a9h74j

13 ms·

91.
by a9h74j 4y ago
> The night before you flew in from Austin, Texas on a fully electric supersonic passenger jet. Stopped right there.
92.
by a9h74j 4y ago
Lightweight article, but decent suggestion overall.
93.
by a9h74j 4y ago
It does seem imaginable to have Android-specific browsers support a common superset of the "nominal/desktop" browser js api. Reference to Hyperview not specifically required, but an enabler for such. Security issues of course
94.
by a9h74j 4y ago
Dumb of me to distract. With hinges you can also build flat on the ground (as with a paper-with-flaps layout), then start to form the shape, "latching" while you go.
95.
by a9h74j 4y ago
We need to hold our breaths to advance our climate endgame.
96.
by a9h74j 4y ago
> that retroactively screws over everyone That's when you go on to mandate that all newly-built homes include solar.
97.
by a9h74j 4y ago
The Earthship Community (dirt in tires homes) in New Mexico eventually had to register as a subdivision and put in sewage lines etc, AFAIK.
98.
by a9h74j 4y ago
The next SBF will master the carrot arbitrage.
99.
by a9h74j 4y ago
I associate Lester Brown with the observation: It is too expensive to ship water, but when you ship wheat, you are in effect shipping water.
100.
by a9h74j 4y ago
Dmitri Orlov has remarked: Universal Basic Income leads to Universal Basic Outcome, which is poverty.
101.
by a9h74j 4y ago
> warped incentives Has anybody suggested "term limits" as a solution? Not that I assume they would be.
102.
by a9h74j 4y ago
For that you want news.chatgpt.com
103.
by a9h74j 4y ago
Dozens of potential mechanisms described, with none uniquely convincing IMHO. One interesting suggestion is the group splitting hypothesis: > The group-splitting hypothesis of schizophrenia (Stevens and Price, 2000) posits that prolifera
104.
by a9h74j 4y ago
Or pocket-screws in place of hinges?
105.
by a9h74j 4y ago
Same for me with YT recommendations, but I had not watched yet. Bevelled long-cuts and mitres to produce nice joinery. Finish (stain) wood. Assemble pentagons and hexagons as units. Plans and details at: https://trilliumdomes.com
106.
by a9h74j 4y ago
Half-full or half-empty in this case? For end-grain I find estimates of 75% stength on average expecting considerable variation joint-to-joint, assuming proper pilot holes have been drilled. If the hold scales with the diameter of the screw
107.
by a9h74j 4y ago
Seems like a reason to combine with knee-walls or posts, to make curved space be more overhead. Indeed, their gallery shows a good fraction of examples doing so. https://buildwithhubs.co.uk/gallery.html
108.
by a9h74j 4y ago
I wish they had named it Pyetry instead of Poetry.
109.
by a9h74j 4y ago
Impressive, even provides a full interpreter implemented in Python at the end.
110.
by a9h74j 4y ago
> If you ask ChatGPT who's the best violinist in the world, it might tell you Perlman, which is a reasonable answer, but ChatGPT has never actually heard any violin playing. It answers so, because it read so. Are philosophers revisi
111.
by a9h74j 4y ago
Has your attention span or amount of focus changed, say as measured by ability to read many pages in a book in one go? Could your different subjective senses of reward have changed? Could you be slightly scatterred compared to before, and n
112.
by a9h74j 4y ago
Who knew? Long-termism is not as attractive when you are the one feeling the immediate sting.
113.
by a9h74j 4y ago
Um, don't cross-subsidies inhibit price discovery, information discovery, etc?
114.
by a9h74j 4y ago
If they had used a more common baud rate, I wonder if there would be so many poorly done "extensions" that it would not be in active use.
115.
by a9h74j 4y ago
Considering how many ECAD programs have come and gone since the beginnings, over time that could still be a net win. "When you include the time to earn the money for a car, driving can be no faster than walking." (~Mumford)
116.
by a9h74j 4y ago
In auto shop, we were told that a car should be run at high rpm routinely enough to remove/prevent a hard wear edge in a cylinder, which could then present a hard limit if the that car was once, rarely, run at high accelleration/p
117.
by a9h74j 4y ago
FWIW Somehow, while in high school I got on the mailing list for Allied Industrial (electronics) catalogs. One edition came and there was a page or two for the TRS-80, several months before any national advertising.
118.
by a9h74j 4y ago
For some reason I associate that rhyme with Piet Hein, based on the game Soma.
119.
by a9h74j 4y ago
> But the pressure to find a competitive advantage is often going to lead to hiring large numbers of people. Phone menus are not generally viewed as competitive advantages, I suppose, but we have them in plenty. Would it be the standard
120.
by a9h74j 4y ago
Not Mid-Atlantic, but I've heard that one way to acquire a "standard" Mid-Western US accent is to speak along with a trained speaker, such as a particular newscaster. And "You are supposed to stop before sounding just li

More ›