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fingerlocks··on Glue bonds to nonstick surfaces and wipes clean with ethanol
You should see a doctor.

Acetone only dries out the top skin layers, which immediately triggers a healing response and accelerates the shed cycle. Dermatologists use acetone prior to skin surgery to speed up the recovery.

It’s extremely safe. Your body naturally creates it and you exhale and piss it out every day. If you are having any long term health issues from exposure then this may indicate that your immune system is seriously compromised.

fingerlocks··on Has the New Cocaine Arrived?
A responsible adult prepares in advance for any risk of something horrible happening. This is why sober Trip Sitters exist. There is actually a market for this; you can pay someone to be your designated driver of drugs. Very common
fingerlocks··on Has the New Cocaine Arrived?
I’ve always been skeptical about caffeine’s alleged physical dependence. I’m a two or three cups a day consumer, but I’ve quit many times and never felt any different. This has been entirely by accident, like forgetting to pack coffee on a 2 week back packing trip, or purchasing decaf coffee by mistake, and didn’t even realize I wasn’t drinking for several days
fingerlocks··on Has the New Cocaine Arrived?
For every addict, there are many responsible adults that can set healthy boundaries and have a positive relationship with recreational drugs. This article is for them.
fingerlocks··on Glue bonds to nonstick surfaces and wipes clean with ethanol
Just like acetone.
fingerlocks··on Americans hate AI so much that politicians are losing their jobs over it
> If everyone loses their job, there is going to be something that works itself out.

You can’t be serious. The entire crux of your argument rests on this one hand-waving “just trust me bro” dismissive?

fingerlocks··on Perfection is not over-engineering
Not sure why you were flagged to death, I had all the same thoughts. Vouched.

These phrases have a different meanings and it’s important to highlight them

fingerlocks··on Texas Police Spent $4.5M on Four Chevy Tahoes
And Radley Balko blogged about it every day 20 years ago before publishing a book in 2013 literally subtitled as The Militarization of America’s Police
fingerlocks··on Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse
Not even technically. I had to do linear regressions by hand, pencil and paper, in college stats course 20 years ago. No machine necessary
fingerlocks··on Grok 4.5
Um yeah you can do all of that without legal consequences. HR is not the government. Are these your best examples?
fingerlocks··on New Microsoft 365 pricing live, some products up by 42% due to AI
Sarcasm? The new Mac outlook also stores each email as a separate plain text tarball of HTML. It’s the greatest unintentional Microsoft feature ever because you can finally read all your email however you please
fingerlocks··on The bottleneck might be the air in the room
Sounds like you need to change your cabin filter.
fingerlocks··on A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex
Nit: Your Mac does ship with a manual. Tips.app and of course the man pages. Point stands.
fingerlocks··on Where does next-token prediction leave us?
There is a lot less information online about the physical trades compared to software development. Plumbers don’t post on ToiletOverflow.com all day helping each other with their little tricks and sharing tribal knowledge. Pick a random brass fitting at the hardware store and try to google its purpose; you’d be surprised by the scant detail even when yielding plenty of shopping links
fingerlocks··on The Eternal Sloptember
Anything “live edge” is often done by hand. Also true for end grain cutting boards, end grain anything really, and any furniture made with mostly burl and heartwood. Coffee tables are common.

The reason is that knotted wood is dangerously unwieldy to machine without a lot of additional preparation. End grain work is just hard to automate. Lots of gluing into a shape that can’t be planed easily and prone to exploding if one is careless.

If you want to peek in to the weird long tail, the guys over at Sawmill Creek love to one-up each other in a never ending contest to be the king of traditional wood working.

fingerlocks··on Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]
You need to say “ i’ve never met anyone who could do that in one single command line invocation”. It’s trivial to separate that result into two or more steps using bare primitive git commands and perhaps a temporary branch. You don’t need to memorize every esoteric flag if you understand the fundamentals and don’t mind spending 15 extra seconds to execute multiple commands
fingerlocks··on Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent
They are everywhere in Seattle. Some neighborhoods have them on almost every block. This had led to some creative variations on the concept, such as the Little Free Pantry, Little Free Art Gallery, Little Free Toolbox, Pottery, Boutique, Toybox, etc.

Not complaining. It’s a neat concept. And if you have a bunch of crap you want to get rid, it’s a lot of fun to build a big birdhouse looking thing, prop it up on the side walk, and keep it stocked with all the crap you don’t want anymore. This is why I created the Little Free Lumberyard to discard my woodworking offcuts. Seriously considering expanding into e-waste because it works so damn well.

fingerlocks··on Brembo's fluid-free electronic braking system is coming to a car near you
Why is a hybrid electric-hydraulic not an option? Seems like you would get the best of both worlds by using the precision of electronics to manipulate the oil, instead of the brake caliper directly. I was imagining something like a master-cylinder-by-wire system with a normally open valve to pedal in the event of electrical failure. Agreed, full electric brakes gives me the creeps.
fingerlocks··on The brave souls who bought a used, 340k-mile rental camper van
I had one too!

Mine had a Subaru engine, Mercedes wheels, Audi Drive train, a Porsche suspension, and brakes from a Toyota Highlander.

How did you keep your Volkswagen running?

fingerlocks··on Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)
I use screen mirroring, a lot. Guess I’m in the minority around here. Really nice projecting your phone on a massive OLED to multitask on the phone. Or even pair programming and conference calls you can mirror the phone to TV for the call while coding on the laptop.

I use my Apple TV like it’s a big iPad stuck to the wall. Because that’s basically what it is. I honestly had no idea so many people just buy it to stream the same content on every other platform

fingerlocks··on Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)
And .DS_Store is just your folder level preferences in Finder. If you don’t use Finder they won’t be created
fingerlocks··on Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)
Agreed, but why not just finishing setting it up? Or do people own Apple TVs without iPhones? That never occurred to me since a large part of the value prop is phone integration
fingerlocks··on Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan
Veal doesn’t make sense?
fingerlocks··on I have officially retired from Emacs
can you elaborate? Heavy vim user here, have considered using emacs in vim mode to quell a decades long nagging curiosity. Just need a compelling nudge.
fingerlocks··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
huh, when I make em thin it's too flimsy to get the packed sawdust out. Maybe I need to get some premium hickory toothpicks
fingerlocks··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
I hate USB-C. Hi. I do a lot of woodworking and the port easily clogs with sawdust and lint. It was very easy to clean it each day when I had a lightning connector, a common toothpick would suffice.

Now I have to purchase specialized non-marring micro tool scrapers to clean the port without damaging it. The scrapers break after a few cleanings, so this is an ongoing monthly recurring cost. Yeah I can charge wirelessly, but I still don’t want sawdust in my phone hole after a day of ripping wood.

fingerlocks··on Nowhere is safe
Correct, “Iran” literally translates to “Ayran”.

But America is a big place. Americans living in cities probably know a first or second gen Persian, there’s lots of them everywhere. They even have a reality TV show.

Outside the urban archipelago the average person couldn’t tell you the difference from India, Turkey. and everything in between.

fingerlocks··on Why meaningful days look like nothing while you are living them
On the contrary! The dead-day theorem established earlier states that an 11/22 date filter is a necessary condition for verifiable human-only content, when filtered by content-creation date.

A weaker theorem can be postulated that any such filter provides a second order sufficient condition.

This means we can filter content by account creation date, for example, by hiding all posts and comments from accounts created after the digital death event. This won’t always guarantee human-only content but certainly more than otherwise.

But then we wouldn’t be having this most definitively human-to-human conversation, right?

fingerlocks··on Why meaningful days look like nothing while you are living them
Why stop with traditionally published works? Before dead-internet-day, very-nearly all forms of writing were guaranteed to be hand crafted, organic, and made with 100% Natural Intelligence.

The artificial stuff often has an odd taste, but boy it sure is quick and convenient.

fingerlocks··on Expanding Swift's IDE Support
Sometimes people add to the discussion by sharing esoteric knowledge because the uncommon aberrations are interesting.

That aside, there was a larger point I was making that was lost in the forest because you poking at a tree. iOS apps are more than Swift. Metal was one example, there are plenty of other tooling components that absolutely suck to use in vim, or just missing support entirely. Bundle management, plist files, custom build phases, code signing, asset previews, canvas previews, interface builder, profiling, and unit testing UI is a bunch of stuff that has nothing to do with swift, sucks in vim, and integral to application development.

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