I could imagine some statistician getting a Nobel prize for figuring out how to measure “we spent $1000 on advertising and it increased our sales by $1005”.

I mean that is the real point of all of this, isn’t it?

When you see companies that don’t advertise still making money you have to wonder why all of our eyeballs are full of shit all the time.

I found adjusting the z-axis to put the nozzle closer to the bed to help a lot on my prints when I had that problem.

I remember reading that. It was intense. I would recommend unless you are a recovering addict.

In your diagram, what is the difference between “flat head” and “Philips head”?

I use flatheads mostly on the covers of wall plates, and then you need Philips once you get the face off.

Sales tax makes sense to cover roads because a lot of the wear and tear on the roads is caused by the trucks that deliver goods. Even if you bike to the store, you are using the roads in that way.

I thought they were ferns but I was wrong, turns out they are grass.

Palm trees are angiosperms, which means flowering plants. They are monocots which means their seeds produce a single, leaf-like cotyledon when they sprout. This makes palms closely related to grasses and bamboos.

Via https://scienceoxygen.com/is-palm-tree-a-fern/

Wait until you find out what a fish is.

I will say I have never seen those movies but Hudsucker Proxy is in my list of favorite 20 movies.

There is the old adage “Nobody got fired for going with Microsoft”, and it is real.

If you, as an IT guy recommend Linux, and some exec has a problem with his laptop (which they would have had no matter what OS is running on it) it WILL be your fault because you changed something.

It’s not like the average person had any idea how E=MCC worked either. They just knew the formula.

Reading this made me think about how people have devices like this all over their lives.

I would love for a consumer group like the EFF or IEEE or whatever to “certify” devices from a security standpoint. It could start as a marketing point from the manufacturers standpoint, a logo they could add that says someone looked at it.

It also appears to have a price tag covering half of the second word of the brand name, that would almost make it look like the English word Sex.

This is it, when you look at sci-fi from that era you rarely see the analog of our current “phones”

The cost they charge for buying a new car and the cost they pay for the parts of that car are very different things.

They will charge $50k with or without AM radio and would rather do it without.

Up in Washington where we also have 100% mail in voting and there are ballot drop boxes all over the place. I usually walk up the street to the public library to drop off my ballot.

Ok, so the black pawn in f moves forward to prevent mate, but then white could use their move to enpassant moving their pawn in e to f, in the position behind where black’s pawn is in the picture, which is check again and possibly mate?

Wait, I don’t know the rules of chess that well, I know you can’t make a move that would put yourself in check, but if you move a pawn that triggers en passant, wouldn’t that just be an invalid move because technically you are putting yourself in check?

They would just have to find a reason to disable it via plot devices before every battle.

Kinda like in action movies where the heroes come out shooting guns at each other but immediately get them batted away so that they can begin hand to hand fighting.

It doesn’t HAVE to be but it makes it easy to have a schedule that only runs in certain days and it allows me to turn it on from the other room.