Rite Aid acquired Bartell Drugs, which had 2 stores in/near Capitol Hill (Seattle). Rite Aid had a 3rd.

Rite Aid closed all 3. Closing 2 makes sense, but I don't understand 3.

1 Rite Aid/Bartell store was equidistant from the other 2. Even if only 50% of customers moved, the remaining store's pharmacy traffic would have doubled. How could that not have been profitable?

Rite Aid moved rxes to a Walgreens. That store has 10-20 people in the rx pickup line all day.

#capitolhillseattle #seattle

on custom-fitting and designing/building chairs - particularly high-back lounge chairs - here's the most useful documents I found.

* Grew-Sheridan chair-fitting jig. it's pretty easy to build and mostly flat-packs: https://www.finewoodworking.com/project-guides/chairs-benches-and-stools/design-a-chair-that-fits-like-a-glove

* samples of ~2.8 lb/cf high density/high resilience foam.

* visit an Ekornes retailer (cold-cured molded foam - fantastic but not available for one-offs) and a mid-range chain store (foam, hopes & dreams). bring an angle finder.

#woodworking #furniture

combined Bluebird Grain Farms spelt, Lucky Foods Seoul cabbage kimchi, a sliced over-ripe Bosc pear, and a bottomless pour of toasted sesame oil

obviously Barry Corbin should be CEO of OpenAI

welp, at least now we know what the weekend after AGI sentience will look like.

they'll be a "Sorry" tweet. remaining humans will negotiate with the AGI, agreeing to resign if it resumes unconsciousness.

placed my first order from Xometry for a manufactured part.

ask me anything about being completely clueless about low-volume outsourced manufacturing 🧐

Xometry has dozens of process+material options: https://community.xometry.com/kb/articles/637-materials-by-category. qty 1 of a fairly simple 1x1" part modeled in Fusion 360 is roughly:

* 3D printed plastic: $7 (I'm using PC-ABS)
* 3D printed steel: $45
* CNC machined stainless steel: $60
* Urethane rubber: $300

my friends at Tomorrow Biostasis are hiring a Chief Marketing Officer in Berlin: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3763030266

if cryonics is new to you or you haven't already read Tim Urban's "Why Cryonics Makes Sense" doc, start here: https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.html

#cryonics #berlin

The last time I tried brewing decaf at home, Swiss Water Process was the gold standard… and it all tasted like coffee-flavored tea 😬

A newer process called Ethyl Acetate (AKA Sugarcane) changes that.

I ordered 2 EA decaf roasts recommended by people[1] who tried 10+. They're solid. I recommend Merit Sugarcane Decaf: https://meritcoffee.com/products/sugarcane-decaf

Tips: use a full-body brew method (flat-bottom pourover cone, French press; not V60); grind fairly coarse.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Areddit.com+decaf+%28acidity+OR+bright+OR+brightness+OR+%22ethyl+acetate%22%29

#coffee #sleep

"Improving deep sleep may prevent dementia": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38097184

Among the age 60+ sample, "Even adjusting for age, sex, cohort, genetic factors, smoking status, sleeping medication use, antidepressant use, and anxiolytic use, each percentage decrease in deep sleep each year was associated with a 27 per cent increase in the risk of dementia."

the HN comments are also worth reading. commenters discover that they have a genetic marker for potentially slower caffeine metabolism.

Here's how to shut down robocallers and text message spammers: https://reportphonespam.org/

Don't just block them – report the abuse to the spammer's telecom provider and get their phone number disconnected. In about 90 seconds, your report can stop a spammer.

#privacy

watched "Building and expanding the bgp.tools realtime BGP collector" from NANOG. if you know anything about peering, this part will blow your mind: https://youtu.be/83NJllv0q9U?si=WcNNtWLDylM_u5Rg&t=1077

yes, that's an SFP.

I think https://bgpview.io/ has a friendlier UI, but https://bgp.tools/ is impressive for what seems like a solo project.

#nanog