Dime is a pretty common word among basketball commentators and fans. It means assist!

A point guard who’s dropping dimes all over the place is playing really well and helping facilitate the team’s scoring.

There’s also ECAD software for electronics. I believe a lot of product teams use both ECAD and MCAD. The former for designing the circuit board, the latter for designing the case and any moving parts.

CAD software for Mechanical design (mechanical engineers use it to design motors and transmissions and other machinery).

Wow, thanks for the recipe! I have a 12 inch cast iron skillet as well as a 10 inch carbon steel pan (3mm thick and oven safe), but no 10 inch skillet. Can I use one or the other?

Cornbread is so delicious! I’ve loved it every time I’ve had it but I’ve never made it before!

I mean I don’t play brand new AAA games. I have old consoles, I use emulation. I basically have every game I’d ever want already. Tens of thousands of games.

I don’t know where you get discrimination out of that. Only if you’ve convinced yourself that you need to play the newest AAA games, I guess.

I see lots of people playing new games, with multiplayer, on their phones. Ubiquitous computing everywhere.

A soldering iron isn’t going to get the job done for high density BGA packages. Example chip:

All those dots are balls of solder. The chip needs to be placed on the board in exactly the right position and orientation, and then the whole thing placed in a reflow oven so that the solder balls can melt and flow appropriately without bridging any connections.

Doing this at home without the right tools is essentially impossible. With the right tools, it’s merely quite difficult. Reflow soldering takes experience and carries the risk of damaging other components on the board which may not survive the temperatures in the reflow oven, so need to be removed first. Plus the reflowing procedure itself is guided by a temperature profile which would have been developed through experience in the factory with specific adjustments for the thermal characteristics of this board. Get the profile wrong and you may break other connections when the solder fails to flow, or have other chips on the board come loose.

Rosemary? Heavens no! It’s very hardy and easy to grow!

That makes sense. Plants have no control over what chemicals they intake. Whatever is in the soil and water around their roots, they’re going to take up. If there are chemicals that damage the plant’s stem cells’ DNA, they need a way to protect against a bunch of mutations that harm the plant’s ability to grow correctly.

I’ve never heard of this. Do you have some articles?

On PC without any sort of lockdown mechanism it just becomes a Wild West. FPSes are downright unplayable. Heck, even chess has rampant cheating online.

The solution is simple: gaming on a separate device from your regular PC, which does not have any of your personal data to spy on. We could call it a gaming console!

I’ve been using Swiftfin for a while. It’s very much an alpha product. I don’t want to pressure the devs though. They’re volunteers releasing something nice for free. All the other apps in the space are paid or even subscription based. Ugh!

I love jalapeños on pizza! Really nice!

It’s a specialist tool. You can say the same thing about any specialist tool. Why should CNC machine tools exist if they’re so hard to use and take a lot of training and are dangerous in the hands of untrained people?

Haskell keeps track of your types automatically. You can ask it “what is the type of this expression” and it will infer it for you. Haskell is of course fully static typed (types erased at compile time).

The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. One of the most frustrating adages about markets!

The crypto mining craze transitioned into the AI slop craze. If the AI slop bubble is finally bursting then all that ram will end up unsold and the price will come down.

Boiled egg times vary a lot with elevation. Water boils at a cooler temperature at high elevation than at sea level. This cooler boiling water means eggs take longer to cook.

Yes and they’ll try to use more LLM slop coding to fix it, except it’ll cause the codebase to balloon way beyond any possible ability to contain it within a context window, so LLMs will hallucinate more slop and the whole edifice will come crashing down.

Used to love plug-in-heavy, customizable tools. Then I realized I loved spending time customizing and installing all those plugins, and not a lot of time getting work done.

Now I just prefer good tools that can do everything I need but not necessarily optimally. As long as they feel really efficient for 95% of use cases and the other 5% are possible (but not optimal) I am good with that. I don’t need to reach for “the perfect tool” anymore.