FancyPantsFIRE

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It’s pretty crazy, my mediocre state university had an all in (tuition, housing, food, books, etc) cost of $17k/year when I went 20 years ago and it’s up to $42k/year now. And that’s the in state price, out of state would be $60k/year, though I can’t imagine who would pay that.

Between financial aid and internships I came out of college with less than $20k in student loan debt. It’d be far worse these days.

I did not go to the tenth or twentieth. I can’t imagine how they’d even find me for the thirtieth in the 2030s, I don’t really do any social media these days.

I’m an introvert and haven’t kept up with anyone from high school. Seems like it’d just be awkward.

Mostly because of cost and aesthetics. It’s actually still a great dental repair material in terms of durability. I have a gold capped molar that I elected and pushed my dentist for after doing research, had a good conversation about trade-offs in materials vs going blindly with a default. My mother in law also has most of her fillings done with gold. But obviously it’s expensive and you need a dentist that is used to working with gold which is less common. Most people do not want front facing teeth in gold.

Project sounds interesting. The company website is profoundly strange. https://meanhamster.com/products The active products seem to be this and 3d printed pet sculptures from photos.

Clicking through and looking up on Wikipedia, Mean Hamster has been a niche game studio for decades (pocket pc, amiga, retro Atari cartridges). Also it’s now purely a family operation with all people who don’t have the same last name as the CEO marked as former team members.

Dude is in his 50s now, so maybe he’s working with his family on a cool project and living his best life, I like that interpretation.

I’d never accuse them of being altruistic, I more thought it was a case of incentives aligning where it saves them money on electricity and incidentally is a net environmental positive. We’ll insomuch as it can be a positive given that there’s an Amazon specific delivery fleet that trawls my neighborhood daily for next or same day deliveries to satisfy instant gratification.

the AC now runs for up to 10 minutes after a driver exits the vehicle, ensuring a cool cabin when they return. The timer resets at every stop. The AC only shuts off if the driver sliding door is left open for more than 30 seconds — a battery conservation measure.

Context from the article.

As I heard many times during childhood: “Close the door you’re letting the cold air out!”

Closing the door is something that seems like an obvious should-but-won’t-do for most drivers, so I could see this being a good thing to get people to actually do the thing, seems less evil than the headline initially portrays.

on Only me? · c/memes · 5 pts · 79d

I only understand this reference because I worked for a company at one point that had a large number of NeXT and Solaris hosts that only had vi installed with letter key navigation, so my muscle memory does not use arrow keys.