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Valery is apparently a male name in Russia, doh! hol' up - Seleznev told the courts he watched his mom drink herself to death, when she's a current member of the Duma?! Is he adopted, or is he the Russian George Santos?

I got a new toy! According to the seller, it's a 1941 10"x30" Powr Kraft. I don't really have any metalworking experience besides taking an angle grinder to stuff and stripping screws, but 2 years of watching AvE, Abom79, and This Old Tony convinced me to take the plunge. The compound has a...

I picked up a MP maker select plus during the christmas sales. While I've run into issues, I have to admit I'm impressed with the starting print quality out of it - I prepared myself for the first prints to look like sculpted poop. Started doing some of the simpler mods while I try to learn...

Dogecoin might have started as a joke, I may have mined some as a joke, but the Dogecoin community sponsored a NASCAR team, got the driver into the all-star race, and helped send the Jamaican bobsled team to the olympics. There has to be a point where it outgrows the "joke coin" label. Plus...

I don't know how much effort you want to put into investigating this, but AvE on Youtube has taken apart a bunch of drills to check them out and critique their build, including an old 2 speed B&D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKy1KESwexs Personally I have both corded and cordless. Since I...

It doesn't really surprise me. The trash company my city contracted with, their system has 1 account per address. When I bought my house, I got the account with the seller's email address and payment history. There's an online payment option, but I was too scared of what I'd find.

Don't forget, Stapp is the guy who introduced Murphy's Law to the world.

I bought the 2GB version and the hardware performance is fine. Camera could be better, but I'm not a big picture person. Personally I would have preferred 5", and none of the Asus software. One potential dealbreraker that has made me want to chuck it at a wall is the Asus dialer and google...

After 4 days of torture of only having the type cover, the other half's surface pro arrived, which she's making great use of. Microsoft's start screen finally makes sense(as I assumed it would), the hardware and pen seem well designed, and the weight is tolerable to use as a tablet. It finally...

My girlfriend is on the verge of purchasing a surface for school, but which model she'll get is still up in the air. I'm thinking the i5 with 8 gigs is probably the best choice for papers, research, and potentially the rare research simulation, but I'm a bit out of touch when it comes too non...

Got an offer for my first real job. I don't think that it has fully hit me, but it's amazing. The pay is a little less than I expected but in the ballpark of what I wanted. With a MS and half a PhD, is there room for salary negotiation or does the whole first job aspect kill any wiggle room...

Commercial: 0, Academic: 2 and some change for the masters, 4 for the PhD student/defense contractor abomination that I'm in now.

I'm finally looking for a real job, and I think I'm getting to the point in interviews where compensation is probably coming up. However, I have absolutely no idea what is fair pay. I always figured that I'd end up moving to one of the coasts and one of the big names would make it rain, but...

I'd love to be a part of Ars, but my only writing examples are my 4 year old thesis and a rejected article. Not exactly writing for mass consumption.

The inlaws are in a pretty remote area and are stuck on Satellite internet, so < 100GB cap for $90 IIRC. A couple months ago I checked TW's website and was able to get to the checkout for new service, so they called and the CS rep said "No prob!". Three weeks later, multiple calls, and missed...

Ah crap, I lost the game after 5 years. Started a new character and been messing around with exploration, pretty interesting and managed to get a 1.6 mil item from a hi-sec data site. Also, salvaging drones are an amazing improvement. Mining frigates?! I don't think my old character could...

It's probably because I'm a penny pinching tightwad of a grad student, but I'm having trouble imagining a place whose food is so good that writing a reservation bot beats finding somewhere else to eat. I'm assuming that there's a huge "keeping up with the Joneses" social aspect to this place?

Work gets me to move. It gives me a chance to clear my head and get out of whatever mental rut I'm stuck in. It also helps me not turn into the bad part of my dad, who is awesome, but physically risks dying before his mom.

Hah, neither did anyone else. State school meant state retirement system, I just happened to be the only student in recent times to take advantage of it. That makes quite a bit of sense, I'll have to throw my CV up to get eviscerated for my long term benefit.

The realities of my financial situation are overcoming my desires to learn, and well, not have a real job. I love my PhD program, but the pay is grad school pay. I took a $3000 pay cut going from my Masters to the PhD and I lost out on the state's retirement plan. I'm 29 on Friday and I have...