With all due respect to this hack, just buy a toilet plunger. They aren’t expensive, and are an essential item to have in any home. If you somehow don’t have one and clog your toilet, just leave it and go to the nearest store and purchase one. If it’s late find the nearest 24 hour store. If there isn’t one near you,…

The solution I’m looking forward to is retirement - no more feeling blue about returning to work after a brief time off.

I really wish our forbearers had placed major winter celebrations in the middle of winter instead of at the beginning so there would be something to look forward to. I say that while fully understanding that the celebrations were centered around the solstice. Still, the best part of winter is at the very beginning,…

If you’re storing your irreplaceable car with someone, maybe ask them if they know how to use the door opener release pull. That’s not meant to be snark.  A good friend asked me to give her a ride a few years ago during a power outage, because she thought her car was held captive without electricity. More people than…

First: from a QA perspective? “Re-writing mainline software on the fly” to code your way around chip issues? Is a terrible strategy that wouldn’t fly in a real company.

Looking at this discussion here from Brazil, were paid college tuition costs about $100/month, and government-funded ones costs $0 (when they don’t actually *pay* you to study), I cannot but roll my eyes. The US seems to be a great place in most everything, but in three of them it’s completely bonkers: electoral-everyt…

I mostly agree with you but there is a big difference in student loans and a car loan or a mortgage. If worse case scenario you can walk away from the car loan or the mortgage and/or you can declare bankruptcy. Student loans don’t allow that. Of course, those loans have some collateral whereas a loan to go to school…

90s websites worked better than today. The information you wanted was right there. No “please support us by disabling your adblocker.”

I didn’t know this either! My guess is maybe it’s related to the switch from bash to zsh as the default shell?

I’m happily married and my wife already does this.

As a ham radio operator, we are not necessarily “preppers”, but we are “prepped.” 

That list provided here needs a simple modification. One of the radios mentioned should by all means be a shortwave radio. You need something to intercept broadcasts from across the country and around the world, not just the immediate area, and an FM or satellite radio isn’t going to cut it. Unless one of your radios…

One thing the article doesn’t really address is the grid scale transformers. We can’t make them but more than a small fraction per year of the current installed number.

One more thing before I go: in many areas - especially the northeast - the vending machine trade has been historically controlled by mobsters who love the easy to conceal cash flow. You might not have Tony Soprano show up to smack you around but competing with the kind of folks who enhance their profits by dodging…

I can deal with the laundering, but it’s the folding of all the bills and putting them back in the closet that kills me.

You’re misusing the term “direct flight” when you mean non-stop. A direct flight simply does not change flight number, but may have a stopover in another city (which also may involve a plane change!).

This article was such click-bait too. Here’s a picture of stick anti-perspirant that most people use, but oh the recall is actually about spray.

The worst car to take is your best car.

I-93 traffic in Boston is always a mess after 1PM anyway. Doesn’t matter whether it’s northbound or south.

Haha, I’ve point blank told my wife that I would be happy with power tools for Christmas. A nice Dewalt 20v impact wrench is at the top of the list. Those batteries aren’t cheap either!