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joshuahaglundon A better way to tie your gym shorts. (Or any drawstring) [video]

Sorry to spam the comments with this link but it seems like a common problem

https://youtube.com/shorts/1I9_Zxypg1s

joshuahaglundon A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video]

Like this https://youtube.com/shorts/1I9_Zxypg1s

joshuahaglundon A better way to tie your gym shorts. (Or any drawstring) [video]

https://youtube.com/shorts/1I9_Zxypg1s

Here's an adjustable knot for if you've got a continuous drawstring like on a hat or sweatpants

joshuahaglundon A better way to tie your gym shorts. (Or any drawstring) [video]

I've had sweatpants with a continuous drawstring, this is the knot I use to tighten them

https://youtube.com/shorts/1I9_Zxypg1s

joshuahaglundon Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors

So give up?

By complaining together, we can create changes that make life more fair.

joshuahaglundon How to earn a billion dollars

Air BNB guests are a net drain on my neighborhood. You do not add anything to the community. I can't ask you for a cup of sugar. You're a party of strangers who I'll never see again. I'm not on vacation trying to introduce myself to the locals, I'm catching up with my neighbors. Your tourist dollars would flow to my city just fine if you stayed in a hotel.

joshuahaglundon Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)

It's not a law, it's a financial contract between a borrower and a lender.

I agree it's stupid, but that's what you get when you let the invisible hand bind human hands

joshuahaglundon How to earn a billion dollars

No, we just want to get to know our neighbors. Not live next door to a rotating party house

joshuahaglundon Measles surge in Utah sparks fears US could undo decades of progress

https://www.sciencedirect.com/org/science/article/pii/S23692...

It was enough of a concern before the most contagious virus resurfaced (measles) that researchers have been looking at sporting events as mass vector events for years.

"The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) via DHS provided $625 million in grant funding to the 11 U.S. cities in hosting states to enhance security and preparedness efforts for the “safe execution” of tournament events"

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antimicrobial-stewar...

joshuahaglundon I want to live like Costco people

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/rice-disease-mystery-e...

Lack of thiamine will get you first but you can switch to Brown rice which has both

joshuahaglundon Draw Marc Andreessen on an Egg

IDK, jesters are running the world and I think Canterbury tales was written before "generous tit for tat" was determined to be the superior game strategy.

joshuahaglundon California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply

I think most of the US has 240 to the home. Look at your power feed, if there are two insulated conductors on an uninsulated line, those are two 120V lines of opposite phase/polarity. I have a friend who temporarily ran a 240 volt welder by plugging into a custom outlet box, wired with two plugs that went to two outlets on different legs of the breaker box. Electric ovens, ACs, hot tubs, dryers, etc. are all commonly 240 and work with the right house breaker and wiring setup.

joshuahaglundon Bacteria found in the human intestine capable of improving muscle strength

No beer has nothing to do with Roseburia genus bacteria

joshuahaglundon Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom

> hack at stone with a chisel

Update your mental model, except for the grand works, they used sticks on clay tablets similar to writing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_tablet

joshuahaglundon Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgen_insensitivity_syndrom...

Among others

joshuahaglundon You can use newline characters in URLs

Yeah "You can use newline or tab characters in the HREF attribute and the browser will throw a validation error, remove the offending character, try again, then succeed" would be a more accurate title.

joshuahaglundon Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

That looked like a leading question to me, asking for confirmation but not an outright assumption. Seems like a fair question

joshuahaglundon Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

https://time.com/5846321/nixon-trump-law-and-order-history/

(They said law and order, because they couldn't say anti black)

joshuahaglundon Help My c64 caught on fire

I like the aesthetic choice

joshuahaglundon Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower

Just what we need, more powerful automobiles.

I would appreciate a 1 oz motor that can put out 1 hp on an ebike.

joshuahaglundon Toyota runs a car-hacking event to boost security (2024)

You're assuming so much that is wrong. Thieves don't know how to use technology?

They can't use a charger? (I imagine they'd wire one to an also stolen generator)

Then you assume they're gonna be in a car chase? That's not how most stolen vehicles end up.

Afaik most stolen vehicles either get quickly parted out at a chop shop, or are sent across a border (driven across borders or container shipped to another country), or used for other crimes, or they're joy rided around then abandoned. Basically all things you could easily do on a partial charge with a modern car mechanics skills.

joshuahaglundon Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations

> The actual PBS and NPR shows you're familiar with are generally developed and produced privately

Off the top of my head, two programs I watch that get CPB funding include: Frontline https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/about-us/our-funders/ NOVA https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/funders/

This is one place some sorta "trickle down" economics worked. CPB contributed to developing the content on PBS. Now PBS either has to cut costs by either canceling programs or ordering cheaper content that corporate sponsors like, run more pledge drives, or seek more corporate sponsors. None of those are appealing to me.

Also CPB helps keep rural stations open means all the niche local productions about state history or geology or whatever can happen.

It's a cut to the already strained budget of a wonderful resource. I'd be surprised if there weren't lost jobs and less quality as a result.

Edit to add: Just sentimental but I'll miss hearing "this program was made possible by The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and by contributions from viewers like you!"

joshuahaglundon America’s incarceration rate is in decline

Well 40% admit to it but those are just the honest dishonest people

https://losspreventionmedia.com/new-survey-reveals-more-than...

joshuahaglundon America’s incarceration rate is in decline

Or maybe they're low sales-volume items in a low profit margin store and it's cheaper to put some things behind glass than post up a security guard to deal with the fact that almost everyone, even nice old ladies at the grocery store, steal things sometimes?

joshuahaglundon America’s incarceration rate is in decline

Your own link points out that $950 is just taking into account inflation. When the law was created in 1982 the amount was $400, which was about $981 in 2014.

Inflation would eventually make stealing a candy bar a felony. Or we could updated the numbers periodically

joshuahaglundon Turn any bicycle electric

Which was cool until he littered the bottle of gas into the irrigation ditch behind him

joshuahaglundon A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

IDK where you live but where I am, unless it's an actively life threatening emergency, the Police will say they're busy. I watched a drunk driver try to drive away after smashing into a parked car, ripping a wheel off the parked car. The drunk driver kept trying to start his car to get away. People called the police but they said they're busy. Fortunately his car was totaled and wouldn't start either. Over an hour later someone picked him up. If they can't even bother to deal with an active drunk driver, they aren't gonna help retrieve a bike.

Not saying confronting thieves is for everyone. But it's not necessarily as physical as you think.

joshuahaglundon A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

I've retrieved stolen bikes, one because of an airtag. Showed up with a couple friends standing by but not trying to be intimidating. It's mostly about staying calm and telling the person this is mine, I'm taking it. They always say "no it's my friend's, you're gonna piss him off" or "I just bought this" or something. Maybe you offer some fraction of a "reward" to smooth it along and cut your losses. Don't try to start a fight and it generally goes OK. Also, try not to accuse them of stealing, they'll just get defensive. "It's someone else who is screwing us both, but this is mine sorry."

joshuahaglundon Fragments of two lost tragedies by Euripides discovered in an Egyptian papyrus

I hope the second researcher to look at these writings looked sternly at the first, gesturing at the pieces of torn papyrus and questioned: Euripides?!?

joshuahaglundon Bring crypto back to currency

> Algorithmically, it is possible to control how much it costs to mine crypto at any point by modulating network fees (PoS)/block difficultly (PoW). This would in turn have an effect of the supply of the currency because if it becomes cheaper (in USD) to mine than more people will mine it (as it becomes more profitable to do so).

If it's cheaper to mine, it won't be more profitable. See dogecoin. It'll create more token and at a decreased value.

I can't believe people are still falling for this ponzi scheme