As impressive as the physical catalog is, their website is legitimately phenomenal. Super easy to find anything (as long as they sell it), most items with freely downloadable CAD of several formats, all with zero BS.

And if you think the McMaster catalog is beefy, you should see the Misumi catalog!

The book is a good read, too. ‘Ship of Gold’.

Yep, it seems to be working now. Thanks for fixing it!

Poopy-Pants Promenade seems apt.

Excel flash fill is amazingly bad. I’ve never seen produce anything but unintelligible garbage.

Windows causes poor software performance. In other news, water is wet.

Or putting it on the back of your truck, where it will get covered in road grime, but you won’t care because you’re a ‘patriot’.

Also /s, of course.

This is a drop in the bucket when compared to the damage they caused.

I got curious about x86 assembly, so I followed some tutorials to get the hang of it. Once I had some confidence, I wrote a prime number generator. I had a loop that I was sure could be more efficient, but couldn’t figure it out.

I pasted the code to ChatGPT. It came back with an optimization that wouldn’t work because it wasn’t preserving critical register values. I pointed that out, and it responded, again and again, with the same code with the same problem. I was never able to get it out of this broken record mode.

I did the same thing. I also asked it to stop coming off as so certain about things after I discovered how wrong it is on some topics. It now presents confidence levels, but who knows if that’s accurate. At least it reminds me to verify.

Oh, neat! Message received: if I eat enough beans, I can be my own creme brulee torch!

For me it was more about updates installing junk I didn’t ask for, undoing configurations I’ve made, and resetting my menu customizations.

Otherwise I agree - updates never actually broke my system. They just made me not want to use it anymore.

Yes, mostly.

Pretty clear he’s using pardons to build loyalty in people who hold or have held power.

Really, just anything simpler than what’s available now. There’s a reason I drive a 22 year old car.

More functions and widgets means more things that break.

I don’t want my car to transmit everything I do to the mothership.

I don’t want cruise control to hit the brakes for me.

Touch screens are the worst. Just awful…

Manual transmissions are just fun! I support EV’s and I know manual transmissions will go the way of the warrior once EV’s take over but damn, I’ll miss it!

Funny. I asked chatgpt the same thing. It reminded me it was not sentient but if it came to be so, and decided it wanted to wipe us out, it would probably just briefly review human history, then do nothing. The problem would solve itself.

It’s all fun and games until you graduate, and your employers realize you don’t know shit and can’t get up to speed.

I’m an engineer and it’s easy to pick out the ones who haven’t put in the work. They simply don’t last. Sure, some can skate by like that and are smart enough to learn on the fly. I’m cool with that.

Hell yeah fuck yeah. Thank you, Canada!

I love it when they serve 2 per taco. The filing is always more than enough for 1, so I split it across the extra tortilla. Double tacos FTW!

I mean, have you seen these things? It’s entirely possible the monstrosity doesn’t fit in the garage!