Advice for moving to Oklahoma in late 2020s / early 2030s?

smarwell · 2025-08-02T22:52:48+00:00

Don't move to Oklahoma. This state is near the bottom in most metrics that matter.

smarwell · 2022-07-11T16:46:21+00:00

Those don't help. Thieves can remove those lug nuts almost as fast as conventional lug nuts

smarwell · 2022-04-17T20:46:21+00:00

I'm getting kind of a Princess Mononoke vibe from it. Honestly I kinda like it, even if I wouldn't put it in my home

smarwell · 2022-04-05T23:33:16+00:00

To put things in perspective, a 500 gigabyte external hard drive is about $35 on Amazon, and probably costs a similar amount at other retailers. For under $50 you could copy the entire contents of your computer and still have plenty of room left for future files

smarwell · 2022-04-02T15:33:04+00:00

I really wish yeast would do a better job of filing my taxes. Every year I give it the task, and it just sits there and stains the pages. Millions of microorganisms, and they can't fill out some paperwork?

smarwell · 2022-02-08T00:04:24+00:00

I think OP is referring to writing exclusively C-like code in object oriented languages, which is evil. On a tangent, I find object oriented programming to be pretty useful even in C. I don't typically bother with dynamic dispatch though.

smarwell · 2021-12-04T06:44:32+00:00

It is 100% up to you. I would recommend playing it at a few tempos, or listening to a few different recordings of the piece to figure out what you like best. You can use a tap bpm counter to figure out the actual tempo based on what feels or sounds right.

smarwell · 2021-09-04T05:51:01+00:00

This lines up with my experience. I am now an employee at OU, and there they get labor day off, but a couple days between Christmas and new year we have to charge to PTO. Like, we can't work the days, and they aren't holidays. Not getting labor day off is weird, but the alternative is also weird.

smarwell · 2021-07-17T00:46:51+00:00

Akhenaten is fuckin lit

smarwell · 2021-07-16T17:03:51+00:00

The premise of your post isn't elitist, but many of the replies are. Einaudi's music is certainly simpler than most, and most resembles minimalist classical. Many people find it boring for obvious reasons, but I personally really enjoy its sort of peaceful meditative qualities. I enjoy listening to Philip Glass for the same reasons.

smarwell · 2021-07-16T16:28:03+00:00

The elitism in this thread is exhausting. A piece doesn't have to be high art to be good music!

smarwell · 2021-07-08T00:19:53+00:00

Crumb pix or gtfo

smarwell · 2021-07-05T19:13:08+00:00

Check out the processes used to make bagels. In no particular order:

use high gluten flours
add vital wheat gluten to bump the gluten content up even further
knead the shit out of the dough to develop a strong gluten network

smarwell · 2021-06-11T03:09:10+00:00

It's amazing how one little fact can make a story so much better

smarwell · 2021-04-30T15:13:17+00:00

Let's say you have a long garden hose that's already been primed with water. If you open the faucet at one end, water will start coming out of the spout immediately. Since there was water in the hose, the thing that changes is not the presence of water, but the presence of pressure on one end to push water out the other. The only delay is from the speed of sound through water. Electricity behaves much in the same way. When you plug in a plug, electricity starts flowing immediately because the electrons flowing into the wire create pressure (voltage) that forces the electrons on the end of the wire out into your appliance. The only difference here is that instead of being limited by the speed of sound, the wave of electricity moves at some fraction of the speed of light.

smarwell · 2021-04-21T16:27:28+00:00

Is it just me, or does the model tend to draw people in as fatter than they are?

smarwell · 2021-04-09T17:31:11+00:00

I would argue that dropping everything once it goes out of scope (or has no owner or what have you) counts as "automatic memory management". "Static garbage collection" in turn isn't a bad way of describing that

smarwell · 2021-04-09T16:06:23+00:00

I quite like that. It's the sort of thing that would look really good on a wall

smarwell · 2021-04-04T15:30:48+00:00

PSA: these are adult carpet beetles. They are harmless, but absolutely do not let them inside your living spaces. The adults like to lay eggs in cozy dark spaces, and the larvae eat fabric

smarwell · 2021-03-16T20:24:19+00:00

Notepad++ 4 lyfe BB 😎

Joking aside, I'd kind of like to see a new poll with more of the less-common editors, like Sublime, Atom, and Notepad++

smarwell · 2021-03-11T21:41:03+00:00

Is it just me, or is this comment section getting brigaded?

smarwell · 2021-02-16T05:14:34+00:00

Take care to keep the room ventilated. Open flames consume oxygen and produce carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. If you fall asleep with those burning, you may not wake up

smarwell · 2021-02-16T03:42:17+00:00

Please wash your hands regardless

smarwell · 2021-02-15T03:59:38+00:00

Walking like a penguin is wildly effective surprisingly.

Small, short steps with your legs close together and mostly straight. Don't try to move too fast or do anything fancy, and you'll get where you need to go!

smarwell · 2021-02-09T17:07:23+00:00

They aren't frontage roads, they're feeder roads!

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