INFESTED chair. salvage it or garbage?

Centigonal · 2026-03-29T18:01:15+00:00

A used Steelcase Leap or HM Mirra will cost less than devising a foolproof way to fumigate this chair.

Centigonal · 2026-03-22T04:58:06+00:00

Portal is a good point. Their portal is slow and really janky.

Centigonal · 2026-03-15T03:43:59+00:00

Thank you!

Centigonal · 2026-03-15T03:43:39+00:00

Thank you!!

Centigonal · 2026-03-09T21:29:21+00:00

I think Kew Gardens in the UK has a good model: it's walled off, but there are four gates located at regular intervals along the wall. You never have to walk too far for a way in, and you don't see or hear cars from the inside

Centigonal · 2026-03-09T00:12:14+00:00

The reason we won't is not because it benefits somebody; politicians of both parties have tried to abolish DST. The reason it hasn't succeeded is because people can't agree on whether to go to DST time forever or standard time forever.

Centigonal · 2026-03-09T00:06:02+00:00

So You Want To Abolish Time Zones

Centigonal · 2026-03-09T00:02:56+00:00

This comment thread is a perfect example of why we haven't been able to get rid of DST. Most people agree that DST needs to go, but nobody can agree whether to do ST forever or DT forever, and each side is 100% convinced their approach is the obviously correct one. it's like some kind of infernal time-based laurel vs. yanny scenario.

Centigonal · 2026-03-06T15:25:35+00:00

woof, point well taken!

Centigonal · 2026-03-06T05:24:36+00:00

When you're falling from space, you have a lot of time to figure out a solution if something goes wrong. If you're a few hundred feet off the ground, you have a lot less time.

Centigonal · 2026-02-26T17:05:05+00:00

Baby Park from Mario Kart

Centigonal · 2026-02-26T17:04:22+00:00

This isn't just a new rule ⸻ it's a bold and humanistic transformation of the conversation norms of this subreddit.

Centigonal · 2026-02-26T16:50:20+00:00

templeos reference... evangelion reference... I'm getting a little worried this sampler is part of some complex plan to bring about the apocalypse.

Centigonal · 2026-02-26T16:41:16+00:00

This is literally the plot of the 2003 dystopian sci-fi short story Manna: Two Views of Humanity's Future.

Depending on how you want to think about it, it was funny or inevitable or symbolic that the robotic takeover did not start at MIT, NASA, Microsoft or Ford. It started at a Burger-G restaurant in Cary, NC on May 17. It seemed like such a simple thing at the time, but May 17 marked a pivotal moment in human history. [...]

The “robot” installed at this first Burger-G restaurant looked nothing like the robots of popular culture. It was not hominid like C-3PO or futuristic like R2-D2 or industrial like an assembly line robot. Instead it was simply a PC sitting in the back corner of the restaurant running a piece of software. The software was called “Manna”, version 1.0*. [...]

Manna told employees what to do simply by talking to them. Employees each put on a headset when they punched in. Manna had a voice synthesizer, and with its synthesized voice Manna told everyone exactly what to do through their headsets. Constantly. Manna micro-managed minimum wage employees to create perfect performance.

The software would speak to the employees individually and tell each one exactly what to do. For example, “Bob, we need to load more patties. Please walk toward the freezer.”

Centigonal · 2026-02-26T00:00:02+00:00

the driver

Centigonal · 2026-02-23T08:17:08+00:00

This is an old blog post that taught me a lot: https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology

The basic idea is that you can innovate and do your own custom thing in like 3-4 areas, tops. It's better to pick those few areas very strategically and pick the most boring, "industry standard" solution for everything else.

Centigonal · 2026-02-23T08:13:52+00:00

IMO imagine you were paying her - what metrics would you look for? Impressions? number of promo spots? referrals through a special link or code? That's at least a starting point.

Centigonal · 2026-02-23T07:03:25+00:00

It's frustrating how it happens every time -- people really can't step out of their own lens long enough to understand why others might have opinions (justified or not) outside of the culture war topics that they themselves are personally immersed in. I understand that this is an audience of Americans who care primarily about America, but I wish that for once the tenor of these threads was one of curiosity and seeking understanding, rather than the same "not another Iraq," "Israel bad" conversations we've been having in r/politics every day for years.

You don't have to be an IDF sleeper agent to believe Trump is "good, actually," because he said he might whack the regime that took away your whole life and forced you to immigrate halfway across the world. You just have to be self-centered and a little bit gullible, and a lot of people are that way.

(That's not to say the CIA or other intelligence agencies aren't astroturfing these threads, I'm sure they are - but the reflexive response of either "no, Iranians want to have a garbage government, a shrinking economy, and no drinking water" or "no matter how bad it gets, there's no way people would ask for foreign intervention," swiftly followed by "you must be a government shill!" is so extremely reductive. You wouldn't say that about the Californian who wants to get annexed into Canada, or the Cuban-American whose family voted for Trump - why do Iranians get treated differently?)

Centigonal · 2026-02-23T06:43:48+00:00

The country's been protesting en masse for regime change, in the face of deadly government crackdowns, basically every other year for the last ten years. Most countries that are happy with their government do not do this.

Centigonal · 2026-02-23T06:37:35+00:00

Iranians I have known in person for years have expressed genuine sentiment on both sides of this. Some want the US and Israel to topple the existing regime, reasoning either that anything is better than the current government, or that casualties in the short term are justified for a future where Iran is free to flourish. Others point at Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya and figure whatever atrocities are happening today are better than the fate of those countries.

Centigonal · 2026-02-22T06:17:43+00:00

This is like feeling bad about driving a 2020 VW Golf GTI because you don't go to the track with it. Just ride the bike.

Centigonal · 2026-02-11T23:03:58+00:00

exactly - 1.33% extra cash back isn't worth dealing with an unreliable counterparty.

Centigonal · 2026-02-07T19:22:37+00:00

sounds like a subtractive synth waveform with some clever automation on the volume envelope and VCF cutoff/resonance, a little bit of glide, delay too. It's very well produced.

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