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People want their biases confirmed, and will ignore any and all evidence to the contrary. There are a variety of studies showing that presenting people with directly refuting evidence strengthens their belief rather than reversing it. tldr; human psychology sucks

It just means accumulated savings in excess of projections (there was a large deviation during the pandemic), not that they're unnecessary or undesirable. $500B is down from $2+T or whatever it was a year or two ago. Edit...

Maybe there's an opportunity here to step away from the "you are the product" corrosive ad model. I might actually subscribe to a useful, ad-free, truly private search/text concierge service.

It's always wizard. I will play a barbarian because I'm a masochist.

That's not hard. I don't get In-N-Out at all. It's just... not good. Even by fast food standards.

Kness to the head of a downed opponent should be legal.

Not because of the FAST act; it only applies to chains with over 100 locations. Being in CA, the major chains don't seem to have much of a price advantage over better, smaller, local alternatives and the quality difference is massive.

Screenshots here. https://transmissionbt.com/ In your shoes I might not bother if there are built-in options. For me it was a two-click install (once I had the NAS set up, which was a pile of work.)

Yeah, I expect some bifurcation in society. I don't know that one will necessarily survive longer than the other. I can easily see an outcome where a large portion of humanity basically does nothing other than get fed and entertained by automated systems, but their offspring are needed to filter...

https://mariushosting.com/how-to-install-transmission-on-your-synology-nas/

What NAS are you running? I have a TrueNAS box running Plex and Transmission (among other things), with the jail for Transmission set so that it only has network access through my VPN. It's been perfect for my purposes.

Would it? I think you'd be surprised about the down-market reach of cheap hardware. I'm very sure Nintendo has an entire department whose job it is to optimize sales vs develoment costs vs COGS.

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I was thinking the exact same thing.

Yeah, I'm a fan of his. I want to try to make a couple of his HVAC filter dust collectors for my garage shop if I can ever source a cheap blower motor.

IMO if you're able to game you're not working out hard enough.

Friend helping with my reno has the Festool vac. It's really nice, though not enough for me to buy one. The best feature is the power chaining so the vac kicks on automatically when it detects the tool engaging.

Yeah. Fortunately that's the last galvanized in the house after I replaced the kitchen sink plumbing and it's getting ripped out in this reno because we're moving all bath fixtures & laundry. Previous owners updated the main plumbing 10 years ago to copper (w/ ABS sewer) but left the original...

Yeah, flooring sucks. Plus we were matching the closet in the other bedroom. The house was built in the 50's and that was the style then.

Believe me, after a month of sharing my master bath with my two kids I'm about ready to make them shit through that hole in the subfloor.

Another project mostly done. The third bedroom in the house I just bought was previously used as an office, and somewhere along the line someone put in a hallway directly from the front door which vaporized half the bedroom closet, took up too much wall space in the bedroom, and made the front...

Rockhold should have stayed retired.

Interesting.

My wife was on that the moment after delivery for both kids. Took a few months, but really works.

Latest SD updates, including auto-texturing of 3d models.

I've started buying ~$300 memory foam mattresses. IMO they're just as good as any more expensive option. Yeah, they develop soft spots in 5-7 years, but for that cost I'll just replace. I put plywood underneath with a bunch of 1.5'' holes for ventilation, no moisture/mold problems. Springs just...

No, the goal of the mission was to get off the launch pad. Everything else was bonus. They said this in advance. This. There are already two completed successor designs and another two beyond that under construction, all of which contain improvements.

Wild game.

For individual technologies, yes, but in aggregate we've been on a super-linear pace for the last couple centuries. Obviously nothing is exponential in perpetuity. It will be interesting to see what happens when population flattens out.

My grandfather was born in a sod hut on a cattle ranch, rode a horse to school, and didn't have electricity for the first 15 years of his life until he built and installed a turbine on his windmill. Then he became and electrical engineer and built computers the size of buildings out of vacuum...

I used to be completely immune to motion sickness. Amusement park rides, reading in cars, seasickness, never even felt a quiver. This weekend my 8 year old daughter spun me for a single 360 on some playground fixture and I thought I was going to lose breakfast. Wtf.

Not that hard for AI to make a compelling replica when so much music on the charts is trivial bullshit. Half of it can't even be bothered to use four chords, it's just a single bar on loop with three notes of vocals over it. No chorus, bridge, or anything. This actual Drake song is...

Cows love music. My grandfather grew up on a ranch in Nebraska and used to play the harmonica for them.

The simple bench I made on the first page of this thread is stained pine. It doesn't have that buttery smooth look look of high-end furniture, but it's fine if you're ok with a more rustic aesthetic.

Yeah. I have some projects in stained pine that turned out fine, but it's got to be all pine. The uneveness of the stain would look terrible next to real walnut.

Hollow Knight set the bar very high.

This place was 10 minutes from me. It's closed now, but actually wasn't bad. Unrelated:

In the long run they save money by not over-engineering everything and rapidly building economic scale in the production pipeline. By running tests where total equipment loss is a real possibility you learn exactly where the minimum viable thresholds are. If you design such that you never blow...