qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago

I grew up with a hand-cranked popcorn maker. Then, in grad school, I realized that you don't actually need any of that, just a pot with oil.

I heat up (medium) a tiny bit of neutral oil with a few kernels until they pop. Then I add ~1/4C neutral oil and ~1/3C popcorn kernels. When I can count to ten between pops I turn it off, empty in bowl, drizzle with olive oil and add salt and nutritional yeast (and MSG if you have it).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 14 points 1 week ago (5 children)

If you lose power, you can use one of these cables to power your house (or at least, the part of your house on that phase).

This is not how you should do this, but it can work. It is not a good idea (possibly illegal?).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hopefully you can publish in an open-access journal


if not it would be great if you could share an arXiv preprint :)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago

You said that no one...

I don't think that was the parent commenter though...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Political choice is between a turd sandwich and a giant douche" being my favorite example.

Neither candidate is/was ideal, but good lord to say that what's happening now is no different than when the other side was in power is beyond asinine, it's an incredibly disingenuous and offensive take on reality. (I know the SP episode wasn't about the current US political situation, but the current US political situation absolutely has its roots going back to those SP episodes.)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You experience the passage of time as ever increasing in speed, and before long the universe has died, leaving you


immortal and sentient


alone in the cold, dead cosmos, for eternity.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bonus points: use non-qwerty keyboard for added obfuscation (but keep the qwerty key caps of course).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's nerf ~~or~~ and nuttin'

FTFY

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago

It is really powerful per watt, and has a built-in UPS. Any homelab type things you could do with that? macOS+homebrew will give you a nice *NIX feel, very familiar if you're a Linux user.

I'm a fan of having a remote homelab computer+disk for off-site storage. This would be a good candidate in that it wouldn't use excessive power at a friend/family's place, but may be overkill (I use a pi3 for that).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago

I hope I'm wrong! I'd definitely consider buying some


hopefully you can report back with results. If they're slower than advertised but have the actual capacity that'd still be awesome!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago

Most of the time that leads to them dying.

Well, squishing has a 100% chance of them dying. With a toddler and a baby, having them run loose sadly isn't an option.

We live in a very mild climate, and there's under-deck and fence space around our house, in addition to bushes, trees, and underbrush


fairly suitable for a variety of arachnids. It's not the same as indoors, and survival rate certainly isn't 100%, but it's not the death sentence of going from a climate controlled house to below-freezing outdoors.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago

I'm just gonna go find a cash machine...

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