Viewing profile — alkaloid

On and off, I've been working multiple remote full-time jobs, both as a contract and "hired" employee, for several years. I saw some TikTok where the guy said he takes two-hour lun…

I'm still a little shady. But only a little.

I stopped downloading torrents when streaming came along. I maxed out my Hulu subscription to avoid commercials. Hulu forces commercials on me anyway. And now I get to watch commer…

I like how most of the comments insult you and tell you to educate yourself, rather than answering a fair question about immutable and immediately-recognizable characteristics.

In Texas private sellers can rent a booth at a gun show and sell without performing a NICS check. https://www.thoughtco.com/gun-show-laws-by-state-721345

And here I thought the other party runs the United States government. I did a quick Google, and -- sure enough! -- "Biden nominee for ATF Director says he's never owned a gun" http…

I'm curious as to why the resettable breaker for each eight drives . . . I presume this was trial-and-error, but how could someone tell that the current is too much for a disk driv…

LOTS of good advice here. My only addition would be to further specialize in something you don't hate working in. Becoming a subject-matter expert will afford you the opportunity t…

What in the hell?

I still love Perl as essentially a low-level abstraction layer for C. I can get so much done at the system level without having to compile a bunch of code every time I make a small…

I agree. But moderate views are not represented in federal law.

So you dispute the information about abortion laws by country, or are you just going to devolve into a argumentum ad verecundiam fallacy? FWIW, the SPLC is an extremist hate group …

In this case, there are lots of dots. There are a disproportionate amount of Catholic priests represented within the scientific sphere, including the vast majority of famous ones. …

Thanks for proving my point.

You know followers of "religion" invented empiricism (and logic and rhetoric, etc.), right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Bacon

Haha, came here to say this exact thing (and to recommend those retro metal Coleman coolers)! :D

Reading this, I couldn't help but recall Feynman's quote: "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics." I love cussing and discussing qua…

> access basic life needs like food and transportation and social services You are so very right. Do we even realize that smart cell phones have become a required utility? So 25 ye…

> It’s strange to think about how different my life might have been without that computer. Isn't this the honest truth.

I'm so grateful my father (RIP) came home with a Commodore VIC-20 from Sears in 1983. We were incredibly poor, so my mother nearly killed him, but he insisted that personal compute…

As a system builder for a "custom computer shop" back in 1997/98, I came here just to make sure Cyrix was on the list.