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by idlewords 2y ago
I think you misunderstood a diagram; grams of Al per square centimeter is a standardized unit of shielding in the literature, not an engineering choice.
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by idlewords 2y ago
Solar electric propulsion has great specific impulse [i.e., efficient use of propellant] but very low thrust. You're forever spiraling away from and then down into gravity wells. It's terrific for cargo, but not viable for crews.
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by idlewords 2y ago
Have either of you ever met a five year old?
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by idlewords 2y ago
Where are those families now?
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by idlewords 2y ago
I lived near this particular park, so the article struck a chord with me. For things to be better, we need to start doing things differently, and one starting point is to have compassion for the people who are denied the use of public space
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by idlewords 2y ago
San Francisco's homelessness budget in 2021 was $1.1 billion, for a homeless population of maybe 10,000. That works out to $110K per person before you add in state and Federal money. Say this budget was doubled. What should that money
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by idlewords 2y ago
Because this is a person wants to sleep rough in a park and has to be pushed through every step of the process to leave it. I would imagine things go much faster if you hate sleeping in a park and want a roof over your head.
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by idlewords 2y ago
This is an article about a man who was given all those things, repeatedly, and went back to sleeping rough in the park. How would giving him money make any difference?
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by idlewords 2y ago
The title let me down; I was hoping this would be an article about a trebuchet. [edit: I see the post title has changed, the original one was something like "park ranger uses extraordinary methods to remove homeless from SF parks"
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by idlewords 2y ago
Thank you; I really appreciate that!
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by idlewords 2y ago
Just fill the ball with water.
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by idlewords 2y ago
The big-ticket items in the Federal budget are the military, old-age pensions, and medical spending; everything else is pretty much a rounding error. All three of those categories are rife with multi-billion dollar waste and fraud, but have
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by idlewords 2y ago
I am absolutely not accusing Khelif, or anyone else, of pretending to be something she's not. The evidence is clear she's a male athlete who grew up with a disorder of sexual development, but it's possible in that scenario to
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by idlewords 2y ago
Slow-boiled water gives superior flavor!
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by idlewords 2y ago
1500 watts is about what an electric kettle uses.
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by idlewords 2y ago
Neither could this neutrino.
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by idlewords 2y ago
This is very useful feedback, thank you! For the Chrome extension, I started by just getting compliant with manifest v3, so Chrome would stop complaining. But now that it's relatively fresh in my mind, I'm going to redesign it so
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by idlewords 2y ago
This is someone accusing me of transphobia in a situation where no one involved is trans, and no claims are being made about trans people. Which strikes me as extremely ageist.
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by idlewords 2y ago
Thanks for that!
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by idlewords 2y ago
The whole site is responsively styled; I'm confused about why OP says otherwise.
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by idlewords 2y ago
It was a single email, in 2022, and the wording was exceptionally friendly! (For those who don't know, the site moved to a subscription model in 2015 and I asked old-timers to consider converting their account voluntarily. Everyone who
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by idlewords 2y ago
Because the "boosted Singal post" is a retweet of Singal saying this about the Onion: "There's still some good onion but when it's cringe it's so cringe I want the old onion back" That's it. That&#x27
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by idlewords 2y ago
I encourage curious people to dig in to what [1] is referring to, and form their own opinion.
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by idlewords 2y ago
The Chrome extension was last updated a month ago. The whole site went quietly responsive over the last two years. I beg people to align their criticism with reality. I plead guilty to not building a mobile app, because I don't know ho
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by idlewords 2y ago
Pinboard has been up and running for 15 years. How many more years would I need to run the site before you'd decide I'm not going to shut it on a whim? Because I'll totally do that, just going on impulse right now.
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by idlewords 2y ago
People should use whatever site they find most useful. But I find the specific criticisms here baffling. To wit: * "The site has barely changed in years/decades". That's kind of the point of the site! People ancient enou
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by idlewords 2y ago
If you have the chance, it's really worth making the trip to Cahokia, IL. It was the capital of one of those civilizations that peaked in the 12th century, and you can still climb the monumental earthworks and gain a sense of the place
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by idlewords 2y ago
I'll buy both.
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by idlewords 2y ago
I blog with raw HTML too, but I don't blog about it. The "blog about the tools I use" tarpit is somewhat unique, it's like if online chefs were obsessed with creating knife and fork recipes.
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by idlewords 2y ago
If you haven't been to Japan, it's worth lingering over these pictures and noticing a few things: - The complete absence of vandalism - How generally clean everything is - Accessibility strip for blind people (bumpy yellow stripe

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