If you're getting less distortion, how's the penetration? I've seen that you can get beautiful welds that just crack off, so need to find settings that go more than skin deep

I'm catting as hard as I can

I just want to decide to not go to things on my own terms, so I can feel a sense of accomplishment at having carved out a totally empty evening or two.

I'm not sure why this is so satisfying, but it really is.

Our interests do not perfectly align, but I also hear about things too late that I would have been interested in. Please, people who know other nerds: invite people to things. I know it never occurred to you, but this one normal human trick can greatly improve your social life.

The Rollie egg master YouTube video by Jennifer Blastow

I've never seen the human condition captured more perfectly than this video about an egg maker 10 years ago (with the background audio) www.youtube.com/shorts/tQmFa...

Carma Sutra

It boggles my mind that the self-sufficiency crowd hasn't latched onto EVs. You can make electricity at home in a variety of ways; dependence on others looks like special liquids thousands of feet underground requiring a massive extraction, processing, and logistics chain to use in your car.

I also dusted off my old DSLR to take this photo instead of feeding my doom rectangle's deep hunger for glimpses of our world, which it will mutilate / enhance with uncircumventable AI created by the lowest bidder (measured in souls).

By "old" I mean a Nikon D40, which is 20 years old. Still works!

Fence lizards are great. I love being able to walk outside at any time and probably see at least one mini dinosaur. This one was chilling on top of the wood pile and doing pushups.

So peaceful. A video will never say "not available in your region." A notification to update your computer will never reappear every 10 minutes. You will never be added late to a frantic Slack DM thread.

I always thought SV's mission was to make stupid shit that doesn't work, then the rest of the world makes better versions of it. At least I enjoy seeing wild stuff like flying cars and personal hydrofoil bikes around here, that seems appropriately boondogglish.

If you are having trouble figuring out how to access anything via any API; local device, cloud account, bank balances, whatever: type your query in like "<stuff i want to access> homeassistant" and those people will have figured it out.

Never let anyone tell you the kindergarten hand turkey was a skill you’d never use later in life.

The cheap tools did get way better during those 10 years, erasing much of the excuse for tool gatekeeping. For example, I still have a Metcal but have only used a cheap USB soldering iron for over a year because it’s actually quite good.

Those X screenshot posters have zero self-awareness. Like, we all left X here, why would we want to see that? Major "but does he still talk about me" energy.

I really want to own a replica of this 2500-year-old dorky-ass shrimp bowl from the Andes I love it

I like my EV and lowered dependence on fossil fuels, but in my experience nothing really happens to gas vehicles before 50k either. Oil changes and maybe one transmission fluid change. EVs have less to go wrong but still have mechanical wear. Maintenance shouldn’t be the deciding factor.

Yes

This SKIL saw became useless after the plastic depth adjustment lever snapped. It’s not pretty but was able to turn an all metal replacement. Me: 1, Landfill: 0

monochrome green 2.4” yet still 128x64 oled is very satisfying.

oh NO.

Mine work less well than I hoped, but seem to loosen up more lint that I find on the dryer filter at the end of the cycle.

If Russia can’t afford an extended war with Ukraine, we can’t afford an extended war in the Middle East. There is some unease coming from the Pentagon as we burn up defense items we’d need to keep another power from walking into certain remote parts of the USA.

Surely it would be appropriate to pass off that activity to an AI? 😈 Any who protest such treatment are simply tasting the bitterness of their own product.

Addendum: if LLMs do keep getting better and survive the profit-taking scramble, the longer you wait to adopt it the easier the learning curve will be. The very thing they're marketing IS the abolishment of the learning curve. By definition, you cannot be left behind.

Sometimes I imagine what it would be like to be in the dumbest 10%. Feeling smart perhaps, watching others struggle with nonsensical, gibberish concerns for which I instantly have clear, simple solutions.

Sometimes I worry that I'm already in the dumbest 10%.