I wish I lived in your world. It is very rare I find a long-sleeved garment whose sleeves are long enough, and it usually only takes a wash or two for them to become too short :(

They are fully synthetic, so may not suit you, and the brand is fishing/outdoors oriented, but Southern Marsh makes very comfortable T shirts that feature 30 UPF in their “performance shirt” lines. Have seen no shrinkage and the arms are long.

As a pale guy whose wife likes the beach, they have been very helpful.

EDIT: I'm sure they are nowhere near the only brand to use that particular mix of fibers (mostly a variety of polyester/Spandex mixes depending on the shirt), just the one whose shirts I own. And the "fishing" bit is about the designs - very heavy on the fishing/hunting designs.

Sadly I don't think anyone is coming to save us.

These are not all improvements. Listed:

* The year of YOLO and the Normalization of Deviance

* The year that Llama lost its way

* The year of alarmingly AI-enabled browsers

* The year of the lethal trifecta

* The year of slop

* The year that data centers got extremely unpopular

Not that YOLO, PJ Reddie released that in 2015

Said differently - the year we start to see all of the externalities of a globally scaled hyped tech trend.

Those look super cool, but I'm also not sure I'd be ready to throw down $340 for the 50 piece starter set.

I bought the magnatile-knockoff-version essentially and while not as pure montessori as the wooden blocks, they're 1/10th the price and my 4-year-old is _loving_ this kit: https://amzn.to/3MVXRXg

If you are okay with plastic, Gravitrax is similar, cheaper, and fun. My son and I like to build marble runs together.

Wood's expensive these days. It's probably costing close to a ton just for the nice beech they're made of.

Beech is the cheapest of the common European hardwoods. Even through a distributor it’s only about 1400-1700 € per cubic meter in 5cm / 2” planks. For context, the cheapest construction lumber is about 300-800, oak 2500, american walnut 4000.

Have you tried buying cheap crappy sheathing ply recently?

It’s not great compared to 10 years ago, but the last 3 years it’s been pretty stable. About 11-15 euros incl VAT per square meter at retail prices for the cheapest 3-ply 9mm and 5-ply 12mm softwood ply, brazilian import.

I dabble in furniture, which means I’m looking at baltic birch plywood, at about 40 euros per square meter of 15mm 11-ply sheets. At that pricepoint I might as well buy actual hardwood lumber.

Thank you for selling your version online!

Then proton becomes your single point of failure.

"But I use my addresses on my own domain" ok your domain registrar, then.

I grew up calling it "Paper Scissors Rock"!

If you want to avoid "scary" math words, you could frame this as picking any 5 'corners' on a sheet of squared paper (of any arbitrary size)

Not really relevant to the conversation, but:

I stumbled across your watchface recently and absolutely love it. It's remarkable how much information density you've achieved while still maintaining "at a glance" clarity. Thank you for the work you put into it!

Thank you!

Once upon a time I read the joking phrase "M as in Mancy" and now it is the only thing I can ever think of when trying to spell out the letter M.

Perhaps I have now infected one of you. I am sorry.

This was originated (or at least popularized) in an episode of Archer from season 1. It remains maybe my favorite 5 minutes of comedy ever out to screen. It's just so tight!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=dNYMQpcqscA

I once had a customer say, ”G as in dog”. Yes.

In my head I also maintain what I call the "adversarial NATO alphabet", which is sadly incomplete, but contains stuff like, "C, as in sea"; "Q, as in cue"; "T, as in tea", "I, as in eye".