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811.
by Wistar 6y ago
I have seen "I don't know. And I am pretty sure you don't either," effectively used to end pro-creationism arguments.
812.
by Wistar 6y ago
I apologize. I did not see your comment before posting my reference to Oblique Strategies.
813.
by Wistar 6y ago
> I feel that GPT-3 may be very helpful in getting the human mind unstuck from whatever problem on the hand. To get new thoughts, new ways. Sort of a newfangled Oblique Strategies? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obl
814.
by Wistar 6y ago
"Why is your camera covered with all these little furrows?" "Oh, it is insect worn."
815.
by Wistar 6y ago
My daughter has synesthesia. She is an adult now but we discovered it when, at about the age of three, when asking her if she knew the meanings of words, she would preface her definitions with, "That's a yellow (or whatever color)
816.
by Wistar 6y ago
I am complex but, alas, have found that I am easy to use.
817.
by Wistar 6y ago
Rental Audis with virtual cockpit have caused me to have to pull over in order to figure out how to control features. By comparison, the Teslas I have driven seem fairly straightforward.
818.
by Wistar 6y ago
And, as an added bonus, once they get established and mature for a few years, three or five bushes produce an incredible amount of blueberries. At least here in Western WA state. Carefully frozen, there's many a blueberry pie, scone an
819.
by Wistar 6y ago
It is not accurate, hence my footnote. If one has sufficient skill, altitude and/or forward speed an autorotation can be made to a forced landing, and arguably more safely than a fixed-wing forced landing. Of course, this depends on th
820.
by Wistar 6y ago
"The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by its very nature wants to fly and, if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not wan
821.
by Wistar 6y ago
Is there some reason you thought I was going to "dive further?"
822.
by Wistar 6y ago
I remember that well. Didn't know the guy but I knew several who did know him before the bust but, oddly enough, very few after.
823.
by Wistar 6y ago
I knew him well and he was well-liked and professionally well-regarded throughout at least my division of the company. He was a high-energy, tireless guy with great ideas and worked nearly daily with senior-level management, often traveling
824.
by Wistar 6y ago
I worked at a place where, one morning, the guy in the next office over got swarmed by company security and the police. He was trafficking in child porn on the company network. He was a super smart, super dumb guy who lost everything over i
825.
by Wistar 6y ago
I signed up, too and didn't see an activity quota level mentioned anywhere.
826.
by Wistar 6y ago
In 1983 or so, the studio I worked at had an Alpha Micro system with a VHS for data backup. I remember you could set the CRC, the cyclic redundancy check level, but don't remember much else other then it was pretty darn creaky although
827.
by Wistar 6y ago
BIC Velocity 1.6 mm. Yeah, I like that fat, juicy writing.
828.
by Wistar 6y ago
Spot on. The evidential value of a consistently written log can be huge and important for a wide variety of reasons. I have had two situations in my life where my having kept dated notes spared me a whole lot of grief.
829.
by Wistar 6y ago
... and that cute little germ/bran tail that automatically pops out and tells you when it's done cooking.
830.
by Wistar 6y ago
Is it just me? I cannot find a a link to the actual gigpixel image anywhere on that page.
831.
by Wistar 6y ago
I can't help but hear "We've bought the wrong satellites" in Peter Sallis's voice: "Woah! It's the wrong satellites Grommit, and they've gone wrong!"
832.
by Wistar 6y ago
Oh! Thank you for that term, tsundoku. It's perfect.
833.
by Wistar 6y ago
I am certain that, in a good bookstore, and had I the finances and shelf space, I could spend $10K in a short afternoon. Less certain is whether I'd ever actually read them all but I'd darn well aspire to read them.
834.
by Wistar 6y ago
I have been in a couple "close" strikes where the thunder was trailing the lightning by, maybe, a tenth of a second or so. Although they were several years apart, in both cases I distinctly heard—or maybe felt—a "pop" at
835.
by Wistar 6y ago
Wow. That's an image.
836.
by Wistar 6y ago
A small thing: The title on the page says "Plan" rather than "Plain." Or, maybe that is intentional?
837.
by Wistar 6y ago
Odd. I have been shooting Canon professionally for three decades and have always felt that Nikon was the prestige brand. Much of the Nikkor glass is crazy good.
838.
by Wistar 6y ago
Although "self-confessed liar" is plainly redundant, IMO.
839.
by Wistar 6y ago
Me, too, "[M]illions of dollars was at stake," is exactly how I would state that.
840.
by Wistar 6y ago
NYT's "Copy Edit This" quizzes are quite good. https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=%22copy%2Bedit%2Bthis%2... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/11/insider/c

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