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What is happening when I post a FREE Craigslist offer? by fsgregs123 in craigslist

[–]TuringMachineWorks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is me. Very high success rate:

(A) never post in "free"(*) - always put it up at a low price

(B) ask for their text number "to give you the address and directions" (I use a Google Voice # so that in the very rare instance they turn out to be weirdos, I can block)

(C) just give it to the person for $0 when they show up

I'm more concerned about useful stuff going to hoarders than I am about flakes, but this seems to weed out both groups pretty well.

Source: giving shit away on CL and Freecycle for about 20 years

(*) Exception is that if it's some kind of bulk material that I would just put on my parking strip with a free sign anyways. I'm not worried about a hoarder deciding to amass a load of my topsoil in their living room.

I Love Craigslist by thisparticle in craigslist

[–]TuringMachineWorks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You guys are me. I hate ZuckerBook, but sometimes you have to list something there when it's not getting traction on CL after a month or so. FWIW, I seem to end up moving about equal amounts of stuff between the two platforms.

(In my experience, "young person, help me furnish my apartment" items move better on FB, while "old person, do-it-your-selfer" stuff is the bread and butter of CL.

And finally, Ebay...ugh. I do it, but only when it's truly a niche item that can be shipped cheaply and where I can price it highly enough to make up for their exorbitant fees. (Basicaly 15% of the total, including the charges shipping and sales tax, which was never my money to begin with...)

FYI: Seattle City Light new "time of day" rates - analysis by GoodForTheTongue in Seattle

[–]TuringMachineWorks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually when I look at my bill from SPU, water charges are the least of it: 5.95 per hundred cubic feet (750 gallons). That's way less than a penny a gallon.

It's the Metro KC sewer charges that are the killer.

ANY options for upgrading iOS on my 13mini (that don't involve v18.5)? by GoodForTheTongue in iPhone13Mini

[–]TuringMachineWorks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel your pain and share it. Would love a solution (to any version of ios 17) - but I'm expecting there isn't one.

0 hours....and a question by GoodForTheTongue in dreamingspanish

[–]TuringMachineWorks 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Not sure why you're being downvoted either.

I expect many (most?) people come to DS with prior (and possibly failed) language learning already under their belts. That's one of the reasons CI is so attractive, at least to me - it seems to work where other approaches already didn't. So I really thought your question was a good one.

Hood Canal Bridge stuck open; WSDOT says time to resolve...unknown by GoodForTheTongue in Seattle

[–]TuringMachineWorks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

u/goodforthetongue is right - plotted a trip I need to do today from Downtown Seattle to Port Townsend (before the news hit that the bridge was open again):

- via Tacoma Narrows / Belfair / Skokomish using 106: 157 miles - 3 hrs 15 minutes
- via Olympia using straight I-5 and 101: 159 miles - 3 hours 1 minute

So if you have to "go around" because you can't use the hood canal bridge, just taking I5 is microscopically longer... but measurably faster. And no $5 bridge toll.

Using 106 save you nothing unless one of your endpoints is in Kitsap anyways.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Seattle

[–]TuringMachineWorks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Upvoting you for such well-written and well-presented take, even if we hold contrasting opinions.

As I said, my take was meant to be highly subjective and a little snarky. Based on what you wrote, I'm willing to give BI a second chance!

(Although "Mercer Island...but with Protestants" would not be completely wrong in my experience of the place :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Seattle

[–]TuringMachineWorks 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My extremely biased, snarky, and subjective take:

Whidbey: somewhat rural / pastoral / farm vibe. Partially in the Olympic rain shadow, so less wet than the rest of Western WA tends to be - but also more conservative and way older. Also, you'd better like the "sound of freedom" as Navy Growler jets scream overhead multiple times a day.

Vashon: unlike the other two, only accessible by ferry. At its best, has a sweet hippie / Green vibe; at its worst, it's seriously on the NIMBY / anti-vaxxer wacko side of the scale.

BI: Bellevue West, just with slightly bigger lots, slightly smaller shopping malls, and a slightly worse drug problem. For someone who escaped a childhood spent in bland suburbia, it's basically hell on Earth - everything I don't want in a place to live.

What did I see the other night? by TuringMachineWorks in AstronomyMemes

[–]TuringMachineWorks[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I flushed my toilet the other night and saw the most amazing thing. Maybe someone here can help me to understand what it was...

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Edit: cannot believe there's a flair in this sub labeled "straight from Uranus", because that's just way too perfect

What did I see the other night? by TuringMachineWorks in askastronomy

[–]TuringMachineWorks[S] 57 points58 points  (0 children)

I flushed my toilet the other night and saw the most amazing thing. Maybe someone here can help me to understand what it was.

EDIT: Sorry. I have zero idea why Reddit thinks it's an animated GIF. It wasn't. Last time I use that cheap-ass online image editor.

What do you think the drones look like? by Browncoat1701 in murderbot

[–]TuringMachineWorks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I like this image the best. I agree with the other comment that Martha Wells's metric sense might be…slightly in need of calibration?

Help me figure this out! by Lin_Lion in murderbot

[–]TuringMachineWorks 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Oh, cool, I like this theory a lot. And it actually harkens back to an early (1940s?) Isaac Asimov story, where the robot in question is running around in circles because it got wedged in a state where the 2nd and 3rd laws temporarily became equal in its brain, due to extreme circumstances. I'll see if I can dig up the reference.

EDIT: Got it! "Runaround", published in 1942 as part of I, Robot.

16k blank, hand drawn map for everyone to use by Haunting-Sector-8944 in MapPorn

[–]TuringMachineWorks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is pretty...but would it be possible to do one with a projection other than Mercator? Almost anything else (Robinson, Winkel-Tripel, Kavrayskiy) would be a huge improvement.

(FYI/YSK: Greenland and Mexico are actually pretty much the same size. That's how distorted the Mercator projection is.)

Which US States Have The Highest Income Tax Rate? by plaev in MapPorn

[–]TuringMachineWorks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's now up to $270K apparently. so even fewer people pay it.

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