What flag does using a Casio watch raise? I have a G Shock that i love though i don't wear it as often nowadays.
It could put you in Guantanamo Bay: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W#Usage_in_terrori...
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1986 commented on Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon oregonlive.com/silicon-fo... · Posted by u/cbzbc
Not judging but that sounds worse than hell, at least the heating is free there.
Being able to walk to the store "sounds worse than hell"?
The Marketwatch link, which is paywalled, just links here:
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/novo-nordisk-s-can...
For me, it's that homesteading has lots of problem solving but in the physical realm.
It's not that it has strictly to do with being outside or away from the computer (that's nice though) but for me it's that you still get to build and be proud of what you've done.
When I do work away from the computer and more in farm/homestead situations, I'm still drawn to using technology to solve problems (e.g. Automating certain tasks with microcontrollers), so it's not a rejection of my $job.
I think it's that I'm a builder and a problem solver at heart, I love finding issues, fixing them and being glad. Homestead is often that 100x.
Have to disagree with the article though, I don't think it has anything to do with a mythos.
a friend recently described bouldering - which I understand is also fairly popular with engineers - as something to the effect of "solving problems in a physical space with your body". this seems not dissimilar
1986 commented on The great Hobby Lobby artifact heist meghanboilard.substack.co... · Posted by u/diodorus
Unclear as to the intent of the word "Heist" in the title. Seems they are paying top dollar if not more for collections sometimes not even authenticating them.
As long as they make everything available to the public and to researchers, I don't see anything wrong with it.
Also unclear on why this is a two-part story. Is there some big shoe to drop? Trying to avoid the impression that the author is not terribly fond of the Green family.
The "heist", which presumably gets covered in part 2, is that a lot of these items were originally looted from Iraq after the US invasion in 2003. US Customs ended up seizing a lot of them, and about 15,000 items ended up having to be returned.
1986 commented on The US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide apnews.com/article/us-air... · Posted by u/geox
DOGE is sharing all the data. Is there a specific line item that addresses the defunding of air quality monitoring? I couldn’t find one. If I were anti-DOGE, I could say, “Hey, people love air quality. Let’s stop sharing the air quality data and blame it on Musk! That’ll make people really angry at him.”
DOGE's shared data has been consistently off: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/doge-says-i...https://www.npr.org/2025/03/01/nx-s1-5313853/doge-savings-re...https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/us/politics/doge-musk-con...
And just to be clear - Occam's razor to you suggests that this project hasn't actually been defunded, but rather that the people working on this project have chosen to stop work on it in order to project the appearance that it has been defunded?
This is commonly repeated but incorrect. The Nyquist pledge is a far more powerful force keeping tax filing complex than Intuit lobbying. This is not a conspiracy theory, this is a stated practice of Americans for Tax Reform, the anti-tax conservative group.
*Norquist
I think that’s true on the very low end, but also on the high end. If the US government didn’t purge most of its software experts in the 90s on the basis that the US would be buying, not building, most of its software then maybe the Obamacare rollout wouldn’t have been bungled so badly. A competent senior software engineer in the room might have been able to prevent a horrible contractor from being hired in the first place, and they might have been able to tell the bureaucrats that they need to relax some of their impossible or impractical requirements.
Which was basically the point of the USDS, which has now been gutted of its original purpose and turned into DOGE
This must be above the top end of my hearing range cause I'm not sure what it means but I have an inkling
Really not enjoying the fascist-eugenic turn this place seems to be taking.
1986 commented on U.S. facing most intense flu season in at least 15 years pbs.org/newshour/health/u... · Posted by u/geox
Just anecdotally, my family and some friends both got pretty bad flus this January. I mean, not sure it was flu, wasn’t covid, but mild to moderate respiratory symptoms with lots of fatigue, coughing and sneezing for like 2 and a half weeks. No fever.
I also got this, felt like a cold that just took forever to clear. Wasn't covid, but didn't feel as bad as proper flu. I got my flu shot going into the season late last year.