We do the fun parts taken from Yule (trees/greenery/lights) and Saturnalia (feasting). I think at this point it’s more a celebration of managing to make it through another year than anything else.

Frozen turkeys by me are $0.49/lb, so I now have 3 of them in my freezer.

They were basically hard drives where the read and write heads were in the drive itself and the platter was in the zip disc. When it was released it offered 100MB vs the 1.44 you could fit on a similarly sized (but much cheaper) floppy. USB hadn’t even been invented yet, let alone USB thumb drives or SD cards, so it was kinda the only semi-convenient, semi-cheap way to move semi-large amounts of media around. I was a graphic artist when they came out and it was a huge improvement to be able to send a zip disk or two to a printer to print proofs.

I will watch a Joy of Painting episode anytime I come across one on PBS (they stream on YouTube but it’s more fun to find it “in the wild”)

This could just be an ordinary Tuesday evening on the E train in NYC.

Lottery tickets.

They’re basically just a tax on the dumb. But man the slogans — all you need is a dollar and a dream, you gotta be in it to win it, etc. — sheer marketing genius.

Multiple countries have had the ability to put tons of weapons in space for a half century (and we know there are/were a few up there), so I don’t agree with you here - once we abandon our treaties, one country putting arms in space will inevitably lead to all countries putting arms in space “for defense”.

Big Diogenes energy

For a moment I thought these were candles and was about to question everything in life.

As for recipes, maybe use on grilled cheese instead of butter, or thin some into an egg and coat and bread chicken in it (which would then be baked or fried).

The common colloquialism is that objective reality has a liberal bias. So either you train your LLM on “woke” science and facts, or it spits out garbage nonsense that is obviously wrong to even the typical twitter user.

Didn’t Elon breathlessly explain how the plan was to have Grok rewrite and expand on the current corpus of knowledge so that the next Grok could be trained on that “superior” dataset, which would forever rid it of the wokeness?

I dunno, he looks like the kind of person who would enjoy some undercooked chicken.

I’ve been using it for 10+ years on a combination of Netgear, TP-Link and Raspberry Pi hardware, so at least that long?

Weird, I must be seeing a different screenshot, because all I read here is “TP Link would like you to overwrite its firmware with OpenWRT.”

I always waffle back and forth between this and Idiocracy as my favorite future-past documentaries.

For a while DMOZ was the authoritative source for whether a website was real and relevant for a given subject. It was 100% human-curated (I administered a couple of topics for years) and was so trusted that putting a site into a category could get it to the first page of Google pretty much guaranteed. That power waned over time, but not because Google found something better, but because their motivations changed. Maybe it’s time for a dmoz comeback. Maybe something federated…

I’m from a very Italian neighborhood. Angelo is a common name, if you’re feeling a bit ethnic and don’t want to stray too far from what you grew up with. Plus you’d get to learn all the hand gestures.

I bet he just reads it for the articles.

Boy, that’ll really teach them.

Put 5 biologists in a room and ask this question and you’ll get 5 different answers :)

But generally you’d be looking for at least some signs of:

• using external energy to manage internal entropy (metabolism)
• reproduction or perpetuation