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I bought a pack of Hanes socks a few months ago, which were cheap, and now they all have holes in them. So, I went back to Bombas (who were nice about more or less replacing the socks that were stolen from my porch). I gotta say, besides the durability, they feel good. Paying more for socks: Turns out to be worth it.Comments
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At the same time I kind of wish streaming services were actually satisfying/ethical enough that I didn’t have to do this, I am glad that I got the following working:Comments
- I found a USB Ethernet adapter in my pile of adapters and the old laptop is now connected to the router.
- The old laptop mounts a NFS directory on the Pi that’s connected to the big HD where the media files are on boot (wouldn’t work until I put x-systemd.after=network-online.target in fstab).
- The old laptop will never go to sleep when it’s closed. None of the Settings UI does this. It
- The docker Plex server runs. (There wasn’t much to this, actually.)
- I found an English subtitles file for the Ryuichi Sakamoto documentary, and Plex reads it.
- I found a lighting cable/USB/extension cord combination that will keep the old iPad Mini always on, and it can now replace the old iPhone whose battery expired that was acting as the downstairs speaker-controlling music client.
- Sort of unrelated: The Pi isn’t constantly chugging anymore because it does not run a Plex server, and I turned down the backup frequencies.
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Daily episode about the dominant seller of reading education materials. Calkins was proven wrong about ignoring phonics but took huge amount of people with her for decades. As is human nature, she didn’t apologize, though she did backpedal a little.Comments
I had no idea this was going on. In Massachusetts, at least as of three years ago, time is explicitly spent on phonics in kindergarten and first grade. I don’t know if they picked it back up recently or never stopped. -
Moon music for Mort Garson! (The Plantasia guy.)Comments
Seems like a wild choice for the biggest TV event of the century for CBS News in 1969. At 4:00 in, it gets very SNES-like (over 20 years before the SNES). Then again, I wasn’t there, so maybe this wasn’t so adventurous. Maybe a lot of commercial music sounded like that back then? -
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Mr. Bean is an electrical engineer with a master’s degree in control systems.Comments
In advance of the Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow in 2021, Volvo released figures claiming that greenhouse gas emissions during production of an electric car are nearly 70% higher than when manufacturing a petrol one. How so? The problem lies with the lithium-ion batteries fitted currently to nearly all electric vehicles: they’re absurdly heavy, many rare earth metals and huge amounts of energy are required to make them, and they are estimated to last upwards of 10 years. It seems a perverse choice of hardware with which to lead the automobile’s fight against the climate crisis.
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Coincidental Pride Month discoveries: I 100% had no idea Tim Cain is gay. Or that Black Meteoric Star is a woman.Comments
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A friend pointed out to me that the orangey sun is because a lot of wildfire smoke is overhead!Comments
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I recently started a PhD in Computer Science after spending the past 10 years working as a software engineer. One of the biggest shocks to me in this transition (aside from how icompetent I am as a researcher) has been the apalling state of code that accompanies published research papers.Comments
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Update on doing somewhat strenuous Meg stuff two days in a row: Yup, now I got the probable-sciatica back pain. Doing the stretches now.Comments
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Criticism of the first emperor of China from the guy and his classmate:Comments
This helped produce The Great Wall. Another similarity is that they both talk about their first emperor, Shihuangdi. He was most known for his ferocious personality. (That was informed in "The Lady at The Great Wall".) This cruelty did not occur as much in the other passage called " The Great Wall of China'. He who is known as Shihuangdi as well as the first emperor was a very important ruler during these times. As well as being very famed and important he was also very brutal. He had a very important role during his life but didn't do it very well. Many people died because of his sly personality. His deceptionist life was full of mean comments and ignorant style. Those were some of the many similarities and differences connected to the two passages feelings about Shihuangdi. The paragraph we wrote based on the two passages we read informed us on the differences and similarities.
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I continue to be annoyed that there’s such few self-service gas stations. 1/3 of full service has guys are nice; the rest are surly. There’s just some situations that are better without human interactions.Comments
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CEO of Stability defends the company against various accusations. The defense and accusations aren’t that interest to me. It’s stuff like this:Comments
We are a diverse team coming together to build the foundation to activate humanity’s potential and there will be significant scrutiny rightly on everything we do.
Jon and I were talking about about this kind of thing last week — when someone says things like this do they:
We must focus on being open at our core, admitting our faults and constantly improving so we can achieve our mission and make the world a happier place.
A) Really believe it (despite, in this case, running an organization that’s all about making money)
B) Don’t believe it consciously, but just say it, like a George Santos
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NYC wastewater Covid levels are up slightly. May not affect the national plateau, may be a harbinger of a wave. Something to keep in mind.Comments
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I showed the guy how to play parts of the Baba Is You theme on piano. I guess I expected him to totally be into it and jam on it a whole bunch, but he just tried it twice then said “Cool” and took off.Comments
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