gorfian_robot

this guy is a huge dork. I love it. I read to the end and was treated to his analysis on BSG main batteries.

https://acoup.blog/2019/11/29/collections-where-does-my-main...

oddly specific

works fine in the rain. source: oregon coast.

yep. super good. I've recommended it a ton.

the one on Trader Joe's is also excellent.

as they say it wastes your time and annoys the pig

when they kill it, I will prol leave reddit. the new version SUCKS

sure have and I will take a maul over an axe. an axe is for felling not splitting. generally prefer a wedge and a sledge for splitting. gotta say some of the little electric splitters look sweet.

have you ever had to split wood?

ambient information radiator. I like that term and have always been interested in it. for a while we had a system monitoring connected to a speaker that produced fairly consistent tonal patterns. when it started sounding 'weird' it usually meant something was off.

plus roads

when visiting the jewish temple in rome someone asked if the roman jews were sephardic or ashkenazi. the answer was 'neither' as there have been jews in rome since before rome and they never left and didn't see themselves as part of the diaspora

reminds of a prank we pulled on a coworker back in the xterminal days. every time he hit a certain key it would invoke the 'melt' screensaver briefly. he was fairly unobservant though and we had to escalate to invoking it for 1s every minute before he finally noticed.

the follow on prank was having all the xterminals 'moo' whenever new code was deployed to prod.

wouldn't it need to be flipped open? I guess that could work with the right mount

example: in 300 years if anyone thinks of "rock and roll" they might remember one band. and that band is just as likely to be Nickelback as is it is the Rolling Stones.

But What If We're Wrong?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/But_What_If_We%27re_Wrong%3F

The premise of the book is that most of what we believe is likely to be wrong, but to avoid delusions in our perceptions, Klosterman advises us to "think about the present as if it were the distant past."

Klosterman examines such phenomena as the history of scientific theories, our perception of historical literary geniuses and our interests in entertainment and professional sports, as background examples to challenge the reader's confidence in their contemporary perceptions, and to try to detect how those perceptions might be mistaken. In a series of what have been called thought experiments, various topics (literary greats, multiverses, time, dreams, democracy, television shows, sports) are analyzed under "Klosterman's Razor": the concept that "the best hypothesis is the one that reflexively accepts its potential wrongness to begin with.

it has been a while since I thought about Kaspersky. have we decided they are not compromised agents of the Kremlin?

idk. it helped me fix my washing machine.

navigation while driving seems like it would be an issue.

thanks, I didn't get see this result when I search HN just now

my only qualm is it that while it runs google maps, it wont be great for navigation while driving.

I kinda like it!

I think all of their metro areas are like this. I'm sure they did some math on the duty cycle of the cars to help draw the boundaries.

Waymo Supreme comes with cheese

or maybe they grew up in NYC or London and never drove in their life. then moved to PHX.

I forgot about ZipCar. The downside in a place like SF is having to deal with parking it. I seem to recall dedicated ZipCar spots in the distant past ....

Ultra Plus™ benefits includes Trauma Team Premium™ service in case of accident or civil unrest.

hmm. I have always seen it to be more expensive (10-20%).

sane people

Acquired has an excellent episode on Costco: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/costco

his full nomenclature is "Dark Angel of the Playa"