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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Never understood the popularity of the hard stone tops.

    “Resists scratches and heat!” But also, a stray spritz of lemon or a splash of the cleaning fluid for the coffee maker will leave permanent dull spots, so don’t forget to seal it regularly. It’s not the utility. Those desirable qualities are more fully realized by tempered glass anyway, which is safer and much cheaper.

    Wood, stainless, aggregate, epoxy, stained concrete, and many other better options are available. They’re not just safer and cheaper but way less pedestrian and beige.

    I can only assume the true desirability comes from a rapidly aging association of these stone tops with wealth and a resulting expectation of what future home buyers will pay more for, but the more disappointing explanation would be that it’s another difficult to acquire natural resource that must be mined and polished, like jewels. In that case the social cachet is bound up in the exploitation itself, like a fur coat or a conflict diamond, which is pretty fucking gross.















  • Nice! I’ve wanted a tool exactly like that many times. I’ll back it and see.

    The closest I could find before were essentially pin to pin continuity checkers, which are useful for telling if a cable is PD only, 2.0 vs 3.x, or has a line break, but most of those can be eyeballed, otherwise metered. So these just checkers just add precision and speed to something you already know how to do.

    The runner ups were the (now ubiquitous) inline inductive energy trackers, because they can tell you a bit more about the gauge of the wires in the cable which can be important, especially high amperage 5v like pi 4.B

    But to test quality of shielding for high rate data transfer, DP and PCI-E tunneling, etc., the only option was manually user testing with adequately powerful devices.