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Are you in the US? I've had a hard time finding ones that will fit the ones in my victorian home water-based radiator system in US.

I got one about 6 weeks ago, and I've been really enjoying it so far.

We were trying to debug why one of our cats just won't poop in the box, and the LR4 hasn't fixed this entirely. She will pee in the box, but no matter the type/size/placement/robotness of any box she will almost always poop just outside of it. But our other cats use the LR4 and that's been wonderful.

Same! I got mine around March 2022. I've only used it a few times, but it makes me far more likely to actually go skiing and not feel like I've just dropped too much money for a few hours of fun.

Having a UMIK-1 measurement microphone for use with REW (or similar) has been really great for my year. I'm building a recording studio at home, and having the quick ability to capture and measure data about my room over time has been fantastic. I've also used it to measure the volume of some things, and profile why a few of the rooms in my house were too echoey which led to remediation techniques.

https://www.minidsp.com/products/acoustic-measurement/umik-1

I also got a FLIR infrared camera, which was a little bit more than $200 - but there are cheaper models that would have done the trick just as well realistically. My home was built 140 years ago, and some ability to inspect heat-creating things through walls has been useful.

Another really useful one in this price range was a Logitech MX ERGO trackball. I like how it requires less space and solid surface than any mouse. I also like the angle it puts my hand at. Multiple device support is good.

I met someone recently who had their life likely saved by one of these. I guess they had a collision that launched them off some height of an overpass. They were still messed up of course, but survived and are well now. I'm inspired to consider one for my 2023 riding.

A really nice car phone mount with Qi/wireless charging was great for me. I've hated most of them I've used, finding them flimsy or just awkward. With this, I just throw my phone on there and go.

https://www.proclipusa.com/

I've been carrying around my FlipperZero, but aside from playing with some NFC cloning haven't found much real use for it. What are some of the more fun things you've done?

Thank you! I had been looking for something Zigbee that I can run with HA that does this and doesn't cost a fortune.

I made all the clothes hangers in my house match. A simple change, but it felt so much better and more organized.

I had one of these in the 90's! My father and I put it together, got it working and went to fly it. Unfortunately on its first voyage he crashed it pretty hard into the ground and it wasn't to fly again. I was pretty sad (10 years old or so), but now I know that such wasn't uncommon.

I want to be shocked that 4 SC Justices thought that those annotations were copyrightable. How is this not obviously public data? Legislatures are on our payroll and work for the people.

I really liked Netware 4/5 era. I got my basic Novell certs in high school and did a lot of administration work with it around then.

I always liked their file/resource permissions system, including how its inheritance worked - far more than now Microsoft or *nix implemented it.

One thing to note is that you used to need a Power Mac for lots of tasks. Now it’s just a nice bonus over your MBP and harder to justify

Curiously, ChatGPT falls on its face with about half of these that I checked. It was confidently wrong about them too, but tried its logic again when I corrected it. YMMV.

So if your calculator is a huge neural net, maybe the problems aren't trivial!

The last line really hit me:

> “Even if I’m physically impossible to go in a wild cave, surely I can be put in a wheelchair and wheeled to a commercial cave,” he told The Chattanooga Times-Free Press in 2014. “And if I can’t be sitting up in a cave, surely they can put me on a stretcher and wheel me into one.”

For certain types of software, like audit editing, I am definitely tired of subscription models. I'm looking at you Avid - I just want to be able to buy a version and have reasonable support for 3-5 years, and then a small paid upgrade fee for the next major version.

Is using Mastadon (a competing service) an attempt at ban evasion?

I mean, there’s whole books out there that detail just that such as Pikhal and Tikhal. I’m not shocked if it has read both of those

Thank you!

I had always heard there were more women, but I stand corrected! Thank you!

A character you meet early in the game Pathologic 2 is named Lika (Лиза), and wears a dog head. I thought it was just a neat name until my friend who is Russian pointed out the background and reference to Laika.

https://pathologic.fandom.com/wiki/Lika

What creates this imbalance? Don't more men die from accidents, and there's a slightly lower (like 0.5%) number of male people born? Is there some part of the country with far more women?

It does warn you on startup about the download if you're not on wifi.

I also really wonder WTF is wrong with people. Even children should know to not harass someone for any reason, let alone that perhaps that person had conflict while working on a game they enjoy.

I cannot imagine ever going after someone like that, under any circumstance.

Proof is that Meta stock is up today. I don't like this system of value, but it's what we've got.

Without damping them you get a few problems around standing waves and room modes.

Those modes will make it so that you have some areas in the room where that frequency will be uncomfortably loud, and other areas where it goes away entirely.

Works at somewhere like Burning Man where there's little to have standing waves against.

I wonder how this will change (if at all) for events like Mystery Hunt (January 2023). A large portion of folks are alumni, or friends who have been hunting for a long time but never attended MIT.

Then again, there's a long history of MIT killing culture via policy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mToftr444Pc

At various points, I've thought who my manager is doesn't matter. I'm the same person, and I'll have strong output and progress either way.

But then I got a great manager with a great manager over him. Suddenly, I knew what it was like to be supported properly. For the first time in over 10 years things clicked and made sense.

Turns out, mediocre managers do have a real impact on me.

I strongly agree. Most of this felt fine, except about testing.

I'm frequently tasked with writing reliable services, and I always 100% of the time start with tests. Are they perfect? Absolutely not, but I am able to write, test, maintain and iterate on at-scale critical services with great confidence; and 90% of that confidence can come from well structured tests. My code is generally also easy to refactor, understand, port to other languages, etc. Testing is such a critical part of that. I only test things "in staging" as a last check; and very rarely am I disappointed with the behavior (sometimes the speed or scale, but not behavior)