A 50° temperature swing in a single day is a bit much.

While I can understand employers throwing in arbitrary requirements like a degree just to filter out some applicants, I roll my eyes when I see a PhD requirement along with a salary well under $100k.

The thing is, for Catholics, it was officially settled in 1950 by Pope Pius XII with his encyclical Humani Generis. Thereafter, the Catholic church officially believes in evolution. I'm a little boggled more people don't know this.

This is the drilled-out rivet-nut that had previously held the actuator in position. Unclear if there was a cleaner way to remove it, but drilling/grinding it out did the job. Looks like a 3-petaled metal flower, with a button head screw in the middle with a triangular recess.

The passenger door, showing the original fitmet (on bottom). Looks like a plastic retaining clip holds the end of the attachment screw in position.

The door after repairs, the actuator attachment (bottom) is now a nut and washer on a 10-24 screw.

The power lock stopped working on one of my car doors. Opened it up, it turned out the actuator was no longer attached, the weird little screw-rivet that held it in place had broken. Drilled it out, replaced it with a 10-24 screw and a clip nut, secured it with a nut and washer. Works fine again!

Unless, of course, you're avoiding that *other* book, then the words come like a swiftly flowing river.

So the Toyota Echo was tuned to sound like a rattling mess?

TRIPLE letterboxed scene from King of the Hill on an already-small LCD monitor.

Sadly, I've seen worse. Part of the problem is with the display.

I took the "final expense insurance" people making illegal robocalls to court. They tried a bunch of delaying tactics and to get the case dismissed, but we persisted. Then we caught them lying on a deposition, and suddenly they were willing to settle. We got $50,000, of which I pocketed $7500.

I shall narfl the garthak.

Too bad it's on spamazon.

There is some support for the notion that humans returned to the water (losing their fur), then re-returned to land.

Building a single board computer, it ran, but very slowly. I worked my way back to the clock generator, which is a simple inverter and crystal lashup. For some reason, it was oscillating at about 300kHz instead of 16MHz. Oscillator works with a '00 but not an '04 (same type and brand). Wat.

Pull quote from the linked article: "If renting infrastructure is the only product, the only remaining dimension to compete on is price".

The silly assertion that the only thing they can compete on is cost just doesn't fly. There's also ease of use, security, platform variety, and allied services. Google utterly dominates on all of these.

I read like a fiend. A computer can't think, let alone think "for" me.

School taught me that history was boring. It took me a few years to unlearn that (hat tip to James Burke for showing me the way).

But why is the drive itself longer???

Snowy field with scattered footprints of various critters, and one area that looks slightly raised, with a dense pattern of small dents in it. Overhead is blue sky, with a bit of lense flare in the upper right corner. In the distance are trees, buildings, utility poles, etc.

There's one area in the snow that's covered with little divots, I'm not sure why. I'll see this kind of thing under trees or birdfeeders, but this is out in the open.

Business end of a windshield squeegee, with the scrubbing/sponge pad at the bottom, the rubber squeegee blade at the top, and the mysterious translucent plastic tabs with holes in them at the ends, held in place by screws.

I'm looking at an ordinary windshield squeegee, and wondering what the plastic tabs sticking out the ends are for.

On left, artwork of a cheerful snowman with the text "Let It Snow", with the caption "December". On right, town sign in a snowy field showing town meeting dates and the central message "LET IT MELT", with the caption "February".

If you enjoy space opera, you can get a good feel for where the tropes began with E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Skylark" novels.

Visiting Europe drove home that it's possible to build nice, affordable EVs. I was getting tempted to import one, it would have been cheaper than buying one on the US market.

We're still trying to figure out if it was mumbling, bad handwriting, or fat fingering the virtual phone keyboard that somehow transmogrified ordering home fries into ordering drone strikes.

Aside from the wonky Bluetooth implementation, it's a fairly nice mouse and hasn't broken on me.

Additional bonuses are that you can wire this with a 2-layer board, and it looks great with LED underlighting.

I actually "bought" something from amazon. "Melania: devourer of men" in ebook format. It's free, so I didn't give them any money, but did my part to poison search results for things about "melania". Heh heh heh.

And in return, warm air is being shuttled up to the arctic, further perturbing the weather patterns. It's nearing a positive feedback loop, which would be a disaster on a global scale (last time this happened was a major extinction event).

Reginald the Vampire.

I don't have the balance to ride a bike, so I trike.

Is Neon Brown Possible? YouTube video by Vsauce

The thing is beige is technically light brown, and "brown" isn't really a separate color, it's basically "dark orange". Which means you can't have glowing (or fluorescent) brown, or, by extension, beige. www.youtube.com/shorts/vnpOG...