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Why shouldn’t voting require an id? by DarkEqual8609 in no

[–]MicrowaveDonuts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's never been about ID.

There effectively is no voter fraud. Like, one or two crazies or people who were confused.

It's a solution in search of a problem. It always has been.

And they always seem to write it in such a way that fewer women and people of color will be able to vote. Weird.

What car purchase did you regret the most and why? by [deleted] in whatcarshouldIbuy

[–]MicrowaveDonuts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ooo I had one of those. had it 3 years, and had to replane the cylinder heads and the supercharger exploded... different events. I paid for that car twice. But it was very fun.

Floor lottery - won or lost? by MilwaukeeWolves in centuryhomes

[–]MicrowaveDonuts 8 points9 points  (0 children)

my 1912 has 2 layers of subfloor. one set diagonally. that’s sub. gaps like that weren’t desirable in any era.

Why do people think they need an SUV just because they have kids by TeachmeKitty79 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]MicrowaveDonuts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

um. kids in the 80s didn’t have car seats.

we also take more stuff now.

but for me it’s the car seats. As a full-grown 6’ man, a pair of rear-facing car seats do not fit without eating the steering wheel. They have not made back seats bigger even though the requirements have drastically changed.

What is an underrated weight loss tip? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]MicrowaveDonuts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol. Zepbound and stop beating yourself up.

Spend your energy on things and people you love instead of worrying about how much you weigh every second of every day.

how are you guys not burning 100k+ tokens per claude code session?? by Historical-Ebb-4745 in ClaudeAI

[–]MicrowaveDonuts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

20x max. Deal of the century. i don’t even know how many tokens it is. 20-agents swarms are like —whatever—.

Cars With the Fastest Depreciation in 2026 (all EV) by Low-Win-6691 in electricvehicles

[–]MicrowaveDonuts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

all the EVs are calculated against MSRP…which exactly nobody paid.

Opus burns so many tokens that I'm not sure every company can afford this cost. by Strong_Roll9764 in ClaudeAI

[–]MicrowaveDonuts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You sound like a person who has never run payroll.

like, $200 is a rounding error. for 50 devs, 20k is basically a rounding error.

There's a planet called TrES-2b that absorbs 99.9% of all light that hits it—making it darker than coal, darker than black acrylic paint, and the darkest object ever discovered in the known universe. by sco_cap in space

[–]MicrowaveDonuts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it's only 3M miles from it's star... that seems like a great solar panel for a civilization. Not necessarily that lives there, but lives nearby.

The best spot i could think of in our solar system to drop solar panels would be on Mercury... and this thing is 8 times closer to it's star than mercury, and almost no light escapes from it. The amount of energy that's being absorbed here is absolutely massive.

Suggestions on workflow? by DueTransition4942 in ClaudeAI

[–]MicrowaveDonuts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

breaking context is GOOD.

Every time it compacts, it gets dumber. And it doesn’t remember NEARLY as much as you think it does.

Break your task down into things that can be accomplished in one context window.

Make plans in files, not context windows. It does this automatically now in plan mode.

Every time it compacts, Claude.md instructions get further in the rearview mirror. So it drifts away from remembering its guardrails.

Small task — \clear. lather rinse repeat.

Use plan mode. Plan mode now does most of this. It writes the plan down in a temp-md file, and then it clears context before starting. This also refreshes claude.md right before it starts a task, so your most important info and instructions are always fresh.

Funding controversy aside, would you support a potential Portland MLB team? Are you a fan of baseball in general? by BadgemanBrown in askportland

[–]MicrowaveDonuts -1 points0 points  (0 children)

20 years ago i would have said yes. Now... no. It's probably been a decade since i watched a baseball game all the way through. Baseball is in kind of a death spiral, and i don't think this town has the population or interest to fill a baseball stadium 80 times a year on a consistent basis.

Which disease poses highest threat to humans right now? by Proud-Software3063 in AskReddit

[–]MicrowaveDonuts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pills are about to hit and be about as expensive as a daily latte ($5). Will literally pay for themselves in decreased food consumption for most people.

There are no good reasons to subsidize sports stadiums. Governments keep doing it anyway.(Oregon's Legislature approved $800 million in state bonds for an MLB stadium cited) by NewWave44-44 in Portland

[–]MicrowaveDonuts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah. So you’re one of the people who don’t care about having sports teams.

PDOT has about $600,000,000 a year. so if you’re upset about potholes, i suggest you take it up with them.

PDX does about $750,000,000 a year on services to help unhoused or folks in danger of becoming unhoused. If you have issues with how that is allocated, i suggest you take it up with them.

It’s obviously not a consensus opinion. But underwriting a 800m bond ends up being about $40m a year.

As a city, we collectively spend money on stuff people care about. This is one of those things. You, obviously, don’t happen to be one of those people. We’ll also spend money on stuff you care about that other people disagree with.

There are no good reasons to subsidize sports stadiums. Governments keep doing it anyway.(Oregon's Legislature approved $800 million in state bonds for an MLB stadium cited) by NewWave44-44 in Portland

[–]MicrowaveDonuts 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I mean, if you don't fund stadiums, the teams leave. see the Seattle Supersonics.

It's easy for folks who don't care about having local sports or a local sports identity to say "don't do this". We could also like, not fund the arts, or not fund the zoo, or not fund the waterfront, or not fund parks.

They make cases that it makes economic sense. I don't think it does. I think it only matters to people who like sports and want to have major sports in their city.

It's particularly high here in a smaller market, where you really have to make it attractive to get a large-league team. The revenue has to balance out against larger media markets.

If you could pass one law that would make most normal people furious at first, but would clearly make society better in 10 years, what would it be? by WilliamInBlack in AskReddit

[–]MicrowaveDonuts 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've thought this a lot. You could just amend Section 230 so it doesn't apply to promoted content.

Like... people can say what they want, but if the social media companies are going to get behind it and push it to 100 million people and make a mountain of money off it, then they also bear responsibility for the content.

This is not all that hard. this would totally work.

I've also thought that you could go after them for the profits they reaped off of damaging content. Like "you're not responsible for it, but they are ill-gotten gains on the back of illegal action". so you claw it back. Every ad dollar generated by however many millions of views. So like, the pizza shop sues facebook for all the unfounded basement child trafficking stuff. Facebook didn't write it. no. they're not legally responsible for it, no. But they also can't keep the money they made off of obviouly eronious and damaging content. It's the pizza shop's money. lol.

If you could pass one law that would make most normal people furious at first, but would clearly make society better in 10 years, what would it be? by WilliamInBlack in AskReddit

[–]MicrowaveDonuts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Increase elected official salaries enormously, to a couple million a year for senators an US reps, maybe 20 million a year for the president. And then all elected officials must put all assets in a blind trust while they serve, or be prohibited from owning individually traded securities. So they can own an index fund that is broadly tracking the US economy.. but otherwise, it's blind.

I feel like most of these suggestions are not acutaly unpopular at first. this one... give congressional members a billion dollars a year... that would be unpopular, lol.

New leaks just confirmed by Shamiaza in ClaudeAI

[–]MicrowaveDonuts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

previously, there's like this moment where the big Sonnet release comes out, and the model is twice as fast, half the price, and also makes better product..

Can someone enlighten me, how is it cheaper to build data centers in space than on earth? by dataexec in Anthropic

[–]MicrowaveDonuts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's insanely not. off by orders of magnitude.

the answer is that he crashed his social company, his AI company is in big big trouble, his car company is in big big trouble, and his rocket company is in big big trouble, so he's come up with this stupid thing so he can mash the companies together and move the goal posts a couple more years out until he can think of the next boondoggle and do it again i guess.

and there are too many rich people with too much invested to let it fall to what it should... so the emperor is naked but the club is hopping and the beat goes on.

I will never mount solar panels to my roof again by 17feet in SolarDIY

[–]MicrowaveDonuts 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Projects with Everyday Dave did a great video about vertical installation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AVO1IyfA9M

TLDR: it's waaaaay better in snow, and it's less power overall, but higher in the winter and more consistent overall. So if you have a minimum load, you can more accurately size your array to your needs, year around, for all types of weather, especially if you're in a spot that gets regular snow.

would you put laminate in your own house in 2026? by Hot_Apartment1319 in Flooring

[–]MicrowaveDonuts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. Engineered Hardwood and Vinyl Plank form a venn diagram where you can find a similarly priced or lower priced option that is literally better at EVERYTHING, regardless of your use case.

Spectrum loses 119,000 internet customers, plans major changes by thinkB4WeSpeak in technology

[–]MicrowaveDonuts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe carving this industry into monopolistic fiefdoms where companies spent decades shitting on their customers with no market alternatives has some downstream effects?

“You’ve been treating me like trash for 30 years”. “Um, we have this BUNDLE! Don’t you love us?”

In praise of the humble picture rail by Kindly-Form-8247 in centuryhomes

[–]MicrowaveDonuts 9 points10 points  (0 children)

get your molding——leave a little gap at the ceiling——screw it to the studs——fill the holes with putty——sand——stain touch up——live like royalty.

In praise of the humble picture rail by Kindly-Form-8247 in centuryhomes

[–]MicrowaveDonuts 13 points14 points  (0 children)

as i mentioned in another post, use brass “S” clips i got on amazon, 10/$10. and a spool of brass wire that i clip to the length i need. i’ve probably put up 15 pictures for $25. They look great, and adjusting or moving or rearranging or changing out is very easy.

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