niucllos

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niucllos,

Definitely not my genre, but you could try The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion? It’s fairly comedic but I think checks all your boxes pretty well, including the last two (maybe not quite hate but definitely don’t view each other as romantic prospects)

niucllos, (edited )

Tariffs in general aren’t inherently bad if they protect domestic interests, especially against a foreign power that is subsidizing production as part of an economic power play. If Trump had limited his tariffs to China and Russia not included all of our allies I would have agreed with him. If we didn’t desperately need more EVs and if US automakers weren’t such colossal assholes about making good cheap EVs I’d agree with this one

niucllos,

Oh ho ho, where have you been that you think they’ll hold their own side to this standard?

niucllos,

Not to beat a dead horse but do you know how we get/got novel variation in crops before targeted DNA technology? It mostly wasn’t wild germpasm unless you happen to work with a crop with large amounts of historically documented pools, e.g. corn and wheat. No, most historical breeding programs use mutagens, either chemical or sometimes radioactive, to cause novel variation, grow the seed, see what looks interesting and not too weird, and cross it back into your gene pool. GMOs are significantly less mad science-y than what they replace.

niucllos,

Funny thing is they aren’t even GMOs, they’re hybrids between tetraploid and diploid watermelon cultivars. You could do it yourself in your backyard if you can find tetraploid seed for sale, or make it yourself with colchicine

Why Your VPN May Not Be As Secure As It Claims (krebsonsecurity.com)

Virtual private networking (VPN) companies market their services as a way to prevent anyone from snooping on your Internet usage. But new research suggests this is a dangerous assumption when connecting to a VPN via an untrusted network, because attackers on the same network could force a target’s traffic off of the protection...

niucllos,

As I understood it, VPNs don’t work in this threat model because it’s essentially routing traffic through a compromised router before it ever reaches the VPN, so the VPN acts normally but there’s a snooper before you ever connect to it

niucllos,

2001: A Space Odyssey is a fantastic Asimovesque sci-fi exploration of what happens when an entity that believes itself infallible discoveres a flaw in itself, sandwiched in the middle of a fever dream with little relevance to the story itself.

Hand waving the precise how of advanced technology is better than drafting full mechanisms unless you have extensive practical knowledge and don’t mind dating your work

niucllos,

And I think Dr Who before that, although the Borg are certainly more known for it

niucllos,

freesewing.org has somewhat limited patterns but they’re flexible and a really cool project!

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    niucllos,

    “We need you to stop making a good product forcing your customers to only use your version so your customers can finally move away from it.” Fixed it. Non-apple watches, for instance, can’t use GPS from an iPhone or cause it to emit sound to local lost phones, despite being previously able to, demonstrating no technical limitations just a walled-garden limitation

    niucllos,

    The point is that iPhone users are locked into (or strongly penalized for not using) Apple services like Apple wallet and storage and other apple devices like apple watches or earbuds, rather than competing openly. My partner has an iPhone and the hoops we have to jump through to get some–not all–google photos, Fitbit, and Klipsch headphones features working is mindboggling. Apple watches also straight up wouldn’t work without another apple devices to phone home to last I checked. That’s the anticompetitive lawsuit

    niucllos, (edited )

    What time is the bulk of the wedding/event? Tux/dinner jacket should really only be worn in the evening and will look a bit out of place in daylight along with being pretty hot and sweat-trapping due to the denser material and generally dark colors.

    I think the linen 3-piece suit is a great suggestion, but if you’re worried about wrinkles then a light-weight wool or wool-silk blend will also look great in summer and keep you cooler. For color, lighter colors are a bit less formal but more summery and feel cooler so maybe tan, khaki, or light warm-toned gray? And a matched 3-piece would bring the formality right back up.

    niucllos, (edited )

    They don’t require it, but cheap paper sometimes doesn’t play well with the water-based inks that fountain pens use and you get feathering (ink running down paper fibers and making your lines look blurry) or ink bleeding through the page. That being said, Japanese fine/extra fine like you’re looking at normally lay down a thin enough line that there’s no problem, my pilot kakuno never feathers even on the cheapest/worst paper

    niucllos,

    Anything with OnStar capability can definitely track you, which I know started at least as far back as 2006 in Saabs

    niucllos,

    You can tweak ink into your own colors and they can’t stop you! If you like an ink but it is too light/dark you can add a few drops of water or black or dark brown ink, respectively, to tweak it several shades in either direction without significantly changing the characteristics or hue of the ink. I suggest pipetting a bit out onto a nonabsorbent surface (I use takeout container lids) and adding 1-2 drops at a time and testing until I get my desired shade.

    niucllos,

    Oh I’ve got one too, PM me for it I guess?

    niucllos,

    A bit of a long shot but is it maybe one of The Seven Fabulous Wonders series by Katherine Roberts, maybe the Colossus Crisis?

    niucllos,

    Is this AI written? I’m pretty sure The Thief Lord doesn’t have a mysterious disease amywhere

    Thoughts on BOOX Tab Ultra C? (shop.boox.com)

    Does anyone here have a BOOX e-paper tablet? I’m a big fan of e-paper devices—I love my Pebble smartwatch, Kindle Paperwhite, and Light Phone II. I’ve been eyeing the Tab Ultra C for quite a while, and I am considering the pros and cons. Mostly, I intend to use it for browsing the web and maybe some light note taking and...

    niucllos,

    I thought they were all side-lit? Which is functionally the same imo but technically different

    niucllos,

    Analogue bike

    niucllos,

    Eh, it’s mixed. I’m also considering a bolt, but I do two ~500 mile drives a few times a year to visit family and the bolt adds like 2 hours to the drives. A smaller range Tesla with faster charging only adds like an hour, and would still more than meet my daily driving needs.

    niucllos,

    When I’m stuck at a charger for an extra hour with a small child and some cats then yeah it’s a pretty big deal. I’d much rather have a car with 2.5 hours of driving range that charges in 10-15 minutes and make several shorter jaunts than a 4 hour battery that adds 25% more time to every long trip

    niucllos,

    You should be able to, but US non-car infrastructure is so abysmal that there’s a strong chance you can’t safely unfortunately

    niucllos,

    Hell a roof rack on my 20 year old 3 series and a ton of rope has moved sofas, plywood and pallets, and one memorable trip 5 bikes

    niucllos,

    What’s your alternative? Unless there’s a successful January 6th equivalent the options are humoring the system and making progress as best you can or reject the system and maybe engage in resultless protests while letting fascists take over the system. At that point your options become be a fascist or die.

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