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3001.
by kibwen 3y ago
As shown in Max Max: Fury Road (1:35): https://youtu.be/gpeqFXT_amU?t=95
3002.
by kibwen 3y ago
But you can then recycle it an unlimited number of times. A large majority of all aluminum in use is recycled.
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by kibwen 3y ago
The piano/waveform visualizer is great, and there's a ton of fun to be had here by turning on and off different instruments. It would be nice if the interface were more discoverable/documented though. :) (EDIT: also, it looks
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by kibwen 3y ago
> If DFW, Austin, San Antonio count as American South West for that 20% number, which is arguable, the Phoenix location does not make sense. Right. As measured from the center of the Texas triangle, Phoenix is 915 miles away. Chicago i
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by kibwen 3y ago
Because we have recycling centers, which reclaim aluminum using 95% less energy than smelting the raw material.
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by kibwen 3y ago
> Emoticons used to be a supplement for words, indicating the tone of the words, but now emoji are a replacement for words, the ultimate illiteracy. People have been using things like "lol" and "lmao" since long bef
3007.
by kibwen 3y ago
Try farmer's markets (you can find these even in urban areas if you know where to look, e.g. Boston's Haymarket) or a food co-op.
3008.
by kibwen 3y ago
> When they discover the health implication of artifical sweeteners No matter how bad any artificial sweetener may be found to be in the future, it won't be any worse than having consumed an analogous quantity of sugar. By all mea
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by kibwen 3y ago
Related: drawing mouths on the side of the face to save on the animation budget: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CheekyMouth
3010.
by kibwen 3y ago
The designs for their most recent laptops are also freely and openly licensed, using the CERN Open Hardware License: https://github.com/system76/virgo/
3011.
by kibwen 3y ago
"Aptos" isn't English, it's a word in an indigenous language. To an ordinary English speaker it would appear to be Greek, hence why people unfamiliar with the name pronounce it as though it were a Greek word.
3012.
by kibwen 3y ago
The system began at chaos and is seeking order, though the existence of inherently unpredictable quantum effects means that there's plenty of chaos to go around.
3013.
by kibwen 3y ago
Well, we're calling them "donut holes", but they're actually rectangles. :P
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by kibwen 3y ago
There's a very good NYT article with great visualizations on the process of and obstacles to converting office buildings to residential: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/11/upshot/off
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by kibwen 3y ago
If you don't use the center of the building, then you only have room for one "ring" of residential units, whose windows face the exterior of the building. If you cut a donut hole down the center of the building, now you have
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by kibwen 3y ago
> almost uniquely in the US Any east coast city should have an easier time of it, because the main determining factor for retrofitting office buildings into residential is the distance between the center of the building and the exterio
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by kibwen 3y ago
You can do this using the evcxr kernel for Jupyter: https://github.com/evcxr/evcxr/blob/1a2d6c40c467267801c7382e...
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by kibwen 3y ago
A good and accessible video on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzkD5SeuwzM
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by kibwen 3y ago
It'll work fine as long as the babelfish understand not to transliterate place names. Human history is chock full of this: "Istanbul" just means "within the city", "Zhongguo" (China) just means "the l
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by kibwen 3y ago
The next time you address a package to someone, err on the side of caution and append "Earth, Solar System, Local Interstellar Cloud, Local Bubble, Gould Belt, Orion Arm, Milky Way, Milky Way Subgroup, Local Group, Local Sheet, Virgo S
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by kibwen 3y ago
This seems to be arguing that the existence of natural gas pipe infrastructure is somehow a benefit of natural gas, rather than a downside. The pipes are an expense, to say nothing of the fact that even our best-maintained pipes are leaking
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by kibwen 3y ago
> The complexity and cost for retrofitting hundreds of millions of homes and electrifying all the associated appliances is immense This is overselling the difficulty. What you're saying is true, but you don't need to rip out
3023.
by kibwen 3y ago
In the US, the share of power being generated by coal has fallen from 50% in 2005 to 20% in 2022. (In absolute terms, which is what really matters in an emissions context, it's fallen from 2T kwh to 0.75.) To phase out existing infrast
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by kibwen 3y ago
There was just as much sunk cost into coal infrastructure, but that's not an argument against phasing out coal.
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by kibwen 3y ago
It's entirely cromulent to believe in the usefulness of markets while also acknowledging that certain contexts cause markets to be inefficient, and thus reduce their utility, possibly to the point of utter uselessness. Natural monopol
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by kibwen 3y ago
Reminder that Brian Eno authored the Windows 95 startup sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Ak5VgyEoc Here's that same sound slowed down 23x if you'd like to hear a more representative sample of his music, it
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by kibwen 3y ago
> When I start typing ebay, I want "tab to search ebay". You can configure Firefox to do this with a single checkbox. Go to Settings, click Privacy & Security on the side, go down to the Address Bar section, and make sure
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by kibwen 3y ago
If you have the focus in the address bar and press Tab, Firefox puts you into search mode (while retaining focus in the address bar) using your default search engine. Is there something missing?
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by kibwen 3y ago
But acquiring the material illegally is the thrust of the issue, and the point of the thread here: the notion that large companies can get away with piracy if they just execute it on a large enough scale. Copyright infringment for thee but
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by kibwen 3y ago
Excellent, so you're saying I'll be able to download any copyrighted work from any pirate site and be free of all consequence if I just claim that I'm training an AI?

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