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by bmelton 3y ago
The law of gross tonnage is in fact derived from classical Newtonian physics. Can't remember if they're considered "working vessels" over a sailboat, which would make them the stand-on vessel based on maneuverability any
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If there's a lesson to be learned, it's that everyone needs to appreciate that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. I have little faith in efforts to criminal justice reform, because just about everyone, regardless of pa
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by bmelton 3y ago
> everyone who knows which president nominated which justice knows what the outcome will be People commonly predict SCOTUS outcomes by knowing the judicial philosophies of the justices, but "which president nominated" them is a
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by bmelton 3y ago
Ignoring the "how impossible is it to drill 0.2nm holes in anything" conversation above for a moment, what do you get out of stainless steel? My gut tells me you're looking for something with more permanence, but even stainle
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by bmelton 3y ago
> I have never tried to spell the phrase "flip a youey" before. As a former Scripps spelling bee contestant, I've developed a low-grade allergy to commonplace onomotopeic words with no obvious, agreed-upon spelling. Recent
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by bmelton 3y ago
To be fair, the only reason they exist in otherwise minimalist apps is because they need to be there for crawlability. A hamburger menu that isn't visible until someone clicks on it is an SEO problem that is (sadly) easily mitigated wi
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by bmelton 3y ago
I mean, it's what parents TRY to do
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Getting back to the thesis, and without commenting on woke/not-woke (because I'm neither qualified nor care,) I am not sure what makes this particular comedy different from comedy we might otherwise consider problematic. ${X} joke
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The entire song was (as I recall) poking fun at people who talked like that, and all of the lyrics in the song came were overheard by some working class patrons and their observations watching MTV.
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For what it's worth, there are a few (and some themes that are explored) On its face, it's a sci-fi/horror film that contains a classic good vs evil fight against a monster. Within that, there's a pretty compelling narra
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by bmelton 3y ago
Are they though? Netflix in particular is famously bad at actually promoting their hot new stuff. I suppose they may do it more on-platform and just assume it's enough, but it seems like (and this is just from my memory, which is maybe
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by bmelton 3y ago
A friend of mine just does one service at a time, and it's low-key fairly brilliant. There's a bit of headache with installing / uninstalling apps on televisions and having to log into things once a month or quarter or howeve
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by bmelton 3y ago
Barely on-topic, but this is sort of the plot of Reboot, and I remember watching this show seeing the dynamic between the elder writer played by Paul Reiser) and the much younger writer played by Rachel Bloom. The gist of the (relevant) bit
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by bmelton 3y ago
A lot of these discoveries were being made when OpenAI and ChatGPT were pretty new to the general public. Nobody knew what it did, so these kinds of questions were no different than any questions being asked, basically. That so deep a bias
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by bmelton 3y ago
> the first ammendment has nothing to say on whether a private company can or can't censor speech Yes, but the first amendment _does_ bear on whether or not a private company can or can't be compelled by the state to censor spe
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by bmelton 3y ago
> Which I guess means the Air Force thinks they can get folks who would otherwise not qualify into shape Seems like a safe bet? Personal trainers would probably be a lot more effective if they had as much control over your work life, die
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by bmelton 3y ago
Probably not. The 24 hour news cycle isn't interesting enough for us to not always be on the brink of something, but stop watching that and start just hanging out in the real world, and things calm down considerably. A few years back I
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by bmelton 4y ago
I'm not a content creator, but while I would never rely solely on AI to write content that I expected to be useful, I do use it for drumming up ideas and have found that (at least for me) its most effective utility is in generating out
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by bmelton 4y ago
If I ask 100 people who Gary Johnson is, most of them will remember him as "The Aleppo guy." If I type "Gary Johnson" into Google (even incognito), the first auto-complete is "Gary Johnson Aleppo." Nevermind th
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by bmelton 4y ago
> Try dressing different from the norm in the 1990s before people even had cellphones in class and you'd definitely end up ostracized I think that's a part of OP's point. After that, if you wanted, you could go away to col
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by bmelton 4y ago
I've mentioned it before on here, but the Citroen Oli is a cheap EV (prototype) car that is a) cute as a button, and b) sacrifices a lot of fluff that we have misled ourselves into thinking are requirements. I'm basically the oppo
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by bmelton 4y ago
Curious how those would work. 100-150k BTUs would be 30k-41k watts, which is a) dramatically more than any of the ones I've seen out there, and b) would presumably deform a carbon steel wok pretty badly? Not sure. The math definitely i
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by bmelton 4y ago
Maybe you'll have more luck with the flat-bottomed wok than I did, but I wouldn't have your hopes set terribly high
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> Neapolitan pizza enthusiasts Weirdly, the best "pizza appliance" I've found for this is the kamado, which I can get up to about 800 degrees without meaningfully damaging the gaskets (tho I expect it reduces their useful
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by bmelton 4y ago
It's also not necessary. The particulate studies that measured gas stoves as being super dangerous were measured in the most impractical scenarios where the room was sealed off with plastic, and not at all reflective of basically anyon
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by bmelton 4y ago
I like induction stoves, and I am a foodie who really likes to cook, but where a few years ago, I thought that induction would surely take over for every indoor application everywhere, but I've come to accept that as wrong after disc
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by bmelton 4y ago
> Strapping a screen to your face is not ergonomic. It isn't practical That argument is only sound for as long as the screen is unwieldy. If you could wear a pair of glasses that magically converted your laptop into a stable, triple
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by bmelton 4y ago
Doesn't it make more sense to put the wear on your (cheap, easily replaceable) brakes than the (expensive, harder to replace) clutch though?
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by bmelton 4y ago
I can't imagine why I wouldn't send it home to be useful for other family members, or just sublet its unproductive time as a way to earn its keep as a ride share driver.
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by bmelton 4y ago
Perfectly sussed. Hard enough to fathom completely accurate information from items and people we have close access to, much less everyone and every thing.

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