I was wide-eyed at this, and then I realized that I don’t own a laptop either! I have owned a few, but after my last one died 5+ years ago I’ve just been using my 10 year old desktop computer which doubles as a home server. I do have a work laptop, but I don’t own it.

Is it still a DEI hire if it’s also a glass cliff?

Makes sense. You don’t get high off your own supply. Norway is all about electric vehicles, too.

Lone Wolf type attacks do have a much lower chance of being discovered, but that doesn’t change that just running at a group of armed agents is dumb. Planting a bomb or sniping them at a distance seems like something with a higher chance of success. Or even a suicide vest, since surviving certainly wasn’t a goal for the guy.

Beat me to it by 30 minutes

There’s less and less reason to do it (and it’s never 5). On systems without floating point you might want to round it a bit, but only if the specific thing you’re doing allows it, and even then you’re more likely to do a fixed-point approach by using e.g. 314 and dividing by 100 later, or adjusting that value a bit so you can divide by 128 via bitshift if you’re on a chip where division is expensive. However, in 2025 you almost certainly should have picked a chip with an FPU if you’re doing trigonometry.

And while rounding pi to 3 or 4 is certainly just a meme, there are other approximations which are used, like small-angle approximations, where things like sin(x) can be simplified to just x for a sufficiently small x.

Which country is this? I think both American and European (or at least Norwegian) washers use standard plugs (although American dryers do not), so I’m just curious which areas use something custom for that.

A regular plug should be able to supply a washer with power, but dryers are a different story in countries using 110V power.

Love how you took the time for a point-for-point rebuttal while ignoring that I already acknowledged all of that:

Most of this can be achieved in other ways (like a smart plug measuring the current draw and a simple monthly reminder), but non-techies want turnkey solutions.

• It can tell you it’s done, so you notice the notification after a couple hours instead of finding musky clothes a day or two later
• It can tell you it’s time to do the self-cleaning cycle
• If you’re doing something unusual, like washing reusable diapers which need extra rinse cycles, you can upload a custom program for that to the washer
• Even more unusual, someone had stacked units and was too short to reach the buttons on the washer, so they liked to start it via the app instead of getting a stool

Most of this can be achieved in other ways (like a smart plug measuring the current draw and a simple monthly reminder), but non-techies want turnkey solutions.

I can’t see any reason to have WiFi on your dryer, though.

They have electricity with variable rates, and were waiting for the price to go down before enabling the AC.

The edges of the panels not lining up at all should be a hint. Watterson was only allowed to get creative with the panels on the larger Sunday strips, and he made it look good when he did.

I honestly think he’s still team Trump and always was, he just dropped the mask and is now trying desperately to put it back on to save his stock.

You are worthy of love, and there is someone out there for you, somewhere.

I totally get your feelings about dating sites, although I dislike them for different reasons. Maybe it’s better to try meeting people through other means?

You could join some kind of club which interests you and meet people that way, perhaps? It might take some pressure off, since you’re just doing something you enjoy and meeting people in the process. Maybe you get a new friend or even partner, maybe not.

There are even specific events for single people, where you do some activity together. I don’t know how the dynamic is on those events, though, because clearly they all know why they’re really there.

I wouldn’t bet money on Trump being capable of googling things, and he’s definitely incapable of admitting he doesn’t know something by asking about it.

Not sure Dr. Oz would have been any better, though…

It’s more a statement of the state of Christianity in the United States, where in a lot of congregations the actual teachings of Jesus have taken a back seat to gun culture and right wing politics.

She’s saying that the Japanese are better Christians than Americans, despite not even being Christians.

That is a big hint to why you feel you’re going slow. On flat or downhill ground I would usually be on the very hardest gear in order to be able to keep up with the wheels. If you’re constantly in a medium gear you’ll not reach very high speeds on easy terrain.

But maybe you shouldn’t worry about that right now. You’re pretty new to this, so you don’t need to optimize for speed. Just go at a pace comfortable for you, while you get used to this new way of moving. Perhaps it’s even a good thing to be going slower right now, that way there’s more time to react, and less injury if you have an accident.

I wouldn’t think of it that way. Just try to avoid twisting the chain too much. If your chain is all the way to the left in the front, keep it on the left half in the back. If you feel like moving the rear to the right half, just shift the front gear to the middle instead. Beyond that, just do whatever feels right.

I usually set the front to the ballpark I expect to be in for the foreseeable future, and fine tune in the rear as I go. It’s usually harder to shift the front while pedaling hard uphill in my experience.

I actually had the opposite problem! We had well water, but due to an extensive government information campaign, we took fluoride supplements.

After I cracked a few of my teeth on different occasions my parents suspected something was off, and had the well water tested. Turns out it had naturally occurring fluoride, and with the added supplements it was a little too much and my teeth got brittle. Thankfully this mostly happened to my baby teeth, so my adult teeth are mostly fine.

You can easily improve the cavity stats for adults by just having everyone lose their teeth by age 15.