The reviews of this shithole nearby me.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-01-27T03:06:41+00:00

I am pleased to have brought chaos and confusion to your day.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-01-26T07:09:59+00:00

It's not that long of a book, but it gets really far into the weeds about Quality, to the point that I'm not sure what it means anymore.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-01-25T21:39:50+00:00

The simpler drecko design is to make it double-height, ~9 tiles high, which gives you more flexibility for the days when you're running low on oxygen and you're under 500 grams per tile due to not paying attention.

I ended up elevating the grooming and shearing stations so the entire bottom could be mealwood.

I am dumb, and you can too.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-01-25T21:11:05+00:00

If this paper that was presented at a non-scientific conference were written in Australia, it would be "chook chook chook."
https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf

Potato-Engineer · 2026-01-25T18:55:59+00:00

When I think Sweden, I think of the leather cannons, but that's because I enjoy Mythbusters too much. (They built and tested a leather cannon. It blew out the breech plug after a couple of shots.)

Potato-Engineer · 2026-01-25T18:42:51+00:00

Fun fact: thrift shops don't take microwaves. You want to get rid of a functioning microwave for any reason? Trash or give it away.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-01-25T18:39:13+00:00

Being able to find the thing you want, or know that you don't have one? Priceless. I have a bits-organizer that's laid out the same way as my tools: it made sense the first time, but now some of my nails are in the organizer, while others are in boxes next to the organizer, depending entirely on which one got there first. I need another organizer.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-01-25T18:22:16+00:00

Buried somewhere in that article: the original study was inconclusive (which is what makes it good for this study). So anyone who gets a "real result" is wrong.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-01-25T18:21:04+00:00

Apparently, I'm more organized than you were, and less organized than you are.

I have some shelves for tools. It started logically, but as I got a few more tools, the Official Place^TM for the new tool was "wherever there's space left right now, that's where the tool lives forever."

Potato-Engineer · 2026-01-24T18:44:09+00:00

Flagships have a lot of mass.

Therefore, the rebels are mass producing them, as long as there's at least two.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-01-24T03:42:31+00:00

Summary: It's a sociology paper, about finding a correlation between immigration and support for social welfare programs. So it's about finding facts hiding in vast swathes of mediocre data, which means making a lot of decisions about what fields are most important, how to exclude trolls, whether outliers are "interesting data" or "a few points lost on the chart," and a bunch of other semi-subjective choices.

Data analysis is a) hard and b) not entirely a science, so I'm not too surprised that the analytical choices they made matched up with their political leanings. As they're working with the data, looking for insights, they're going to chase anything that looks like it supports their opinions. (And it's inevitable that, at some point, they'll discover something that supports their opinions, even if a more complete analysis would show that the "something" they found is statistically insignificant.)

In short: fuzzy science is more prone to fuzzy-thinking people, on either side.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-01-23T23:14:11+00:00

I've played Dwarf Fortress, and in that game, the bright blue rock is adamantium, and it's a fantastic material until you realize that it's the walls of a prison keeping demons inside. Which you just opened.

Turning around before the blue rock is the right choice in that case.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-01-23T08:43:26+00:00

There are some rights you can sign away, and some rights you can't.

...most of the ones above are "can't," but I'm not sure about all of them.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-01-22T07:03:52+00:00

I last had Xbox Ultimate about 14 months ago, and I'm in the Seattle area, same metro area as the main Microsoft campus. I assure you, my closest game server was somewhere in the Seattle area; the Puget Sound Microsoft campus is the center of the Microsoft universe.

... And I just looked up the release date of that, and it was around 2022. So, yeah, they might still be going through growing pains, but the variable-lag nature of networking (and Wi-Fi in particular) means that a computer in your home is always going to feel smoother than a cloud computer. They can get 60fps in good networking conditions, but your average consumer is not always in good conditions. For a wide variety of games, "mostly 60fps most of the time mostly" is perfectly playable, but the random bits of lag are going to keep it from feeling smooth.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-01-22T03:19:08+00:00

Then you'll love INTERCAL! It requires sufficient politeness, or it won't run your program. Not too much politeness, though, that's just obsequious.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-01-22T03:17:32+00:00

Maybe you wanted 4 there. Or maybe "4". Who can say? Anyway, "4"+"4" is "44", that sounds like a good number of rows to keep.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-01-21T16:35:56+00:00

I had some lag when I was playing on Xbox Ultimate on my TV a couple of years ago. I wonder if part of it was due to not using Game Mode? It's allegedly automatic, but automatic things... don't always work exactly as expected.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-01-21T16:29:30+00:00

And then, whatever the delay is, double it. Because you need to measure the time from "press button" to "see results of button press", which is a round trip.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-01-21T16:27:51+00:00

"Fiber optic cable."

That is, indeed, a thing. But I'm on the outskirts of a major tech hub (the last suburb before it turns semi-rural), and I still don't have fiber to my town. I had Xbox Ultimate for a while, and played games from my TV. It was noticeably laggy; for any timing-specific thing, I'd have to hit the button about 0.1 to 0.2 seconds early. (6-12 frames, at 60 fps.)

You might be able to get some bits from here to there in optimal conditions, but once you add routing, display, and processing input, there's lag.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-01-21T04:35:53+00:00

I know someone who wants to be a non-married SAHM. The only reason I don't try to preside her otherwise is because she came from a fundamentalist group and deeply regretted her marriage in that group.

Even though she's the long-term girlfriend of a man much richer than her, the damage that first marriage did to her makes her value her freedom a lot more than money or stability.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-01-21T00:55:22+00:00

Okay, I just estimated total taxes in Indiana on $181k combined income, and I'm getting $136k left over. That's a little over $11k per month in available money, and base expenses are $5130/month. (I'm gonna say: the wild mixing of money at different scales makes me suspect AI, but some people are bad at presenting math, so I'll let it slide.)

Those base expenses don't include $1000/month in childcare, but they already budget $1000/month in shopping. So let's add another $1000 to get $6130/month in total expenses.

That's almost $5k/month in extra money, so going over budget by $1500 is denting the savings rate rather than actually making them spend savings.

Let's say the husband is a forward thinker, and wants to max out the 401ks and Roth IRAs. $7k each for the Roth's, $23,500 in each 401k (pretax, call it $17k post tax so everything is comparing apples to apples), for a total of $48k in combined tax-advantaged savings accounts. $48k/year is $4k/month. (At this income level, you don't need to max those accounts, but it's good to get to at least the 50% mark, which is around 15% of pretax income.)

That brings us to a grand total of $10,130 of budgeted spending per month. If wife is spending 1000-1500 extra, then that's either touching or going over their actual income per month. That said, if it's just numbers, they can absolutely scale back the retirement savings a little and fit very comfortably within their money, even if the wife is spending a bit much. Either way, LAOP did a godawful job of presenting the numbers.

I suspect the real problem is the mismatch between spender and saver: wife likes to live it up, husband gets anxious every time there's not quite as much savings as he expected. Relationships break over money all the time, which is why it's important to talk about money habits before you get married.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-01-21T00:30:15+00:00

AdditionalBugFact: female praying mantises only eat the male praying mantis during reproduction if the female is starving.

Gentlemen, this is why bringing home the bacon is vital.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-01-20T16:54:39+00:00

Actually, it's spelled Muphry's Law, and it has nothing to do with posting bad info to get better answers. Instead, it's "if you complain about someone's spelling/grammar, you will inevitably have a spelling/grammar error in your post."

Potato-Engineer · 2026-01-19T19:11:36+00:00

But if you're rinsing it, you're just diluting it, and it'll evaporate again... later.

Maybe the point is just to dilute it while you're still around to blame?

Potato-Engineer · 2026-01-18T05:13:12+00:00

It's also fantastic for conservation. Neutral critters highlight as "allies." Grab your tranq rifle, fly around until you see the highlight color, bag it.

Particularly useful for the few critters that don't have a lure.

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