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SuperCard is a direct descendant of hypercard (and even supports hypercard conversion). However, it's a 32 bit app and it looks like they have no plans to transition to 64bit, so you can't run it on modern macs.

Something in a similar vein, although without the easy to use templates, would be the Squeak or Pharo smalltalk systems.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 2:47 PM on May 1, 2024

Old montreal is very crowded when the weather is nice and feels a lot like a theme park, so I wouldn't sweat not staying there. It's also not where the best restaurants are, instead it's filled with places that remind me of the bad restaurants in Prague's old city, tourist trap kind of overpriced but "fancy" (for the most part, there are some exceptions).

I highly recommend checking out the area around Parc La Fontaine, esp., Avenue Mont-Royal. It's where I… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:01 AM on April 25, 2024 marked best answer

The federal loophole making 0.3% d9-thc products not illegal (but are they legal? nobody knows) has opened up a kind of wild west for these products. https://www.3chi.com/ has, I think, a good reputation, and claims tons of lab testing, but for all of that, for every brand, you have to take their word for it.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:14 AM on April 22, 2024

Maybe "The Founder", the movie about Ray Kroc turning McDonalds into a globe-striding colossus
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:23 AM on April 21, 2024

A book might be "sold out" because they've remaindered the remaining copies so they don't have to hold on to inventory that they don't expect to ever sell, in which case there's very little chance they are holding on to unpaid royalties.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 10:23 AM on April 10, 2024

You should be able to find a used Roland FP-10 for around $400 on marketplaces like Reverb. You'll also need to spring for a sturdy stand. It's a good digital piano. The next model up, the FP-30X, is an excellent digital piano that will meet the needs of someone learning piano for many years. Around that price there's also the Kawai ES-120 which will be good enough for playing everything but the most advanced pieces. These pianos tend to hold their resale pretty well, so if you buy a nicer… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 9:35 AM on March 22, 2024

the barcode on a boarding pass often includes things like the frequent flyer number, the pnr/booking reference number, date of birth etc, which is enough info to get going on a scam against the airline somehow (honestly not sure what you can do besides cancel the flight that’s already about to taxi) so a photo of it might be valuable on its own
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:49 PM on March 17, 2024

Returnal has a fantastic coop mode. You choose to host or to join a coop session and you're randomly paired with someone to go around fighting the aliens with. It might support microphones but I've never talked to anyone or heard from anyone on it. The coop session lasts until someone leaves or you die (if they die you can continue on without them). Returnal is very hard so that usually means 30 minutes is the upper limit.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:43 AM on March 9, 2024

I'm not 100% sure what you're looking for, but you may be interested in NixOS or Nix flakes. Nix does a lot of things, but one of the best is that it makes it possible to configure software environments fearlessly, knowing you can switch to another set of packages without breaking anything. You can play with and install experimental packages and if you don't like them, just say goodbye, without any worry that your system will ever be left in an inconsistent state.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 9:10 PM on February 27, 2024

I have a simple approach to this. Parse the CSV line with backslashes as escape characters. If it fails, parse it without. Do that for each line.

Python csv parsing takes a file as input and reads the whole file, but you can trick it to take one line at a time as a "file". Here is some dumb pseudocode, since I can't remember all my python foo


from io import StringIO
import csv

csv_file… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 9:30 AM on February 23, 2024

Better than buillion "no-chicken base" is my vegan go to, with added kombu leaf (improves mouthfeel, adds glutmates) and one trick is using agar agar. The big thing that meat-based broths have that vegetable broth often lacks is the velvety smooth mouthfeel from the gelatin in the bones and muscles of meat. In carnivorous cooking I often cheat with this by adding gelatin to the stock. Agar agar works very similarly for vegetable stock. You want stock that turns to jelly in the fridge.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:39 AM on January 16, 2024

An HP chromebase is maybe an ideal choice here: https://www.newegg.com/p/1VK-001E-4DSZ9. What's ideal here about a chromebook/chromebox is you'll never ever ever have to come over and fix the system becuase some kind of terrible spyware or virus has landed (unless you consider chrome spyware, which, ymmv)
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 12:04 PM on December 14, 2023

For my acoustic I've been playing Elixir strings forever. They last very very very long, and sound great.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:32 AM on December 8, 2023

They expect you to plug it into the charging cord when not using it. Or to put it on this: https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/buy-accessories/dualsense-charging-station

When plugged into the charging station is glows for a second to confirm its charging status and then doesn't blink or glow until you pick it back up.

Otherwise no you can't turn it off except by holding down the PS logo or turning the controller off using the PS5 menus (which… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 9:21 AM on November 22, 2023 marked best answer

Definitely digital distortion of some kind. Sounds very "square wave" to me, but the track is also heavily produced and i suspect the guitar is recorded directly through a pre-amp by the audio interface, through a pedal chain or maybe with distortion plugins, instead of a microphone recording an amplified guitar. The gecs work hard to have a distinctive sound so I suspect there's a lot of tinkering with a few layers of eq and effects to get this just where they wanted it.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:55 AM on November 5, 2023

You can use Better Display to lock in resolutions and prevent them from changing, and also to quickly switch resolutions
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:21 PM on October 5, 2023

I'm not on a mac right now to be able to test this idea, but I suspect that the apple watch unlock requires bluetooth and wifi to be on on the macbook. Are your time machine backups going to a wired drive? If so, you could set up a script, run by cron, to turn off the wifi and bluetooth interfaces at night and turn them back on in the morning.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:38 AM on October 2, 2023

It sounds like the penicillin has killed off the biome in your mouth that normally keeps candidiasis at bay. Talk to the doctor who prescribed you the penicillin. You could try chlorhexidine mouthwash and a fairly constant chewing of xylitol gum, which might help reduce it but probably won't eliminate it.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:38 AM on September 28, 2023

I, personally, would not tell prof B that I had "chosen" prof A. I'd just show up and if I run into them, be personable and talk about it if they ask. But also, and maybe this is just differences in your field, but until you're at the stage where you're developing your prospectus you have plenty of opportunity to pick a different advisor. Professors are people and sometimes surprisingly child-like people so they can take switching personally but it's a normal thing to do and should be… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:03 AM on September 27, 2023

I looked for this quite a bit a while ago. It's one of those pieces of media, like David Simon's "Homicide", that just isn't on the streamers, likely caught up in some licensing deal that makes it unavailable. Your best bet is to buy a DVD set. (or piracy)
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 10:35 AM on September 14, 2023

Blackmarket Hall in Monti is a fun place if you're in that area with a great cocktail menu. On the other side of the Tiber, Freni e Frizoni is too hip to quit and great cocktails
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 9:53 AM on September 11, 2023

Courbet's L'Origine du Monde (NSFW, I guess?)
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 11:16 AM on September 8, 2023

Another good one is Manet's Dejeuner su l'herbe, honestly a baffling painting in a lot of ways
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 11:20 AM on September 8, 2023

Since you'll already be a bit west of MKE, I'd suggest going to House on the Rock for some outsider art weirdness.

There's a fair amount of skiing in Wisconsin. No double black diamond or anything but skiing nonetheless. I don't have any recommendations on ski resorts but there's a few near both Milwaukee and Madison.

Head out to Devil's Lake for some great cross country skiing or snow-shoe hiking. Trails are open in the winter. Although given… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:14 AM on September 5, 2023

Try out Number Shield. Although I don't know how it handles things like the integration the iPhone has with macOS (although it should work for CarPlay)
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 10:55 AM on August 29, 2023 marked best answer

It's important to keep a list of the things you've accomplished so you can use them in reviews, moments of self-promotion, but generally in situations like this your supervisors themselves don't really want to worry about how you're spending your time. It takes a lot of work to keep a close eye on direct reports. They just want you to get the results they need to impress *their* supervisors or meet their goals. If you're doing the things you are tasked with and regularly accomplishing goals,… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:01 AM on August 29, 2023

These days my strategy is: get the booster and flu vaccine when they come out, probably in mid October to cover the fall/winter as best as I can. Otherwise, if I am feeling ill in any way, try not to go out, and if I really *have* to go somewhere, mask up. No mask otherwise since nobody else is wearing a mask anymore I don't really see the point especially since I know that the N95s I have do not have a good seal on me. But my caveat here is I am one of the people who has never tested positive… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 11:51 AM on August 24, 2023

I don't have a good summary of my thoughts on this topic. It's an incredibly knotty problem, philosophically. If you can find a copy of Parfit's Reasons and Persons at your local library, it won't decide the question for you but will get the wheels turning on how complex the problem of what a person is, is.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:40 AM on August 24, 2023

I took a spin on google maps and I believe what you're seeing there is the Texas Gulf Potash Pond, One A: google maps. Or some other industrial site.

It's pretty wild looking on the satellite imagery
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 11:21 AM on August 18, 2023 marked best answer

Climate change has definitely influenced decisions we've mulled about leaving Milwaukee, for the same reasons as Chicago above (that and home prices). There's no escaping what's coming, but the great lakes do feel like a region blessed to uh, weather, the change better than others. Although even here you'll wake up to a hellscape bathed in absolutely unbreathable wildfire smoke when the wind is right.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:08 AM on August 15, 2023

When I had to build tools for this for a big production site, we investigated it pretty intensely. There's really no foolproof way to verify that an email is "valid" in the sense that emails sent to it will not bounce, except by sending an email and seeing if it bounces. The strategy that works for 99% of cases is:

1. does it have a domain after an `@` symbol (note this isn't actually required, but nobody uses the old school kinds of emails that wouldn't… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 2:34 PM on August 14, 2023

August Fury, I'll send you one
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 5:32 PM on August 9, 2023

Kias are currently the no. 1 target for car thieves, since for a huge number of recent model years, they are able to be easily started with just a screwdriver or, insanely, just a usb cable. There was a class action about this and you may even be eligible for being included it it. Living in Milwaukee, where the Kia theft trend started, I have witnessed with my own eyes *several times* Kias get jacked right from the street. Door jimmied, kid sits down and gets the engine started in less than a… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 11:09 AM on August 9, 2023

If it's possible, one thing that helped me when my parents first moved us was letting me walk around the empty new house before move in, and imagine how i would take advantage of the fact that i no longer had to sleep in the same room as my brother. i think it gave me a chance to get comfortable with the idea of a completely new space instead of afraid of a change that was totally new and unknown. (at that time, we did not have zillow but i think being there in person is still better than seeing… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:47 AM on August 3, 2023

Everlane is my go to
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 5:03 PM on July 31, 2023

Looks like a Grendel to me
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:39 AM on July 31, 2023

the company paying you should be withholding NYS tax from your paycheck already. The trick here is to get the state you’re a resident of to credit you for the taxes paid in new york. It was easy enough for me in Wisconsin but it’s different for every state. If your paychecks have withholding for your own state, ask the business folks at the company if they’re reporting you to NY or not. if they’re not you might not need to do anything. If they’re not withholding anything for tax then i’d also… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:26 AM on July 27, 2023

> If you are working remotely, no you will not owe NY non resident taxes.

This isn't true anymore. They changed the convenience rule in 2021 and it hit me, who hasn't stepped foot in NYS since 2019.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 7:06 AM on July 27, 2023

It's hard to see how he could have time for an affair but not time to try and repair or sort out the de facto marriage. I think his account involves a bit of self-deception. Not that you should say that to him necessarily (it might not provoke the best reaction) but if he reflects on that dynamic it might clarify to himself what he really wants to do.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:05 AM on July 26, 2023

check your memail
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 1:40 PM on July 24, 2023

bsky is pretty buggy but you should be able to reply to other skeets
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 2:00 PM on July 24, 2023

What's your price range? The Baldurs Gate system requirements page says an M1 MacBook Air will surpass recommended specs, so an M2 MacBook Air ($1099) should have the juice. But there aren't a lot of other games available for macOS (yet! there's good reason to think this will change).

You can probably get by spending around $500 if you build a PC yourself. These are some great options and I suspect all of them will handle BG3. The Intel Arc is a new discrete GPU on the… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 1:11 PM on July 20, 2023

Nthing museum shops for earrings. The MCA also has a great collection.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 10:21 AM on July 18, 2023

Yes, that's stale beans. Which is fine. It won't make you sick or anything. America loved stale coffee until like 1999. It's still caffeinated. But it also sounds like it's too finely ground for a french press, which makes it tough to press. You might want to pour it through a filter instead of pressing since having to force the french press tends to raise the risk of it all exploding out (not necessarily breaking the glass, but a coffee volcano).
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 6:58 AM on July 18, 2023 marked best answer

my google nest wifi started doing this as well recently, to the point where i have to restart it every morning to get good speeds. i think it’s a design or manufacturing defect and i’m planning to replace the mesh with one from another manufacturer soon
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 1:41 PM on July 14, 2023

This is kind of a left field suggestion but you can often be paid to be an apprentice electrician. No, it's not an office job and you'll have to work on site and with your hands, but it's a great job (my uncle was an electrician and he did pretty well), and there's a major shortage in this as well as most skilled trades in most regions, and it's better than being a plumber. It will involve numbers and organizational planning, but also getting into crawlspaces and hot attics. It's going to be a… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 2:20 PM on July 6, 2023

I'm currently working through this free Music Theory Course from the University of Edinburgh as a complement to learning the piano. It takes things very slowly, so will be good if you feel like other courses throw you in the deep end too fast.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:52 PM on June 25, 2023

Sodium percarbonate is sold as "washing soda" in the states. E.g, "super" washing soda. If it's washing soda, it's sodium percarbonate
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 3:40 PM on June 25, 2023

I definitely struggled with guilt like this when I was taking adhd meds in grad school, because they made it possible for me to actually do what was expected of me but these were drugs that people would buy without prescriptions in the same field so that they could perform at a higher level (or, more often, to finish work faster so they had time to do things other than write and study all the time). I've transitioned to a role where things move fast enough and my focus changes enough that I… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 10:22 AM on June 22, 2023

So based on your rules, your options are Africa, Asia and Central/South America, and the various island nations. Let's rule out Australia since it feels like America/Europe combined. Jamaica is a good choice if you like the idea of the Tropics. Island nations feel strange because of the depth of the poverty and the vestiges of slavery. Buenos Aires is a nice choice, safe and fun, with big city vibes and beautiful countryside nearby. But it may feel too European? Lagos is probably too chaotic if… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dis_integration at 8:43 AM on June 12, 2023