Samsung monitor. I decided to upgrade my WFH situation, and bought their 49" G9 Neo (5120 x 1440, 240 hz). I've always gone with Alienware/Dell in the past, but I assumed there were always better products out there. The Samsung display died on month 13 (one month out of warranty). The repair would've cost almost what I paid for the monitor outright. $1500 down the drain.
Some vehicles, especially ones with OEM performance tuning, run high compression ratios or forced induction. Higher octane gas allows for more compression within the piston before ignition. I had a 2003 Toyota Matrix that redlined at 9100 rpm and used their fancy Toyota variant of VTEC that would dynamically swap the camshafts on the engines past a certain RPM. Although the engine was naturally aspirated (no turbo), it had the compression ratio of 11.5:1, which is pretty high for an economy vehicle (1.8L)
Denture tablets are gentle enough to not remove the legends from the keycap, especially if its laser printed and not etched, double shot, or dye sublimated legends. You can speed the drying process by putting your keycaps in a dryer bag wrapped with a towel and shaking the water loose from the keycaps. As for cleaning the rest of the board, i use an air duster to blow out any "board chow" that has settled between the keycap posts. For the rest of the keyboard, water with a drop or two if dishwasher detergent. You can use other cleaners but be careful of stronger, undiluted solvents as the denaturing effect in some ingredients will ruin the case over time.
Likely anecdotal, but I recall doing a bad behavior (throwing another kids binder over the school fence), that absolutely mortified me in second grade.
Another one was me kicking an exit door of a school when a friend was deliberately holding the exit door closed.
Looking back, the punishments felt arbitrary based on some random factor that I didn’t understand as a kid. Throwing a binder meant monetary compensation (described by the principal). Kicking the door didn’t have a definitive reason, but I assumed general “rambunctiousness” was to blame.
Maybe I’m passing the buck here, but I didn’t completely understand the result of my actions, and felt, as an adult, was an obvious opportunity to teach a kid something enlightening but instead just got passed to my parents who were happy to punish me without context. I’m 38
One data point for you to add to the arbitrary column...
One of my children chucked their school laptop out of their bedroom window which then landed on concrete fifty feet below. The display was shattered, so I emailed the school and informed them that the laptop had been dropped and damaged, and can we order a replacement. They let us know the replacement cost, and we picked up the new laptop a few weeks later but were never billed for the expense :)
They owned up to it and were so upset about having done it that the discipline/consequences imposed were pretty mild. I made the point several times to them that they were incredibly lucky that no one was hit by it on the way down, and that they absolutely can't do it again. I'm pretty sure they hadn't thought that through.
If you (or anyone reading this) likes Andy Weir and hasn’t read Project Hail Mary, I urge you to do so. Scratches the same hard sci-fi itch The Martian and Artemis does. Also narrated by the same guy who narrates The Bobiverse series (another wonderful hard sci-fi series)
This is absolutely awesome. I make heavy use of ViolentMonkey and Stylus for my desktop experience, and after a decade of iPhone use, I feel I can replicate my desktop browsing habits on my phone.
I have a question about security, as I started porting my *Monkey scripts over, I notice there’s no API around access or security. If domain-specific extensions are shared in the community, what’s to prevent someone from developing a malicious script POSTing someone’s document.cookies to a DB?
The Javascript API is unrestricted at the moment so that is possible right now. That's why we make it a point to warn people to only install JS extensions from a trusted source right now, e.g. https://extensions.insightbrowser.com/extend/f15fa88b79
I live in Las Vegas (where it's recreationally legal), and they break down not only the amount of THC, but by percentage of each terpene in the strain. Nevada's cannabis industry is pretty heavily tested and regulated, definitely moreso than places we like to vacation, such as the PNW. Our last trip to Portland, we stopped by a dispensary to pick up a couple pre-rolls, and probed the bud-tenders about mercene percentage, only to realize later, it's not something regulated by the state. We left with some prerolls they suggested, and probably looking a bit like pretentious tourists.
Agreed. Our father passed away unexpectedly, and when you’re being upsold on the container he’ll be buried in, next to his weeping beloved for 30 years, the entire industry just feels predatory
