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Is that texture on the case from your build plate or the fancy new topside fuzzy skin algorithms?

Yeah, the dropoff in linear TV viewing is staggering. CBS does the best because their broadcast lineup skews old, not because it's particularly good. It also makes you understand why the suits sell their souls for live sports (especially gridiron football).

It's not a super new phenomenon either. The BBT was CBS's huge comedy hit of the 2010s, but it never had raw numbers that matched "The Single Guy," a two-season nothingburger that got canceled for not adequately holding onto its Friends lead-in audience.

I guess technically this is a spoiler, so...

• Shop around. For us, PODS was pretty convenient as local storage, but surprisingly pricy for a non-local (~300mi) move. I had a Shopsmith and a cast-iron contractor saw to consider.
• Whether you use movers or not, YOU are the one who knows the machines. Spend time (and it will be a lot) to break them down as compact as they can be. Remove fences, belts, extensions, wings, cutter heads, basically anything that wobbles or offers a point of leverage. Movers (if you use them) know heavy and they know awkward, but they don't know pulleys, tensioned induction motors, etc., and they sure don't know that the giant stick of steel tubing is the most precisely aligned part of your saw.
• At least consider selling the big iron. Sawstops in particular hold their value well, and then you can replace with something similar that only had to deal with a local move. Any loss you take should be considered a moving expense.
• Make sure chisels and blades are safely stowed, where "safely" means for both people and edges.
• View the whole exercise as a chance to revisit your tooling, layout, and workflow, and accept now that you will be spending a lot of time reassembling and re-aligning.

You know what? Go for it. Only existing brands get adapted these days and this is a good one. The book is different from the movie and both are very wink-and-nod about the creative pursuits. Maybe it will be good. Maybe it will suck. More even than other "franchises," a crappy musical would take nothing away from a good book and a great movie.

An Open Letter to Matt Groening

I may be misremembering, but I could have sworn Groening created the Simpsons for the Tracey Ullman Show specifically because he knew he wouldn't own them and he didn't want sign over his Life in Hell characters. They're sort of just doing what they were created to do. I doubt he could stop the zombie husk of the show if he tried.

Looks to be a late-15th century prayer book, likely illuminated by Robinet Testard and owned by the Count of Angoulême.

Fuck NIL, we need contracts

The genie's out of the bottle. I don't even pay attention until the close of fall camp anymore. Figure out a way to retain some essential nexus with the educational experience and sign these kids to three-year contracts with a two year option but also soccer-like buyout clauses.

I guess there is a Ford F-350 chassis under all the train shit and somehow it's street legal. I also read that the stretch of highway where it happened is poorly designed, and it's completely possible that a overcorrecting to avoid something in the road could lead a large vehicle to jump the very narrow median.

Everybody is on the right track that Torx or Robertson are by far the best driver heads, but y'all are not even looking at the threads and shanks. Lots to unpack here. If you are allowed an angle grinder or die grinder, then going longer might be better. Hardwoods don't like fine-pitched threads at all, and while sheet metal screws can work in a lot of wood products it's not ideal. Then, can you countersink, or are you going to be stuck the rest of your life with screw heads standing proud of the workpiece?

This is some serious shit, you guys, and should not be reduced to "Robertson 4 LYF!" We need a couple of committees and some use-case analyses and some brainstorming on workarounds with our inevitable compromise pick. It's gonna be exhausting!!!!!!!

Hi. I have largely settled in on a pattern for making my boards, which I admit will always reveal their DIY nature when you look close, and sometimes even from afar, LOL!

1. Design layout at https://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/
2. Import that information into the swillkb or ai03 plate generators
3. Edit the outside profile of the plate manually in 2D CAD software, and usually use that to also make a baseplate
4. Only done this once, as I usually hand-wire, but here is where I'd design the PCB and send it off for manufacturing, at least in the before-times when this wasn't prohibitively expensive.
5. Import the plate into 3D CAD software and design a case around it. This is still a time-consuming undertaking for me, so a couple of times I've skipped it and just used standoffs to separate the switches and circuitry from the base plate.
6. 3D print the case and any other bits that need it, like feet or blockers or MCU shells.
7. Laser cut the plates from something that my cheap Diode engraver can get through, generally "Masonite" hardboard.
8. Install switches into the plate and solder it up; for handwires this takes an awhile.
9. Install and edit the firmware. So far, I've always used KMK, but at some point I'd like to move on to the more common QMK.
10. Assemble the rest of the keyboard.

I haven't sold any DIY boards yet, but for the right customer, someone who understands the aesthetic limitations but still wants to pay too much for my time and needs something unique, I'd certainly consider it. I'm under no illusions that this is a large market, LOL.

As a fan of a B12 team, shadeur has some very nice throws, but no leadership skills and never struck me as a someone who could elevate his teammates. The taking sacks to avoid incompletions also felt very real, though I guess it could have been well-intentioned hero ball. He is what he is. A second round talent with sub-UFL intangibles, so will see where he lands.

Yup. I joked that we're still on Constitutional Republic version 2.27, and not only is the next point release long overdue, but we should really have upgraded to version 3 or 4 by now.

I think a huge part of the problem is that it's run on Gentlemen's agreements but we pretend it's not. The UK's "Constitution" is a hodgepodge of laws and court cases and things that probably closer to treaties than anything else. It's a mess, but they know it's a mess so there's a very real sense that the gentlemen's agreements are important and as real as anything else.

In America, we worship our Constitution like a holy text, but so many of our institutional controls depend on Judicial Review (which is not technically mentioned in the constitution), on following along with the presumed intent, and on fudging around the edges when it's obvious the machinery of the state would grind to a halt if we had to amend it every time a novel situation arose. Yet, nevertheless, we have an entire school of thought built around the idea of shallow surface readings. The "originalists," not to put too fine a point on it, are fucking idiots.

If you get the idea that the only important thing is the blackletter text agreed to by a gaggle of 18th century provincials, many of whom were intelligent and well-intentioned, but all of whom were elites and either slave-owners or okay with hanging out with slave owners, then you have a recipe for considering stupid shit like presidential immunity or having a speaker of the house who's not a Congressperson and who can become president despite already serving two full terms, because it doesn't explicitly say you can't. It's childish and dangerous, and their ascendancy in the judicial branch is a travesty.

The biggest issue is that the sockets were never really designed to be for enthusiasts changing switches all the time. They were designed for the factories to have multiple versions to sell with minimal retooling. If you are extremely diligent with removing the solder from the legs of the switches and keeping them straight, then yes, there's nothing to prevent this from working. However, a little blob here and there will make it much more likely that you tear a pad when inserting the switch into the GMMK, and also more likely that the socket will be slightly deformed and never work quite right with any other switch.

WASD is dead. ZSA and Nuphy seem to be fine.

I do unironically believe the Mercator projection has influenced how much he talks about Greenland.

Yeah, I guess just assuming ill intent and fascism makes it a simpler discussion that's still perfectly reasonable.