rlonstein

>> Why? Any specific reasons?

> Do you have some time?

Okay, I laughed.

One of the 5,000+ premium members. I've been using them as a secondary and for dynamic dns since... I have no idea for how long but much further back than 2015 when I started using a password manager that keeps history, probably circa 2005.

> I've been an eBay customer for 25+ years and it's worse than ever with fraud. It's gotten so bad that my account now warns me that I'm at risk if I report any more purchases on there.

It's always been bad but it's gotten worse and there's no recourse other than a dispute. I had a seller label a midi device a particular version (known to work with Linux and Mac) but when it arrived it was an older version that requires a proprietary Windows-only driver. I went back to the listing and the photos were of different versions. Seller refused the return. Ebay was unhelpful. Great.

> The hidden history is particularly annoying when evaluating if someone is a troll operating in bad faith or not; in my experience, when someone makes a comment that is completely out of pocket, their profile is almost always hidden. That is selection bias, however.

Agreed. Hiding history has become a negative signal or, really since it's so common to hide, open history is a positive signal.

There used to be bots that summarized an account's posts. One, I think it was usersimulator, was particularly amusing as it ran a markov chain over the account and generated a fresh post in the style of that user. Quite telling.

I still use reddit but I tag accounts using RES and sometimes see the same bad apples turn up in other subreddits.

> nobody needs or wants a unix shell account in this day and age

> I do. But I do not need just any Unix shell account, I need old and weird ones! I develop and maintain a portable utility (rlwrap) that is aimed at users of older software

Thank you, personally. I've used it in several contexts not just old systems, for example rlwrap is recommended with Clojure (okay, perhaps that's a comparatively small audience).

Finally. Someone else has mentioned this, I thought it was just me who I experiences the sensation of there being stray current on MacBook frames.

+1. I switched to using Nushell as my daily driver around mid-2023 (0.84.0?) and use it in preference to other interactive tools. I do keep at hand jq, yq, and mlr because I need to exchange stuff with colleagues who don't use Nu.

Name collision. I thought it might be the "Lix" fork of "Nix".

> I know there are industrial processes where heat is efficiently recycled, but I agree there are serious practical problems, particularly if the molten glass must be cooled quickly.

My experience working with glass is that you _don't_ want it cooled quickly. It will shatter or get internal stresses that cause it to shatter later. You anneal it in a slowly cooling oven over time. Some steels and brass can be annealed slowly and that heat could, I suppose, be captured. Tempering probably not.

> Still, even somewhat lower grade heat can be upgraded back to high grade heat with high temperature heat pumps.

Which requires energy and incurs losses. If you have energy, assuming electricity, that's cheap enough to scavenge low-level waste heat you probably don't need to recapture the heat.

I thought Saints Row IV and Sleeping Dogs did this really well, to the point where I'd go around in the car just to hear all the radio stations.

> What they'd want to do is try to recover and reuse heat. In principle, there's no reason "new" heat has to be added each time they heat a batch of glass, if heat can be transferred from cooling glass back to the input materials.

Have you worked in any industrial or craft setting involving molten glass or metal? Walked around a workshop? There's no way the heat is going back into the process.

> Bosch I presume? > I would bet on that too. I have an older 300 series that is not WiFi and app enabled. It works great. I was suggesting "dumb" device models to someone and it was damned difficult to find which SKUs had misfeatures and which didn't. Same model, possibly same SKU (there are #s for different retailers), but two years newer had "smart" features.

> Seasoned electronics guys can probably solder anything with a cigarette lighter and a scrap piece of metal

This made me laugh. In college in the late 80's I repaired a roommate's not-quite vintage C64 fastloader cartridge with a bad wire bodge using a lighter and the tine of a dining hall fork...

I remember it as, "YOU FORTH LOVE IF HONK THEN"