I'm fortunate enough to be in the middle ground you and Gravel are talking about at ~45. The wife and I plan to work for another 10-12 years until the kids are solidly launched and their lives don't depend exclusively on us. By that point between savings and gains we should be where our target...
We have a family of four and both my wife and I WFH in a 2200 sq foot 3/2. While I wouldn't mind a dedicated office that isn't a corner of my bedroom (wife works in bonus room), I honestly don't know what I'd do with double the square footage and I wouldn't want the maintenance. We entertain...
Basements are necessary only if you are building in an area subject to frost heaving. If you've got high water tables or seismic activity basements can be a bad idea.
Watertight or otherwise, in his shoes I'd worry about hydrostatic pressure pushing his house out of the ground like happens to...
IMO what you want are the children of once-poor working immigrants already living here. My wife's parents fled post-Cultural Revolution China in the 80's and you have never seen such hardworking and family-focused people. They had a sub-high school education and boostrapped themselves up from...
There's also growing evidence that they have systemic anti-inflammatory effects. My wife just started taking a microdose program of GLP-1s to help with the rheumatoid arthritis that runs in her family. It seems to be working.
Exercise, sleep, weight loss, hydration, and alcohol reduction will dominate food choice and supplements. Regular social interaction, having an active network of friends and loved ones, reading, and music/language practice are also important.
I just heard that an old friend died rather suddenly of liver cancer. He'd been having bouts of lethargy for a while but in typical fashion refused to see a doctor. When it was too bad to ignore they found both the primary cancer and metastasis in his kidneys. That was two weeks ago.
Take care...
Anyone who has tried to hire a tradeseman recently is acutely aware of this. I can barely get plumbers or electricians to return my calls because they have as much work as they want at almost whatever they feel like charging. At this point if you've got a job less than a full house remodel it's...
I was born in '79, late Gen X. My sister is younger and her cohort loved both shows. You're welcome to have an axe to grind against them, but they were popular and culturally relevant for a generation's worth of kids and young adults.
Copyright in general has been perverted from its original purpose, which was to be a temporary restraint to allow creatives to profit from their work for a modest time. Copyrights were supposed to last 14 years with an option to renew to 28, then everything reverted to public domain since the...
Same. If you can execute a tiny bit of discipline, this extension works wonders. Lets you sort and group tabs by HTML reference in a vertical list without keeping them loaded in memory. Easy bulk loading/unloading. (Firefox only)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-stash/
What code, though? The back end of these games are giant databases running on enterprise SAS platforms on AWS. It's not like you can just fire that stuff up on your windows machine.
If you're talking about in-game dynamic content, the answer is cost. Tokens in high volume are expensive. Also, the tech is moving so fast that the feature set is borderline unstable over the timeline of game development.
Discontinued; you'd have to try ebay. Prices look like $50-100, which is highway robbery considering I got mine for $5. It was tempermental as fuck the last time I tried using it. Other solutions work a lot better. Try the Moonlight app if you have any kind of android-derived TV.
I think there's a lot of this combined with "get off my lawn". I remember when people used to think our brains would rot when calculators became ubiquitous and we stopped using slide rules, too. And then again when we had the Internet instead of the library If you're not using your brain at all...
It's almost the opposite of how movies fake large explosions by overcranking the frame rate on miniatures. That fireball was at least 800 feet high.
The wobble was probably the cameraman running, lol.
I had my cousin from SpaceX over for dinner on Monday. He said the next two Starships (after...
The prep sucks but the procedure itself is really a non-issue unless you're one of those masochists who wants to be conscious. You just go to sleep and wake up and it's over.
The concept is gross but really important, especially given the rising rates of early-onset aggressive colon cancers...
I don't train at gyms without on-site showers. I had skin issues for years while I waited until I got home home, even though it was a short drive. They immediately vanished when I started showering right after class.
Combat sports in general are fucking gross. We had to toss a guy out of the...