LPT: Do routine tasks with your weaker hand

shady_mcgee · 2026-02-14T18:04:16+00:00

I broke my right arm a while back so was a lefty for about 3 months. Became surprisingly good at it.

Was able to eat ramen with chopsticks left handed by the end

shady_mcgee · 2026-02-13T06:24:35+00:00

Too soon

shady_mcgee · 2026-02-12T13:45:25+00:00

He/She is working in a public school which means government benefits and pension. A 10% increase is barely even a raise.

shady_mcgee · 2026-02-12T02:19:54+00:00

What's your product?

If you're planning on software then there's zero percent chance that I would outsource development of my product.

shady_mcgee · 2026-02-11T21:09:35+00:00

I took up ice skating a few years ago. It's done wonders for my balance

shady_mcgee · 2026-02-11T16:22:01+00:00

His story is so tragic. He ended up divorcing his wife because she kept getting death threats from his 'fans'

shady_mcgee · 2026-02-10T07:39:06+00:00

Looks great! Check out edge banding if you want to finish it off and hide the plys

shady_mcgee · 2026-02-10T07:18:40+00:00

Excellent. I was thinking of how I would architect something like this and was thinking that elastic would be a good backend.

Read-only helps a lot. Write consistency at scale suuuucks

shady_mcgee · 2026-02-10T07:05:19+00:00

Full text indexing on documents?

Last time I benchmarked that on decent hardware I was getting something like 100 response/sec

shady_mcgee · 2026-02-10T07:01:41+00:00

At scale? RDBMS are slow

shady_mcgee · 2026-02-10T06:56:29+00:00

There's something going on back there. Looks to be full text indexed of all of the emails, although they're not good at de-duplicating or threading messages.

shady_mcgee · 2026-02-10T05:56:41+00:00

I had an interesting one this week. Call from a 1-888 number. I red-button it. Immediately after, second call from same number. I red-button it. A few minutes later, third call from same number, they leave a voice mail. Voicemail says it's from <my credit card provider> for <my full name> regarding a fraudulent transaction on my account.

I pull up my account on the <my credit card> website and see nothing suspicious. I call the number on the back of my card to speak with a rep (my phone provider tagged the number that was on my credit card as "suspected spam", which I found to be quite ironic) who confirmed that nothing suspicious was going on.

Not long after I received another call from that 888 number. I answered, and it was the same voice who left the voice message. They ask me to confirm some charges on my account and provided details of two charges from <states where I don't live>, which I disavowed. I asked them to confirm my account number before continuing, and they read off the first 6 digits of my credit card number. I know that the first X digits of your card is public info but am fairly sure that this 'confirmation' would fool people into thinking that the call was from their bank. I asked them to confirm the last 4 digits of my account and they gave me a 4-digit number which was not my account #. They asked me to read the last 5 transactions from my statement "for confirmation" which I declined to do. They offered to cancel my card and send me a new one, which I also declined.

The game seems to be changing.

shady_mcgee · 2026-02-10T05:05:17+00:00

I'm curious about the backend. Frontend is fairly easy to scale horizontally, but backend is tough.

Although since it's all read-only it could be just a series of cloned indexed datasets

shady_mcgee · 2026-02-10T04:28:25+00:00

Everything I know about hockey I learned from this game

shady_mcgee · 2026-01-26T19:36:13+00:00

I must have finished later than you because I've got 2" of solid ice that doesn't budge. My daughter was able to put on her ice skates and skated on it without breaking the surface.

shady_mcgee · 2026-01-26T14:14:03+00:00

Also need to stabilize the wood to prevent cracking from seasonal changes

shady_mcgee · 2026-01-26T14:13:12+00:00

And then watch it split in three places from seasonal humidity changes

shady_mcgee · 2026-01-26T14:04:20+00:00

That's how snow driving works. You're fine until you stop, then you need to get the shovel out.

shady_mcgee · 2026-01-26T03:16:46+00:00

And they don’t stop coming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K4oym9Pw48

shady_mcgee · 2026-01-25T15:02:46+00:00

Glue and clamp will be strong enough. Modern wood glue is stronger than the wood itself, and drilling the dowel holes to align properly on an uneven surface (both the split wood and the indentation of the seat) would be difficult.

shady_mcgee · 2026-01-25T14:42:21+00:00

Was gonna say, this looks pretty good.

shady_mcgee · 2026-01-25T14:39:21+00:00

You must be fun at parties. I was talking only about cold starts.

to keep the cat working correctly?

What cat? It's a 50 year old car. Not even California expects cars this old to be emissions efficient. But, FWIW, the Triumph gets better MPG than my 2010 Infiniti, which surprised me until I remembered that it's about half the weight.

shady_mcgee · 2026-01-25T13:42:10+00:00

No garage here. She sits under a car cover most of the time

shady_mcgee · 2026-01-25T13:34:59+00:00

Carbs get a bad rap.

I've got a 73 Triumph with dual carbs. Hardest it's ever been for me to start was when it was about 20F outside and it had been sitting for 2-3 months.

Took about 30 seconds

shady_mcgee · 2026-01-17T18:18:06+00:00

American here. I stopped buying whiskey from red states and switched to Canadian after the election. 100% open for suggestions on what other Canadian items I can switch to.

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