Recent content by BrutulTM

I lived in Livermore and worked there too which let me avoid commuting which is the worst part of living in the Bay Area. I could actually see cows grazing across 580 from the balcony of my apartment. I started on a master's degree at Santa Clara University and only made it one semester largely...

I used to live just down the road from there. It gets very dry in the summertime.

Sorry to hear it. I always liked him as a guest on "This Week in Tech" and even listened to No Agenda for a while. It's funny because just a couple of months ago I thought about him and had to Google to see if he was still alive.

I'm sure no one ever got traded because of JJ's salary.

I saw a funnel cloud the other day. According to Facebook and Gemini it was a "cold air funnel" which happen on clouds that are too small to produce a real tornado. I thought it was pretty cool though.

Good thing he had that push stick while he was intentionally sticking his other hand into the blade.

No clue what happened here but as a former cyclist I can say that certain people just get insanely angry just because of the existence of people riding bicycles on the highway.

I heard someone describe the current AI business model as "selling hundred dollar bills for a buck". I wonder how affordable it will be if this eventually shakes out into a couple of huge companies and the rest go bankrupt.

What does the subscription get you? I've been mostly using Gemini and I find it super useful but I don't know what I would want to pay for.

My Mom's knees were so bad that she could stand with her feet a foot apart and her knees would touch each other. She got both replaced at once and talks all the time about how she would be a cripple without them. The only issue she's mentioned is that it hurts to kneel on a hard floor.

The reason I'd heard to wait if you can is because the joint will only last around 20 years and if it fails you may not have enough bone left to bolt a second knee to so they don't like to do them untill your 60's. I don't know if it's really true but they told me when I had my rotator cuff...

My doctor told me the cortisone was just a temporary band-aid but I'm enjoying it while it lasts. Also I had a rotator cuff surgery like 3 years ago and the recovery from that fucked me up in ways I won't go into but I'm not savoring the idea of another big surgery. I've also heard since those...

On another aspect of getting old, my right knee has been injured 3 times in my life. I had surgery on it when I was 21 and it's always bothered me a little since then but this spring I was limping on it really badly, to the point where I was avoiding stairs and such. Went to the ortho doc and...

Same here. Even now it has to be at least an inch or longer or it looks thin and scruffy. A barber totally fucked me once because I asked him to trim it and he just put on a half inch comb and shaved it. Took me a good 6 weeks to get it looking decent again. It keeps getting longer though. I...

I have a curved widescreen monitor too and I love it. I didn't have dual monitors before so it was a massive upgrade for me being able to have multiple windows more or less full size on the screen at once. I don't play video games but it seems like it would be pretty cool for that.