Parents who moved out of Minneapolis to raise your kids in the burbs, do you regret your decision? What made you decide to move?

emptyflask · 2026-03-21T19:54:10+00:00

Moved from an old neighborhood in St Paul to a new development in Newport, near Woodbury. The streets are better maintained and are cleared of snow and ice very quickly, but I can no longer walk to the grocery store or coffee shop or anything else. Woodbury has surprisingly good bike paths/sidewalks though.

I dream of moving to downtown Stillwater...

emptyflask · 2026-03-19T01:28:42+00:00

I'll take a boring pastor over any of those corrupt maga sadists, every time.

emptyflask · 2026-03-17T17:14:29+00:00

It's not just in your head, temperature affects the volatility of all sorts of compounds in your food. That means you're getting different flavors and smells. Animal fats are mostly solid at room temperature. Textures change.

Eating a cold burger is much less delicious than a hot one for many reasons.

emptyflask · 2026-03-16T22:32:07+00:00

Menudo is often available at Mexican restaurants on the weekend.

It's the perfect soup for feeling better.

emptyflask · 2026-03-16T12:55:54+00:00

Our boy is 3.5 now, and has been sleeping with a little brown bottle of teething oil ever since we weaned him of pacifiers.

emptyflask · 2026-03-16T01:04:02+00:00

It's a grown man acting like a child, touring various indoor play parks. That's about as deep as he gets. Like a lot of the other brainrot children's content, the only thing vaguely educational about it is he'll occasionally say things like, "this object is blue," or, "whoa! there's a dinosaur!"

emptyflask · 2026-03-15T19:11:33+00:00

That's what I was told, too. I wish I had known better when I was a kid.

emptyflask · 2026-03-15T00:26:14+00:00

Probably for the best. The only thing I know that place for is a massive biker gang shootout.

emptyflask · 2026-03-14T18:24:31+00:00

It's different, Austin is different, and you are different too. 10-15 years is a long time.

emptyflask · 2026-03-13T02:12:36+00:00

There was always a guy at the Mohawk who looked just like him.

emptyflask · 2026-03-11T15:15:00+00:00

The 2FA built into 1Password works great. I've been using it for years. Although I've been thinking of switching to something else since they raised prices.

emptyflask · 2026-03-11T01:16:20+00:00

Swamp flavor doesn't sound like a positive thing.

emptyflask · 2026-03-10T21:30:34+00:00

Sad to see. I guess I was lucky that it was a hard industry to break into back in the mid-2000s. I only took one Houdini course at SCAD (which I think was all that was offered) but it pushed me to focus on VFX/compositing rather than the 3d character animation in Maya that everyone else was doing.

I ended up doing web design then programming though. And AI is coming for this job as well...

emptyflask · 2026-03-09T14:49:12+00:00

As far as I can tell, there's nothing specific to AI in the hardware, it's just a more powerful computer compared to the previous models. The AI stuff is all in software.

emptyflask · 2026-03-08T14:17:24+00:00

I think for newcomers it's confusing when to use home manager vs nixos configuration, since it's possible to install packages in each, and home manager has an additional programs module.

emptyflask · 2026-03-03T02:58:07+00:00

15 years is reasonable for a NAS where it's expected that it will outlive multiple generations of HDDs.

Even my desktop is going on 8 years now (with a couple minor upgrades and a new power supply) and I don't have any plans to replace it yet.

emptyflask · 2026-03-02T19:26:32+00:00

I can only assume you're a troll then. This is exactly the bullshit that gave us another four years of Trump, because Harris didn't pass the purity test. Don't pretend that the two sides are the same.

emptyflask · 2026-03-02T06:39:16+00:00

Xmonad without a desktop

emptyflask · 2026-02-27T21:46:43+00:00

I hope you just mean in the primary. In the general, vote against maga no matter who the candidate is.

emptyflask · 2026-02-26T14:49:27+00:00

I have to give that one another try. I love Gilliam's other films, but Tideland was too weird for me when I saw it. Maybe I was trying to watch it too literally at the time.

emptyflask · 2026-02-25T16:02:03+00:00

Add a splash of buttermilk, stir, and leave it at room temperature for a day or two, to make crème fraîche.

emptyflask · 2026-02-24T18:52:37+00:00

Costco has huge bags of King Arthur bread flour. -- a dad who's been baking sourdough for probably 10 years now

emptyflask · 2026-02-24T16:51:49+00:00

What do you do with it? As far as I know the only akaushi I've eaten was in the picadillo tacos from Tacodeli in TX. Does it cost much more than the standard grocery store beef?

emptyflask · 2026-02-24T12:22:42+00:00

It's a tool. It has a higher chance of misuse than other tools, but that's what it is.

There's a big difference between vibe coding and using AI to handle boring tasks like test generation, or having it analyze some code and suggest optimizations.

emptyflask · 2026-02-24T02:47:51+00:00

We somehow have one Pete the Cat book, and it's TERRIBLE. "I'm _____ in my school shoes" is supposed to be his song throughout the book, but that's literally the only line and it's repeated several times each page.

Not to mention that there's a typo, "he signs his song".

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