timey rubber water bottles for bed use

So in the UK we just call these “hot water bottles”

Which I’m just now really thinking about as a term and on reflection it’s a pretty rubbish name for them

I always thought someone should do a fight scene to Venetian Snares - A Lot of Drugs

I guess sometimes you need to be the change you want to see in the world

Yeah, 9v at the very least, but 15V would be a useful option too.

I’m also just now realising USB-PD doesn’t spec for 12V which feels like an odd omission

Edit:

From the article:

Sure, it wouldn’t be much harder to add support the other voltages offered by USB-C Power Delivery, but how often have you really needed 20 volts on a breadboard? Why add extra components and complication for a feature most people would never use?

My friend, you write for hackaday, this is a weird take

Tbf, these are slightly different things, the one in the OP hooks up to the standard power “rails” on a breadboard. You don’t need to buy a special one with markings specific to a pi or Arduino (or just learn the pin outs). OP’s also has the benefit of not taking up half a breadboard like your example.

Not saying more similar things don’t exist, but for the example you’ve given I think there’s significant enough differences for them to have distinct use cases.

Agree with what another comment said though in that it would be good to select for higher voltage than 5V.

I don’t think I’ve really ever deleted anything that wasn’t just a simple mistake (e.g. duplicate post or whatever) so I’m not worried about much there

I guess some people in my life might not realise quite how left wing I am, but I’ve not really kept it under wraps to anyone that’s asked.

I assume I’ll probably get targeted more by identity thieves and similar, which ultimately will probably be the biggest thing to fuck me over about the whole situation

People, if you’re not archiving the stuff on the internet you really care about, you’re really going to miss it when it’s gone—and more often than not it is “when” and not “if”.

You can get a 8tb external HDD for about £100 (and obviously smaller for a little bit less). It’s not an ideal preservation solution but it’s better than nothing (obvs set up a proper NAS with redundant storage if you’ve got the desire and money).

Niche TV shows, weird websites, helpful YouTube videos, Wikipedia (yes you can download Wikipedia), whatever it is, it’s really not much effort to make sure something you might miss won’t disappear without a chance for you to save it.

And use the rest of the free space on the disk to back up important stuff you’ve only got on a cloud storage (or even just local to a single device). Don’t only keep your photos in cloud storage.

Well that was a lot quicker than I expected

This would have been the perfect comment if you were from a slightly different instance

Edit: wait there is (was?) an “I use arch btw” instance right? I’m not imagining it?

Part of me wants to main Gentoo just to neutralise any arch smug I come across.

But then I remember I don’t really want a 2nd job

Every day is Sunday in the Christmas perineum

I’ve got an undergraduate masters (graduated over a decade ago), I don’t think I’d have got much other than stress and more debt if I went for a PhD and have enjoyed my jobs generally following university.

I’d say I’m pretty happy with how things have gone. Though if I had the option (somehow without much financial and time impact) I’d probably take random masters courses every few years because I just enjoy learning.

Piracy is a service problem.

Provide a good enough service and people won’t want to pirate. Anyone that still does in that scenario probably was never going to be a sale anyway.

Provide a bad service and people who would have happily paid get pushed towards piracy. The more people pirating, the better the tools get as you say.

People just want all their shit in one place for a reasonable fee.

It’s not rocket science, they already were there back when Netflix was new, they just let it get shit.

Can it be Elon? It would be a good bookend to his mall goth era

Well, now I want to see a robogoth film

I’d say I wash a pair of jeans about 10-14 days after first wearing them (often in rotation with another pair). I wash them inside out at 30 degrees and use a laundry sanitiser in addition to a non bio detergent, and hang dry. My jeans are mostly Levi’s 501s (nice enough, not crazy fancy or anything), and I’d say even the pair that’s a few years old now doesn’t look much different from when they were new

Yes this is exactly what I was thinking of, thanks!

Where have I seen this before, and does it involve Mario Kart?

3 hard problems in computer science

1. Cache invalidation
2. Naming things 4. Concur
3. Off by one errors

rency

Rich people spending some money is not trickle-down economics.

Trickle down economics is the lie that centralising capital in the hands of the few benefits everyone due to their increased ability to invest their capital.

What happens is they spend a small amount of their fortune in self-serving pursuits (e.g. their security in this scenario) and then they hoard the vast majority of what’s left. The incentive structure of capitalism means a capitalist benefits more from holding capital than distributing it.

The system is broken by design and cannot be fixed without replacing it