Higgs boson

I mean, its been more than a decade since mobile traffic overtook desktop web traffic. So yeah, it makes sense to prioritize mobile especially if they can get you to install their (spyware)app.

I’m sure it is a different ratio for things like B2B.

It only takes a few minutes of YouTube videos before you can do a passable men’s haircut.

I cut my own hair during the pandemic and never went back to paying for it.

Most people want the targeted ads and gamification. Especially people who install a Dunkin app.

edit: To be clear, I do not number among them.

Did you seriously make a post just to bad-mouth a kid who died?

You’re a piece of work.

House shoes. Been out in the slush and salt a lot, so I can’t just wear my boots like i prefer.

The “absurd” is usually the whole joke with Far Side. I grew up around cows, too. They’re so dumb and mundane, he plays on that a lot.

When I was a kid, we had a state park near our house. We would go there and there would be these Japanese tourists abandoning their cars to go try to hand feed deer. To me, they’re just a pest that eats our garden. But to the tourists, they were amazed.

I didnt get it until I visited Yellowstone and we abandoned our car to chase a bull moose (which is dangerously dumb, don’t do it.)

My favorites for fiction would be Neal Stephenson,Roger Zelazny, Fritz Leiber, Ursula Le Guin, Stephen R. Donaldson, Charles Bukowski, Iain Banks, Frederick Pohl, Glen Cook, Jim Butcher

I enjoyed them but as I recall it stays weird. I’m into that, though. My favorites are mostly pretty weird.

Yeah, that’s actually one point where I think the books were a bit weak. To me, she already was the mad Queen. How many people were slaughtered at her command in the books? If John Snow had slaughtered whole cities because they wouldn’t bend the knee, we could be expected to say some mean things about him.

Which, while they are quite good, they feel like the least “Stephen King” of his novels, even the bachman books.

I havent seen it in years because of forever stamps and digital postage, but people used to actually do this to make up for a few cents postage for a heavy letter, et c. My mom is notoriously cheap though, so maybe it is just us.

Ever tried to climb 5 flights of stairs after a redeye, with 56 lbs of luggage?

Pressure cooker. Not electric or anything fancy. Just a simple 6 at pressure cooker. I use it 3-4 times a week.

Alias(es) and pseudonyms

The proverbial hedgehog’s dilemma.

I’m old, I’ve seen Zardoz many times. ;)

Zardoz has spoken.

And how am I just now noticing ZardOZ bears similarities to a certain fictive wizard? The WiZARD of OZ

I guess I know what I am watching tonight.

My background is in enterprise software, so that is obviously different than a desktop tool for individual use, but it informs my opinions.

In general it depends on the use (is it “production” critical, etc) as well as the update and distribution mechanisms.

I have several (mostly for windows) FOSS projects i have stopped using or just rarely update because they require too many steps to update, and/or do so too often.Or they require a reboot. Some of them prompt for an update every time I start them. Feh.

That said, if there isn’t much friction like testing cycles or manual steps to update, I want faster updates.

Most of my self-hosted stuff falls into the category of getting updates via package managers or docker. Those are often seemless and do not require manual steps.

McMaster-Carr is the 8th wonder of the world.

The name being applied to aircraft supposedly comes from the engine noise from unpiloted target drones that used a jet engine. The term originally comes from the insect world, I bee-lieve.