adam w.k. @sabbatical@qoto.org

@corruptian@mastodon.cloud yeah, that's the generous version of what i said... haha. i think there were other candidates who couldve claimed that too, but as you hinted at, he had also been VP for one of the most popular presidents ever.

did yall know the prefix on medication just means the manufacturer? so "apo-methylphenidate" for example is methylphenidate (ritalin) made by apotex, inc.

@alan what data centres would these be?

@corruptian@mastodon.cloud and i think he was squarely in the old school camp that the main groups of democratic party elites knew was safe for their interests, vs sanders or warren for example

@corruptian@mastodon.cloud i think the US could do way better than biden (he was at/near the bottom of the candidate pool for me when he won the primaries), but this doesn’t seem like a promising upgrade

obviously my mutes around american politics need some updating, but i couldnt help but get wind of kamala's new "he's just plain weird" messaging tactic. does no one else find it bizarre? isnt this the same lady mainly known for quaaluudesque word salad and weird affectations?

@gbwust @stylinstainless my wife asked this and 144F is 62.22C!

vintage canadiana

@khird also, i think i have been conflating plexiglass and fibreglass in my head

did y’all know plexiglass is just a brand name for acrylic? they’re the exact same thing? who knew my kids were painting with “plexiglass” this whole time.

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@levisan well, maybe not! @khird’s given me some advice on what i could do to mend the acrylic base, so i figure on at least giving it a go!

@khird oh wow, no way! well the more you know! the cube base does seem like a much more rigid material than the flexible monitor base, but now that i know plexiglass IS acrylic it makes sense they’d just use tweaked formulations of the same thing if they could. they do seem well matched in terms of clarity, sheen, etc.

pretty impressed with the cursor code editor so far! https://www.cursor.com/ basically its VS code, but with a bunch of AI autocompletion/autocoding stuff baked in.

so far i’m being super boring with my edit requests (just asking it to do stuff like switch uppercase to capital case for example) but anyone else tried it?

@khird wait, is this what you're suggesting for both the plexiglass cube base and acrylic monitor base, or just one of them?

@khird very cool! wonder if anyone’s written a laypersons guide to this stuff. maybe you should! :) not wanting to use the wrong stuff on the wrong stuff is a huge barrier to tackling tasks like this usually — for me and for many others, i’m sure. for good reason, it seems!

@khird yep, the monitor is on its side. ok thanks! acrylic + shear means i should prob look for something like tensol 70, eh? https://cutlasercut.com/drawing-resources/expert-tips/bonding-acrylic/

@khird here’s the break in the base

@khird how do you know so much about what works with what, btw? very cool, i’d love to have this sort of in-depth knowledge on physical properties of things and what works well for what

@Clementulus @khird have never heard of adding a heat pump to a water heater! our water heater is rented from the natural gas company so i expect we arent allowed to mod it, but now i'm curious how this would work!