You're ranting on the metric system in a post about door knobs? Seriously?

I'll toss in another, perhaps less common/practical one: good speakers. If you can afford the high cost and the space/soundproofing constraints, it just does such a massive difference to how your music library sounds. I dislike keeping headphones or IEMs on for more than a few hours, but with speakers I can keep…

This. I have a lot of stuff I've accumulated over the years that have upgraded my work/gaming environment from good to amazing, and multiple monitors easily tops the list. I'm sporting three 23" Dells (so you can check the IPS tick as well which Whitson mentioned in the comments!) and I honestly do not think I would…

Nice! I also really like Calibre for anything that touches ebooks, it beats anything I've tried before.

Cool! I just wanted to make sure, as that's the sort of thing that can bias results.

I have a single concern with this benchmarking: did you do the benchmark by running all the adblocking addons running at the same time, like in that screenshot? Because I'm not entirely sure if those are representative depending on how the addons interact with one another.

uTorrent, one of the many BitTorrent clients, was bought by BitTorrent, the company, some time ago. Since then each new version has been covered by more and more adverts, "featured" content, redirect links and other bullshit. This is also why the "BitTorrent" client is the same: they're sharing the same codebase now.

It's worth noting that many higher/high end IEMs cannot be worn in any other way. My Westone UM3x can't, and my older Shures couldn't either. The Westones even have a short length of semi-rigid cabling which can be molded into shape and then keep that shape when removed.

This is only fairly tangentially related, but I've done something just tonight to improve my own security. I've been running a home server with some public-facing stuff like remote desktop and Plex for a while, but I've always felt a bit uneasy at the notion. Tonight, I decided to setup a home VPN.

Are you a NSA-sponsored astroturf, or just uninformed?

Okay seriously, why is there no report button on comments. The bots are getting a bit annoying.

"Them" is a generally accepted gender-neutral pronoun in English. Certainly beats the awkwardness of "him or "her".

Strange, I'm wrapping up my MSc and most of what I read here feels alien to me.

More and more stuff. It's set to take over DVI, really, since the HDMI standard is so slow at adopting basically anything. You can't use 4K displays without DisplayPort right now.

To me, it sounds like his only experience has been with dating sims.

Rape does cause medical harm though, and stealing often can cause physical harm if the situation degenerates. Lying is nowhere near on the level of this, and I don't quite see the point about adultery since it's a victimless "crime" (nobody's hurt, even the religious onlookers).

Not even 30? That's nothing. We had people over 50 in our physics undergrad program. Physics, of all things!

For background music, I very often turn to movie soundtracks (think Star Trek reboots, The Incredibles, Alice in Wonderland, Star Wars, etc.), game soundtracks (Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Guild Wars, Anno 2070, Mirror's Edge, Assassin's Creed, some of the Wipeout games, Ace Combat, Homeworld, etc.), game soundtrack…

This is an interesting topic for me because I was looking for a good mic for use in voice dictation and general Skype/Teamspeak usage. I'm however an edge case in that I work in a very noisy room (the central ventilation intake is right besides my desk and it's *loud*) and use speakers. I'm really not a headphone…

She sounds a lot more successful (and a lot less stressed out) than a lot of 40 year olds. Not everything perfectly correlates with age.