Unrelated but is “foot gun” a common term? I’ve only ever seen it in AI generated outputs, but there I have seen it a lot. It must have come from somewhere though.

Ooh will we get to bail out AIG for a second time?!

Given those pedals down below I assume he likes to check his side-view mirror a lot.

No, I get it, but I’m a firm believer in “never attribute to malice what can instead be explained by stupidity”

@ProudCanadianCitizen@lemmy.ca you think it takes a concerted effort to make Trump sound like an idiot?

And they’re probably built just fine for 95C summers, since everyone would be dead anyway.

I’ve been taking my chances with refurb 6TB SAS drives since at about $120 they cost what my new 6TB drives cost 4 years ago. Im just trusting in the ZFS gods to never let me be more than 2 drives down at once.

He’s also the kind of person who doesn’t feel like he’s winning unless he’s making someone else feel like they’re losing – there’s no such thing as win-win. So a “rising tide lifts all boats” scenario does nothing for him.

The main advantage that plywood has is that it generally tolerates getting wet and drying out better, especially at edges and seams and around fasteners. So while it still will have a vapor barrier and some kind of external cladding in front of it, it’s used in my soggy neck of the woods instead of OSB just because it better tolerates moisture and humidity. Or it might just be a local code thing – maybe Big Wood is lining the pockets of your local city hall officials :)

MapQuest is a perfectly reasonable commercial alternative that has all of the things you’d expect - dynamically-loaded map tiles, turn-by-turn nav, etc. If you want to look at options that use OpenStreetMap data, I’ve found CoMaps to be very good. The biggest drawback is that you have to download maps (~100-300MB per geo area) all at once, which can be a problem if you’re on the road and don’t have great signal strength.

Originally it was because the ship carrying the official metric measures from France to the US in 1793 was captured by pirates. More recently it’s because there was a near-revolt when Jimmy Carter tried to reintroduce it in the 1970s in an attempt to make the US even slightly less regressive.

I’ve become conditioned to be afraid of anything framed as “protecting the children”.

I live in south Florida and replaced/resurfaced the asphalt parts of my roof with white PTO and silicone elastomer. It lowered power usage from AC by about 10% in the main zone and much more in a smaller zone where the AC ran constantly because it couldn’t maintain the temp (77F) with the black roof. That seems to be in line with current research but YMMV.

This is a cool map! One thing I would highlight is that the “All Items” RPP is expenditure-weighted, not a simple average of Goods, Rents, and Other Services (the 3 categories FRED lists). The weights are supposed to reflect how much consumers actually spend in those categories – so this could also be considered a very rough quality-of-life map too. That said, I couldn’t find what the FRED “all items” calculation was using for these weighted component values. The best I could find was one example from the Bureau of Economic Analysis that shows how the value is arrived at.

They probably consider it “doing a good deed” in exchange for harvesting your content to feed Gemini

I love this idea, but the article doesn’t do a good idea of explaining anything. For the uninitiated, a data collective/coop is exactly what it sounds like: a group of people voluntarily pooling their data together Data cooperatives allow contributors to get license their data however they may want (libre/some cc/proprietary/paid), and storage, transport, etc. are managed collectively.

FWIW, there’s a Mozilla Data Collective and their page isn’t bad.

Fun fact: cantaloupe is a variety of muskmelon!

I love this idea conceptually, but the biggest problem is that unless you really know what you’re talking about (and are a multi-domain expert), how the hell do you separate the true breakthroughs from all of the breathless media hype?

birds of a feather flock together.

How can you tell here? I’m looking at it and I think I could do something very similar in Inkscape in a half hour or maybe an hour (I’m a little rusty). But it looks like normal vector art to me?