Some companies leave signs in our neighborhood. I leave one-star reviews asking not to leave their signs in our neighborhood or to support those who do

Gawd, I love visiting Taos. Not sure I could live there but it’s such a cool place. I live in Denver, and when my friend visited from Saskatchewan, Canada I wanted to show her the most un-Canadian things I could think of. We ended up staying in Taos for a couple nights and visited Taos Pueblo. It was a good choice.

I love how new Teams doesn’t even have a contacts list for chat anymore, it’s just your most recent chats. And if you search for someone, any recent group chats with that person show up first so you may still have to scroll to find that person’s chat. Oh, and we store documents on Teams so if I want to switch between looking through the document repository and chat I still have to do a whole bunch of clicks between the two.

I don’t fault them for when my project manager tags @everyone on the group chat with an important message saying “good morning and happy Monday” though. I wish I were kidding.

When I wrote that I was thinking of what I had in Czechia! Kind of in between bread and a dumpling, not stuffed, and great to mop up some gravy.

Don’t get me wrong, I live a good pierogi, but I was trying to stick to the simple staples

They don’t already? My library system has since at least the early '00s.

Some places eat rice. Others prefer bread. Or dumplings (but not necessarily stuffed - like Eastern Europe). Or noodles, which themselves can be made from all kinds of things and are somehow different between Asian noodles and Italian pasta. Or cous cous. Or potato. Or… Or…

We have a ton of different carbs in this world. Some take more preparation than others when they get on the plate. That doesn’t mean we’re comparing apples and oranges (which, ironically, would actually be a great map as well)

Tobias, you blowhard!

English pronunciation can be difficult, though through tough thorough thought, it can generally be figured out

dessert climate

The idea is that if you attempt the riskier patients, you’re more likely to fail. That’s not the reason for our infant mortality rates being what they are, though. I remember seeing stories about the hospital in Gaza City shutting down, and there were similarly-sized babies in the NICU there too. I believe they were thankfully able to be evacuated into Egypt, but the point is we are not the only country birthing and subsequently caring for babies this size.

1$ and 34¢

Writing it this way instead of $1.34 gives me the heebie-jeebies for some reason

Father to a baby born at 1 pound, 4 ounces (580 grams for those who don’t know freedom units). Wife had preeclampsia and baby had to come out at 26 weeks (a little over 3 months early).

Obviously this is not common, but it’s far from the first time my hospital has dealt with that kind of thing. Our daughter has had her share of complications and specialists we’ve had to see. There are still some developmental delays, but nothing we’re expecting long-term. It’s been a HELL of a ride, no doubt, but she’s coming close to her second birthday and overall doing great!

Feel free to ask me anything you’d like about the experience. Although one NICU doctor said it best that every parent in this situation has the same 3 questions:

1. Will they survive? (in our case, yes)

2. Will they be normal? (As normal as an offspring raised in our house can be… Eventually)

3. When can they come home? (Ours did about a month after due date, 4 months and 4 days after birth)

I also got Z-wave shades from Bali when Home Depot had a 50% off custom window treatments sale. They’ve been wonderful, and integrate with Home Assistant very nicely overall. Battery lasts a long time (about 6 months of use, with a daily “round trip” and they’re still at about 60%) and status gets reported back. One piece on one shade got machined weirdly so I couldn’t use the Z-wave, and they were happy to send a replacement.

Bali is manufactured by a company called Springs Window Fashions. Might be worth looking into them and their other brands too!

Oh, and Home Depot has sample material books you can take home for a night to see what would work best for you.

I have a ton of east-facing windows on the back of my house. It’s a blessing or a curse depending on weather and time of day. I always dreamed about them running automatically, and eventually ordered a bunch of Z-wave controlled motorized shades. Then a Raspberry Pi running Home Assistant to control it all.

While I was waiting for those shades to arrive, I got a bunch of Kasa light switches so I didn’t have to sweep across the entire house to turn off all the lights every night. Turning the hallway light off after 9:45PM triggers the automation.

The rabbit hole only got bigger from there.

I hadn’t heard that story before. True or not, I’m glad it was there

Yeah, as a software engineer I have 3 monitors if you include the one built into my laptop

99.999% (or whatever) of the time cars are used to go from A to B and there’s no real thought about it. How many people do you really think make backups for purely personal storage redundancies? This feels more like grape juice and yeast kits (or whatever) from the prohibition era.

I probably count as that type of person you describe. I found a model on Lemmy that I really wanted to make and ended up buying an Ender 3 v2 cheap with a coupon at Micro Center. Has it totally been trouble-free? No. But I got it for a hundred bucks, plus a few addons (auto-level, flexible magnetic bed). I’d have to pay significantly more for a nicer one, when this is just an experimental hobby. I don’t care if I have to fiddle around a little more to get my occasional print going. In a way fine-tuning is part of the problem solving and tinkering I’m really looking for. I don’t care if the quality is less than what another printer can do. I don’t need a Cadillac when a Geo gets me to the grocery store just fine.

Oh, and most of my issues were caused by shitty filament. Once I went from some weird stuff on Amazon to the Inland I’ve had better success with, things went way better. I’m surprised that’s not mentioned more actually.

My great-uncle never learned how to use a computer (well, other than the TRS-80 he got before he retired). He was pretty mechanical though. Even if he probably wouldn’t understand much about how it worked, he probably would’ve appreciated 3D printing if used for a car part or something!

If that’s the approach they took, and especially if it made it into a source code repository, I’d probably have fired them a long time ago!