Trainguyrom @ Trainguyrom @reddthat.com

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As someone who doesn't drink much bourbon and whiskey both surprised me in how much I liked them the first time I tried them. It could just be that they were higher quality examples I tried but I can see how people can become connoisseurs. Also I can see how people can easily take either too far given the high alcohol content. A couple of sips had me quite buzzed, but then I've met 5 year olds with more alcohol tolerance than I have so that doesn't meet much

Eh I'd even take the gig for an entire evening

Beers are very much an aquired taste. There's your commodity beers and your piss beers from the big national brands like Pabst, Miller, Coors, etc. which largely are trying to sate a pallete that never liked the moonshine from the prohibition era (and all are crap in my personal opinion as someone who still hasn't acquired the taste for beer but can at least tell when something is good. The commodity stuff is good for getting you buzzed and that's about it), then there's your microbrews which will vary wildly in style and flavor (if it's on tap you can just tell the bartender you've not really had beer before and ask what they recommend and if you can try it before you commit to a full glass. They might even have the option for a flight of beers, with a bunch of shot glasses of beers for your to try a bit of each) and then there's the stuff people don't talk enough about: ciders (it tastes like apple juice but with a sharper, fuller flavor!) mixed drinks (again, ask the bartender for suggestions if you're unsure), and probably some other ones I'm not thinking of before you move onto the whiskeys and bourbons.

So basically it's a wide world of alcoholic beverages and honestly people don't encourage experimenting enough

Once pepper cooks into a meal it's a whole 'nother thing and miles above what it tastes like when added at the table

On that subject makes me wonder if insurance.aes has been cracked yet

Make it 60-72 hours and your death will still be fresh enough for it to be relevant, but plenty of time to figure out how to work around whatever calamity might prevent still-alive you from stopping it. It's even enough time that if your death makes the news it'll have been seen by most relevant journalists and newsrooms already so they'll have more context for the strange email they find

I recently ran Windows 2000 in a VM to pull some files from some install discs (grabbing Microsoft Train Simulator content from disc images off of archive.org to play in OpenRails in case anyone reading this is the same kind of crazy I am) and it was kinda striking how usable it was even in a modern context. Sure certain shortcuts and niceties hadn't been thought of yet but it's surprisingly modern for a 25 year old desktop operating system

I went to Disneyland for the first time as an adult a couple of years ago. The first day we did not purchase the Geniepass, and observed that unlike the old (free) Fastpass, they would not simply give each line equal priority but instead would let scores of (paid) Geniepass holders through before one regular ticket holder would be let on, regardless of line length. So basically they've raised the price of entry further except as more of a hidden fee so some people simply get a much less fun experience than others

I worked in support for a phone manufacturer that has made some foldable. From what I've seen they seem to be noticably more fragile than the chocolate bar form factor. Seems the screen technology needs more time to mature

Real talk, this screenshot is probably for an application intended for hiding communications with another partner from your spouse. When I worked in support for a phone manufacturer I encountered it once while educating a customer about excessive app permissions. I pointed out "for example this calculator app has permission to make and receive calls. A calculator app should never have permissions like that" and he sheepishly explained what the app was and that in this case it actually should. Points for honesty I guess?

I love how what's close to the median Y-axis value is by far the tallest, meanwhile the lowest Y-axis value is the fourth tallest bar and the highest Y-axis value is by far the shortest bar

Most of the people I blocked were heavy participants in hexbear and it was before instance blocking was exposed for users. But I agree, its pretty chill compared to Reddit. Although its way less friendly than Mastadon, so lately I've been a lot more active on Mastadon

That's the problem with being quick to block people is I can't tell when they fall off

I remember back in the day I heard that /r/counting was the easiest place to farm some starting karma on a new account since they didn't have a karma requirement to comment

I put some more thought into it and did some measurements and it makes way more sense than I initially thought. I looked at a random neighborhood in a large city nearish to me and it had 50-60 foot wide roads (and it seemed most of the roads with sidewalks the road itself was narrower but had a very similar ~60-70 feet sidewalk to sidewalk) and a narrow road with a traffic calming median had 10 foot wide lanes. Each of these neighborhood streets had an average of about 10 single family homes on each side, with roads about 1500 feet long (0.25-0.3 milesish, so a very short walk from end to end) most appeared to have 1 car garages with a few having 2 car garages

If we take on of those 60 foot wide streets, place a pair of small garages on each end with 6 parking spots each (parking spaces are 8x16 feet on average and this assumes a 16 food wide driving lane to access these garages) providing covered offstreet parking for 1.2 cars per existing household (makes the transition more politically palletable) which consumes about 160 feet of the 1500 feet of former-road and preserves a dedicated 10 foot wide alleyway (potentially with a 1 foot each side "keep out" space for emergency vehicles. Some fire engines are a bit more than 10 feet wide)

We're left with a 1340 x 50 foot strip of land. If we break that into 50x100 foot plots you can fit a dozen double-wide manufactured homes (square footage of 800-2500 sq feet, just using manufactured homes as a consistent and easy example) with space for a yard for each of them. Alternatively if you do 50x50 plots you can easily fit a cute little 30x30-40 foot home on each plot with a small private yard and add 26 900-1200 square foot single family homes. You could even convert one or two of these plots into new green spaces to further make it a nicer neighborhood

In the example block I looked at, there were 3 very similar parallel streets squared off with other slightly higher throughput streets surrounding them. If we convert these 3 streets in this way, creating a dense walkable/bikable superblock we've taken an area of 1300x1500 feet that previously contained 60 single family homes, and increased that to about 135 homes without reducing anyone's yards and only by shifting them to use a communal garage instead of a private one (which they can now convert their garages into living space and remove their driveways for more yard space!) Or we go from about 800 single family homes per square mile to over 1800 homes per square mile. And this is just unimaginative replacing existing roads with single family homes and not even considering adding any sort of mixed use or multifamily homes¹ nor annexing any portion of the existing homes' 50 foot deep front yards!

If we annex 30 feet existing homes' 50 foot deep front yard (they still keep their 50 foot deep backyards!) that gives us about 120x1500 feet to redevelop. Lets put a 10 foot wide alleyway on each side in front of the existing homes, drop the shared garages because nobody loses road access, and we've got 100x1500 feet to work with, or easily 60 new 50x50 foot plots or 74 40x50 foot plots (240 or 282 homes where there was previously 60, alternatively 3400 or 4000 lots per sq mile up from ~1800 originally)

^1. I did calculate out 2900 48 units in the 50x1500 foot space using 100x40 foot quadplexes

I just use Media Player Classic to rip CDs the handful of times a year I get a new CD and just want to quickly rip it without running to a different computer

Everything that Microsoft has tried to improve has ultimately gotten worse. I recently installed Windows 2000 in a VM to install a similarly old game and it was kinda jarring how well it just worked and how much it didn't suck compared to a fresh install of Windows 10 or Windows 11. Obviously there were some very dated concepts especially related to networking (it clearly was designed for a world where a lot of people only plug their computer into a phone line for dial-up, or just directly place their desktop on the internet with a public IP, and letting it listen to a DHCP server and connect to an existing network was weirdly obscured)

Better use of the money is to strong arm cities into adjusting into better land uses. Building a city from scratch you're probably taking farm land from making food to instead be a new city, and if you can attract enough businesses to attract enough residents you've only helped by creating walkability for a few hundred or thousand people while the rest of the country remains car dependant.

Honestly I was on a walk recently and had the thought cross my mind of "what if this road were ripped up, the newly reclaimed land was sold for housing and small quiet businesses and the sidewalks widened into first class bike/walking paths just wide enough for an emergency/utility vehicle to drive down?" and I got a little sad that such a utopian vision just isn't politically palatable.

oof that site is pretty bad even with ublock origin. It also hijacks copy/paste so you can't copy/paste the article to spare others, and any attempt to bypass that gets passed along to extracting the paid article below it rather than giving you the actual text of the article. Oh and it pops up to sign in with google, pops up with a discounted subscription offer, and pops up other animated elements on every edge of the screen (which actually link to real site content!) further making it difficult to just read the damn article

Good news is it literally doesn't provide any information other than quoting his tweet about laying off his entire dev team and then his linked post from a few weeks later he was looking for devs (and the article quotes random people on reddit to fill it out of course)

Lotteries historically were setup as a fundraising efforts by governments, hence taxing lottery winnings