I’m pretty sure it’s actually those shoulder pads.

During thr gold-standard era, 1GBP was around 5USD, but a halfpenny was 1/480 of a pound, so a little more than a cent. The large-format cents issued up to 1857 were similar in size to the halfpennies of the late 1700s.

Mostly Goodwill and Craigslist finds.

JVC JR-S301 receiver (rebuilt) Three tuners (Sansui TU-717, JVC T-X55, and MCS 3050) because they’re a cheap source of lights and knobs Sony TC-RX79ES tape deck (belts replaced) Sony DVP-CX860 300-disc changer (not great at feeding discs, I mostly use it as a depository after ripping the discs to FLAC) Onkyo CP-1030F turntable (automatic mode is wonky- it keeps resetting after 3 seconds of play)

One thing that dawned on me… maybe CSD and some of the “new” window management paradigms (tiling, card style, etc.) are symbiotic. If you aren’t using the title bar for manipulating the window on a regular basis, you feel free to ignore or outright scramble it.

It creates a clear heirarchy of information too. The system owns the title bar, so any operations there are system operations.

At one point browsers did something similar for security awareness-- real permission prompts, etc. were set a few pixels over into the main UI to establist that they were “real” and not part of the page content.

Most of the time, we’re not so starved for pixels that we have tp be stealing from the title bar.

Hell, we lived thtough 640x480 desktops without even the cheat of hamburger menus.

Minotaurs have some potential for badass imagery. Reverse Centaur sounds intentionally clunky.

I have a 7900X3D and the Peerless Assassin 120 worked well. I swapped for a Zalman CNPS20X because you could get it for next to nothing at the time; it’s not much better (the RGB fans look neat but it’s so big it doesn’t fit well in some cases and the fans are prone to chattering noises at specific speeds)

The benefit I can imagine for an AIO is that it reduces cramping around the CPU, so you can essily release RAM or the GPU slot clip. But I suspect VRM cooling suffers; some vendors made an add-on fan to compensare IIRC.

If you could pull it off, cycling through schools every few decades probably is s viable way to keep up to date with broad advances in sciences and the arts, and get exposed to enough current culture to blend in more effectively.

Although the opportunities to blow the masquerade are intense.

You’re nominally a 17 year old whose family relocated from Topeka for the labour market. You really should not be chastizing Mrs Finster’s history class with your strong, intensely personal feelings about Martin van Buren.

It smells more like Facebook than Steam to me. they can print money for now because they have established scale and customer base, but it feels a bit slimy to where it might not be that appealing to new users. Dating services in general have a bad vibe-- bot problems, low quality matches, dark patterns, so authenticity is a big selling point, something AI drives a huge stake into.

I’d expect that thr gay community, after decades of being a target for abuse, tends to be a bit more sensitive of red flags and looking for truly safe spaces. The Facebook comparison breaks down there, as it has 700 million Aunt Martha users whose most politically sensitive post is in defence of Miracle Whip on salads.

I wonder if the next generation of memory will only have a SO-DIMM pinout so they don’t have to split limited supply. Maybe larger “desktop or highend laptop” modules will be physically longer like 2230/2280/22110 SSDs

There was also a period where you needed 3.5 AND 5.25 drives to use off the shelf software.

It was a literal 100-level course project in my CS programme in 2000 or so.

You didn’t even do it with a programmed CPU, you used 74xx logic gates and counters wired on a breadboard

Microsoft was probably the only firm with the resources to keep a Chromium fork current while uneinding Google’s enshittifications. But their incentives are too similar for that.

I always liked the premise where the countries that do the necrocacy stuff-- promoting dead generals and leaders to ever higher ranks and titles, still treating them as head of state…

It’s because they’re not dead. Kim Il-Sung is just biding his time in a coffin, gradually getting shoulder cramps as more and more brass is fitted to his uniform.

If only it were.

I took a coach for my last holiday. It was seven hours and $85 where a flight would have been 30 minutes and $60. I was willing to begrudge it, since this has hardly been a banner year for aviation safety in the US.

The Wifi didn’t work, sort of a dealbreaker when you’re traveling through remotest desert with no signal.

The bathroom door lock didn’t work reliably, so it was rattling all the way. Somehow I got assigned a seat next to it on both legs. At least it didn’t smell much.

They left the emergency roof exit/vent popped, a dubious choice on a trip to Las Vegas with temperatures around 40C.

The return bus broke down 15km from the destination so we had to wait sweating for a replacement.

OTOH, no TSA hassle. I still wish Amtrak was an option.

Giant isopods. Thry’re the big, ocean dwelling version of the little segmented crustaceans you find under rotten wood who ball up for defence.

Floats for currency in a payments platform.

The system will happily take a transaction for $121.765, and every so often there’s a dispute because one report ran it through round() and another through floor().

He’s so cute! He can monitor me any day!

I was initially surprised thst the stablecoin boom didn’t seem to involve more commodity or currency-basket pegged tokens.

But they aren’t in it for that, it’s a shiny digital way to go back to pre-1860s protocols where a paper dollar was made up by some dubious piggie and you had to know that it was really worth about 35 cents in government silver coin based on how hard it was to exchange, and insiders could make out like bandits via arbitrage and printing junk that they could pump and dump.

Aren’t most miners running ASICs that are pretty much only useful for mining specific coins? I was hoping we were past the last “people are buying off-the-shelves GPUs for crypto” bubble.