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by ctdonath 6y ago
Can’t not mention Desert Bus: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/desert-b... And now on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/desert-bus/id470288016
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Would make a great toy, implemented along the lines of Universal Paperclips.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Yes, but a whole lot easier to deliver a printer than a functioning civilization, when you can just print a civilization.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
3D printing. Deliver the printer, rest is just information.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Think “matter scanner/printer”. Scan an object, at atomic & energy vector level. Transmit that information to a destination’s printer. Expansion is then indeed at speed of light, capped only by need to physically move a small “seed
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Analogy: humans have existed for something around 100,000 years, yet we only explored the whole ball - and began affecting it to the point of worrying about making it uninhabitable - within the last few decades. Any lesser culture/spec
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Where is the bright line between “not a salamander” and “salamander”?
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by ctdonath 6y ago
I’ve followed the “threat” for half of the hundred years everything was to get terrible in. We’re >20% through the 21st Century. Got better, actually.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
1°C rise per century. 1 foot ocean rise per century. Threat?
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Many make that assertion, none back it up.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Question then becomes: can YOU sell that work to 10,000? and how many can make what is sold? I worked at a startup, became amazed at the sales crew’s ability to find buyers. I could make the app (and Co. could find few willing & capable
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by ctdonath 6y ago
That association is scientifically inverse. More guns, less crime. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081QFZDM8
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by ctdonath 6y ago
“Off grid” doesn’t have to be very far from company offices. I wanted to buy a place just 90 minutes from my office (which I rarely go to), but zero internet there so no sale. Give me Starlink, and it’s an option - as is remote areas of Wyo
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Starlink is a brilliant move: a profitable excuse for lots of launches, each paying for itself, to deliver lots of satellites per launch, with each cheap enough so if one or many are lost it’s no big deal, and if it works the resulting cons
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by ctdonath 6y ago
I have a pacemaker. Rule from the start: keep cell phones 6” away from it, minimum, always. Radio interference at very close range is a potential problem. This article, while interesting and a reminder, just continues the rule. Tangent: a f
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by ctdonath 6y ago
1. The incidents are well documented in general news media. 2. Illegal to count votes without observers present. 3. Between deceptive removal of observers, and subsequent dramatic change in counters’ behaviors per video recordings, conspira
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by ctdonath 6y ago
A major vote counting center shut down mid evening. They never shut down until completion - except this time. Once observers were gone, count resumed. Unusual activity occurred, recorded by surveillance cameras. During this period, a freak
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Semantics. Don’t need “mass” if targeted distortions in a few counting centers throws the outcome. Yes, consequential abnormalities in key locations were apparent.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
It’s just plain easier & cheaper to run FFs than solar. About the only serious disadvantage is noise.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Problem there is, with enough customers doing the same, there’s a great deal of idle capacity waiting to fill the big gaps. That’s costly. Works fine now when solar is the anomaly (what I’m doing, plugging into grid when a prolonged storm d
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Southeast USA. On the whole a good place for solar. I’m trying to impress on people the many fiddly little obstructions that add up to significant reductions, and that despite prolonged good periods there are poor exposure times that fast b
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Oh, it’s feasible. That’s close to what I’m fiddling with (just GoalZero.com products instead of bare car batteries etc). It’s quite workable, but you have to be keenly aware of usage & limitations, and fiddle with stuff often (ex.: cop
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by ctdonath 6y ago
I’m focusing on solar-only solutions. Once you introduce sourcing as cheap & reliable as fossil fuels back into the equations, dropping solar entirely becomes a rational solution as the frequency of solar “incidents” becomes apparent an
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by ctdonath 6y ago
35 is pretty close to 10 when you start at 1300 and prune obstructions. Now address clouds, angles, dust, snow, opacity, malfunctions, storage inefficiencies, panel aging, and chronic optimism. 10W.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
History shows clearly that such mass demonization of normal citizens ends very badly, with millions killed for no good reason. The rhetoric used portrays an evil which speakers want to exist so they can oppose it, with no room for clarifica
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by ctdonath 6y ago
I run my “office” on portable solar much of the summer. Two takeaways: Solar averages ~10W/m^2 long term (days/weeks) with wild fluctuations. Getting easy reliable output retirees a lot of surface & batteries. When those stora
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Problem is: what constitutes acceptable moderation? Much of the “cancelling” going on now is strained deliberate misinterpretation of intentions/statements of opponents, a power play for a political purge. Problem is: how to specify wh
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Who? The guy who followed the laws, albeit creatively? Or the mob that is canceling diverse thoughts on imputed pretexts?
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by ctdonath 6y ago
If you’re not planning for failure modes you’re not engineering correctly.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Any word on a modern port of Quake to iOS/macOS?

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