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Double clicking on the wall opens a dialog to type in dimensions.

The US government has the information, but there’s no way for companies to sell you something if they used that data.

It’s the same with US taxes. The IRS knows exactly how much you owe them each year. As a citizen, you cannot access that information. You have to fill out needlessly complicated forms to guess the correct amount of money to send them. If you guess wrong you can go to jail or be fined. To prevent this, you pay a company to fill out those forms. They don’t get access to the correct number either, but you can buy insurance from them so they’ll pay for your lawyer to defend you if you guess wrong.

Even on my phone I can double tap and change the wall dimensions. I believe it’s in a right click menu on the desktop. It’s definitely missing polish, a UI designer, and any kind of logic on where stuff should be located. It is actually usable to map out a house to figure out furniture and basic stuff. Drives me crazy that I can’t figure out how to do mechanicals in it though.

I used sweet home 3d for this. It’s not the greatest, but is open source and available on every platform.

It should just be pictures of Ken Paxton. S/he is dressing like a man to sneak into the men’s bathroom to stare at dude’s dicks and smell their farts. It’s perverted, and the people of Texas shouldn’t stand for it.

Carefully curating you watch history is key. I try to check mine once per week and pull out anything that causes me to get angry about something. Basically if it’s not a video that teaches me how to do something, I remove it.

Albania LOVES Americans. There’s a bunch of history that boils down to America helped make Albania and Kosovo exist. There are statues here of a bunch of former US presidents. Americans even get better visas than anyone else. It’s a 1 year automatic visa on arrival. If you don’t apply for a residency permit in that year, you have to leave for 90 days, then you can stay for another year.

Albania is still developing. Everything has a little more friction than in the US. Quick examples; no Amazon, no real freeways, no drive thrus. The bureaucracy is very much like “papers please”. There aren’t a lot of local jobs. The language is hard to learn fluently, but it’s possible to get by day to day with a few phrases and Google translate.

The people are amazing. The food is great. The entire country is beautiful. If you stay out of Tirana, rent is really affordable. Every time you meet someone, they’ll ask why you’re here because everyone wants to move to America.

95%+ is totally possible with a column still. I can easily pull 92% on mine, and it’s not set up to do ultra high proof. Distillit percentage can easily be measured with a hydrometer, they’re less than €10, and fairly accurate. This process might be really useful to pull the last 20% of water out after distilling.

I’d love to see this experiment done on something like everclear. That’s around 95% abv. It’d be interesting to see if you could get the last 5% of water out of it. It’d also be interesting to see it done on something like an 8% abv wine or beer.

Pic related, it’s my 250 liter column still. I usually get heads that are 92% abv, and an average abv of 80% across a run.

Yeah. I’ve been working in silicon Valley since 2009. I’ve worked everywhere from startups to Facebook. I was laid off a year ago. I did 25 applications a week for 6 months with 0 interviews or call backs. This was all stuff I have industry experience at and fantastic references for. Even the contract companies I worked with haven’t been able to find me anything outside of IT roles that require 24/7 on call paying $25/hr. I was making that in 2010. The job market for tech is nonexistent.

No link to a rip?

I contracted at plex for 6 months. The employees really care. The developers were very concerned with making the absolute best media server possible. The QA team was doing crazy stuff to try to keep everything working.

If they’re not yiffing, I’m not reading.

Yeah, it sucked, but the pay was great, and I really wanted to work for the company.

Or San Francisco. My longest commute was 3.5 hours each way. Average over 15 years there was 90 minutes.

At least I’m not the only one who had this idea

Sure, but imagine you join a meeting and the lead engineer is sitting in a ball pit. Isn’t your first response going to be to laugh? Then he shifts to grab something and slowly sinks out of frame. It’s 100% going to make whatever stupid meeting better.

If only. Shipping on ball pit balls is stupid expensive. I looked at filling a 6x12 office like 3 feet deep and it was going to be almost $3000 once shipping was included. Yes, I am still bitter about it. I just didn’t want to deal with an office chair anymore.

Absolutely. Most “travel routers” have openvpn installed on them. I have one router set up with my normal internet, and another with a full time vpn’d connection. The VPN router was like $60.

They’re also great to have when traveling. It connects to whatever random wifi, and all of your devices show up as a single device. You turn off the VPN to connect to your hotel’s capture portal, then turn it back on and all of your devices have secure internet.