DANG IT

That feel when your Etsy purchase comes with an Amazon receipt in the package :(

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That magnification effect is why I don't want lasik, it's like my little superpower.

Plus the whole eyeball surgery thing.

My understanding was that there are three types of rayon. Or have I been had by Big Cellulose?

• Viscose is the one that gets weaker when wet, and uses aggressive chemicals
• Modal gets stronger when wet, but also aggressive chemicals
• Tencel (brand name for lyocell) specifically refers to that closed loop process with less harsh solvents, and also gets stronger when wet

If something just says "Rayon" you can probably assume it's viscose. Tencel sellers want you to know it's Tencel.

Regardless, none of the above are good for warmth, so bad replacement for wool no matter which process they use. I do love my Tencel bedsheets though.

You would think so wouldn't you? But Google usually still tries to be "helpful" about everything. "100 linen" does work better, although still not perfect.

That also doesn't fix the issue with being unable to ignore Amazon and Walmart. On the standard search, the dash to ban a specific term makes it not the first result but it still shows up further down the page. On the dedicated product search it doesn't seem to do anything at all.

Here's an example of how well search operators do these days.

I just signed up for the free trial of Kagi, I'll have to see how it compares.

Dude, my boss every time. I don't even know how I can go shorter because one time, the whole email was the 2 questions, 21 words total. Still ignored one of them.

It's even bad for finding something to purchase honestly. I'll search for a specific part number, and most of the results are other similar but not interchangeable products. No Google I cannot just shove this random other battery pack into my UPS, but thanks anyway.

I tried searching for airtight drawers and all the results were either airtight or drawers. Only one was both and it was a ten thousand dollar museum specimen cabinet.

It's especially terrible if you care about the fiber content of your clothes. Searching for linen or even 100% linen gets me linen blend, linen-look, linen color. 100% wool gets mostly acrylic wool blends. Wool toe socks gets me either wool socks or toe socks but again, not both.

Plus I can't block Amazon and Walmart from the results anymore, so that's a ton of extra junk to filter through manually.

Intriguing! I'm concerned about the "advanced power management algorithms" they're putting up front and center without clarifying. My current phone (OnePlus) is very aggressive about that and just kills my alarm clock in the middle of the night once in a while and breaks other apps, even with optimizations disabled and the phone plugged in. Furiphone isn't listed on DontKillMyApp and I didn't see anything with a quick search, have you heard anything about how it does on that?

Also that size, oof. Mine is already too big and this is noticeably bigger in all 3 dimensions.

Linen actually doesn't take to large scale mechanization very well. It causes the fibers to break into shorter pieces more often, which makes the final fabric rougher and less sturdy. Machine-woven linen also tends to be more loosely woven, which is again less sturdy.

Machines certainly helped some amount, but cotton got a way bigger boost from industrialization. That's why cotton is so much cheaper than linen today, especially high quality linen.

It's even worse because that relationship is already called the square cube law. It's not a fixed percentage. Raising it to the power of 0.67 is the same as squaring it and then taking the cube root. So if volume increases by a factor of 8, you'd expect surface area to increase by a factor of 4. If volume increases by a factor of 27, surface area should increase by a factor of 9.

It's always true for any object that maintains its exact shape while increasing or decreasing in size, but it also tends to apply to animals across different shapes because of gravitational and oxygenation constraints. It's why we don't have any animals with proportions like a sheet of paper standing on end.

The funny part to me was where they say "Sharks follow expectations, this changes everything!"

It is the words "toilet paper" repeated over and over to whatever tune comes to mind

What happened to his hands?

I was not expecting that title to be so literal

Am also into power metal, I didn't learn about metal from anime OPs but I have a few on my playlist.

I always have to sing the toilet paper song through the whole process

Part of it, as I understand, is that vehicles classed as light trucks instead of passenger cars (i.e. pickups and SUVs) are exempt from certain safety and testing requirements. Car manufacturers push them super hard because less money on regulatory compliance = more profit.

There's also been the cultural tie between big vehicles and masculinity, I'm sure the marketing teams haven't been shy about reinforcing that attitude.

Dope, thanks!

I get why a lay person would misunderstand the capabilities of LLMs. They sound like a thinking person should sound, so they treat it like it's coming from a thinking person.

But how are all the (presumably) tech-literate Microsoft employees also confused by this? Anyone paying even a little attention should have seen numerous instances of LLMs confidently asserting "facts" that they pulled out of their asses. They are not the right tool for most of the stuff people use a voice/OS assistant for.

I have to assume it's the business guys up top hearing the "AI" buzzword and getting horny for capitalism but god damn