Guess I wasn't wrong to be suspicious of all those "We're so sorry we are closing our collection" ads (often with an obvious genAI image, or a picture of a product available elsewhere).

Happy birthday!!

They gotta pay the hosting costs somehow, I guess.

Hey, I have that too! (Though it's more intermittent than every morning) Nice to know it's not just me.

Just for fun/solidarity, here's my original attempt at printing the underbody. Silk PLA, I tell ya ...

Here's a picture a friend took of a ground squirrel on our vacation this summer. I like to see them enjoy bounty.

Even minor intelligence failures could have pretty bad consequences. E.g. I can imagine it deciding to open an exterior door and letting my indoor-only cat out.

Sorry to see this happen. Best wishes for finding a new place.

From experience, if you keep that kind of peanut butter long enough, instead of molding or rotting it becomes glue.

You mean the solenoid valves I was using? www.adafruit.com/product/4663...

Why are they only doing this *after* Starship had two reasonably successful flights, though? Was something about those not as good as they looked?

Everyone's brain is different. Sometimes you just have to try things and see whether they work for you or your body doesn't tolerate them well.

You can tell the non-disreputable characters don't look at their life or others' as cheap. Any racism feels like a product of the colonial setting rather than something the author is pushing. I'd rather read another book like this than read about the British Navy abusing its own.

I'm not a big romance person, and I actually liked the minor romantic subplot. The book ends tragically, but it's tragic in a meaningful way, not a pointless way. And most importantly, this book feels more *humane* than other age-of-sail historical fiction I've read.