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by SpicyUme 1y ago
I enjoyed reading the Brothers Vonnegut about Kurt and his brother and the time they both spent working for GE in 40s. His brother worked on cloud seeding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Vonnegut
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
It is a shame, that thought started in my mind with the invasion of Crimea. France came out looking pretty smart for their policy of entirely homegrown nuclear programs.
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
Yeah I still occasionally get really long ads that must be just to see who watches all (most?) of them.
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
It is too bad the Rapidride R line is so far away from being finished. I think it would be good to have it and allow for more E/W routes possibly between there and the train. Having regular, quick bus service on the rapidride lines mak
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
I go back and forth on that, the bus tunnel was useful. But a tunnel with 3(4?) stops seems like a good place for a train of some sort. I guess the buses are why there are no center stops in there? It seems like a missed opportunity. Not su
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
There are some variable pickup transit services, but you may not see them because of when/where they go. I know around me there are zones where you can call for pickup and they use small shuttle buses. I think they drop of within the z
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
But a bus isn't just a bus, there are differences in what is needed in different cities. Some need heat, some need AC, some need both. In Utah there are buses that go up the canyons and they have gearboxes focused on climbing steep hil
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
This looks like it could be bastardized into a fun neighborhood event with some planning.
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
Came back to check this since the tab never loaded. I'm guessing traffic caused some issues?
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
The privacy concern is real and not something I'd want to think about too hard myself. One night I heard sirens and checked one of the local scanner type sites. I could hear enough about the call, and that combined with a record of pre
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
I like the part: "You might ask 'Isn't folding by hand faster than building all this?' Please don't ask that." Showing a few of the crashes was a nice touch. Having gone too far in trying to automate some proje
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
A relative bought several products from Chinese company for a small product development. When he found the most suited device he asked if they'd sell without the enclosure, and maybe 1-2 other boards. They told him at 1000 pcs the best
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
I wonder if he would describe himself as a construction worker, or maybe he would say he's a surfer who does construction to make a living? Sometimes you can see a struggle to define a person independent of their jobs, why does it matt
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
Interesting to look back at yesterday's comments here and in other online spaces. People like jumping to the conclusions they've prepared for themselves.
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
Yeah, it seems hard to say military intervention is preferable to increased accounting and recordkeeping requirements. Or maybe sheltered is a better way to put. Which is a good thing! For most people alive on Earth right now haven't h
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
are you my neighbor? Sounds like where I am, but with only one small corner market in walking distance. There used to be a bigger grocery/deli until about 5 years ago. Now it feels like we're in a bit of a donut hole within Seattl
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
I sit on the bus watching 10~25% of drivers on their phones watching videos at 60mph on my way to work. All ages too, including surprising old people. I live on a street that's posted 25 MPH and watch people impatient with the light do
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
Yeah, this happened with the shooting at the SLC protest earlier this year. A protestor with a gun was shot at by security, then accused of shooting the person who died. Open carry is allowed in Utah. Whether or not you think marching while
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
There are some large dairy cooperatives in the US. I'm not sure how healthy they are as an outsider, in general I think agriculture is a good place for cooperatives. It looks like Michigan's milk producer cooperative is selling in
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
A saying I've heard a few places, including from farming friends, is farming is an industry where they buy at retail and sell at wholesale. Unfortunately most of the money in farming seems to be holding onto land until it appreciates a
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
If we develop all agricultural land while chasing dollars it cannot end well. Of course we won't develop everything, but I'm not sure the monetary value of the land adequately prices the value of being able to grow crops. I won&#x
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
It's 30 percent higher than last year, plus additional tariffs on certain things. We've (temporarily? tune in two months!) backed away from the 150% or whatever number but that increase is still hanging over everything. And doing
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
Just wanted to say thanks. I burned through a few episodes this weekend on a trip and found them all quite interesting and thought provoking. The Allende and Nick Cave episodes were particular hits in our car.
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
Do you have any advice about this? Or places to start reading. I think I may have to find someone to help with this for an organization in the near future. I don't deal with this kind of thing very much at all and worry about knowing e
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
Oh thanks! That one looks worth sampling this weekend. Looking through the archives, this one with Melvyn Bragg might be interesting as a way to start: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001q0kd
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
Also Maxim Kachurovskiy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnFw8G95LGo Someday when I have time, after I fix my little rowboat, and sew the clothes/bags I want, and fix the porch, and, and, and... For now there's sa
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
You might also like English and American Tool Builders by Joseph Wickham Roe, I picked up a copy from a free library and enjoyed it. I should probably skim it again, then set it free into the system for someone else to find. https:/&#
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
Isn't one of the common complaints about GPT5 that it is less sycophantic and people feel less connection to it? That is a design choice and it isn't hard to see it as similar to the choices maximizing engagement for social media.
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
Yes, I am seriously looking at either splitting my production between internal and external uses to avoid passing tariff costs on to the majority of my customers who are foreign. I've worked at using US companies for many components bu
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by SpicyUme 1y ago
But I was told "Data is the new oil', I guess that includes minimal penalties for spills.

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