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We are starting up with election season politics. Controversial legislation that will never stand up in court always starts popping up around this time, it provides a way for party members to safely m…

I get the free trial most every year, only time I use Amazon. Last time I got it I had this issue, it turns out you have to confirm your cancellation, at the bottom of the page where it says you are u…

We read the same thing. Problem he does far more that just the C02 emissions, he goes on and on throwing out false information that supports his old is good view.

Bike shops make like $0.25 on a tube, there is little profit in them and you are conflating tires and tubes. Any proper touring tire will be very puncture resistant if you don't mind the increase…

Brifters are not anymore complex than separate brake/shifters and quite robust, you need no special tools or skills. These are not disc centric. Cable pull discs are no different than rim brakes …

68mm is still common but there are plenty of old frames which used oddball BBs. 68mm will probably be around for a good while yet, there is a push for something else, only time will tell if something …

This article is all over the place and is ultimately the author attempting to validate his opinion, he is just saying "old is better because I like old better than new." Nothing wrong with a…

It is interesting to see what younger generations are getting from those things which were formative for me all those years ago, I have no idea how to react to this. Took me awhile to figure out how a…

Offset is used sometimes but a diode is cheaper than the two resistors and cap needed for that offset voltage. More common on old transistor based pedals but their offset is really their bias, already…

The scientific method is a very lousy way to learn something which is well established and understood. Go learn Maltese through the scientific method, I will get a book or teacher and be conversationa…

I have been following The Long Now Foundation for around 20 years now, the clock was still just an idea when I first found out about them and the first model had yet to be built. From the first time I…

They are still going, their clock is under construction and if memory serves they have already hollowed out the mountain. Their website is not great for providing information.

The Long Now is one of my favorite things, are there any other organizations/movements like it?

The only remotely graphic things in it are related to animals being killed and nature shows on PBS are more graphic, especially when you consider the terrible video quality of Faces of Death. I watche…

Any remotely modern R rated movie is more realistic and graphic than Faces of Death, do you have issues with ads for those movies? Many PG-13 movies are worse and newpapers, magazines and TV news regu…

You can have two devices with a single number but it costs extra and no idea if all providers offer this. On my Samsung phone I can enable an extreme power savings mode, it disables everything but pho…

This gives me some serious nostalgia for those simple and naive days. Around 95' is when I accomplished my one and only successful attempt at cracking. Some company had their software downloads i…

Stick building does not require perfect lumber, part of its advantage. If you want good lumber in the US than don't dig through construction grade lumber, go to a proper lumber yard that caries h…

Japanese Homes and their Surroundings 1889 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52868 One of my favorites on this subject, focuses more on design than construction but goes into som…

Those houses have nothing to do with traditional Japanese construction and joinery, those are just cheap houses built to fill an immediate need. This is a fairly common thing anywhere that is experien…

Subtext is not theme, everything people write has subtext. When someone posts on the internet we can often tell if the person is angry or happy or depressed even if they are not being overt about it, …

These explanations take the diode out of its context, view it in isolation from the overall circuit which is always a mistake, the frequency response of what is before and after the clipping has a gre…

The big problem with AI writing is that the subtext is 100% unintentional, which leaves it very inconsistent and constantly conflicting with itself. The average person with no real understanding of su…

The people who make AI out to be great at writing are people who have never studied literature beyond high school and their own experiences with reading. Even the more complicated long form AI writing…

This article makes a great deal of what is the fault of the band/musician to be the fault of the label/industry. Band gets to spend that $250k advance how they see fit, label will not care a…

I love forth and stack based languages in general, writing a forth implementation has become my standard way to learn languages. Lately I have been playing with MinForth[0], it transpiles to C so you …

I would just get a part time job to make ends meet. Perhaps move somewhere with a low cost of living if you can.

Eggs are already dropping in price here in egg country, but prices went up for us months ago when it first hit. If memory serves we had our first culling in mid November, prices where high by December…

Egg color has to do with breed and diet, the dominant hen type in the US produces white eggs but brown are fairly common. At the co-op I can get eggs that are blue and green, just different breed of h…