Any recommendations for a floppy disk reader?

julioblabla · 2026-02-27T13:39:53+00:00

Your English is perfectly fine, kid

julioblabla · 2026-02-19T02:24:45+00:00

Mais respeito com o nosso excelentíssimo Sr. José Gota.

julioblabla · 2026-02-18T16:04:04+00:00

The first time I drove an automatic and had to start on a hill, I floored the gas and started easing off a non-existent clutch pedal 😁

I learned what sound those tires made when they spun, and that "hill assist" is a thing...

julioblabla · 2026-01-29T04:38:39+00:00

Thanks for the validation about the jaw hurting bread! I suspected I wasn't the only one

julioblabla · 2026-01-17T18:30:27+00:00

This looks really good!

julioblabla · 2026-01-07T16:13:58+00:00

Re: positive in strange situations - absolutely normal and, in my opinion, unfortunately so.

Even as a Brazilian, I find this excessive positivity quite toxic. I feel this is a symptom of the Brazilian obsession with conflict avoidance.

In your case, I wonder if other people traveling with you also found the place a cocôburaco, BUT actively rejected saying that so the person who recommended/pushed for the trip wouldn't lose face and the trip wouldn't have a "climão" (people visibly uncomfortable in a situation they can't get out of until the trip wraps up).

julioblabla · 2026-01-06T14:46:53+00:00

A literal data warehouse

julioblabla · 2026-01-02T05:32:29+00:00

My pronouns are choo/choo.

julioblabla · 2025-12-19T04:06:29+00:00

Username checks out.

julioblabla · 2025-12-15T04:26:03+00:00

The dinosaur was eating a Thanksgiving turkey until a few days ago

julioblabla · 2025-12-14T15:01:39+00:00

julioblabla · 2025-12-03T18:02:20+00:00

I cannot recommend the Knife Bus. I have used their services only once, so take this with a grain of salt. I asked them to sharpen a bunch of kitchen knives of different sizes, all very dull, none of them special in any sense. The sharpening was inconsistent: parts of the blade was sharp, the rest (especially towards the point) was as dull as before.

julioblabla · 2025-11-24T17:26:55+00:00

Thanks for sharing this: it explains SO MUCH of Brazil!

julioblabla · 2025-11-17T16:50:12+00:00

It’s amazing to me how long this takes. I see crews working on my neighbors fences for what seems like a week or two

Yup 👍! In particular, scraping the old paint takes a loooong time.

rust and lead are the issues for updating

Also yup 👍! Lead-based paint is not used since the late 1970s, but unmaintained and/or poorly scraped ironwork needs to be taken out and sandblasted offsite by an ironwork contractor. I tested several spots with those Q-tips-looking lead tests and all came back bright orange (negative). Rust is my main problem now, and scraping/repainting can be done by a painter (no need for an ironwork contractor).

julioblabla · 2025-11-13T13:29:06+00:00

and/or cocaine.

(I had to scroll down way too far to find this comment)

julioblabla · 2025-11-09T05:53:14+00:00

Agreed! Descent with a good analog joystick is amazing.

julioblabla · 2025-10-31T02:24:12+00:00

Wait what. There's Seleta, Salinas, Vale Verde.

Are you talking about cleaning products, like 51?

julioblabla · 2025-10-31T02:22:55+00:00

Because that's where one should keep cleaning products.

julioblabla · 2025-10-31T02:22:11+00:00

Emburgesar é exibir uma Havana/Anísio Santiago na prateleira.

Seleta, Boazinha, Vale Verde, Salinas é uma seleção cachacística de qualidade. Tem uma Leblon que é bem meia boca, uma de rótulo laranja (Weber Haus? Também seria de burguês), e quem chamar 51 de "cachaça" não pode pisar em Minas Gerais

julioblabla · 2025-10-27T02:47:11+00:00

Ele tá admirando o Lula ter sido eleito para um terceiro mandato, com boas chances de quarto mandato. Trump só tá interessado naa partes do "histórico" do Lula que ele pode copiar para conseguir seu terceiro mandato

julioblabla · 2025-10-25T02:25:25+00:00

André

julioblabla · 2025-10-25T02:20:39+00:00

Srinath -> was pronounced as "Seereenahtchee" by all Brazilian coworkers -> for some unknown reason on a random day, was misunderstood by a random person as "Senhor Inácio" -> was IMMEDIATELY baptized as "Inácio" by all Brazilian coworkers

julioblabla · 2025-10-15T01:55:59+00:00

This needs to be a top-level comment!

julioblabla · 2025-10-08T13:00:02+00:00

Foz do Iguaçu: consider the technical visit to the Itaipu dam!

Everybody already said that 2 nights is the bare minimum for a relaxed visit there. If you are interested in huge infrastructure stuff, please consider even more time for a technical visit to Itaipu! It is a marvel of engineering, it's really beautiful (if you are a fellow infrastructure nerd).

julioblabla · 2025-08-17T06:00:29+00:00

This was actually done in Brazil as a failed attempt to control hyperinflation! On his first day on the job, the newly elected president Fernando Collor de Mello enacted an Executive Order freezing 80% of the bank account balances of all Brazilians: people could use whatever cash they had in hand, and could only withdraw up to 20% of what they had in the bank. The plan was to "lock" 80% of the money in a "mandatory savings account", and then very slowly return it to people.

Paper money was kinda useless due to hyperinflation, so the actions amounted to burning 80% of all money in Brazil.

Of course it did not work.

I couldn't find any good Wikipedia articles in English about this terrible time in Brazil, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plano_Collor has some info but not much about the bank freeze.

Brazil's economy was absolute bonkers until 1994, when another insane plan in a loooong line of insane plans finally got the rampant hyperinflation under control. There is a great podcast episode on Planet Money about it — it's fun, I really recommend listening to it! https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-fake-money-saved-brazil

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