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by ctdonath 5y ago
I grew up on a "hobby homestead", moved there when (as babe-in-arms) my folks faced a massive snowstorm that threatened to cut off natural gas supply, clarifying how utterly dependent they were on the grid/system. Big garden,
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Au contraire, it’s even cheaper than portrayed. Even though a “basic tunic” today can be had for less than an hour of minimum wage work under very comfortable conditions, the price additionally covers advertising, intercontinental shipping,
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by ctdonath 5y ago
And that path currently goes thru an autist welding up rockets in tents on a beach.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Amazing how a few meters of mirror can make out objects billions of light-years distant. Yes it's big - insofar as human-built telescopes have been - yet is so relatively minuscule per what it observes. Having gone from first flight
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Kids vary. Daughter slept they the night from day one. Son was up hungry every night at 2am. Given that, power point of this thread, people pretty much went to bed at sunset, at European latitude that would mean a long night much of the yea
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by ctdonath 5y ago
“Walkable” doesn’t give much room for options. 30 minutes walking covers far less area than 30 minutes driving.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
That’s strong incentive to give up living downtown, parking costing 1/4 of far more spacious accommodations (with lots of parking).
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Is the public transit free? If not, then it’s friction hindering being there, adding baseline cost just to be there. Having added cost, I’m expecting commensurate payoff for being there. I’m apt to just peruse/enjoy if no cost to be th
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Think: why am I parking there? Who benefits? Will added friction hinder? How does charging enhance that benefit, making me want to pay vs avoid? We’re in the age of COVID, discovering the benefits of not going places, and creating new optio
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by ctdonath 5y ago
But you don’t know which, and others may fail first due to various adverse events (say, random micrometeoroid strike). If any link fails, the whole chain fails. Contrast a second chain, or double linked chain, so if any link fails the load
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Contrast a chain with double links, where if any link fails another is entirely capable of holding the load.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
> unreliable Few appreciate the “brick wall” facing variability in green energy: if the battery depletes, power flow stops . Batteries cost the same to cover whatever multiple of standard deviation prepared for. “Hundred year calm/
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Note that many of the predictions which didn’t happen proved doable but were a bad idea.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
“When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective
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by ctdonath 5y ago
“Decompose” being the tail end of the deterioration process, with the usable period being far shorter.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Related resource: https://twitter.com/1000yearhouse
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by ctdonath 5y ago
“Don’t do X” for young versions have to process the “X” part before the “don’t”, and processing includes going thru that motion - then getting to “don’t”, realizing the mistake, laughing about it, and then attempting to process the phrase a
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by ctdonath 5y ago
"Strange how much human progress and achievement comes from contemplation of the irrelevant." - Scott Kim
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Grylls fakes it. Stroud doesn’t.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
A demeaning term applied to a subcategory of whites.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Yes. In an area with lots of leaves, not unreasonable to think motion or parallax unexpectedly included a leaf - vs some wild convergence of leading edge technological bugs perfectly rendering content in a system which shouldn’t.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Sometimes a leaf is just a leaf.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Certainly not best, but among most influential to wit enduring.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Seek to find a thread thru the full stack, sand to simulation. Get at least a cursory grasp of silicon-based transistors, binary representations of data, basic binary logic, 4-operation CPUs, simple memory & storage, a toy operating sys
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Please elaborate on including LISP. Having been programming since the 1980s, its influence seems more a persistent curiosity than fundamental concept. C/C++ may be the more relevant unchanging language, core concepts applicable to most
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by ctdonath 5y ago
The concern isn't the normal emergency items normally in the vehicle (airborne or other), it's the other stuff that normally wouldn't be there if there wasn't a decided intent to use it during the trip. I'm very muc
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Both make it abundantly clear that their "survival" situation is artificially contrived (i.e.: traveled into the target area with acknowledge purpose of concocting a "survival" scenario, have safety teams either on-site
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by ctdonath 5y ago
When the target of your objectively reasonable directive is self-admittedly of the mindset "I could (A) get up and do it, or (B) kill myself", you may want to reconsider the wording.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
The intent of "make the world a bit better every day" is colloquially understood to refer to things like picking up more than just your garbage, making choices that add less tragedy to the commons, and generally being nice to peop
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by ctdonath 5y ago
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