I’ve been begging my wife for a minivan. You can fit whole 8x4 sheets of material in them! Wanna buy a tree? Lay that thing down! Friend moving a small couch? Smash that baby in there! Anyone who thinks a pickup truck is a better work truck than a van just is afraid. Pickup trucks are really only good for bulk materials like mulch/dirt/stone/etc. Most of them can’t fit a sheet of plywood without propping it up. Minivans can hold like 10 sheets flat with the added bonus of keeping them out of the elements.

I rented a Jimny in Aruba and took it off road. Was one of the most fun driving cars I’ve been in.

Something else I didn’t see in the comments so far is the NFC allows for unique transaction codes each time and thus doesn’t reveal any information. A static QR code could be “stolen” if it isn’t regenerated each time for security purposes.

Not sure how the system currently works but if the QR code is the same code every time that opens you up to someone just taking a picture of it and scanning it again later to charge you. I’d hope it’s unique each time cause otherwise that’s a huge step back

Seconding goodr. Decent polarization and sturdiness for a very reasonable cost. Do have some issues with scratching but when they cost less than dinner at a restaurant I don’t feel as bad about it.

I used to say I was not political because my vote has literally never mattered and stressing about it was bad for my mental health. I live in a blue state with blue policies and blue local government. Mathematically I’ve never seen a reason to vote and once I did start voting everything I have voted for has been basically no contest.

Learn to code switch if you intend to become any sort of leader. Different folks need different strokes to get them to where you need them to be, and learning how coworkers process information can put you in a better position to communicate with them.

Also helps bridge the gap between coworkers who may be talking past each other because they process information differently.

This works going up the chain too. Get to know your management and how they process information as well. Tailoring your reports/slidework to their needs will go a long way in getting them on your side.

It doesn’t matter how powerful or pertinent the information is if it’s in a undigestable format. I’ve seen game changing information be scoffed and useless information praised wholly based on how it was displayed. Looking at you, MBAs…

In summation, know your audience. Turns out what they teach you in literary classes is actually useful.

Pigs are genetically really close to humans, so there’s a lot of nasty stuff that can infect pigs that are transferable to humans. Probably way more cases of people getting parasites or diseases from pork than other protein sources in times past.

Tears of the Kingdom does use the same map but adds verticality that is not in BOTW. I think that is forgiveable since it honestly feels very different in playing.

Beyond Compare is also available on Linux

I’ll call it XMLlamascript

I will die on the hill that XML is a superior config format and people are just afraid of it cause they see the advanced features (that you don’t need to use) and think it’s too complicated.

If you are wearing gloves and have touched anything they should be considered dirty. It shouldn’t matter what color they are, either you touched something or you didn’t.

Edit: I like to use black nitrile gloves for food prep like mixing burgers or marinating where I don’t want to have to super duper scrub to make sure my hands /wrists are clean. The second I put them on they are only for touching food until I take them off

The fact that you consider it so black and white tells me you aren’t thinking critically. Yes, the patent system can and has been abused over its long life. Literally every legal system has and will be. That’s how it goes. The struggle is how to come up with a system that minimizes the loopholes while not entirely crippling the things they are intended to protect.

Without some protections on human creations you end up with a war of who can steal the most ideas vice who can make the new best thing. You end up putting resources toward protecting your ideas and keeping them entirely secret, which arguably is worse than a public patent everyone can review and be inspired by.

I’m not arguing that they have no downsides, I’m arguing that the position of “it’s all bad, get rid of it” is reductive, at best.

Patents give an incentive to actually do the R&D for new products and projects? How would you feel if you spent millions of dollars and 15yrs designing a product and then some random dude just buys one, reverse engineers it and undercuts you? It basically disincentivizes anyone from doing any innovation since the game theory would be to just wait for someone else to do it and then take it for your own.

Margit in ER is a good one because the entire moveset is based around “don’t panic roll”

I feel a paper spiral bound book has a sense of finality to it that digital never will. You can’t half ass a section and be like “I’ll clean this up later.” By committing to a hard copy you are committing to a completed work and not some poorly formatted wiki or markdown page no one wants to read

The Yocto project supports PowerPC as a compilation option so you could build a lightweight distribution from source that way

I had this happen shortly before I had an SSD failure. How old is the drive? Check the SMART health if the drive is capable.

I dunno, reading the article it seems like a flawed experiment? The audio wasn’t played back through those mediums but recorded through it and uploaded to a forum. I might’ve missed what software was used to do the recording but a lot of ADCs have some built in high-pass/low-pass filtering that could remove noise. I’d be interested in the audio played back through them to headphones cause that would sound like shit

God, I love a staycation. Taking time to get the house in order or work on that self project you haven’t had time/energy for is a great boon to my mental health