Hello, my name is Paul, and my job is to drop screws into hard-to-reach places.

Chicagoland
Joined December 2013
I found out recently about a pair of commercially available speakers that bear an uncanny resemblance to one of my most popular designs. sites.google.com/site/undefi…
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+1 for fixing appliances being oddly satisfying
I'm fascinated by the rise of frictionmaxxing as a response to a frictionless life. We engineer away inconvenience, only to discover that some of the friction we removed was part of what made life feel alive in the first place
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I know it makes me look like an old curmudgeon, but I always fire up an instance of Word and Excel 2003 when I gotta do real thinking
starting a crusade against Desktop Software Inflation I want my Productivity Software to look like a Serious Computer Program and not a mobile app on wheels
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why would i ever use linnux when windows 11 shows me the kung fu panda whenever i try to use powershell
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Americans when it comes to car design for some reason
Guys seriously what is this... Interior by Fisher Price?
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now Tane I can get into
Hello computer. Decompile and distill Grand Theft Auto. Make the game set in my hometown -- use Google Earth to reconstruct it in pixel-perfect detail. Make the character me and have my spawn point be in the mansion I always look at on Zillow. Review my chat memory and make every mission about my hopes and dreams. Make it playable online so my friends can join. When you're done, sell all my video games on Ebay and use that money to fund tokens for my next game.
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Robert Fripp fully mastered this according to one of my favorite youtube comments of all time
Some bands are only for guys who know how to play guitar
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things in everyday life AI has made worse: customer service, job hiring processes, Google search functionality, finding accurate info online, relationships with colleagues who use it to read emails & then misunderstand, trust between student & professor, online shopping . . .
In what way has it made your life worse? Is seeing dumb videos that much of a stressor for you?
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I have never once been interested to see what’s new with Chrome
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Jeep owners: NO you don't GET it I absolutely NEED 25" of clearance for my daily commute!!!! Construction workers driving their 20 year old corollas to the job site:
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Every compact disc can be played on a turntable. Simply flip the disc over (data side up) and place the stylus on the outside edge, much like you would with a vinyl. The needle will "lock in" to the disc surface, adding analog warmth to any digital recording.
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it's always so funny when people are trying to sell their used couch for $1500 on fb marketplace. a couch on fb marketplace costs $200. they're always like "i paid $4000 for this couch." not my problem man. should have bought it on fb marketplace, where a couch costs $200
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Introducing Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in our new Claude 5.5 family. It performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 for most tasks, and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5.
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i’m so scared what does this even do
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Ha! You're absolutely right. There *is* a 737 waiting to take off on Runway 19. 🛫 I probably shouldn't have cleared AA5404 to land there. 😳 I'm here if you need any tips and tricks for handling mass casualty incidents. 🚒🚑✨
FAA to Deploy A.I. Air Traffic System at DC-Area Airports Starting Monday
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oh...
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Learned a new word today. Guess you're never too old to learn new things
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"man im so tired of this annoying minimalistic design trend i hope It ends soon"
I’ll do anything to see a canva free template poster again
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There are 5-6 secret additional hours between 1 and 3 am if you know how to do it correctly. This will take years off your life and make you look and feel like shit but also it is peak Going On The Computer Time
Once you completely unmoor your sleep schedule from the rising and setting of the sun, you can access new, formerly grayed out sections of space-time, sort of the dust in between the stars, and most crucially, use it to cram 48 to 96 hours worth of screen time into one single day
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