How else are we going to support public infrastructure and society?

Progressive taxation and more efficient spending.

(And in CA, fixing Prop 13, and knocking out more hurdles to housing development in desirable areas.)

More efficiency in spending? We have newer tools and equipment, technology, automation etc. Do more with less, that is called productivity.

You don’t understand the natural order of things: productivity for you(the worker constantly told to do more), not for me(governments of all sizes, middle management & execs, dumb owners).

Same here. I wouldn't go traipsing through the woods looking for a spring at a set of coordinates without first finding out who the landowner is and contacting them for permission. (If it's not public land.)

In one case I found, the USGS point for the spring is on public land, but the actual spring is on a private inholding. This, of course, led to an error that caused the site to list it as "public."

I'd go with an ancient boat anchor LaserJet but, otherwise, yep.

Years ago I was touring a POP in a small city. They were very proud to point out one fiber coming in one side of the building going South and another on the opposite side of the building going North.

AX, not to be confused with Ax the machine learning tool from Meta for optimizing experiments.

https://ax.dev

No to confuse with Ax, the DSPy inspired agent framework

https://axllm.dev/

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week - https://svpow.com - is one that shows up on Hacker News from time to time. (There's much more to it than the title might suggest.)

The Scientific 7-Minute workout is a great starting point.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/well/workouts/

"stack them up during a disassembly and then unstack them as I reassemble."

I love this! Automatically sequences the fasteners.

Another option is a piece of corrugated cardboard. Poke the screws into cardboard in the pattern they are in the device you're disassembling.

So nice!

My friend makes little shadowbox dioramas like this - such a neat atform.

https://www.michaelevanlong.com/dive-bar-dioramas

(The Silhouettes section may be NSFW depending on how puritanical your workplace is.)

I have an F100 sitting in a box somewhere waiting for repair. At some point I snapped the finger off the ring around the lens mount which couples the lens aperture. Stupid thing is plastic and easy to snag or bump.