Squarez Deluxe is freeware and makes Tetris seem like a child’s toy.

E: Squares -> Squarez… Damned auto correct

Or you could just get a quick sharp and get on with life/cooking

Rada Quick sharp and a cheap hone

Yes we all know about people who obsessively talk about knife care and sharpening, but for the average person, just use this to get your knife sharp and get on with your life.

Sorry but the correct way to heat up pizza is in a covered frying pan.

8k is effectively dead

Because it’s the emotional inner world that defines how people behave, not education or knowledge or wisdom.

I spent almost two decades as a game developer and many of those years were spent developing professional lottery products.

I argued with a buddy for over 5 years about the gamblers fallacy and various other aspects to do with probabilities.

See, in his mind, he could somehow claim to understand the underlying statement that past events are not a predictor of future events… but he’s still insisted that if he monitored the “patterns” in the random, he could somehow break through this truth.

I could never get through to him that there was no “system”… You can bet in the most mathematically advantageous way but you’ll never “beat the odds”. You’re just fucking gambling dude.

Zero progress… and I refused after a while to discuss anything to do with probabilities.

E: I’m sorry for the scrambled up writing, I’m having a rough day, hope you get what I mean

Coconut oil for skin moisturizer.

Fuck you, turns out its maximally comedogenic.

Found out later that sunflower oil is top tier.

Weed can completely and irreversibly damage a developing brain. Wait until you’re at least 26 before you fuck with THC.

The fact that McDonald’s exists is proof that advertising works.

Espresso & cumin

Dude’s not going to be burning anything out, his furnace fan motor can’t even adequately ventilate his house as it is right

Circa 1997 I was making some innovative new games, employed by a dude who’d put millions of his own money into the company. He was completely nonplussed when I brought him 20 CDs in a sealed box to remove from the building and store off site. He thought I’d lost my damned mind and blew it off as ravings of a stressed dev. I pointed out real threats to our IP including the hardware failures and even so far as the building burning down. 2 years of custom art and code gone. “Unlikely. Relax.”

After I moved on… an ex co-worker who’s still a longtime friend, tells me a different division lost a huge amount of FMV over some whoops-I-destroyed-the-wrong-drive blunder. 20 days to render on an 8 or 10 machine farm. Poof - No backups. In 1997 even with top-of-the-line gear it took an insane investment to render quality 3D.

The friggin’ carelessness irks the shit out of me as I type ahah

Get Styrofoam blocks and plug vents seasonally. In summer plug the downstairs ones so AC feeds upstairs and drifts down, opposite in winter to make air heat the lower levels and slowly rise.

It has neither the positive reputation you assume nor do Quebecois say “le stationnement”.

Used to be a lottery game dev, now I’m in addiction.

This suggestion would do nothing since compulsive behavior is not a choice and it is not rational.

E me no can spel

Ok cool never know about that. At $200 it would be an automatic yes for me!

Many years ago I learned to improve my electronics “hygiene” by being strict about how power is connected/transferred from household AC to my gadgets. One too many blown PSUs during thunderstorm season while on a deadline, I guess.

Don’t use power strips, use high-end surge protectors. Cheap ones can still get absolutely rocked and can’t be trusted. Always use high-end OEM charge blocks for phones and for laptop chargers, etc.

No good call to spend thousands on electronics then cheap out at the power-transfer part of the deal. Because that’s where most damage is done. Pay for the good stuff now and it will more than pay for itself in the long term. Fewer blown PSUs/inverters/transformers. Longer lasting batteries.

I feel like electricity is less like magic fairies floating down wires and more like ropes tugging and rams crashing. I always liked to think about it that way.

I use a calendar. I know this sounds ridiculous to mention it, but I am continually astonished at how few people use it to remember tasks and events.

This is not as insightful as ya think.