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I did that for unrelated reasons, I just 3d printed my way into a 40k hobby :P

Currently watching “The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya” and would recommend. The original release order if you can find it, I know Crunchyroll has chronological, which I’m less favorable towards.

I don’t watch many shows, and the ones I do like vary wildly on whether people will find them horrific or not, but:

Steins;Gate was a good watch. Nothing generally awful there, but there is a trans character who gets treated poorly by the other characters.

Black Butler’s just a fun show IMO, but some disagree. I even liked the second season, which is widely regarded as bad.

Liquor is commonly understood to be 40-50% ABV

None of this is really exact anyway. This is what doctors seem to go on

• 40%, 1.5oz liquor
• 12% 5oz wine
• 7%, 8oz malt liquoe
• 5%, 12oz beer

The problem is the beer I usually drink is in a 24 ounce can, and has 9.8% abv, and I don’t know a single person who would call that 4 drinks (which it is! One drink is .6oz of ethanol, and that can of beer has 2.4oz of ethanol)

Doctors try to get people to accurately report their lives because people aren’t thinking about this. I remember there was a place (Scotland maybe?) where they put how many “Units” of alcohol were in drinks, which I think is a good idea for these kinds of things. A unit seemed to be that 0.6oz (~17ml) of ethanol you get if you do the math on the earlier measurements.

Yeah, I’ve seen a lot of articles saying that GenZ is drinking less overall, and what they’re buying is nicer, which is making it harder for the alcopop companies that sell bulk cheap booze.

I think we tax alcohol higher in the States, and it depends on where you live for how difficult it is. Some places you can’t get any alcohol at the grocery store, some you can buy beer/wine at the grocery store, but anything harder is at a state-run liquor store, and some places they’ll sell you vodka at Walmart. There’s more variance, but yeah, depending on where you live alcohol’s more difficult to get than cigarettes, since those are at most grocery stores.

The comment this was a reply to was specifically about many Americans not knowing there’s a link. I wasn’t even disputing the link in the comment, more just pointing out that 2 cups of liquor seemed like a whole lot to be classed as “Light to moderate” drinking imo

Edit: The comment this is in response to links an article that states many Americans don’t know there’s a link between the two*

I mean, SL took off enough that it’s still here. A lot of F2P MMOs from around then aren’t really around anymore at all, I can only think of 2 others.

It may not be one of the big MMOs, but an estimated 600k MAU isn’t anything to sneeze at either.

Yep. Admittedly they didn’t know how much I was drinking, just how often, compared to the fact that I only drink a couple times a month most of the time.

I’d imagine some of the popcorn seasonings you can get would work well, too… Might try making them at home, I’ve gotten a bag of them pre-made before and liked them. Don’t have an air fryer, but I’d imagine a toaster oven would probably work well

I clicked one of the links, and read the study.

450ml of liquor per week isn’t light to moderate by most definitions? If you don’t drink 2 nights a week that’s 5 medically significant binges per week, every week. One “drink” in this context is 1oz (~29ml). Most of the doctors I’ve been to, when asking how much you drink, will even ask of you have 15 drinks per week. They cut that off at 7+.

While a lot of us don’t know the link to cancer, I’d imagine most of us know there’s something there.

I’m fine with doing alcohol like we did cigarettes, I was just kinda shocked that they called “5 medically significant binges per week” light to moderate drinking??? Even when I was drinking an amount that people were talking about doing an intervention for, it was less than half of that (1oz (29.5ml) per day)

On, no, I meant for knitting! Gave the full example here

Honestly, for what they’re using it for I’d say just get an external hard drive. Move completed assignments to the external as needed, that way they’re not risking grades if you can’t find it for a night or two. Unless they get some storage-heavy applications later, that should work fine.

The screenshot is in orgzly, but this is the actual file that I use. The source looks basically identical:

1. [X] CO160 (tail on right)
2. [X] b5vE, WT
3. [X] b3vE, WT
4. [X] b3vE, WT
5. [X] b4vE, WT
6. [X] 2, FW
7. [X] Field 1 [31/31]
   1. [X] 40, WT
   2. [X] 21, WT
   3. [X] 2, WT
   4. [X] 4, WT
   5. [X] 6, WT
   6. [X] 8, WT
   7. [X] 10, WT
   8. [X] 12, WT
   9. [X] 14, WT
   10. [X] 16, WT
   11. [X] 18, WT
   12. [X] 20, WT
   13. [X] 22, WT
   14. [X] 23, WT
   15. [X] 24, WT
   16. [X] 26, WT
   17. [X] 28, WT
   18. [X] 30, WT
   19. [X] 32, WT
   20. [X] 34, WT
   21. [X] 36, WT
   22. [X] 34, WT
   23. [X] 32, WT
   24. [X] 29, WT
   25. [X] 26, WT
   26. [X] 23, WT
   27. [X] 20, WT
   28. [X] 17, WT
   29. [X] 15, WT
   30. [X] 13, WT
   31. [X] 26, WT

Just hit C-c C-c <down> when the row’s done to mark it. It took me about 30 minutes to get the file set up, mostly because there are 45 sections like the “Field 1”, most patterns would just go straight through to whatever the final row is. Plus the pattern’s split into 3 columns, and a PDF, which is notoriously painful to convert to anything.

But yeah, no fancy configs, just basic org-mode functionality. I don’t code much at all, I just use org-mode because it’s been the best PKM tool I’ve found for myself.

If anyone’s curious about the pattern, it’s the Phoenix Wing Shawl by Nadine Schwingler on Ravelry

Oh, absolutely! My primary laptop is a t430 that I got for $50, got the charger for $7, a replacement CPU and RAM for $50 each. Runs better than my partner’s budget PC from a couple years ago. Still needs a new battery, but those aren’t too expensive either. It’s at 20-25% of the manufacturer capacity now.

I’m pretty sure my server was one of those, though. 1tb HDD, 16GB ram, no idea the other specs, but it was $100. Said it was new, but I 100% do not believe that because the RAM/HDD alone would cost $100 new

No, for knitting xD At this point I do an org-mode list of every row in the pattern with checkboxes, then tick them off as I do them. Way nicer, especially for patterns you have to reference multiple parts at the same time for

Emacs makes a better row counter than basically anything else.

Restoring old business laptops will usually get you a better laptop than buying a budget new one that costs the same.

I remember in college, when someone would get into MTG, we’d jokingly say coke’s cheaper.

Now, when someone I know gets into 40k, I much less jokingly say “MTG’s cheaper”

Then again, if you’re just playing for fun against friends, a $200 3d printer is cheaper than any army I’ve seen. Still costs more than a $45 booster draft, but at least the printer’s a one-time cost

6h for work, probably 4 on social media/chat apps, and then the remaining 6 are wildcards of cooking, exercise, or hobbies. Most of my hobbies include some screen time (all of them if we include things like turning on podcasts to listen to while knitting)

Probably averages out to 12h/day, more if we count multiple screens running at the same time in my line of sight (checking phone while playing games, which I’m doing now)

For me it really was the fediverse that saved my opinion of tech, at least at the start. From that I found HackerNews (which I don’t use anymore for reasons), then omg.lol, and went down a rabbit hole of self hosting that ended with me finding my love for tech again. Because it is disheartening, and a lot of how tech is now is just… Bad for you (and, admittedly, fedi’s no different there).

I also just… Disconnected from how a lot of tech is being run. While, yes, I’m doing this to avoid big tech, it’s also just fun for me, and I’m not gonna have Google being evil ruin a hobby that’s been with me for life.

That being said, I do a lot more analog stuff now, or stuff that’s digital but removed from the internet. Knitting, writing (though that is on a computer), journaling, boardgames, I’d even class about half of how 3d printing works in this. It’s about finding a balance that works for you

This is where I’m at. The process is fun for me, though. Setting everything up, maintaining it, seeing other people using the things I’ve put my time and effort into. Feels good.

Not for everyone, though, and I think that’s where division of labor comes in. We all have the weeds we wanna be in. Where someone sees weeds, I might see dandelions. Where I see weeds, someone else might see white clover, and we all work together to make each other’s lives easier

Summarizing text — probably not primarily books — is one area that I think might be more useful. It is a task that many people do spend time doing. Maybe it’s combining multiple reports from subordinates, say, and then pushing a summary upwards.

The problem I have with summarizing text is that it does often miss key features. Without using books as an example, for my work we have a knowledge base that we reference for things. We work in all 50 states, and the laws vary, and the AI will very frequently quote the wrong state’s laws, or tell us to do something possible in one state, but not in others. Could this get better? Maybe, but I’m not super convinced.

The rest of the comment isn’t exactly disagreeable, I’m just also concerned of the social costs. Not just for things like lost jobs, those always happen when new things come in. It sucks, but we do move on, and entire professions have been forgotten because they were automated long ago. A lot of the opinions I have about AI are a bit reactionary, but at the same time headlines like “AI chatbot talks child into suicide, and it’s really easy to get it to do that” is. Y’know. Not a great thing to read, especially when the tech is steeped in controversy in all directions. Copyright (which isn’t an issue they’ll ever get past without massive changes, and scrapping entire models), bringing smaller sites down with extensive scraping, job loss, environmental concerns (however overblown they may or may not be), increasing utility bills for areas, leading to the RAM shortage… It’s a whole lot of bad stuff, all for something that, largely, people don’t want, and is being forced into every aspect of our daily lives.

All this for something that people largely don’t want. I don’t even remember this many people being this anti-internet/computers. At worst I remember articles talking about how it’d be a passing fad. Granted I was a kid when the internet was really kicking off, but I was in an area where people were still mad about seatbelts, so I’d imagine at least a handful would’ve hated the internet if it were even half as bad as how little AI is wanted anywhere outside of CEO offices.

I’m sure AI will find some use-cases, I just don’t think they’re going to be user-facing at all, mostly due to how much they cost vs how much people will be willing to pay.