zalgotext @ zalgotext @sh.itjust.works

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Looking at price-per-use is only helpful if you have it in your budget right then to spend the full amount. For some, they can't spare that $5 on a frivolity because it's allocated to a necessity like food.

You can also do it in a pan on the stove top. Basically just heat up the baking soda over medium-ish heat. Once it gets hot enough, it'll "bubble" as the carbon dioxide and water is driven off as gas. Once it stops "bubbling", it's done. It's a bit faster than the oven method, but it's more active since you have to stir it regularly.

You can also weigh the powder before and after heating it to see if it's fully converted* to washing soda. The resulting washing soda should weigh about 1/3 less than the starting amount of baking soda.

Just glancing through my grocery app, it's anywhere from $5 to $15 per bottle, depending on size and brand. For the same amount of money, you could buy enough food for one person for 2 or 3 days. That's not insignificant since you can get a pack of dryer balls for around the same price, which have pretty much the same effect, and last way longer than a bottle of softener.

Nope. The volatiles that make vinegar smell like, well, vinegar, are pretty dang volatile. Plus you're diluting it with a bunch of water, plus you're running it through the dryer which further drives off the vinegar-smelling volatiles. In the end you're just left with fresh, clean-smelling laundry.

Well how else do you expect them to keep the peace?

Public/private reprimand is the first step I think. The judge could also probably suspend their license, or possibly influence their getting disbarred if the lawyer fucks up enough. Probably couldn't throw them in jail unless they were accused of a crime, but that would only be pardonable if it was a federal crime.

Fair enough, sorry for the misunderstanding.

I've had the opposite experience with Windows audio though. It's always been weird for me, randomly switching outputs for no reason, and I stopped even trying to connect wireless headphones because it would always seem to prioritize those, even when they're turned off. Every 5 to 6 months I'd have to dig deep in the audio settings to fiddle with the gain on my mic so I'd stop blowing out my friends' ears on discord.

I had a heck of a time finding a distro that would properly do 5.1 out of my integrated ASUS audio device

That's not even close to a common use case though. Using that as an indicator of how user friendly Linux is is unfair.

Even the Nvidia graphics card sentiment is becoming outdated. There have been sizeable improvements in their drivers over the past couple years.

I think I'd be pretty screwed. I'd most likely be living in some remote, forgotten village, trying to eke out enough of a living to pay the local lord for the privilege, while trying to avoid my home being raided by Aiel, or Seanchan, or Dragonsworn, or one of the other dozen armies roaming the countryside. Or maybe I'd be serving in one of those armies, fodder for the front lines, going up against enemies with no qualms about using the One Power for killing.

There's a tiny, remote chance that I could be studying in one of the schools in Cairhien or Caemlyn, trying to push technology out of the dark ages, which would be pretty cool. But that still comes with the risk of being a target of Darkfriends and the Forsaken, which is less cool.

my hard drive overheated

So, this means they either have a local copy on disk of whatever database they're querying, or they're dumping a remote db to disk at some point before/during/after their query, right?

Either way, I have just one question - why?

Edit: found the thread with a more in-depth explanation elsewhere in the thread: https://xcancel.com/DataRepublican/status/1900593377370087648#m

So yeah, she's apparently toting around an external hard drive with a copy of the "multiple terabytes" large US spending database, running queries against it, then dumping the 60k-row result set to CSV for further processing.

I'm still confused at what point the external drive overheats, even if she is doing all this in a "hot humid" hotel room that she can't run any fans I guess because her kids were asleep?

But like, all of that just adds more questions, and doesn't really answer the first one - why?

They were a relatively cheap, healthy, reliable source of protein. Also, they're delicious.

Nah what you're doing is textbook gaslighting. Not to mention, putting words in my mouth. You wanna have a level headed conversation, I'm down, but if you're gonna continue to let emotion take over, I'm out.

Your weird attempts at gaslighting aren't working dude

K live in your fantasy bubble and revise history all you want, not even a decade ago Teslas were considered very good cars, and the only viable electric option for some. Not hard to figure out why people bought them then, just like it's not hard to figure out why people are selling them now.

Many bought the thing 5+ years ago when Tesla was basically the only electric with a real charging network...

Until relatively recently, if you were an American who wanted to buy an electric car and wanted to guarantee you wouldn't be stranded somewhere with a dead battery, Tesla was literally the only option.

Lmao. Sure buddy.

Try handing over your "self documenting code" to a junior dev who doesn't know the language it's written in and see how far they get with it.

Now hand that exact same codebase with comments to the same junior dev, and I guarantee you they'll get further than without the comments.

I think you mean the best industry of all

Unrelated, I'm getting hungry, anyone else kinda hungry?

They used to encourage people to use a serial cable to program them. I remember when I got my Roomba nearly ten years ago, it came with a little pamphlet advertising their educational platform robot, which was basically a Roomba without the vacuum cleaning stuff. I think they intended it to be sort of the next step up from LEGO Mindstorm or something. But at the bottom of that pamphlet, there was a paragraph that basically said "hey you can get this educational robot, buuuut, the one you just bought has the exact same connections, firmware, and hardware 👀👀👀"