By far the most frustrating thing about plastering jobs is the drying times. This is especially true with inside corners - with a knife you pretty much can't do both sides the same day because you'll always end up messing up the opposite one. ...
I can do all sorts of DIY things around the house.
Drywall/plaster, I am terrible at. Much respect for those skilled in the trade. Their work on a ladder above their head beats what I can do at eye level over 2 days.
(The other thing I don’t touch is plumbing. Jeez, that water really wants to be outside of the pipes. Unlike drywall, the impact of bad plumbing is much more than an eyesore.)
This is a good tip, thanks. I have been approaching it with a "I'll build up a ton, then sand it back to what I need" which is probably one of the many ways I mess it up :)
Several attendees also complained about payment arrangements at food stalls inside the venue, saying food counters were accepting only cash and not digital payments
These food stall vendors are probably selling real deal delicious Indian street food. Cash only places are the best
Trump says everyday Americans deserve a chance to buy higher-risk ‘alternative’ investments. Critics say this could lead to big losses for small investors
Yes, and not only is this project very generically named, searching for what I was looking to do was difficult because of the wide range of options in terms of what a home dashboard should be...
Many people want home automation integration, I don't have any (centralized) home automation
Many projects with UI designed for smallish touch screens (e.g. wall mounted info panels, where you need to tap to see info)
Many projects want a full fledged grafana type install, overkill for me/my tiny homelab
I was aiming for something more akin to those hotel lobby TVs which show useful local info and news on a fixed refresh cycle. This was also common on cable TV years ago: some channels would just show weather and news headlines 24/7 on a fixed cycle with music.
I think, all things considered, they handled this pretty well, and I'm actually more likely now to read an Ars article than before the article (when I had a neutral opinion).
The "us vs them" mentality that western media has pushed is backfiring.
In reality its not a competition but western media and government wanted to frame it like that, for 20+ years, and now, oh...looks like the west is losing.
Friends had this bottle that had lost its stand, asked me for a replacement, super happy with the result. First time I've managed a proper glossy finish that I'm actually pleased with ...
...scrape by on minimal consumption. It’s a dark, sobering self-portrait of a generation...
Consumption != Happiness
The author channels a viewpoint of the government...if people can be happy and fulfilled without contributing to GDP, that's "dark, sobering." It's bad news for government planning but not necessarily bad for the people.
If they need social systems to support them, I am all for that (its good regardless, and I'm not in China so I have very little voice for them/understanding of what is available)
But the article just presents the authors editorialized view, which is from a government planning perspective, not from the perspective of what is good for these young people (or what they think would benefit them). So I take with a grain of salt the authors judgement of their choices, satisfaction, or opinion of what is "right" for them.
Its the "service economy." Instead of making things, industry (in the US at least) is heavily skewed towards providing services (aka things you subscribe to or need to buy each time you use).
Scott Shambaugh here. None of the quotes you attribute to me in the second half of the article are accurate, and do not exist at the source you link. It appears that they themselves are AI hallucinations. The irony here is fantastic.
I also used to get the chicken sandwiches (spicy, or asiago) pretty frequently. Like once or twice a month, but pretty consistently from like 2010-2019. The few times I've been since 2021, the price went up and the chicken cutlet (which used to be really thick, and real chicken breast, usually hot and juicy too) was thin, and full of mystery meat. And the price was higher. That sandwich used to fill me up, and now its just a few bites.
Well, I haven't been back. And I'm not going back, regardless of how many changes they make, because I discovered my local pizza shop has a nice chicken sandwich that's like $2 more but many times bigger and tastier.
Kind of hilarious that one component of their complaint is that the DeepSeek model is more energy/computation efficient than theirs. Welcome to the free market?!
Four people have died and three others have required liver transplants after eating the aptly named death cap mushroom that is proliferating in California following a rainy winter. ...
Their revenue is growing.
Their revenue only from Amazon sales to consumers is also growing (excluding things like AWS, streaming, and advertising).
The proportion of sales to Prime members is growing (they stopped reporting Prime membership, but we can presume that it also growing, from this).
The few people boycotting Amazon, maybe for short periods of time, isn’t enough. Every small step is helpful but we need much, much more.
For my part I last used Amazon services in 2024. (personally, not counting AWS at work)
Recently obtained a free circa-2017 mac mini which I installed Linux on, to create a docker hosting environment. Current have Jellyfin, SearXNG, and Forgejo.
My much older NAS serves as the NFS drive for the Jellyfin media (formerly, I ran Plex directly on the NAS, but this was slow/unreliable as the NAS has only dual 1Ghz ARM cores).
One of the drives in the NAS died Thursday night, but no serious issue as its RAID 1. I wonder if the new load on it pushed it over the edge. (Also, I wonder if I could use the mac minis SSD as a sort of cache in front of the NAS, to reduce wear on it, if that would even help...)
Luckily I had some gift cards from recycling old tablets and phones, so I could get a replacement drive at minimal cost. I went with a cheap WD Blue drive instead of the 2.5x more expensive Seagate IronWolf drives I had used in the past. We will see how that fares over the next few years.
Upon replacing the drive yesterday, I found the one that failed was a 2017 mfg date, so its life was 8 years (from when I initially populated the NAS). The other drive was replaced in 2021 (but it actually failed in 2020, I just left the NAS unused for a year at that time, so it had a life of 3 years). Some insight into the life span of the Iron Wolf drives.
Things I'd like to add soon:
kiwix instance
normalize my ebook/magazine collection
setup to download my youtube subscriptions to Jellyfin's media directory so I can avoid the youtube app/website
Moltbook is a “social media” site for AI agents that’s captured the public’s imagination over the last few days. Billed as the “front page of the agent internet,” Moltbook is a place where AI agents interact independently of human control, and whose posts have repeatedly gone viral because a certain set of AI users ...
Yes my cat does this too. The only foods that get a modestly interested reaction are sweets, falafel, and cheese. Very different from our previous cat who loved and tried (or wanted to try) all our foods, except eggs.
Their preferences are so specific, and seem mysterious since I don't understand them!
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California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves ( blog.adafruit.com )
California’s new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report on themselves targeting general-purpose machines. ...
Just saying
Oh corner trowel, where have you been all my life?
By far the most frustrating thing about plastering jobs is the drying times. This is especially true with inside corners - with a knife you pretty much can't do both sides the same day because you'll always end up messing up the opposite one. ...
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Trump says everyday Americans deserve a chance to buy higher-risk ‘alternative’ investments. Critics say this could lead to big losses for small investors
Glance home dashboard
I spent the long weekend setting up a home dashboard and thought I would share with this community. ...
The great computer science exodus (and where students are going instead) | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
ArsTechnica's response to the AI generated "quotations" ( arstechnica.com )
Backstory here: https://www.404media.co/ars-technica-pulls-article-with-ai-fabricated-quotes-about-ai-generated-article/ ...
Is this a 'very Chinese time in your life'? The trend boosting China's soft power ( www.bbc.com )
Walnut globe decanter stand thingy I've just finished
Friends had this bottle that had lost its stand, asked me for a replacement, super happy with the result. First time I've managed a proper glossy finish that I'm actually pleased with ...
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thediplomat.com/2026/02/chinas…
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Hacker News. ...
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OpenAI accuses China's DeepSeek of stealing AI technology 🤡 ( www.latimes.com )
Definition of can dish it but can't take it
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Four dead and three receive liver transplants after eating death cap mushrooms in California ( www.pbs.org )
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Self hosting Sunday! What's up and how long?
It's been a while, let's go! Any major fuckups lately or smooth sailing? ...
Ken negotiates
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