Oh yeah, I love learning things. It doesn’t mean I love actually doing them.

Wouldn’t it make more sense just to use × instead if that was the case? I guess maybe it makes it easier to differentiate it from x?

This right here is the exact reason, especially because x is frequently used as a variable which may be sitting directly nex to ×.

Whenever somebody asks you what time it is, tell them in UNIX time. Become ungovernable.

Seasoning in regards to cast iron has nothing to do with taste. It’s a polymerized layer of oils that acts as a nonstick coating. The process of seasoning cast iron is to lightly coat it in oil and heat that oil to smoke point and repeat that process several times.

I am groot.

As a Minnesotan I just have to say that I am so fucking happy that you all are giving him this reception. I was woried that when he got this position people would seem him as just some flyover state grandpa nobody cared about.

But you all seem to love him as much as we have here and it really gives me so much hope for this country. Like literally brings a tear to my eye.

Isn’t whatsapp owned by Zucc?

Signal is an improvement over twitter or facebook mesenger. There is no way I would be able get my friend group to switch from those to XMPP but I did get then to at least switch to signal. Is it a perfect solution? No. But it’s a hell of a lot better than what came before. Eventually I might get them over to something better like XMPP but nontechnically inclined people can’t make that jump in one go.

Looking at this as someone familiar to FOSS is a completely different perspective than for the average person. If you tell the average person to use XMPP then they’re going to type XMPP into their preinstalled app store and get confused about “which app is the XMPP app”.

I’m not familiar with that library.

Nah, I can’t even do that because every place in my area will straight up say that they will never diagnose an adult with adhd.

Just fill the hole with JB weld, put the bolt back in, and let the next guy think he broke it.

Honestly, their comercial ones are getting that way too. Like who the hell needs a touchscreen on an industrial thermal printer; thats just one more thing to easily break in an industrial environment. And god forbid you want a replacement touch screen because a new one is half the cost of a new printer.

When I worked IT, our honeywell rep used to swing by at random and bring the entire building doughnuts. And I’m not talking gas station doughnuts, I’m talking doughnuts from the best bakery in the state (which happened to be local). Perhaps, not surprisingly we used a lot of honeywell stuff. It isn’t hard to bribe IT guys.

The testicles?

Some are picky but even those you can almost always train them to eat pre killed. Usually the most you need to do is just warm the rat up and wiggle it with a tongs. Snakes are pretty dumb so that’s enough for it to look alive to them. It’s a whole lot more convient to have a freezer full or rats than to keep live rats. Not to mention live prey can be dangerous to the snake; it usually isn’t but before I finally got my snake to start eating prekilled one of the live rats I fed her gave her a scratch on her eye cap.

Also me to my snake.

There is a lot of info they need that frankly you can’t trust the average client to accurately give over the phone. They need to know what your walls are made of, are they concrete, brick, wood or metal stud? Are they going to need masonry tools? What is the interior wall material; asbestos reinforced plaster is still not uncommon in older houses and if they’re working with that the the price goes up dramatically? Is there electricity run to that location already or will they need a new circuit? If there is electricity run to that location does the existing circuit have capacity to handle the load? Is there even available space to mount the new unit? Is it in a neighborhood where it will need a cage around it to deter theives? And that’s only some of the info they need.

About the only accurate price they could give you over the phone is the cost of the unit itself which you could also just find via a google search. The actual labor and other costs will vary by orders of magnitude depending on certain conditions.

Unless you’re just talking about a minisplit or something $5k is remarkably cheap for a full AC install. Theres a big difference between throwing a window unit in and having an actual AC unit installed. You can’t just slap a second compressor on an existing condenser. It would need a second condenser or an upgrade and second circuit run for your existing one, plus running refrigerant pipes, likely running new wiring, ventilation, controls, refeigerant costs and system tuning. A window AC unit isn’t even in the same ballpark as far as price goes.

It would just be more time for some billionaire fuck wad to steal from me.

Hydroxazine is an antihistamine (in the same family as diphenhydramine) which is frequently prescribed for anxiety relief and as a sleep aid. It is safe and usually well tolerated. While there is addiction potential like there is for diphenhydramine, it is far far less addictive than benzos. An adult can safely take up to 100mg up to 4 times per day for anxiety relief. I can’t find dosages for insomnia anywhere but that probably because most people get completely knocked out by 30-50mg let alone 100mg. For reference, I’m a 260lb dude and 50mg will take me from anxiety attack to entirely unconsious in less than 30 minutes; a friend of mine says 25mg is enough to knock them out. Being an anticholinergic drug it isn’t great for long term use but it is still a whole lot better in that regard than benzos.

I know from my mother who is a nurse midwife that high dosages of hydroxazine are frequently given to women in labor when it’s going to be several hours until the baby actually starts ariving to let them sleep through most of the labor. If it can make someone sleep through labor pains I can’t imagine insomnia it couldn’t handle.