has one of the nerds dressing up in the same costume as a jock to have sex with his rival’s girlfriend. And when she finds out after the deed, she loved the rape so much she decides to dump her boyfriend.

Blade Runner - the beloved classic sci-fi has Harrison Ford pinning a woman who says no to a wall and sexing her up as the romantic climax of the film.

It’s a joke.

But also, there are other, better forms of metal printing. One is to use metal powder and laser-weld it layer by layer. Another is basically using a wire welder essentially the same way you would use an FDM printer.

It really is worth a watch. The whole room erupts in laughter several times and she gets really, really upset over it.

Nothing makes them feel worse than when we laugh at them. They love our anger and our fear because it makes them feel powerful. Our laughter hurts.

A lot of people don’t understand the difference between service dogs and ESAs, including store owners and employees.

The American with Disabilities Act does not include ESAs, and businesses in the US can prohibit them so long as there isn’t a local or state law stating otherwise.

What we need to do then is poison the well and provide bad training data.