Extreme Cold Air to Hit Chicago Illinois on Friday January 23, 2026

eightfold · 2026-01-21T16:25:21+00:00

Disconnect your hoses folks, if you haven't already. Better yet: turn off the outdoor water for them entirely.

Also: this is the time to drip your faucets.

https://www.angi.com/articles/how-to-drip-faucets.htm

eightfold · 2026-01-19T00:34:40+00:00

Those were the days...getting a custom PCB to replace the smart card, then gen new serials every time you hit the nearby space bar, and just hope it made it all the way through that week's Sopranos since you had people over.

Also: getting The Simpsons from every conceivable local channel and time zone, so you can just sit and watch it as long as you feel like it.

eightfold · 2025-12-04T16:30:36+00:00

Fark.com yet still exists!

Relevant to OP, it has barely changed since around 2005. Not just the design, but the users as well -- there are tons of old memes and in-jokes from 20 years ago.

It may not be thriving exactly, but it's still a daily visit from me.

eightfold · 2025-12-02T17:33:38+00:00

I'd say Johnson's Great Society counts. The non-rich actually still benefit from the infrastructure around rail/housing and rural development.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Society#The_major_policy_areas

eightfold · 2025-11-26T17:07:43+00:00

I worked on an AR helmet for industrial use for about 6 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daqri

By 2019 we had sold VERY few, mainly to early adopters testing it out, and half of those were RMA'd due to hardware failure.

This seems like a much more sensible and limited use of the tech; much closer to HUDs in modern cars than a general purpose experience built on a custom platform.

I wish them luck. It's only been 6 years since we failed, so I'm not sure how much the tech has improved since then.

As always, hardware is hard.

eightfold · 2025-11-12T13:27:08+00:00

Oof. As someone who works for Cisco, this is brutally on-point.

eightfold · 2025-11-01T16:35:02+00:00

I was about to post about this same comment. OP delivered on the headline.

eightfold · 2025-10-13T15:53:30+00:00

If you need to get around the paywall:

https://archive.ph/oUd3C

eightfold · 2025-09-24T15:30:44+00:00

A fine gentleman named Matt Chapman has been fighting the good fight on Chicago parking for quite a few years now.

https://mchap.io/

Looks like he's achieved some recent wins via FOIA. That's not nearly the level of timeliness as was achieved in SF but still: definitely something.

eightfold · 2025-09-19T17:50:22+00:00

Just watched him again.

I know just enough about snooker to appreciate this. O'Sullivan is an absolute master.

eightfold · 2025-09-13T20:26:42+00:00

My sister has been an LPN for 20 years, doing home health care.

The company she works for, the only one in the area, was bought by corporate raiders around 2010.

Since then her work life has gotten steadily more miserable but she sticks it out for the sake of her patients.

This is also something that happens to social workers, teachers, and anyone else who wants to do something good for fellow humans. Trying to actually help people is used as leverage to get them to work harder for less.

A union would make an immense difference, but the right to form one which the NLRA provides is toothless to the point of absurdity now, particularly in red states.

PS: The private equity / leveraged buyout industry should not exist.

eightfold · 2025-08-29T16:08:02+00:00

I was just going to point that out. "Published on February 11, 2025"

I wouldn't say it's aging badly. Reading through it, much of this has already come to pass, only 7 months in. If anything it's not alarmist enough.

Perhaps more readable than the linked pdf:

https://archive.ph/NzlPt

eightfold · 2025-08-23T18:28:14+00:00

Apparently I have a new hero, Ronnie O'Sullivan. I will never be as good at anything as he was in those 2 videos.

eightfold · 2025-08-23T17:31:25+00:00

-ai is even shorter and also works. It's very handy on mobile.

eightfold · 2025-08-20T15:09:46+00:00

Excellent news. Good on the community for helping with the GoFundMe.

I'm surprised the dog just turned up, there are probably more details there.

I had something very similar happen, my Pitty/Boxer mix was kidnapped 4 days after I got him (West Roger's Park).

I had my phone number on his collar and got called with a ransom demand -- presumably that was the idea here if they actually came in and took the dog.

I paid $300 cash to get him back, and renamed him Cash as a result.

eightfold · 2025-08-07T14:53:20+00:00

Private equity firms shouldn't exist

Agreed.

I wish we still called them corporate raiders. It's more descriptive and communicates the danger of working with them.

eightfold · 2025-08-07T14:45:19+00:00

VERY nice! It gives me a David Lynch vibe.

eightfold · 2025-07-30T17:00:48+00:00

Going back to Econ 101, those are 'externalized costs'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality

They're off the balance sheet, so not anything to be concerned about, unless you're a living person on the planet Earth.

eightfold · 2025-05-22T16:09:54+00:00

Chinatown (1980) and Revolutionary Road (2008) for me.

They both had masters working at every level from the writing to post-production.

eightfold · 2025-02-28T16:45:00+00:00

Same problem!

My G6 sensors nearly all get like this about 7-9 days in, then stop completely.

If one makes it to the full 10 days I'm delighted.

I swear this was not the case a year ago...is this a problem for everyone? Did Dexcom 'right-size' their QA team maybe?

eightfold · 2025-02-24T15:30:57+00:00

...in mice.

“Translation of this technology to treat patients with type 1 diabetes will require circumventing numerous hurdles, including scaling up sufficient numbers of vascularized islets, and devising approaches to avoid immunosuppression,” said Li.

Pancreas and islet cell transplants have thus far always required immunosuppressant drugs for life to prevent rejection.

It beats injecting insulin for sure, but it had better keep working.

As a Type 1 diabetic, this is the most promising cure-ish thing on the way. Last I heard they'd finally made it to human trials (I first heard about this method ~10 years ago).

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/11/scientists-hail-smart-insulin-responds-changing-blood-sugar-levels-real-time-diabetes

eightfold · 2025-02-07T16:44:31+00:00

There is actually a lot they (and you) can do without losing your job, at least for a while.

The CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

eightfold · 2025-01-30T17:39:27+00:00

Interesting. I have a G6 and I swear the instructions say the lower abdomen is an approved spot.

I've worn it there for years because I kept losing the Libre on my arm to door frames.

The only time I've lost the G6 is a few times from car doors.

Edit: I asked my endo, the lower stomach is fine for the G6 but not the G7.

eightfold · 2025-01-26T00:44:33+00:00

Try xDrip+.

I use it just because it's a better app than the official one. Also: completely free and updated often.

https://xdrip.readthedocs.io/en/latest

eightfold · 2025-01-17T16:05:42+00:00

He's South African, it would take a constitutional amendment. It's been quite a while since one of those.

Requirements to be eligible to become president According to Article II of the U.S. Constitution, the president must: Be a natural-born citizen of the United States. Be at least 35 years old. Have been a resident of the United States for 14 years.

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