I’m drawing from some pretty old memories, but from what I recall, Edgar Allen Poe is a bit overly descriptive like that sometimes, which makes me think the wordiness is part of the writing style for the time. It almost reads like the author is trying to do the “paint a picture” thing, which makes logical sense for the genre, a bit like a literary jump scare: paint a pretty picture, so that the spooky stuff is even more scary by comparison. I think my problem is that I tend to get bored with all the overly flowery writing and my brain wanders off (especially because Shelly likes to reference a bunch of geographic scenery that I don’t really have the personal context to draw up a mental picture for).

That does make me wonder if a version of the book in a more modern writing style would be more palatable.

Thank you! It’s been more than 10 years since, but 10th grade me struggled HARD to get through Frankenstein (it was a summer read for my English class), for pretty much the exact reasons you’ve listed out. The doctor is just such a whiny little bitch, I despised every moment spent with the character and was incredibly relieved when the monster finally put the little shit out of his misery (and by extension put an end to my suffering).

The part of my brain subjected to entirely too many English literature studies gets it: the notion of being so caught up in if something is possible you don’t stop to think about the repercussions is super transcendent of time. Like, I keep thinking about Oppenheimer and the other scientists of the Manhattan project, so I can absolutely see how it would be a horror story from Shelly’s time. At the same time, the rest of my brain can’t get past the doctor being incapable of learning any lessons at all.

Ahh yes, Moria, dig too deep and find carnage!

It’s been a minute since I’ve looked at that code, but I’m pretty sure the bill order is more or less the order that the game read in the recipe (the exact answer is more technical and has to do with how the game loads XML, but it’s basically: mod load order, followed by file naming, then the Defs listed in the file are read top down, and finally any patches are executed. The game later builds the recipe list by grabbing all recipeDefs from the loaded xml, then the ThingDefs with a recipeMaker definition).

It’s technically possible to sort the list, but I don’t know of any mods offhand that do.

Reminds me of the short film Slaughterbots from a while back. 7 years later and it doesn’t seem all that much like fiction anymore…

I don’t know!

Nah, just means that the mirror can’t render the Unicode character that the ghost has sent.

Well isn’t that just radiant!

113 times a second

Shit post aside, I had a friend with a background in the restaurant industry (did a bunch of time in various restaurants, went through cooking school, that kind of thing), who put on a work sponsored barbeque. When someone asked why the folks helping him got promoted to Chef, my friend explained it as “everyone in the kitchen is addressed as Chef, it doesn’t matter if they’re calling the shots, cooking food, or doing dishes. It’s a show of respect.” Grain of salt and all since cultures vary between restaurants, but it’s stuck with me because it was such a genuine moment of “this dude loves to cook and got a chance to share something he’s super passionate about”.

I imagine it more along the lines of breaking a promise. Law is more or less a social contract, so it’s less that the law no longer functions and more that the person in question is breaking the agreement.

But also yes, one who repeatedly breaks the contract with no consequences, definitely calls into question the value and validity of the contact, and that’s when things really start to, erm… Break.

I wouldn’t let multicolor be a barrier for entry for you. It’s something that can technically be added later*, but it is much more difficult to convert a printer to be able to work with engineering materials. Personally speaking, I also wouldn’t mix multicolor and engineering materials ABS is pretty cheap but anything that would need a hardened nozzle (like glass or carbon fiber reinforced filaments) is almost too expensive to waste purging. Plus, if I’m remembering correctly, color swapped prints aren’t quite as strong structurally as monofilament prints.

* technically speaking as long as your printer can run Klipper, there are community projects like Box Turtle or Enraged Rabbit that are meant for more general use (if you’re okay tinkering with things) if Elegoo never gets around to releasing their multicolor unit.

Heads up, PEI sheets are great because you can take them off and flex them a bit to pop parts off, but it is worth noting that PETG (and TPU) can also bond too well to PEI. It depends a bit on the kind and quality of the PEI, but you may still want to use a release layer (I’m partial to washable glue sticks, but everyone has their own personal preferences) just to keep your plate safe.

How about your local sign language? I’m less familiar with other regions’ sign languages, but I absolutely adore American Sign Language (ASL). I love how expressive it is, each sign can generally be tweaked to change its meaning, so for example the sign for help is a thumbs up on an open palm moved upwards, but if you start the sign pointed at someone and arc it towards yourself, the meaning changes to “help me”, or “I help you” of you start near yourself and move it outward. Similarly you could describe a rough flight with only the sign for airplane shaking it to show turbulence.

Plus it’s semi-similar to German, where you can generally convey concepts by gluing stuff together until you get where you want to go.

A solid majority of Bastille’s discography comes to mind, though not as outright depressing as Pumped Up Kicks or Youth of a Nation, most of their tracks tend to be very instrumentally upbeat and lively, with gorgeous vocals, but thematically darker lyrics / topics. Happier comes to mind as immediately fitting the prompt (and having enough radio play to be recognizable), but The Draw, Haunt, and Skulls also fit well (I’d also included their cover of City High’s What Would You Do, also long as being a cover isn’t a immediate disqualifier).

I feel like they’re kind of slept on since they don’t get a whole lot of radio play outside of a handful of songs, but all their other work is just so good. Personal top favorite artist, hands down.

I’ve got a Unifi switch and a gateway instead of a dream machine, but that’s not far from the setup I’m working on (just need the weather to cool down so that I can coexist with the sun in the attic so that I can do the run to the doorbell).

Ethernet’s not nearly as scary as mains power, I wired up our house with 10 runs though the attic and it’s super doable as a DIY project. Consult your local codes/ laws and all, but I was able to run my cable though j-hooks instead of having to put conduit up everywhere, the biggest gotcha was more in the trying to keep my lines away from existing AC power and finding the wall framing under the insulation in the attic. The company TrueCable has a YouTube channel with a bunch of helpful resources on pretty much everything Ethernet/ networking, I’d highly recommend it even if you aren’t buying cable from them (I ended up doing so because they were cheaper than everywhere else and I could get all my jacks, wall plates, and tools in the same order - this was also a year ago though, so prices may have shifted since).

I really like my MX master 2S (second only to my MX Vertical, because I get wrist pain), it’s been really solid for programming, office tasks, light gaming and even some fps titles (I play almost exclusively arcade/non-competitive modes though). That said, I’m not sure I’d recommend it for OP, the MX line isn’t known for using the best rubber materials (the rubber on mine is starting to wear out on the right side and on the scroll wheels - I know v3 switched to using metal scroll wheels which should help a bunch, but I’m not sure if they’ve changed/ fixed anything else).

I was content to let the other comments address the history since I’m not particularly well versed there (and there’s already enough confidently incorrect bullshit in the world). I mostly just wanted to interject on why there aren’t more chip companies beyond just hand waving it away as “market consolidation”, which is true, but doesn’t take into account that barrier for entry in the space is less on the scale of opening up a sandwich restaurant or boutique clothing store and more on the order of waking up tomorrow and deciding to compete with your local power/ water utility provider.

The answer also gets kind of fuzzy outside the conventional computer space and where single board/ System On a Chip designs are common, stuff like Raspberry Pi’s or smart phones, since they technically have graphics modules designed be companies like Snapdragon or MediaTek. It’s also worth noting that computers have gotten orders of magnitude more complicated compared to the era of starting a tech company in your garage.

If it helps answer your question, according to Wikipedia, most of the other GPU companies have either been acquired, gone bankrupt, or aren’t competing in the Desktop PC market segment.

The short concise answer is mostly cost. Nvidia, AMD, and Intel are all spending multiple billions of dollars per year in R&D alone. It’s just not a space where someone can invent something in their garage and disrupt the whole industry (like, even if someone were to come out of left field with a revolutionary chip design, they’d need to convince investors that they’d be a better bet than literal trillion dollar companies).

I was just thinking that a PiHole might make for a pretty good parental control too. Slightly more advanced networking, but that way you could block YouTube (and anything else) on a per-device basis while still allowing software updates and the like though (at least until your kid figures out how to override the network provided DNS, but at that point they’re hopefully either responsible enough for YouTube or well on their way to a promising career in tech). Plus it gives some observability into what sites are being visited if that’s needed.

Very much agree though, it shouldn’t take an IT degree/ hobby to do parental controls.