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What does this mean? How do nail salons do that? Super curious.

Just to be clear -- this story is fictional, it did not happen in real life. It has become a bit of an urban legend because of a video game but does not have a basis in fact.

My parents moved from Texas to Chicago this year to be near my sister instead of me (their son) because in their very traditional minds they need to be taken care of by a daughter in their old age. I get to send checks. I thought it was a terrible idea, they have friends and family here and Chicago is very cold. That being said they moved into a community of her 11 kids and their spouses and their kids — probably 30+ relatives in their orbit. And they are surrounded by people who love them and help them. It’s really been good for them. Much less scrolling and much more conversation, group meals, board game playing, storytelling.

The idea that any results of AI productivity enhancements that include data from 2024 are valid is bananas.

I’m not even a programmer — but the step change since late fall 2025 is incredible.

I have a young relative that manages in house product for a financial services company. Programming team of 150 ish. That will be 15 ish by June and they are iterating much more quickly now.

So much cope in this thread. AI is in fact the grim reaper for the median coder. The emerging middle class in India tech hubs is about to get vaporized

Completely different style and purpose of resting. The long hot rest is for fat and collagen rendering. Nothing like this kind of rest after high temperature grilling or roasting.

Does this at a minimum set a market value for the attempt to move to for profit? IIRC the new for profit will have to buy the assets of the not for profit at fair market value?

Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

I think the point being made is that it seems plausible that a term used in Britain to refer to literal boys was repurposed later in a different context to be a demeaning way to refer to an adult man working with cattle in the US.

> There is no way those non-physical thoughts are changing the physical processes; they happen after the fact. We have the illusion of being in the driver seat but really we are just along for the ride.

How can you conclude this with any certainty?

Girls don’t like boys girls like beards and money?

My school got one (in Malaysia). It was the first computer I ever used. Typing BASIC programs in from magazines and saving them out to cassette tape. Good times. It felt magical.

Unless you have a way to drip feed chlorine into your pool it absolutely will not have the same chlorine level, unless you are running your sag incorrectly.

I own these. The experience using them is substantially better than using grocery store clippers. The cutting edges meet very precisely and firmly so I get a very clean cut with relatively low pressure every time. There is very little "give" in the lever, so with my relatively thick nails, there is never a bend as I apply more pressure.

Happy to see this, I will be buying a couple of pairs if the sound quality is anything close to the prior generation. I love my current pair and have considered paying over retail for another eBay pair. I wish Siri were better -- it is good enough that I use it for stuff often but glitchy enough that I don't like trying new use cases.