jonah

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by jonah 2y ago
Any time algorithmic terrain generation comes up. I always think of Bryce. What a revolutionary product. I had an amazing time working at Meta Creations right out of school. So many smart people and great stories.
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by jonah 2y ago
Just switch to not working and not spending. Find hobbies, or better yet, activities that help out your community or the people around you, that don't require a lot of financial outlay. Right before my grandfather retired at 55 he stud
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by jonah 2y ago
There are so many more cost-effective grid-scale options like pumped storage. I think it's daft to "waste" the energy density of lithium batteries on stationary applications.
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by jonah 2y ago
For everyone talking about why things are being done like they are, take a look at this article linked to in the post: Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture https://www.anildash.com/2025/01/04/DOGE-procure
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by jonah 2y ago
We recently bought the "Trudeau Seville Pepper Mill, 6-Inch". It was quire inexpensive, has an all metal mechanism, and does a coarse grind that my wife likes. We've used it daily for a couple years now and it's been fla
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by jonah 2y ago
Yeah. About these fires, someone recently told me they should have cut a dozer line around the fire right away and that would have taken care of it. I replied: sure, but it would have to have been at least 10 miles wide to protect from the
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by jonah 2y ago
> frantically bubbling scantrons I want to know more! I assumed numbers were entered directly on a 10-key. Were they scantrons as a paper record, as an asynchronous way to enter the data, or?
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How to make a Synthetic Diamond [video](youtube.com)
1 points by jonah 2y ago|0 comments
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by jonah 2y ago
Tomatoes, peppers, sweet corn, carrots, lettuce, etc. Lots of produce is bred for large-scale growing and shipping stability.
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by jonah 2y ago
My car came with a similar toggle switch under the dash. I figured out it was to fully disable the ABS system. (The previous owner was a fan of taking his car two track days.) I kept accidentally toggling it off with my knee, so I replaced
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by jonah 2y ago
Many modern ambulances have a similar shifter disable switch so that it can be left running and someone can't take off with your ambulance while you're off collecting your patient.
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by jonah 2y ago
We have a weekly "all people's" meeting every Monday morning - high-level wins for the past week and fires for the coming week, touching on OKRs, high-level direction, then each department goes through what they're worki
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by jonah 2y ago
I put a thin screen cleaner/glasses cleaner cloth on the keyboard whenever I close the lid. That keeps the oils off the screen as well as prevents any pressure or rubbing from damaging the glass.
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by jonah 2y ago
I just wish they would cut down on false positives though. As a volunteer firefighter, I don't think I've responded to an "Apple Crash Detection" that was an actual car crash or fall or something... After a while it feel
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by jonah 2y ago
Awesome! I wonder what his electric bill is like.
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by jonah 2y ago
I've always loved photos of Diatoms and it's so neat to see so many all in one place. The variety is boggling.
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by jonah 2y ago
Related: Overton Window "The Overton window is the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time. It is also known as the window of discourse. The term is named after the American policy analyst
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by jonah 2y ago
Same in my department. (The generic term for some type of fire-fighting vehicle is Apparatus.)
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by jonah 2y ago
Most "Fire trucks" - I'm assuming you mean Engines - carry 500-1000 gallons, usually more on the 500 size. A "Water Tender" generally around 2000 gallons.
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by jonah 2y ago
Many invasives are everywhere, indeed. But I don't think it's necessary to be fatalistic about it. My point, though, is that if you are actively planting things, you should use ones that are endemic to your area. And why not, you&
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by jonah 2y ago
That's a wonderful thing you did - it's helping the bees and other pollinators and bringing you enjoyment. To anyone else wanting to do similar - PLEASE be sure to plant only species and varieties native to YOUR area. It's mu
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DigiCert to Acquire Vercara(vercara.com)
2 points by jonah 2y ago|0 comments
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by jonah 2y ago
Anyone know the logic for why it was renamed from Monkeypox to Mpox?
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by jonah 2y ago
I've used TileMill to create tiles for a specific layer of data for a specific area. (Fire evacuation zones for a county.) https://github.com/tilemill-project
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The Pigweed SDK: A modern embedded development suite(opensource.googleblog.com)
4 points by jonah 2y ago|0 comments
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by jonah 2y ago
That's a bummer. It really is amazing stuff.
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by jonah 2y ago
I'm curious about your comment about 406 MHz ELTs[1]. (I'm not a pilot, though I know a few.) (First, a clarification, the old 121.5 MHz ELTs also require their manufacturer approved batteries to be replaced every few years in ord
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by jonah 2y ago
This is rad! I recently read Assembling California by John McPhee[1][2] - highly recommended BTW. Anyway, I was musing that I'd love to see a 3D globe with a time slider that I could play around with and visualize the (projected of cou
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by jonah 2y ago
Ham radio is a hugely diverse hobby these days. Personally, I had been thinking about getting my license, but finally did it as a extra skill for my SAR team application. As the younger guy with the rope skills, I got into infrastructure wo
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by jonah 2y ago
I asked Google's Gemini and got the following: The text contains a logical inconsistency. The first sentence states that Joe drove Sue to university, implying Sue is now at university. The second sentence says Joe drank

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