JustinTheGM @ JustinTheGM @ttrpg.network

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One aspect to consider is exactly what data these devices are exfiltrating from your network. You usually can't see the contents of the telemetry sent, but given that a LOT of smart devices have cameras and/or microphones, do you really trust that your IoT devices are not sending back audio and or video recordings of the inside of your house?

I always understood that phrase as more like "no point in half measures if the consequences are the same", because a lamb is a small sheep.

So, wild thought. If you can't brace from the front to prevent tipping, the other option would be to lock down the back. It also sounds like you need a smoother surface for your desk chair.

What if you laid down a sheet of plywood and attached the rear legs to it? If the rear legs can't lift, the desk can't tip to the front.

All those cool names, and then 'Varicose Wart Slug'. Poor guy.

difficult pifficult lemon squifficult

• crap
• dookie
• deuce
• the term 'steaming pile' is almost always used to evoke shit, even if not directly referring to shit
• grogan

I don't know if poopreport still exists, but if you're really interested in creative words for shit, that site is/was an absolute gold mine.

“It’s called colorized hyperspectral X-ray imaging with multi-metal targets, or CHXI MMT for short,” said project lead Edward Jimenez, an optical engineer

This guy isn't allowed to name things anymore.

I'm an ls -alh guy, myself.

To be fair on this one, based on actual functionality 'air nailer' or 'power hammer' is more accurate than 'nail gun'' anyway. Outside of movies, you can't use it as a gun without enough modification that it's no longer the same tool.

I'd say we're fully in agreement then. I certainly didn't mean to imply that adding difficulty alone was somehow automatically virtuous. It's maybe better to say there's virtue in doing some things the hard way.

I'm actually really curious to hear your definition of virtuous! For me, it's the 'has an overall positive effect' definition, not the wishy-washy 'moral' one.

There's a distinct difference between doing something "the hard way" and adding unnecessary complications. "The hard way" is just a faster way of saying "without all the modern conveniences." New York to Maine the hard way would be walking rather than driving.

The virtue in doing something the hard way is that it gives you a clearer look at the details. Walking from New York to Maine would give you a much more intimate understanding of the terrain than driving or flying.

That's assuming that an oncoming car wouldn't swerve at all if a cyclist entered their path. Dangerous or unpredictable behavior by anyone on a road puts everyone in the area at risk.

There's always the Jewel Cooler:

I mean, it is 100% discrimination against people who are too old to do the job, yes.

Truth, teaching these safety rules to kids is important whether you own guns or not, so they know how to act if they ever find one.

They build this picture from many other sources besides ad clicks, so the point is to obscure that. Problem is, if you're only obscuring your ad click behavior, it should be relatively easy to filter out of the model.

I hadn't clicked the link yet, but Concrete Donkey told me what it was immediately

Of gender-affirming surgical procedures identified among adults and minors, 1591 of 2664 (59.7%) and 82 of 85 (96.4%) were chest-related procedures, respectively.

This first part parses to me as "Of gender-affirming surgical procedures identified, 1591 of 2664 adult surgeries (59.7%) and 82 of 85 minor child surgeries (96.4%) were chest-related procedures, respectively." However, the next sentence doesn't seem to line up with that notion...

Of the 636 breast reductions among men, 507 (80%) were performed on cisgender men. Of the 151 breast reductions among boys, 146 (97%) were performed on cisgender boys (Figure 2).

To make this section easier to read, I replaced some words and phrases while hopefully keeping the meaning intact.

I kind of feel like this quote is referencing two different data sets, and is missing a segue. The numbers don't seem to line up with each other any way I poke at them.

15 square meters isn't the same as 15m×15m, it'd be a little smaller than 4m×4m. Still a big hole.