it is funny to read and think about a waymo future while sitting in a house that is hundreds of km away from the nearest public transportation, from the nearest uber, on gravel roads that get plowed every week or so

the thing about creativity is people will just accept whatever you make, you don't really have to worry about it you can name your character The Slam Jambler and that sounds funny for 10 seconds and then it's just the guy's name for the entire rest of the book and it's totally fine

wild turkeys just turkin' around

ideal bluesky feed type

kid: waiting for christmas day is the hardest part youth: you can open all your presents right now! there's nothing but societal conformity stopping you! adult: waiting for christmas day is the delicious anticipation part

Indeco IFP28X pulverizer with googly eyes.

one of my favorite pages from my album of film photos, took both of these on my roadtrip from arizona to oregon somewhere in california

Anti OpenAI Open AI Club

I've owned and repaired a lot of kitchenaid mixers over the years! they're great, the aftermarket parts support is healthy and the repairability itself is generally pretty good; they're relatively simple and old-school machines

Fun fact: the difference between viruses and bacteria is that viruses mine Bitcoin and bacteria train large language models

people seem to use 'heirloom' as a synonym for robustness or quality, but they forget the most important ingredient is that you can imbue any object with a bit of the soul of the person you want to remember forever (I'm not crying, YOU'RE crying) www.youtube.com/watch?v=f22v...

my For You found an incredibly specific topic cluster

youtube channel recommendation: he's a custom bike builder with an incredible shop who mostly does unique cargo bikes. very satisfying both as a bike channel and as a machining / maker channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=s846...

my favourite type of guy i accidentally discovered on youtube is “guy who owns a rolls royce jet engine and just fires that shit up on his property sometimes”

currently 2/3 through The Scar and it is, indeed, better than Perdido Street Station my comment for the first book was "feels like a bunch of short stories hastily shoved together" and this one feels like a singular real plot

it just occurred to me that an LLM DM could handle huge scale battles where hundreds of us are telling it our moves and it story-spins it all together into grand narrative

Leap 71 20 kN MethaLOX Aerospike engine 3D printed in copper and designed by the Noyron Large Computational Engineering Model

the day is getting longer, can you tell?

meet you at the Panther Mart

lovely day

happy solstice! we're going snowshoeing

the price and cost overlap between homebuilt DIY motorcycles and homebuilt DIY computers is shockingly similar

isn't it weird that Santa has an unchecked global logistics network and real time surveillance tech, and it's all perfectly fine just because he gives out a few million dollars in toys every year what is he doing the other 364 days? wake up sheeple

wait, the gameboy isn't even made of actual recycled drone parts? it's just conceptually made of the same alloy? magnesium aluminum is in like... everything? that's the metal they make macbooks and pop can pull tabs out of. you almost certainly own something that is made of "drone metal" already

rally is just the coolest sport in the world

me fr fr

my first job out of mechanical design school was in a factory with a few press brakes and let me tell you this one part is probably over an hour of human time and we'd never run it in production; you'd end up scrapping half of 'em to mistakes or tolerance issues anyway

so rad I hope we'll see a bloom of this sort of thing, there's tons of old games that deserve new lives

babe wake up, there's a new sewgarage www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0pM...

I've seen so many deer today and so far none of them have had glowing red noses

obviously making all prices lower would be actually terrible and deflation is bad and whatever but sometimes one item is really on sale and it feels so exciting! so I propose we have one rotating industry that takes a cut and each week, you know, yoghurt is 50% less, and so on. just for morale

first jigsaw puzzle of the holidays DONE

quote: Figs From Plums Jonathan Castro https://x.com/FigsFromPlums/status/2002077344266097070

wind chill at -27C, but got a quick 4 km in anyway

I won't bother QTing it, but we've shipped a bunch of projects now using image gen concept art and it's hugely useful the idea of moodboards is to look at a bunch of stuff together and point at the things you like, don't like, want to incorporate, want to avoid, etc making that faster is better

read Die With Zero this week (a retirement book about spending every red cent before the end) and I liked the framing of experiences as having their own dividends the sooner you experience something, this longer you can reminisce on it the more people you do <thing> with, the bigger that footprint

my Lego Wrapped tried to tell me how much I spent on lego this year and I just immediately closed the page

How Bell Labs Won Its First Nobel Prize

my mech keyboard is so old (almost 11 years now), it was before RGB LEDs existed as an option in keyboards

this little guy is *so* small

we need a new Diddy Kong Racing to heal the world

I don't know why confidently incorrect people keep parroting this, it's so trivial to disprove: open H100 rates are $2-3 an hour, can do about a million tokens (~280 per second of 4.1) go over to openAI dot com and look at the pricing they're selling $3 for $12. obviously it's profitable. duh!

the ability for DIY home garage engine builders to just CAD up and get nice anodized CNC parts on the cheap is so cool youtube.com/watch?v=jZ38...

wonder how much of like, general societal arguing is downstream of the millennial era where we were going to teach everyone how to do everything maybe we don't all need to learn to do X, maybe some kids _can't_ learn to do X - that bristles some people!- but perhaps it is more honest with ourselves