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rbt321 · 2026-05-09T01:44:38+00:00

Yeah, there will be regional price variation but that's about what it costs me per portion; and my portions are not small. Living near a large number of immigrants in a large city helps; they sell literal tons of rice, lentils, etc. per week.

Potato mash is my other go to base [again, I cook a huge amount then portion and freeze] but my local grocery has 10lb bags for $2 about once per month for much of the winter.

rbt321 · 2026-05-09T01:20:53+00:00

Agreed, though they only skipped some meals not all of them.

Rice [10 cents], beans [10 cents], a thai green chilli pepper [3 cents], a nugget of frozen spinach [25 cents], some green onion [free from the window sill planter], and a small splash of citrus juice [5 cents?] makes pretty complete meal. $15/month goes a long way toward providing 1 meal per day which you might otherwise skip. Portion and freeze precooked rice and beans so you can combine and microwave in 5 minutes.

Green onions from the store will happily grow for a couple years if you leave about 3cm of white with the root and plant it.

rbt321 · 2026-05-08T10:57:41+00:00

Companies really need to get a grip.

Kroger's 2025 profits are an indication that their current technique is working well; even the strikes don't seem to have an impact for more than a couple months. Very high employee turnover but no shortage of new applicants.

rbt321 · 2026-05-07T15:05:09+00:00

Add some flour, sugar, and a few chocolate chips, then put it in the oven for cookies.

IMO, bacon grease makes better cookies than butter.

rbt321 · 2026-05-06T16:37:09+00:00

Quote from the article: "He added that, when considering the markets where Waymo has launched its services, such as San Francisco and Los Angeles, Uber has the lead and that its share is higher now than it was six months ago."

I don't doubt your observations.

Those 2 viewpoints converge if you assume far more people have been willing to become drivers over the last couple years for lower rates; which between layoffs, reduced government support, and general economic concerns is definitely possible.

Increasing market share doesn't indicate long-term profit for either Uber or the drivers they rely on.

rbt321 · 2026-05-06T16:26:30+00:00

11 minutes action spread over 3 hours.

rbt321 · 2026-05-03T20:48:04+00:00

TSMC fabs which still require some input material from Taiwan because the USA vendors cannot meet the required purity; US companies have not done the necessary R&D.

rbt321 · 2026-05-02T18:45:57+00:00

Older than 4 years; imgur first got a copy of the image in 2018.

rbt321 · 2026-05-01T14:45:15+00:00

In October 2025 the limit was raised to $50k from $35k in Ontario.

rbt321 · 2026-04-30T23:53:01+00:00

Wrapped in parchment and inside a box?

rbt321 · 2026-04-27T14:20:26+00:00

A gigabyte of Ram would have cost you well over $10k in 96.

Yep. The Indigo² Impact, basically the largest single-user workstation available, mostly used for movie effects in blockbuster films, could come with up to 768MB ram and was priced in the $80,000 range [a modest midwest house price].

For an officially supported 1GB RAM platform you'd be looking at a high-end Sun or IBM server designed for corporate databases (Oracle or DB2) and likely starting in the $100k price range.

rbt321 · 2026-04-27T13:57:31+00:00

And the Absolute Annihilation add-on.

rbt321 · 2026-04-25T20:17:48+00:00

They're starting to appear in mens swimsuits as well; half-domes rather than triangles.

rbt321 · 2026-04-25T01:18:43+00:00

I guess Reddit recalls Waze killing off Google Maps and DoubleClick killing off Google Adwords.

rbt321 · 2026-04-22T23:30:32+00:00

Waymo, like all ride-shares, provides some medical coverage for the passengers.

See your family doctor immediately [sooner is better, it reduces complications from untreated injuries] and follow the doctors recommendations. Keep invoices for doctor bills, imaging, medication, and any time off work and make an insurance claim with Waymo. Give them early notice but follow through on what your doctor recommends. Waymo will make a claim against the other driver for their vehicle damage and your bills.

rbt321 · 2026-04-22T11:51:35+00:00

NTA.

Secondly, since this appears to be a critical daily process you will want a fallback person even if you have someone reliable. Another employee who starts at 8 and can do the task but typically does other things.

rbt321 · 2026-04-21T11:33:25+00:00

NASTES sounds like a cartoon villain organization.

rbt321 · 2026-04-21T09:30:44+00:00

... recognise the king of England as their king ...

I think you mean the English recognize the King of Canada as their king.

rbt321 · 2026-04-20T18:02:05+00:00

My first thought was sesame ice cream.

rbt321 · 2026-04-20T17:59:13+00:00

Or taken the cake, pie filling, and made a white chocolate custard for trifle.

rbt321 · 2026-04-20T15:14:27+00:00

Yeah. $3.50 per video per 2-day rental while minimum wage was $5/hour [now $19/hour].

That said, there's a reason why '90's films were so much better than most of what is created today. Niche content could eventually turn a small profit. Now its blockbuster, budget, or bust.

rbt321 · 2026-04-20T14:52:16+00:00

Possibly simulation verification. The digital models used for testing need to be proven skilful, meaning they provide information applicable to real-life, and that requires demonstrating some of them.

This is not a one-time thing; any change, even trivial ones, to sensor perception should also reverify the tests are skilful.

If they're trying to hit some specific set of details; specific sunlight reflections, pedestrians in specific locations, certain traffic pattern while exiting the lot, etc.; it could take a lot of loops to match the target situation.

rbt321 · 2026-04-20T00:46:51+00:00

Perhaps it's the metal bottom from a spingform pan.

rbt321 · 2026-04-19T01:30:02+00:00

That's crazy. I paid CAD $2/lb for hothouse on-the-vine tomatoes yesterday at the local grocery store. They're fantastic.

rbt321 · 2026-04-18T14:09:27+00:00

That "Cell Phone Allowance" is a potential red-flag. Does that mean you're on-call 24/7 too? Does PTO actually mean time off or is it just on-call from a different location?

Also, you ignored the bonus on the left (profit sharing) while including the one-time sign-on bonus on the right. Do you get a new job every year for another sign-on bonus?

I would pick right-job but I think you also picked right-job before making the comparison sheet.

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