Hmm, yeah, the prepaid 529 could be a good hedge against skyrocketing tuition. Thanks!

Any recommendations for theft-resistant lights? I’m tired of needing to take my lights off any time I park anywhere unsecured.

Why do drivers think its acceptable to break traffic laws and how can we get them to stop? I ask this because I think that having other road users constantly breaking the law makes my ride less safe since speeding drivers can crush me like a bug, plus I got hit by a driver that was turning right from the lane to the…

I’ve always thought of IPAs as a brewer’s crutch for hiding his lack of skill. Anyone can dump a pound of hops into a beer, or make a strong beer, or a sour beer, but it takes a lot of talent to brew a well-balanced 5% lager.

Fair enough, but if we’re being descriptivist, plenty of people use “hurdling” that way, too.

The whole sport pilot certificate seems like a pretty half-baked idea. With half as much training as a regular GA pilot, you can fly a plane that’s gone through 1% as much testing as a regular GA aircraft! What could possibly go wrong?

As long as we’re on the “thank you for caring about words” train, that’s not what “begging the question” means.

Yeah, the “this is the only cocktail” thing has always seemed a little silly to me. But I’m not sure a full bar is necessary. If you’re having your reception somewhere that doesn’t already have a full bar, it’s a little unreasonable to stock one just for your wedding. But it’s not rocket science to stock a limited…

Yeah, there are some reasonably priced state schools today, but I just don’t see need-blind in-state tuition subsidies surviving for the next two decades.

I guess I was just confused about what FIRE means. Working a high-stress job because the money is good sounds like the opposite of retirement.

Hmm, interesting take. I guess we’ll see whether state schools are any cheaper than fancy schools a decade and a half from now; my intuition is that there isn’t a lot of political will behind funding public universities these days, and without those subsidies, public school prices will start to look a lot like private…

Oh, yeah, don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind carving the bird. I just think it should be done right: with a sharp knife, at a proper height (counter height, not table height), on a cutting board or butcher block (not on a platter), with plenty of elbow room. The Norman Rockwell image of a turkey sitting on the table…

When I’ve toyed with this idea, the big question mark I see in the years ahead is the price tag on college education, which seems to look a lot like “How much money do you have? Ok, that’s how much it costs.” I’m not even talking about super-fancy colleges, either. Out-of-state tuition at a state university runs about…

• How strongly attached to turkey are you? Very attached to turkey, but not to the carving, which can/should be done on the kitchen counter, not on the table. Variants on how the turkey is cooked are fine. I prefer grilling the bird whole.

I quit Netflix a few years ago for similar reasons. When I first tried replacing Netflix with Amazon Prime, I felt like the Prime movie selection was pretty weak. But these days, the Netflix movie catalog isn’t much better. And I’m not a big fan of the “release an entire season of TV all at once just because you can”…

I don’t get it. I hit my goal for the day, and then... do what, exactly? Transfer $5 from my checking account to my savings account? Take $5 from the “whatever” line of my budget and put it in my savings account? And then transfer it back next month when it’s time for Christmas shopping? I feel like I’m missing…

I still feel pretty weird selling my stuff. It’s a hang-up I should probably get over. But score me a zero on this one.

Sounds like it’ll be $25. Less than I expected.

https://xkcd.com/979/

Sure, you google the error message, but which one? Take today’s debugging challenge. My service was pretty much working fine, except when it had to make a particular RPC call. Then it loaded half the page, showed a spinner for a while, and finally said “internal server error.” There’s an error message on the frontend,…