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thews , 1 month ago to news in 54% of young Americans say food costs are the biggest strain on their finances

If your balcony could support the load you could grow quite densely with hydroponic towers, but you won’t ever recoup the costs. That method is also very little work beyond the initial compared to soil.

thews , 1 month ago to news in 54% of young Americans say food costs are the biggest strain on their finances

The article doesn’t say that. It says that most arent spending above 43% on housing. It doesn’t dig into that, likely on purpose.

archive (dot) is/2024.05.08-164727/economist.com/…/generation-z-is-unprecedentedly-r…

thews , 1 month ago to programmer_humor in Any Volunteers

You have found the Wayne’s World dungeon.

Welcome to Wayne’s World: The Game You find yourself in Aurora, Illinois, the hometown of Wayne and Garth. You’re on a mission to help them prepare for their biggest public access TV show yet. Scene 1: The Basement You’re in Wayne’s basement, surrounded by music gear, posters, and a comfy couch. Wayne and Garth are brainstorming ideas for their show, but they’re stuck. They need your help to come up with a killer opening segment. Do you: A) Suggest a musical number with Wayne and Garth performing a duet of “Bohemian Rhapsody” B) Recommend a comedy sketch parodying a popular movie or TV show C) Propose a special guest appearance by a local celebrity D) Suggest a “Top 10 List” segment, à la David Letterman Choose your response:

…

You have found the Encino Man Dungeon.

Encino Man: The Adventure Begins You are Brendan Fraser’s character, Link, a caveman who has been thawed out and is trying to navigate modern life in Encino, California. Your goal is to make it through each scene without getting into too much trouble. Scene 1: The Thaw You wake up in a block of ice in a backyard. You’re confused, hungry, and thirsty. You see a garden hose nearby. Do you: A) Drink from the hose B) Try to break out of the ice C) Look around for food D) Take a nap Choose your response:

LLM to generate ideas, history to check uniqueness

thews , 2 months ago to coffee in Anyone tried CoffeeSock? A V60 Style Reusable Cloth Coffee Filter

Rigid filter works great. I only use paper filters if I am bored and want to use the aeropress.

thews , 7 months ago to programmerhumor in PHP is dead?

Other languages behind reverse proxies from apache https or nginx do not have the same memory hit. You can still blame php. Not my fault they tied their language to the webserver in a way that uses tons of extra memory.

thews , 7 months ago to programmerhumor in PHP is dead?

Easy example. Have they fixed file upload behavior yet? Do they store the entire file in memory by default instead of chunking it and storing it as it comes in?

If not it’s like the worst memory usage of any language possible.

If you have to go change the php.ini to adjust file upload sizes, it’s not really moving forward and is decades behind other languages.

thews , 8 months ago to nostupidquestions in Why do people road rage?

In congested cities if you don’t enter the intersection when its not completely clear then you’ll have to wait ~40 minutes for a chance to go across. Waymo’s riders have that as one of the biggest frustrations. Then theres a gridlock behind them.

There’s no winning with cars.

thews , 8 months ago to memes in But it's all about convenience

I read your name as stoned morman

thews , 9 months ago to memes in Please, at least text me to ask if I'm ready

Ok

thews , 9 months ago to nostupidquestions in Do folks managing servers mainly do so via command-line interfaces?

For a single new problem that hasn’t yet been automated I use CLI utilities to collect information to use to write code for a new automation.

I use web UIs to monitor metrics (grafana) and write custom exporters to collect metrics that can show performance or potential issues and logs.

thews , 10 months ago to datahoarder in Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits

Emulate a block device and reference it to the cloud api, unless im missing something.

thews , 10 months ago to books in What do you do when a great book has an absolutely uninteresting storyline?

If I really like a book or series and there are parts that are very dry to me, I just skim to see if there’s anything I might miss. I rarely have to backtrack.