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Grilled turkey is best turkey. Having 30 over for dinner tonight. Half the limbs of two turkeys pictured, breasts in the oven and finished on the grill. Started yesterday with 2 pumpkin, 2 pecan, peach, and apples pies.

I bought through RocketMortgage in March (at 5.25%, phew!). It was easy. Just like credit card reward rates, agent fees get passed straight on to the buyers. Sellers price to their net takeaway. As others have said, 6-8% is a lot closer to historical normal than 3% was.

My dad had lent some money to friends/family. Based on his experience this is a fantastic plan to fuck up your relationships with these people. Gift or don't gift, but lending will create future stress when inevitably someone misinterprets where the personal/business boundaries are.

The twitch guy speedran being OpenAI CEO.

I'm still running firefox with uBO and seeing nothing.

Fucking around with mains power as an amateur is a great way to get killed or burn down your building and have your insurance hang you out to dry, IMO. This is what electricians are for.

One of my friends has been a real estate agent for 30 years and he said he's loving this new market because none of his competition in the game less than 10 years has ever seen a down market and has no idea what to do when you're not fighting off buyers. (I still think real estate agents...

I remember playing Escape from the Pit ages ago and enjoying it.

They'll even facetime each other and have preferred conversation partners.

Methane is odorless.

It may very well if it came down to philosophical differences in corporate direction and responsibility and how badly wrong the board was about where the functional power actually sat and what the consequences of rapid leadership replacement would be. I can tell you from firsthand experience...

The Challenger explosion is a classic case study and NASA sure isn't representative of many for-profit businesses. The studies are about highlighting the power of human fallibility in the face of competing incentives. (Source: Haz MIT MBA)

Yup. Pretend somehow that the average salary was $500k. They're getting everything useful for $350M a year instead of $86B.

Crosspost from investing: The employee revolt makes a lot more sense now. These board shenanigans just fucked them all out of a windfall that would have set their great-grandchildren up in perpetuity. I'd set the place on fire on my way out, too. "OpenAI employees were in the middle of a...

The employee revolt makes a lot more sense now. These board shenanigans just fucked them all out of a windfall that would have set their great-grandchildren up in perpetuity. I'd set the place on fire on my way out, too. "OpenAI employees were in the middle of a tender offer that was set to end...

More discussion of this in the investing thread. The vast majority of OpenAI employees signed a letter demanding the board resign or they'll all go to Microsoft. https://www.firesofheaven.org/threads/investing-general-discussion.342/post-4633070

Board stands firm and Altman is still out. Murati is out now, replaced as interim CEO by Emmett Shear, founder of Twitch. Such a great choice. I know when I need real guidance on something I go right to fucking Twitch...

This made me do a double take so I looked it up. You're right, the average length of home ownership in the US is about eight years. The median, though, is 13, which means there are a LOT of people doing high-turnover real estate and getting stealthily eaten up by agent fees and transaction...

Industry is cool.

Good point. Fortunately, my dad told me this before I went shopping.

Reminds me of the exchange when I bought my first car out of college: "How would you like to pay, sir?" "By check." "Yes, but how would you like to finance the balance?" "By check." "With what loan size?" "Zero." "But then how do we finance the car?" "With this check." "At what interest rate?"...

Proper tool for the job is a jointer (also doable with a hand plane). A table saw might work if you are very sure that your piece is not twisted in addition to being out of square. Subtle twists can survive a planer and still be bad enough to encourage kickback on the saw. Be mindful if you try...

"According to reporting from Kara Swisher and The Information, it's looking like the ouster of Altman stemmed from an internal disagreement over the direction of the company with regard to a focus on profits over safety, with Chief Scientist Illya Sutskever apparently behind the board...

My wife runs a data science/ML/AI department and said the industry scuttlebutt is that Altman was pushing to slow down, open up some of the data and tech, and work on security/safety concerns. The board told him to fuck off and want to monetize and scale everything fast and hard.

Ditto with me for earplugs. I couldn't stand the feeling of something in my ears, and then I moved (thankfully briefly) into a house near a bunch of early morning construction traffic. After a few days getting used to it, I realized my sleep was VASTLY improved. God, this would be a recipe for...

I may be using the wrong terminology? Basically all the 12 gauge extension cords I see seem to be advertised as "12/3". It's to run 12 amp tools on the far end of my yard.

Does anyone have an extension cord reel they like, preferably retractable? I have 100 ft of 12/3 I use regularly but want to keep tidy, and basically nothing at the standard places has capacity for that. Some people suggest using garden hose reels, but I don't know how well that actually works.

Patenting even makes it easier to copy, because you have to publish in exchange for protection. I'm sure Chinese companies have whole divisions scanning new US patent applications for ideas.

Yeah, I turned uBO back on after the first day and haven't seen anything in two weeks.

Modeling intellectual curiosity and actually using the skills/tools is the way to go. Kid's got a question that requires some numbers to really figure out? Buckle up son, it's time for some napkin algebra at the dinner table. Saw a cool YouTube video about a 3d-printed gizmo? Welp, I guess we're...

Probably weighs at least double at equivalent moisture. You're not kidding. I saved the studs and door headers/jambs from the demo of my bathroom (house built in '52). They barely took any pry marks from taking the nails out. Holes aside it's great wood and I can make some nice little...

Heh. I have a 13-foot bay window in the living room. Definitely some food for thought. Thanks guys.

I already hadn't eaten since Saturday (36h) and coffee was allowed on my prep until three hours pre-anesthesia. I was so hypoglycemic I probably could have gone for another 24 hr and not felt worse. Edit: If anyone is doing this in the future, invest in a bidet. Your asshole will thank you.

Mine was at 1:30 PM, not that bad. I did the major round of prep starting at 5pm the day before and it tapered off enough that I could get some sleep. Did the third round as soon as I was up in the morning. The extra 12h without food kidna sucked, but I was so zonked out by everything anyway...

Scope done. All is well in the 'ol colon. I have never enjoyed a salad so much in my life.

14 daily doses of miralax in 2 hours. It is... effective.