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I feel a laminar airflow which runs in parallel to the turbulent liquid flow to draw it into the receptacle would reduce waste.

What happens if you urinate through those bladeless Dyson fans?

Wait for ad to play.

Crash vehicle.

Profit?

More ads than article. Skip it.

I'm glad you asked this. I had a small project on the weekend to build a persistence of vision toy and thought I'd give this "vibecoding" thing a try and work with an LLM.

I learned quite a lot in the process, mostly that I need to think in tiny systems. I was expecting I could feed the hardware environment into the LLM and prompt for an output. I was not expecting that I need to instruct the LLM to deliver code that was human-edit/readable.

I'm appreciating the advice in the comments to this post.

This reminds me of the workshop tool scavenger hunt from Scope of Work. Even as an adult I still encounter new machines and tools that I've never heard of... and it's /fascinating/ to learn there are machines and tools to do such specific things!

I enjoy the "what does this thing do" of farm implements.

[Scopeofwork.net]

There are times when I'm masked (ie: 3M respirator) and gloved at work for 10+ hours at a time. I wonder if speech recognition would be possible without breaking the face seal during silent speech. This could be beneficial for other types of work in hazardous environments.

(My current solution is to tear the fingertip off my offhand glove so I can unlock and use my device....)

It sounds like you're describing sites with a userbase that displays unexpected behaviors compared to expectations from visitors. A business would call this institutional knowledge and company culture. In a friends group it would be called group dynamics.

2chan, 4chan, and similar seem to be a perfect example. Users rapidly creating original content, riffing on previous posts, and introducing new content is like a factory that accidentally creates a viral meme through trial and error.

What are you trying to understand by asking this question?

I am here because it feels like the last place to enjoy insightful discussion among a diverse group of strangers.

I really enjoy when someone fresh out of college asks a question and a retiree engineer/technician/manager joins the discussion with personal knowledge. The insight and experience here, pending the AI slop takeover, is what you usually find only on very topic-specific forums.

The text-only formatting, culture of contributing to the conversation, and simplicity (read: not shiny and new), hopefully continue to keep out the cesspool of other internet at bay as long as possible.

Or a credit card processor.

When I write, it comes out like this. Pulling your attention to and fro across a scene to construct "brain pictures", letting your imagination fill in the gaps as the fragments become a whole.

The mention of Megalosaurus was jarring. My imagination placed this within a gloomy late-Victorian period and the mention of giant lizard caused mental association to very unrelated content for the rest of paragraph. I think a Wooly Mammoth waddling up the hill would make for a better picture.

On another note: What are horse blinkers?

What's newspaper? ;)

How can I be notified when your awesome list comes out?