I don't know if it's still a thing in the digital age, but having even just a few seconds of dead air back in the analogue broadcast days could mean that "silence detectors" all over the country would start going off and radio engineers everywhere would think there was some kind of problem with their station. So there had to be talking, music, something at pretty much all times.

If you wanted intentional silence you could play comfort noise in the background.

A "carriage house", in the backyard of some rich couple who were the landlords. I split it with a buddy. Open holes to the outside that we patched with duct tape. The entire thing listed to one side. It smelled like mold. Zero insulation or climate control of any kind. Landlord still stole food from our fridge when we were away.

There's a ton of these where I live. Probably the most common tick, actually. They are extremely aggressive, especially in the fall. The larva is so small you can't even tell they're not a fleck of dirt until they move. So many of them can get on you at once I describe it as a "plume" of ticks.

Trimming trails doesn't seem to prevent them from crawling across open ground climb on. I wouldn't know it if I was allergic to mammal meat, but I've heard people having reactions to gelatin pill capsules and other sneaky things.

It sucks, but the alternative is I don't experience the outdoors, so it's just something to deal with and plan for. All my clothing is treated with permethrin. I'm basically in "tick mode" any time I'm walking around except in the dead of winter.

For the times it is down, the Freetube UI offers an easy way to "open in <video player of choice>" or "open embedded player", both of which are much better than dealing with the default youtube UI.

Used it a ton in the art departments of vfx and game dev. Im talking about the tools that make assets, not the game engine or a runtime scripting language. More like the stuff launching and running in Maya, or Houdini, or Substance, etc.

Most of this is already highly OO, and there's a lot of interaction with C++. Python is the perfect language for this. There's a lot of rapid interation and gluing many different services and data together. Also you're waiting on file IO or some massive scene graph update all the time so having the tools be slightly slower doesn't matter. Also, at least in vfx, there's mixed Linux/Windows/Mac and it's great for that. ALSO art teams (unlike the programming team) have people who may not be super technical, and Python let's them write tools and scripts more easily. They don't even have to understand OO but you can say "copy this class template and implement these two methods" and they can write tools that "work" in the pipeline.

It's honestly a godsend. Before the industry settled on Python, every program had its own proprietary scripting language and some were quite limited. Their C++ APIs are all different, of course. So now everyone just ships with a Python interpreter, you manage launching each app so you can control PYTHONPATH and you're golden.

It's new to me, but there's a meme about every lesbian wanting a jeep, so maybe this is just metonymy for, "I'm a lesbian"?

The Threads logo looks like a parasitic whipworm.

Apparently its called "Innovis". I tried to find a few articles but they all read like press releases or AI slop.

There is a blurb on Wikipedia fortunately:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_bureau#Consumer_reporting_agency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovis

People here in the rural USA also think that factory jobs are magically "good", and that it was factory jobs themselves that created the middle class. As if the factory owner is somehow different and more noble than the owners of other giant corporations.

In reality the unions literally shed blood to make those jobs "good jobs". Those unions, and class consciousness, have since been destroyed. Even if 20th century style manufacturing did return it would just be another form of resource extraction. Those jobs may save people from the absolute destitution they face having been abandoned by their government but they're not going to support a healthy community. That's simply not good for business. When you don't give a fuck about human beings then what's actually "good" for business is a desperate, starving workforce.

People here praise Walmart, even though the community is demonstrably poorer. They've completely forgotten what was lost. They talk about that one great uncle who was fucked over by the unions the same way they talk about that one second cousin who never wore a seatbelt and was saved from a wreck when he was "thrown clear". They all believe they will somehow be thrown clear from the wreck that's been happening for 50 years.

Try to get a really early start so you aren't spending the last few hours driving in darkness. If you haven't listened to the "Shit town" podcast, it got me through a long drive once. This was on a 2012 car with no smartphone features besides basic bluetooth, but there was a pairing procedure that got audio to at least play (it was really wonky to setup, I had to look it up).

Edit: Big Caveat to my advice on the starting early, be careful if your trip ends inside a huge metro area on a weekday, as bad timing can land you straight into some horrendous rush-hour traffic.

Yeah, I've been fortunate enough to be offered those multiple times as well. I froze my credit with the big three agencies after the third or fourth breach. Recently learned there's apparently a fourth agency now? Cool. And there's hundreds of data broker sites...

As a settlement for the wrongful death of your parents you are entitled to 12 months of LifeLock's DataScrub™ service!

I had a tricky time getting hardware encoding to work and it ultimately ended up being I needed to expose the GPU to the Docker container. The yaml config needed:

    devices:
      - /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128
      - /dev/dri/card0:/dev/dri/card0

Note this was on a low-end Synology NAS with some sort of crappy intel GPU, but it actually works now, I was surprised. I only mention because before this I spent lots of time messing around with the Jellyfin settings and only the logs tipped me off. Jellyfin loves to fallback silently to CPU transcoding it seems, which I guess is good, but make troubleshooting unintuitive. Searching for log errors online gave me this solution.

There's no sleep like class sleep. Five minutes feels like an eight hour rest.

Just like BLM, it's convenient to the authors of the propaganda if you believe the entire city is a Thunderdome style madhouse. In fact, it's convenient for them if you paint entire states or even whole regions with a broad brush, so you can dehumanize millions of your countrymen. Actually, consider any type of unity with your fellow humans to be sketchy, except for going to the same church, buying the same brand, and working for the same company (no unions though!)

I've moved a lot and over the years I've lived in basically every part of the USA excluding New England. It's crazy the provincial opinions people have about the other regions and people, when in many cases you could make it a weekend trip to visit and see that no, you won't die immediately and yes, most people are just living their lives.

Yep, there's a term for this actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-band_signaling

It looks horrific to me. Like a film prop from Cronenberg or Lynch. I think it's the mix of mechanical motion, a material that reminds me of Jean Jacket's stomach from Nope, and a structure like a severely prolapsed rectum. No way could I get off in this thing.

I can't see the pics, but in my house the condensate drain comes out of the pan into a T. The T is vertical. The top branch is the clean-out and is capped off (but not glued). The bottom branch goes to a trap, and then the rest of the drain. So the trap is at the top.

Is this PVC? It really can't be snaked? Compressed air? Personally before I replumbed the whole thing I would cut a straight section, clean it out, then put a coupler back to fix the cut.

If people want to fart around with ffmpeg filters this site is great: https://ffmpeg.lav.io/

It would be hilarious if incompetence leads to a bunch of this being stolen, so they fork the blockchain into FreedomBurgerCoin. Maybe it happens a few times. I can't wait to bribe my way through checkpoints by sending the cops a couple FreedomBurgerCoin5_final_final. Using X of course.