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I just successfully repaired my Fairphone 4 for about 15 Euros. The USB-C connector was a bit wobbly since some time already, and recently I could not connect the phone to my Laptop anymore. After getting frustrated that none of my...
About 10 years ago, the big topics that had economists all atwitter included the “secular stagnation” hypothesis put forward by Lawrence Summers and the rising-inequality hypothesis put forward by Thomas Piketty. Put the two theories...
Some exciting news. :) Yesterday, before leaving for the record store, I got offered the restaurant job! We're still negotiating the salary, but it's such a huge relief to know that I passed the trial. All those tears shed, for nothing!...
It’s been a couple of months since Milo finished his fourth (modified) CHOP/CEOP protocol, and he’s been able to enjoy the summer without any vet visits[1]. Milo snacking on raspberries from the bush We’d been hoping for a nice long...
The best little cash register of all time. The post Bad Gear on the MPC Sample appeared first on Sampleface.
The past month has been a blur. I had a bug for a few days, and then I had a few days off work that ended up being extremely busy… The post 20260827 Purpose + intellectual life appeared first on The Wallflower Digest.
In June, I bought myself an electric bike, and even though it’s only pedal assist, it’s transformed how I interact with my new Texas home. My Dallas neighborhood is surrounded... Source
I have long suspected that we are being visited by huge cosmic birds.
A couple months ago I bought a Reterminal E1004 epaper display which I was going to use to display (in my living room) the temperature and stuff… but then it turned out that the update cycle is so absolutely horrendous that it’s not...
[All between July 25 and August 27, 2026, a rainy Thursday] *Recommendation for the background is My Endeavour which I heard in a coffee shop as I wrote this. DataDays in London: 42 Movies watched: 8 Average daily distance: 10km A...
A WHOLE LOTTA NOTHING ¶ All supermarket apples are good looking, and Dazzle, with its cool red blush decorated with many small lenticel dots, is no exception. ¶ The apple is large and blocky, with only a slight taper keeping it from a...
I am a regular blood donner, but I dread the needle. I get very tense just before the nurse sticks the needle into me. I have been a blood donner for more than 20 years, and I still have not gotten the fear of the needle. Lately, someone...
Even though we are in San Francisco this weekend attending what I consider one of the best pen events in the world, T.G.S. remains open for business online and in Nashville! We have new papers from NOLTY, new Uni Kuru Toga mechanical...
Less than 24 hours ago the grassroot organization “Wait Until 8th” (*) announced on Facebook “a landmark win for kids’ online safety”, saying, according from news from New York Times & NBC News:Meta just reached a settlement with 47...
Andrew pointed us to someone else's investigation of an ultra-productive Chicago Business School professor named Nicholas Polson. According to this SSRN profile, he has published over two hundred papers, including 6 yesterday and 2 today...