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It's worked alright for me. Your mileage may vary.

If someone is scraping my site at a low crawl rate I honestly don't care so long as it doesn't impact my performance for everyone else. If I hosted anything that was not just public knowledge or copy regurgitated verbatim from the bumf provided by the vendors of the brands I sell, I might oppose to it ideologically. But I don't. So I don't.

If parallel crawling from multiple organizations legitimately becomes a concern for us I will have to get more creative. But thus far it hasn't, and honestly just wholesale blocking Amazon from our shit instantly solved 90% of the problem.

It sure is. Needless to say, I noticed it happening.

I don't know about the Q1 Pro but I have an X-Max 3 and it has been bombproof for me so far. It absolutely can print PA-CF if you want to.

Mine can also print ABS about as easily as most machines print PLA, which I find fairly astounding.

Especially since the solution I cooked up for my site works just fine and took a lot less work. This is simply to identify the incoming requests from these damn bots -- which is not difficult, since they ignore all directives and sanity and try to slam your site with like 200+ requests per second, that makes 'em easy to spot -- and simply IP ban them. This is considerably simpler, and doesn't require an entire nuclear plant powered AI to combat the opposition's nuclear plant powered AI.

In fact, anybody who doesn't exhibit a sane crawl rate gets blocked from my site automatically. For a while, most of them were coming from Russian IP address zones for some reason. These days Amazon is the worst offender, I guess their Rufus AI or whatever the fuck it is tries to pester other retail sites to "learn" about products rather than sticking to its own domain.

Fuck 'em. Route those motherfuckers right to /dev/null.

All modern dishwashers do indeed have some type of water heater. Not all of them have a drying heating element anymore, since excising that was the quickest way to massively reduce the total per-cycle energy consumption regardless of all other factors. IIRC by something like around 60%.

Additionally, American (unlike many European) dishwashers are almost without exception designed to be connected to a hot water line rather than cold; Typically your home's water heater is more efficient (or at least superficially cheaper, given that so many homes still have goddamn gas fired water heaters) at heating water than the dishwasher itself is, and certainly faster since the majority of homes have a storage tank heater that can be expected to already be full of hot water. The less heating the dishwasher has to do to the water the better its energy consumption rating will appear, which the manufacturers love. (Offloading the energy requirement for heating the water to your central water heater also shifts the cost/blame to the water heater and away from the dishwasher, allowing them to put a smaller number on that yellow Energy Guide label, even if taken from the big picture view this is prima facie bogus.)

Well, there's also this.

I believe Maytag once ran a commercial back in the '60s or '70s or something that implied you could cook a turkey in their dishwasher as well, boasting how powerful their heating element was for the dry cycle.

I should also point out at this juncture that an awful lot of dishwashers these days including almost all import brands (Bosch in particular, also LG, Samsung, Asko, Miele, Smeg, etc.) are "condenser dry" machines and don't have the heating element for drying anymore. You're unlikely to cook anything satisfactorily in one of those. You could hope for the wash water being hot enough to do it, but I'm not playing any bets. Maybe you ought to select the sanitize rinse option...

If you want something with a vaguely similar texture and taste -- it's up to the reader to determine if this is similarly awful, or similarly "good" -- Spree candies are close. Including the pronounced grittiness, although Spree have a smooth candy shell as well.

Yes, and also different patches of air are different densities because of temperature, or humidity, and they're neither even nor consistent nor still. Convection makes the atmosphere bubble, wind makes it shear, and all the rest of it. The air itself acts as a lens, and a very inconsistent and unpredictable one at that.

Have you ever looked at something on the horizon and it's all shimmery and wavy and won't hold still? That's because air (and moisture in the air) diffracts light. And the air is not still, either. When you're looking an incredibly small object that's extremely far away the effect is rather like trying to see through one of those pebble textured glass shower doors, except if it were moving and the object you were looking at were the size of a gnat. And also several miles past the door.

Not for certain classes of vehicles, notably legitimate farm equipment, electric bicycles (below a certain threshold, anyway), and mobility devices like this.

However you are always as stated subject to some limitations as to where you can operate such things.

They don't have to be; they're radio controlled. Figuring out what frequency they're on and blasting it should be trivial, if necessary.

There's almost some validity to this, because I once saw a guy catch a DUI while riding one of those. They are, technically and according to most state laws, vehicles.

The issue here is the choice of venues. Vehicle or not, they are still likely to prohibited from controlled access freeways. As are bicycles, mopeds that are not capable of going highway speeds, farm tractors, horses, etc. and for the same reason.

On surface streets, however, this guy can probably rock on.

Pedantry alert, neerrrr:

You can see the moon landing sites easily enough if you know where to look, and can match up the geography easily. What you can't do from the ground is what a lot of folks expect, which is see any of the left behind equipment, rover tracks, boot prints, flags, etc. for a couple of reasons. First, the features are too small to be physically possible for a purely optical telescope to actually resolve. And even then, the random motion of the Earth's atmosphere would distort your image too much to make out anything that small at that distance.

The price is irrelevant because this is will be purchased with government dollars. This drone is not for you and me; it is intended to be used against you and me.

Just read the actual product page. They are targeting military, law enforcement, and surveillance applications. These guys have a heading on their product page titled "paramilitary," for fuck's sake.

All of this is true, with one glaring detail: 99% of owners of these trucks drive around with the bed empty all the time anyway, or at most with some groceries or something in the back.

It's not so much adding weight as it is where that weight is distributed. Pickups are rear wheel drive and a depressing number of them are two wheel drive only. There's plenty of weight in a truck but in an empty one it's all in the wrong place: Not over the rear axle. If you could take the engine out of a pickup truck and throw it in the bed somehow while keeping the thing running you could leave its net weight exactly the same and significantly increase its drive wheel traction in slippery conditions.

Your note on the traction control system is right on the nose. In situations like this it is often beneficial to turn it off. Its goal is to prevent wheel spin, but when some amount of wheel spin is unavoidable in your bid to scrabble for progress, it's counterproductive. I have no idea if it can actually be sufficiently disabled in a Cybertruck, though, and I don't care to bother to find out.

This is basically ubiquitous on many public lands, specifically here in the US. The term is "carry in, carry out." Bins accumulate trash (obviously) which in turn is an attractant for rodents, bears, raccoons, etc. which causes its own problems. Wild animals should not be artificially fed by human trash. Trash can also be blown out of cans, or scattered by animals. Overall, especially for low traffic environments, the best plan is to have people take all their trash out with them.

TL;DR: Pack out your trash.

That style should be clutch fit, i.e. the knob just pulls off. It may be gunked on there with 40 years of accumulated crud, though. So this is likely to require a hard yank or possibly some prying. Good news: The cover plate is already broken, so prying on it can't possibly meaningfully break it further.

It's also not outside the realm of possibility that her handyman broke it, and his solution for "fixing" it was to just glue the knob onto its stem before anybody noticed.

If it breaks, no big deal. Breaking it is also a valid way to get it off, and an entire replacement dimmer is like $9 at the hardware store. You can also get replacement knobs for a couple of bucks, and they're generally broadly interchangeable (although these days, without that groovy aluminum accent disk in the middle).

Getting the full experience from Chrono Trigger specifically, unlike most other similar games, is getting all of the endings. The New Game+ mode will help there.

Chrono Trigger has 18 endings, if I recall correctly, including various permutations. Plus one additional one in the rereleases from the DS version forward. Some of them are only very subtly different from each other depending on which combination of character side quests you fully completed, and they all vary depending at which point your manage to defeat the final boss in the main story sequence. Several of them are significantly different interpretations of the future (or the past) post the defeat of the final boss with various for-want-of-a-nail factors causing huge changes to the outcome.

You have quite a few opportunities to fight the final boss up to and including immediately after discovering the first time gate all the way back at the beginning of the game. (Do that in New Game+ with an overpowered Crono, though, unless you want to get steamrolled instantly...)

But Ted Woolsey's original SNES translation is gold for what it is. Remember that he did the whole thing basically by himself and had to get extremely creative to cram the script into the ROM space since English text takes up more characters than Japanese, while also avoiding NoA's insane censorship rules at the time.