BostonEnginerd

One nit to pick. In my experience (NYC and Boston areas), libraries almost only buy their books new and specifically request for people to not donate their used books to them.

Other libraries I've been in have used book sales with donated books to raise funds for the library.

The Monica /Chandler thing is a reference to the 90s television show “Friends”.

That chapter always gets me, whether I read it or listen to it in an audiobook.

The rash of poisonings makes it sound like avoiding toxic species isn’t that trivial.

It’s not reasonable to implement something like that. Any gap would need to be <0.5cm in size in order for it to work on a 2.4GHz Bluetooth signal.

Considering that half of the passengers are likely forgetting to put their device in airplane mode - and they’re all using Bluetooth headphones, there is effectively zero risk to the airplane.

If this is the case, then the course should be broken down into a bit that can be mastered in the timeframe allotted.

I've found that Mailinabox provides a pretty much turn-key setup. (https://www.mailinabox.email)

Many of the chemicals are made domestically as shipping large quantities of pyrophoric chemicals like silane over oceans is challenging.

Air Liquide, Air Products, Versum Materials, Brewer Science are all companies with significant US presence.

I'm sure part of that is just marketing segmentation, but significant binning does take place. If VT-x is disabled, that may indicate that there were some defects in the location that those circuits inhabit.

New York / New England electricity costs are about $0.25 to $0.3/kWh these days unfortunately.

Why can't they?

I do think that space efficiency and good availability for nuclear are a reasonable argument for that technology. That doesn't mean we also shouldn't be putting solar onto every flat surface in the country, homes, businesses, parking lots, etc.

One of the announcements was a reduction in the amount they were spending on building fabs.

I’m not sure cutting capex to pay a dividend is a good move.

I remember that company! I was wondering what had happened to them. There was a bunch of press, and then nothing.

The double edged safety razor is amazing for thicker facial hair. Even if I’m shaving every day, cartridge razors all get clogged on me. No amount of hot water gets it out, and the stuck hair roughs up my face like sandpaper.

The double edge safety razor is so much easier to clean out.

This is the reason that I maintain my website. About once per year, someone will contact me regarding something I posted. I don't get very many hits on it, but it's quite gratifying if it saves someone time.

My experience with regular windows on airplanes is that the shutters can get quite hot as well. The energy they absorb from the sun has to go somewhere — and it gets radiated away as heat.

I hope that the insect and bird populations also start to recover. We don’t see that many bugs in the Boston area, and the cities spray mosquito fog every summer because of EEE.

Our birds of prey in Eastern MA are being impacted by rat poison - they eat rats which have been poisoned.

Certainly there are improvements, and we should celebrate those. But we should also recognize that there’s a way to go.

It says limes are 0.29 cents each on the sign, not $0.29.

I'm completely with you here. I subscribed to the NYT for some time through Apple subscriptions. No funny business when I wanted to unsubscribe, just two clicks and my subscription stopped when the expiration date came.

Ping times are higher for sure. I’ll try to check what they are when I get home.

Comcast worked quite well in my neighborhood. I always received the speed I was being charged for. The TMobile service isn’t quite as reliable, but it’s still quite good. I spend a lot of time on video calls and never have any issues even during high usage times.

T-Mobile’s 5G network has been able to get me off of Comcast and onto their home internet service. Speeds in my neighborhood have been great, typically 300Mbps download / 70Mbps upload.

I’m thankful that this has created competition in the home internet market in my area.

You can use the BetterBibtex plugin to export the references to a bib or json file which can be ingested by Pandoc. There's an option to have it re-export the file every time you make a change to the library.

Citations work pretty well. You can customize the output with different CSL files [1].

[1] https://citationstyles.org/

They're delicious at 3AM when you may have had a few too many.

Their solution is to act as a proxy between your HomeAssistant installation at home and the public internet. Supposedly the SSL certificate sits on your device and they have no access to your data. I think this is the right way to do it

I’ve done my taxes with FreeTaxUSA for a few years as well. The webapp is simple, with no swooshing animations - but it gets the job done for 1/4 the price of TurboTax these days.

A few years ago I benchmarked the two together and they basically gave the same answers. They also don’t hold your past returns hostage.

I’ve been recommending them to everyone that I talk to about taxes.

This project predates easy and cheap PCB creation.

SSB is a really neat project. I saw today that the Patchwork client is no longer recommended, but there don't appear to be any other equivalent frontends. Do you have any recommendations?

I believe that the major vector indoors is dust coming from the lead paint on windows and window sills. When the wear surfaces rub against each other, a small amount of lead paint dust is created and inhaled or ingested by children.

Outdoors, the problem is the lead dust in the soil. Chickens are getting lead poisoning in urban areas:

https://now.tufts.edu/articles/backyard-chickens-and-risk-le...

Largely gas and coal powered, which isn't ideal. It is cheap though.