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Natural big HW vs old LHW. Ferreira is huge.

Finishing is still a bit of a black art to me. I'm going to try this on my next project. Looks pretty hard to screw up.

I drove by this place all the time going to my in-laws' house. Never had the chance to eat there. Out of business now, replaced by a Salvadoran restaurant. Looks like they kept the OPEN sign.

My grandfather's neighbor had a stroke in his 60's. He was totally fine except he lost the ability to speak German (he grew up on an Army base). He could still read and write it, but couldn't read out loud or speak a single word. Then 10 years later he had another stroke, and was totally fine...

I'm going through this trying to replace a threshold piece between my hallway and recently-renovated bathroom. I took the new bare wood and the old threshold to a local paint store and they did a stain match. Even working with the owner with 30 years experience it still took 10 tries and a half...

Seems goofy, then. Properly managing a warehouse and inventory is definitely one of those skills of "you don't know till you know" importance. Presumably there's someone on staff that already knows how to run the sawmill part since they're doing it currently.

Sometimes it's a giant circular saw with no guard! Seriously, though, there are sawmills and then there are sawmills. Everything from one guy with grandpappy's steam engine to operations putting out a million tons a year with a billion dollars in capital and nine figures of EBITDA (I consult...

Man flattens his hand plane by manual scraping. Pretty cool finished result.

I was thinking the same. If it's anchored to the wall it might not tip over, but given that I'm certain those joints only use screws and not glue or mechanical joinery I suspect weight on the outside top corner would cause enough leveraged twisting in the structure to be dangerous.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/stability-announces-stable-diffusion-3-a-next-gen-ai-image-generator/

This guy is ferociously good. Also:

Why more than quarterly?

My house is like this. I have one outlet in the laundry room, three of six in my bedroom, one in the master bathroom, my daughter's bedroom can lights, and a random outlet in the living room on one circuit. I have no idea how that's even fucking possible. I'm currently shopping for an...

They're not unrelated. We're a whole lot better primed for acquiring language knowledge than a math equation is. A more efficient acquisition structure with some built-in predicates absolutely effects the amount of training required. This is the basis for your scoffing at the amount of training...

Humans don't start from a blank slate. How much information have our ancestors ingested over three and a half billion years of evolution? How much energy did that process take?

When I was renting I had a sudden massive spike in my electric bill to the tune of $1300. After complaining to the landlord a couple times and insisting there was no other explanation, he sent an electrician. Turns out the landlord had installed a bootleg outlet by his pool and the conduit had...

A good look inside an old workhorse washer. Dead simple and reliable, which is of course why we don't make them like that any more.

As I understand it, Cycles are seasons, with leaderboards. When this cycle ends the characters get transferred to the legacy server. In subsequent cycles you can make new characters to experience whatever the new content is. Right now the first cycle is the 1.0 release content, with future...

I'm doing full offline from boot; everything's working fine.

Pick your argument, you don't get it both ways. You called them fake customers, but per the article they're spending real money.

If they're spending real people's real money, they're real customers. Lol, of course it's printer ink. Fuckers.

The Punisher in King Arthur's Court. I love it.

If Blizzard had any sense they'd give this guy a few hundred grand, a percentage of sales, and have him update the whole game to sell as a DLC. They won't, of course.

Right. Obviously you have to do your job and manage your own cash flow. No reason to give interest-free loans to the government to have them do it for you. Same goes for health insurance. For every suite of plans I've ever seen you're significantly better off paying lower premiums with a high...

Billy Joel's 73 year old drummer plays Deftones

Google has calculated pi up to 100 trillion digits or so.

You're better off owing the maximum possible below the threshold of underpayment penalty.

I live in LA. The local municipalities generally don't want ADUs and have been overridden by the state and forced to accept expedited permitting and pre-approved structural plans. I started to think about putting one above my garage in advance of my in-laws moving in, but we got fucked because...

Joke's on them, those "boomer" comments are all bots anyway. "a bot typing a comment on facebook" mage.space bing

I meant exactly what it means, where the regulating bodies become dominated by the interests of the industry they oversee.

Sorry that was phrased very badly. Yes, it's currently against HIPAA/GINA With enough regulatory capture that might not always be true.

Almost no chance of that given how fucked the IRS's staffing and funding situation is. I declared a (real) six-figure capital loss from private stock last year with literally no verification and they didn't even blink.

My wife works in health care AI, we're about 10 minutes away from this being a reality. The actual impediments are a) scale and b) the uncertain legality of discrimination based on genetics. Everyone's already got your medical records (allegedly anonymized at the endpoint but definitely not...

ChatGPT makes up enough shit that more of a time sink than than google + stackoverflow, at least for the R coding I do. It gives very pretty results that 50% of the time call functions/libraries that don't exist, have subtle syntax errors, or just flat refuses to actually address the weird edge...

Raise your insurance rates if it turns out you have a genetic predisposition for something.

Some serious power for a flyweight there.

My wife did this recently and ended up reconnecting with a great aunt who had been lost to the family when they all fled China in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution. Nice outcome, but I'm still not going to put my DNA out there. Plus my grandmother was a genealogist so I've got a pretty...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/air-canada-must-honor-refund-policy-invented-by-airlines-chatbot/

Wow, if that's true you're definitely a better person because of it.