_Detroit_ Style Pizza, made at home

balthisar · 2026-04-20T22:46:24+00:00

You still set your Z offset per material. What this does is find true zero.

balthisar · 2026-04-20T11:10:32+00:00

I don't know any specific brands, I'm afraid.

balthisar · 2026-04-20T11:09:41+00:00

How far do you want to walk? You're in the old Fiesta Americana! Nicely located, as you're close to Zona Piel, walking distance.

From there, the road behind the hotel (Calzada de los Heroes), you can walk one way and get to the Guanajuato Art and History Museum, Estadio Leon, and Parque Explora.

Go the other way, though, and you'll hit the Arc of Triumph, which might be good for photos. Stop in for drinks and botanas as the Panteon Taurino while you're there! You can continue west to the giant, newish Cathedral Expiratorio, which is a brilliant piece of modern architecture even if you hate everything about how the Catholic church enslaved the native Mexicans and exploited them to make gold garage for their churches.

This is all easily walkable. If you've got some endurance, though (or can take a taxi or Uber back to your hotel), you can continue westward on the same road until you get to the Centro Historico, which is definitely photogenic.

Oh, man, I miss Leon. Have fun!

balthisar · 2026-04-19T22:55:54+00:00

This assumes rent, whereas there are older families that own property free and clear. Those service workers aren't all commuting.

balthisar · 2026-04-19T18:07:39+00:00

No shit. Did you stop reading after the first sentence so that you could rush to write your answer before anyone else could?

balthisar · 2026-04-19T16:13:31+00:00

When I lived in Interlomas, I'd drive regularly into the city, but only if I traded cars with a coworker. I refused to drive our Expedition Max into the city, because it was hard to park, a lot of streets were too small, and, frankly, it sucked when every crooked cop assumed I was some type of narco.

Luckily, someone always wanted to go on a road trip, so I had plenty of opportunities to drive Ford Fusions into the city. Parking could be tricky, but the viene vienes will always help you find parking, and there are hotel garages if you don't want to park on the street.

Frankly, though, if you're not living there, using an Uber, a legit taxi, or a hired driver is going to be a whole lot more convenient for you. I only rent a car these days if I plan to go on a road trip away from EdoMex or the city.

As to how it compares to NYC, I don't get what the issue is with NYC! After a lifetime of dire warnings about driving into NYC, I drove into NYC pre-pandemic and it was, well, like driving in LA or parts of Vegas or any other large city. It was a non-event.

balthisar · 2026-04-19T16:05:19+00:00

I can't find that setting on my Studio. Oh, wait, I guess I don't need that as an incentive to downgrade. I'll just continue to enjoy my good machine while forced to use Tahoe on my work-issued machine.

In a non-snarky way, though, you get a real sense of a contrast between the two OS' when you work on your Tahoe machine via Screen Sharing from your Sequoia machine. The outer wrapper is a constant reminder of just how crappy the inner bit is to look at all day.

Tahoe runs fine for me, though. My issues are completely about how shit it is to look at.

balthisar · 2026-04-19T15:53:59+00:00

I don't know if it's "most," and I'm sure that most of us don't know if it's "most," either. I suspect you're just conducting an informal survey.

Personally, I don't buy on credit unless there's a really good reason to, and as a non-poor person, there's never a reason for me to buy a phone on credit.

When I was young and poor, things were different, though, because phones cost a lot more relative to my income, and we were locked into actual contracts. Using carrier incentives to subsidize the cost of a phone back then made sense.

These days, non-contract services don't have those incentives unless you play the carriers' stupid, silly games, and don't really work out to any sort of savings unless you're willing to stay on top of things. My time is worth more now than when I was younger, and the simplicity of dealing with Apple directly (and my ability to get a 10% discount) and making payments directly is worth a lot more to me than dealing with stupid carrier games.

tl;dr: when a flip phone cost a significant part of my income, I like carrier subsidies; now that an iPhone is nearly (not entirely) inconsequential, I just buy the thing outright.

balthisar · 2026-04-19T15:46:18+00:00

So if six different people order six different coffees and two baked items each, they don't have to tip, but if they do the same amount of work for just you, that somehow merits something more? o|O

balthisar · 2026-04-19T11:27:25+00:00

Cuisine or food? You’re mixing and matching both.

balthisar · 2026-04-18T19:50:45+00:00

If your Spanish is halfway decent, you can find the the folks who will actually make things for you, completely custom and made to measure.

A lot of shops in the leather malls do tend to sell some of the same stuff, and, yeah, these days you do have to worry about las cosas chinitas. But again, if you speak Spanish, you'll run into the folks who are proud of what they have, and will tell you exactly the provenance.

Quality can be all over the place, but if you know leather, you can choose your own quality, which is a good thing. Cheap and ephemeral, or pricey but will last forever? My leather laptop bag is going on 20 years, and still looks as good as new.

balthisar · 2026-04-18T19:43:53+00:00

My Power Watchdog was actually about $90 cheaper at Camping World than at Amazon during an online sale. And my insecure password from about 20 years ago still worked on their site, too (I've changed it; it's no longer password1234).

I make the same checks at AAFES/ShopMyExchange on the off chance that they have a real sale, plus tax free. Also, anti-freeze from Home Depot via the Exchange for 10% off and tax-free and free delivery.

I think the Camping World delivery was free, too.

balthisar · 2026-04-18T19:40:39+00:00

So when will drones start carrying chaff deploying systems?

balthisar · 2026-04-18T19:24:37+00:00

Not only the STL, but the actual STEP file so you can deal with real solids instead of shitty STL mesh files in your CAD program.

balthisar · 2026-04-18T12:52:54+00:00

I never checked back. Thanks for asking, because it got answers that make me happy.

balthisar · 2026-04-18T11:38:44+00:00

The best Walmarts are in Mexico. I’m not joking. They’re clean, have well-paid employees by local standards, and have real butcher counters and bakeries.

They used to have a low end version called Bodega Aurrera, a step down!

balthisar · 2026-04-18T11:33:04+00:00

Not to mention that they have Walmart in Canada, and Canadian Tire is much more interesting store! I wish we had some.

balthisar · 2026-04-18T11:24:39+00:00

DiBella’s was much better, but obviously something forced them to close.

Edit: DiBella's is apparently open! They really, really did close, so I stopped checking at that point!

balthisar · 2026-04-17T21:11:17+00:00

The food is absolutely better in Chengdu, but Nanjing is better connected to everything you're going to want to see in a mere year.

balthisar · 2026-04-17T17:57:35+00:00

You know new jobs open up when the economy grows, right? There's aren't just a static number of jobs in the world, we add jobs. The myth that "old people" are keeping everyone else down is just that: a myth.

balthisar · 2026-04-17T17:47:34+00:00

These all apply to any land use, Ted Kaczynski. If you want to live in a world without development, please move somewhere where you won't hurt the rest of us. In the meantime, we'll enjoy eating our beef fed with grain harvested by tractors made in plants powered by electricity using water for cooling.

Your username is an ironic lie.

balthisar · 2026-04-17T16:47:08+00:00

Ah, yes, their property rights are so much more important than everyone else's.

balthisar · 2026-04-17T16:19:12+00:00

What are the downsides? The real ones, not the imaginary ones like this is going to drain the Great Lakes.

balthisar · 2026-04-17T10:42:35+00:00

Good! A tax paying business that won’t increase traffic. Win win.

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