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I encountered a Steve Stevens in Golden, CO who hacked two magnets on his ordinary to read accurate speeds on his cyclocomputer.

This was already happening (as early as 2019), but on a forum-by-forum referer ban for hotlinked images. Imgur support wouldn't respond to forum owners. https://forums.nasioc.com/f…

Helmet hair. Once my hair gets compressed by a helmet, nothing other than a shower can fix it, and we don't have showers at work [not an issue as I'm remote now]. I live less than …

Carrying to meetings to be productive or stare at Zombo (back when meetings were in person). Some of my co-workers have a hybrid schedule and work won't give us two machines. Getti…

A lot of that learning experience depends on context- I had a nerdy, young (early to mid 20s) high school teacher teaching classic and not liturgical, many had strict Catholic scho…

Nobody gets paid if you're an autodidact.

I have always assumed this and the $500 toilet seats are just making room for black projects. There were no publicly visible budgets for the U2/F117 projects.

A university I worked at migrated from independent VMS systems (student, finance, HR) to an ERP system. To make that implementation easier, they only converted the most recent few …

Yeah, here in Denver there has been a huge amount of novel cyclists. Lots of old bikes dug out of storage and brand new bikes with slightly wobbly riders. Also, more diverse riders…

There's a youtube channel for an offroad recovery company in Utah, and they recently were called to a nearby salt flat [0]. They almost got stuck themselves. [0]: https://www.youtu…

Yeah, I don't think people understand how expensive it is to be in poverty (overdraft fees, etc.). For some, it makes more sense to use check cashing than struggle with low bank ac…

> really great cameras are quite cheap For somebody like me who can't remember what an f-stop is, what are a couple of suggestions? Maybe I should take a photography class one of t…

I got used to browser-based plugins early on, and have been stubbornly resisting change. Sage was great on firefox (for me, at least) for a long time, but got abandoned, I have fou…

I've been a frequent lurker since 2008 (IIRC), and saw this article for the first time. Thanks, it was a fascinating read.