“Infinite” universes, like NMS or Starfield sound good in marketing, but if you’re really moving around them, at scale speeds, they can’t help but feel isolated and instanced. Even LNF, if it’s a whole ‘earth like’ planet, is huge. Earth has about 50M square miles of habitable surface - if you drop 10,000,000 people in there randomly, you’re going to have to walk half an hour to have a chance to find another player, if they happen to be on at the same time. It shouldn’t have the sharp breaks between biomes that fast-travel to a different planet gives, and I expect that will make it feel a lot more coherent.

The landscapers and cleaning staff are probably fine people.

Brother?

Even more frustrating, because when she turned 70, she admitted that she never liked cooking anyway, but will still tell us we’re doing it wrong.

Equivalent performance requires equivalent software, and developers have a long history of spending substantially more effort optimizing Windows performance than Linux performance. The video has several examples where shit still doesn’t work “right” in linux, even setting aside their explanation of why you can’t directly compare “120 fps” on their specific linux setup with “120 fps” on a specific version of Windows running on the same hardware.

I made a self-hosted forgejo repository of /etc. Commit messages aren’t always informative, and I’ve never actually gone back to the repository to figure something out, but it’s there, just in case. Me cosplaying a sysadmin.

What else is going to drive corps to build faster rockets? Without WW3, the profitable strategy is to keep building the same rockets, just cheaper & crappier.

In my area, the “retail” cost of ACA’s benchmark plan for a single 50-year-old is $1145/month (up from $925 in 2025).

In 2025, you’d have to earn $130,000 to actually pay that, and someone making $60k would have paid just $466 after tax credit. Same person could have gotten a cheap “Bronze” plan for $340. You could get a bronze plan for $0 out-of-pocket below $40k income.

In 2026, anyone earning over $62k will have to pay the full $1145/month. Someone earning just $58,000 could get that plan for $466/month (after credits), or a Bronze plan for $280. Have to make less than $34k to get a bronze plan $0 OOP.

Got a https://www.amazon.com/Vollrath-Carbon-Steel-Fry-Pan/dp/B001TA773I to use on my induction. Seasons very much like ground cast iron, seems to sear and brown much better than my stainless (and far better than nonstick). It’s basically a stamped steel sheet, mill texture, smooth but not mirror. I don’t use the stainless anymore. The bottom of the specific pan I got is not flat, but slightly domed, so there’s always a dry spot in the middle with a ring of oil around the edges, which isn’t great, but I was shocked how noticeably different from stainless it behaved. It’s a hot, flat surface: what else is there?

My HA runs on a Pi for various reasons, including GPIO devices, but I’ve moved its database to the ‘big’ server. That means a lot less load on the SD card, no loss of data if the card fails, and just generally feels like a better way to do things. As I’ve accumulated containers, I don’t like that each of them runs its own database when I could just have one database to manage & backup, and not have a lot of replicated overhead.

Team Trump took the US trade deficit with each country, divided it by our exports, and called that a “tariff” being imposed by the trading partner. They then imposed “reciprocal tariffs” of 50% of that trade deficit, with a minimum of 10%. It is shockingly stupid from a regime known for shocking levels of stupidity.

Dunno, man: 40% of Americans believe the earth is less than 10,000 years old. Only 2% of them believe it’s flat, though. We are not an information-rich culture.

I want it to be a successful product, that I can buy, and will be supported for a useful number of years. $800-1200 feels OK for that. $2000 feels like Apple Vision territory.

Jesus, man: haven’t you ever been excited about a thing before it’s on shelves? Speculated about a sports game before it’s over? Talking about your anticipation is part of the fun.

The ring of an eyebolt that used to hold the jackstay to Star of India’s main topgallant yard. Rusted through where water used to pool at the yard. I spent about a year, in 4-hour blocks, painting the main mast from top to bottom as a kid, and I can’t imagine a better way to experience San Diego bay.

Resistance comes from oppression, and right wing communities are not friendly spaces for women. MTG has played “one of the good ones,” but Trump still won’t let her run for Senate. God knows what other harassment her peers impose (especially because she has been batshit in her role). She graduated from small-town nepo-baby to the billionaire crowd, and it’s probably been a shock how little those people care about her opinions.

The bootlickers may see inequality, but they attribute it to fickle whims of those in power rather than any kind of system. If you believe that success or failure comes from the patronage of the powerful, then ingratiating yourself to them is a rational strategy for getting ahead.

It looks like he’s split out the individual USB wires, run the power to the USB port, and the signal wires to different places on the exposed board, maybe to force fast mode in the charger. Then just buried everything in silicone for insulation and to keep wires from pulling loose.

legit places…

My university, 23andMe, Transunion, Equifax, CapitalOne, United Healthcare…

Title says “in,” means within the grounds of the facility that these protesters were denied access. “At” would probably be a better preposition, or maybe ‘around.’ “In” implies that they’ve banned detainees from prayer.

Benjamin Franklin: It is better that 100 guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

Donald Trump: It is better that 100 innocents starve than that one grifter eat cake.

Good news, then: Ozempic about to get cheap.

The grand jury didn’t really have any choice: it was a turkey sandwich, and they only indict ham.