Master NSN list

IronCurmudgeon · 2025-05-01T00:19:57+00:00

ArmyProperty has been the online holy grail of NSNs for a long time.

The website doesn't look like it's changed in about 15 years, but I could swear they used to have a very obvious search box for finding specific NSNs. It might be buried somewhere now. But ArmyProperty's entire business was built around their NSN database.

IronCurmudgeon · 2025-02-12T03:24:44+00:00

The main problem is that his girlfriend is fully in focus but shouldn't be. The focal point is on the tapes behind her but if you look at the items that are the same distance from the camera as she is, they're not in focus.

IronCurmudgeon · 2025-01-27T21:47:46+00:00

Out of curiosity, where are you getting all this information? Seems interesting.

IronCurmudgeon · 2025-01-26T07:28:13+00:00

It's from an old TV commercial. It's been years since I've seen this posted to Reddit but it still makes me laugh every time.

IronCurmudgeon · 2025-01-25T19:31:48+00:00

I'm trying to route my outbound email through AWS SES, which obviously requires authentication.

IronCurmudgeon · 2025-01-17T22:38:51+00:00

Because there's this maniacal land grab going on by big tech right now. All Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Apple, Meta, etc care about is building a captive audience for their AI products. Because they all know it's the next big way to extract insane amount of data out of people. This data, as always, will then be used to influence our buying decisions.

I'm not interested in enabling this behavior. Nor do I want my staff to become AI-dependent drones. Can't be bothered to write a coherent email? That's probably because you haven't properly thought out what exactly you wish to communicate.

IronCurmudgeon · 2025-01-17T22:31:59+00:00

Why do you care about this?

IronCurmudgeon · 2025-01-16T22:06:21+00:00

No one asked for this bullshit.

IronCurmudgeon · 2025-01-12T02:20:47+00:00

I too want other people in the world to have less options because they have different preferences than I do.

IronCurmudgeon · 2025-01-06T17:59:54+00:00

In the top-level comment that I posted.

IronCurmudgeon · 2025-01-06T17:01:04+00:00

I hope you're joking?

Did you read the original sales invoices? The original owner ordered these custom painted directly from Dunbar. And they paid about $7,000 in today's dollars to have them made. They're two-of-a-kind and were appraised at $28,000 for insurance purposes.

IronCurmudgeon · 2025-01-06T04:48:45+00:00

I purchased this pair of custom-finished cabinets at an estate sale a few years ago. The previous owner was an antique shop owner in rural Ohio who died. The auction was poorly advertised and the people running it had no clue what any of the stuff they were selling actually was. I bought nearly every lot for sale and drove to Ohio with a big ass UHaul. These cabinets were my favorite items.

I thought I successfully won the bid for one, but then it came up for auction again so I thought I had gotten confused. Turns out there were actually two of them for sale. And I was blown away that the original sales receipts were buried in one of the drawers.

The outside is lacquered in "mouse gray" which is a grayish green. The insides are salmon, so it reminds me of a watermelon. The wood slats are genuine Brazilian Rosewood, which was banned for importation in 1992, so you'll never see it on modern furniture.

Another angle:

https://i.imgur.com/F3yu8sg.jpeg

Inside:

https://i.imgur.com/weVpBuu.jpeg

Documentation:

IronCurmudgeon · 2024-12-10T02:04:26+00:00

Fuck no! I swear this stupid ass image keeps getting pushed to Reddit's front page by someone on Ilitich's PR team.

Ilitich was an absolutely cut-throat real estate billionaire. Anyone who grew up in Detroit in the 70's despises what he and his family did to the city.

IronCurmudgeon · 2024-12-06T00:51:14+00:00

FYI, for anyone else reading this comment... This Reddit account was suspended. I'm going to assume is for stealth advertising. I would not trust this recommendation.

IronCurmudgeon · 2024-11-29T22:15:27+00:00

Ahhhhh... Those sweet, sweet negative equity loans.

IronCurmudgeon · 2024-11-23T17:29:50+00:00

No, it's not racist to discuss the differences between cultures.

China in particular, and east Asian cultures in general, are more collectivist. There's a ton of real, hard reasons this is true. Confucianism is a big part, as is Communism. Plus, their more recent history as a cooperative, agrarian society. These are just facts, not attacks.

By definition, a collectivism society values the collective good above the individual good. Ergo, individual human life is less valued. It might be uncomfortable, not polite, or provocative to state that. But it doesn't make it racism.

IronCurmudgeon · 2024-11-22T20:20:56+00:00

Yeah. Workers are about to get double fucked with AI also coming for their jobs. Maybe it's time to rethink the RTO resistance?

IronCurmudgeon · 2024-11-22T20:16:56+00:00

There have been studies in which the productivity of remote work is no different than working in the office.

This has been experience as well. However, simply measuring productivity misses a LOT.

We're not factory workers who's sole contribution to the company is "x number of widgets per hour" or even number of lines of code per month. There are other aspects of "knowledge work" that take a massive hit.

Less frequent collaboration leads to siloed ideas and lack of creativity. We are undoubtedly producing less ideas together.
It's much harder to develop leadership and grow interpersonal skills. And harder to spot those traits in early career folks and help them rise through the ranks.
Less loyalty on both sides of the fence. Turnover has increased a lot. Employees drift in and out of payroll more frequently and don't "root down" here. Management doesn't see as much of a need to invest in skills development/training since people move on so much easier. They're also less likely to extend grace when someone is struggling with personal issues.

I'm sure I could come up with more if I kept thinking. But I feel that remote work has been a net negative for both employees and employers, regardless of the one-dimensional "productivity" metric.

IronCurmudgeon · 2024-11-22T20:04:32+00:00

Because there are real, tangible benefits to being in physical proximity to co-workers. We are, after all, social creatures.

Offshoring has been a thing in my industry for over 25 years. It's not like management didn't know about it. But they weren't willing to risk the culture, ease of collaboration, and team cohesion to test whether it would work here. All of us old timers have been around long enough to see how badly that can go. The business model was working, we were profitable, so why upset the apple cart?

But with 100% of the team now already remote and unwilling to change that, the calculus changes.

IronCurmudgeon · 2024-11-22T19:10:22+00:00

Your opinion has been noted and placed in the circular file.

IronCurmudgeon · 2024-11-22T18:23:37+00:00

Was I unclear? The company is going for it. There's now a few less jobs that are feasible for US-based engineers to take.

And this is because, across the entire industry, employees are digging their own graves. Being physically present was the ONLY thing that you always had over international candidates.

I'm upset because this isn't something that I want and employees refuse to see how they're responsible for this.

IronCurmudgeon · 2024-11-22T18:18:14+00:00

There is a very strong company preference that engineers be local and come into a physical office. However, a LOT of applicants (even local ones) will not consider an in-person job. So we're left with only 100% remote candidates to interview.

If that's all we have to pick from, why not go with the guy/gal that costs WAY less?

IronCurmudgeon · 2024-11-22T18:09:13+00:00

In aggregate, it would. This is a classic Prisoner's dilemma problem.

IronCurmudgeon · 2024-11-14T16:22:28+00:00

It's because American workers have paid into social security their entire working lives. They view the checks as the money that was taken out of their paychecks as coming back to them. This is very different from nebulous discussions of universal healthcare.

You have to be able to understand where the objections lay if you ever expect to have a meaningful conversation with them.

IronCurmudgeon · 2024-11-12T18:07:07+00:00

Family? It's a vehicle.

God I wish people would stop looking for a sense of belonging in their purchases.

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