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You have no soul.

Fuck you. Robot dinosaurs would be fucking awesome even devoid of any context.

Relevant to this discussion, and I think related to Blazin's point: tldw; "Expertise" is only reliably useful if the following conditions are true: 1) You are operating in a repeatable environment 2) You are repeating the same process many times 3) You get timely feedback on the success or...

Safety recall on DeWalt miter saws. Watch your fingers. "The plastic rear guard assembly can break/shatter when struck, exposing the saw blade and posing a laceration hazard." https://www.dewalt.com/miter-saw-recall

Single family home. I don't have the paperwork any more. I tossed it all a couple years after I sold the house in 2015.

Rowing suuuucks but damn does it work. When I was doing 20 minutes of HIIT 4-5x per week my resting heart rate dropped into the low 40's and I just never got tired doing anything else.

As is yours, just a more extensive anecdote. So.... we're right? 2007, existing home built ~1965 and most recently renovated ~2000, 20% down. (Edit: It was appraised at more than 15% higher than I ended paying for it, FWIW.)

Given this comment, I assume your evidence is based on the statistically significant results of well-designed formal studies comparing appraisals to realized market value? Lol. Let's be honest here. Appraisers predominantly do a sniff test on the surrounding market and will rubber-stamp...

I still run a world for my kids. I just came across this distance rendering mod, and it's pretty wildly immersion-changing without much of a performance hit. https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/distant-horizons

What the fuck, do those guys not wear life jackets because if they fall in that water they're just fucked anyway?

So I just upgraded to 1000/50 service from my ISP because we're running 2 home offices now. I've been using a Netgear Orbi (RBR50) for a few years now and have been generally satisfied until I found a huge WTF today testing the new connection. If I wire my PC to my modem I get 970/45 speed...

Instant karma? Yes. Sanctioned? No. https://telanganatoday.com/fact-check-claims-of-brazilian-government-permitting-civilians-to-kill-robbers-false

If anyone here listens to Sam Harris, he did a recent podcast on the psychology of wealth and savings that covered a lot of topics readers here might find useful: "In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Morgan Housel about the psychology of money and investing. They discuss how...

I have a friend that did this. She grows and harvests her own mushrooms for predictability of dosage. She's been off antidepressants for 3-4 years and says it's made a world of difference.

I just got back from a week at my dad's newly-finished hobby farm in the FL panhandle. He's got 120 acres, mostly feed grass with a bit of timber, and a 4-acre spring-fed lake. It is SO MUCH FUCKING WORK. It's half a job just maintaining the equipment needed to do the actual work, and the rest...

It varies a lot. Rents where I am in the Los Angeles suburbs are significantly cheaper (~25%) than buying the same property. This probably says more about how high the sale prices are, though, as rents are hardly cheap relative to incomes.

I'm visiting my dad in FL this week and he just got Starlink. It's entirely serviceable and a very pleasant experience to use. We have six people in the house browsing and using work VPNs and no one is frustrated. I'd definitely sign up if geography required.

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Nodirbek Abdusattorov is the current Rapid champion. It was a bit controversial because there was a four-way tie for first between him, Ian, Magnus, and Caruana, with the latter two unable to participate in the tiebreak because of some vagary of the rules...

I think the part he doesn't like is 14 games in a row against the same guy who has spent six months prepping to beat only him.

I don't know if he has an angle. By all accounts he never thought the world title was an engaging process, even when he won it the first time. In 2011 he declined to enter the Candidates even though he was eligible. I honestly think it's just not fun for him and he's in a position where he...

It'll be interesting to see if Maguns can drive some format change in the world championship by being the obviously best player but not participating in the title.

This is what plays during the credits after the end of the universe:

I see your Beethoven and raise you Beethoven.

Sure, but doing so requires significantly more willpower since I feel hungry faster on a processed carb-heavy diet. It's far easier to just not consume them than it is to fight feeling ravenous for hours at a time.

That's an "ohfuckfuckfuck" tap, IMO. Grabbing the leg in with that hand in that position doesn't do anything defensive for Ortega. I guess it's possible he might have been instinctively grabbing the injury and hit the leg on the way, but I don't think the distinction is important.

Sure. I just said regular consumption. I find my dietary control is easiest to exercise at the grocery store. If it's in front of me, odds are I'll eat it. I have a metabolism and appetite heavily optimized to store up fat for the long, lean winter that will be arriving any day now. It's much...

It makes me unspeakably sad that in order to stay fit I need to write off regular consumption of bread and beer.

Typically when investment accounts are inherited you just legally establish death, open a new account, and transfer the assets. There's no need to liquidate. You'll pay capital gains when you sell, maybe even at a stepped up cost basis, which can be a big benefit. Brokerage accounts are one of...

This is something that gets missed a lot. "A calorie is a calorie" once metabolized, but for a whole host of reasons a calorie in your mouth may not be equal to one from another food. That said, it's probably true enough for any diet that is predominantly unprocessed foods of the type that you...

This is why I let my kids wake up early on weekend mornings and play video games on the other side of the house.

Webb is primarily an infrared instrument, so as to be more sensitive to the farthest objects that are the most redshifted. The images we get have to be spectrum-shifted and edited, since they'd otherwise be literally invisible to humans...

Right. The idea is before that point the universe was so hot that protons and electrons couldn't condense into atoms, which created a soup of charged particles that bounced photons every which-way. That now-red shifted incoherent fog is the CMB.

It's a theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-energy_universe

It's because the gravitational lens in this case is an oblong galaxy. With more distortion in one axis than the other you get a quadripole image because the diagonal light rays (relative to the galaxy's plane) get projected away from the viewer. If the lense were perfectly symmetric and the...

And why is the coffee maker 30 feet from the sink? That whole counter island will be useless.