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by lapetitejort 10mo ago
What is the average length of time for new tech to escape porn and crime and integrate into real applications? Longer than 15 years?
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by lapetitejort 10mo ago
Reducing unnecessarily bulky trucks with low visibility, increasing fuel efficiencies, and removing gas subsidies absolutely helps the suburban and rural population
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by lapetitejort 10mo ago
But you are okay driving around these crazy people, even though one of them could cause an accident costing you thousands of dollars and potentially a source of transportation?
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by lapetitejort 10mo ago
Most of the places within public transportation range are also within biking range, so I prefer biking. The end result is the same: one less car off the road. Now if you say "What about all the crazy drivers??" think about this: h
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by lapetitejort 10mo ago
Reading these comments, a common through-line seems to be cars. Hit and runs, drive by shootings, cars without plates, cars speeding, breaking into cars, etc. But the concept of disincentivizing cars never seems to be brought up. Close down
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by lapetitejort 10mo ago
The EPA should check crayons for brain-eating chemicals
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by lapetitejort 10mo ago
Trains can take you to the beach and away from civilization. Build a station where you want to go. At one point trains were the most practical way to get to national parks. How often are you building treehouses that you need to pay hundreds
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by lapetitejort 11mo ago
A hero strikes a zero.
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
Black powder is still used by firearm enthusiasts, and just like in the 16th century I'm sure they don't appreciate it getting wet when it rains
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
Someone, somewhere, had to report that rock throwers went down because the very big cloud did not stay up. I think we're doing the 16th century wrong.
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
Similarly, get a sous vide setup with vacuum sealer. Buy chicken breast and dump it into a bag with a bunch of seasoning. Because sous vide heats it just above bug-killing temperature and will not burn the meat, you can leave it in for an i
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
I hope they speedrun to Python 6.28 because tau > pi (mini unrelated rant. I think pi should equal 6.28 and tau should equal 3.14, because pi looks like two taus)
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
I would say nothing has changed except who "media" refers to. People who blindly trusted ABC now blindly trust Joe Rogan. They both support the elite.
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
> find secrets I'll be honest, I don't like this part. I'm a rabid collector. If the game gives a metric to an item, I must have all of the items. I end up killing the flow by scouring the level looking for secrets. This i
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
Drawing the line will be the hardest part of writing a theoretical law banning electronics in disposable products. And the line will probably be obsolete a few weeks after the law takes effect. Which is why the line should be continuously d
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
Riffing on a comment I saw on one of LinusTechTip's "Switch to Android/Apple" videos: phone users misinterpret familiarity with intuitiveness and polish. Android is "intuitive" to me because I've been usin
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
Imagine if businesses did not have to worry about their employee's healthcare. Instead they could focus on the business at hand. Maybe this is just a crazy idea.
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
246g of CO2 per passenger kilometer [0]. Versus 35g for national rail [0]: https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
My locally owned coffee shop adopted hang.com as a rewards program. They have a daily wordle clone that gives three free guesses. If you don't get it in three, you have to be close to the store to unlock the last two. There's also
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
As far as I know all images are manually uploaded and geotagged. Since posting this I've uploaded tens of photos of my town. I've had to research every photo, using current Street View, historical maps (Sanborn Fire Insurance maps
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PastVu: Historical Photographs on Current Maps(pastvu.com)
38 points by lapetitejort 1y ago|4 comments
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
I set up a small Ubiquiti setup with Pi-hole, then moved into a home serviced by AT&T Fiber, which comes with an all in one fiber modem and WiFi hub. I started using it before I could unpack, then did a little research on how I could di
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
Write a peer reviewed paper with facts and figures
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
This administration has fired thousands of workers without cause with almost no legal ramifications. What is special about this case?
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Lost in the Wilderness: Ansel Adams in the 1960s(ucrarts.ucr.edu)
2 points by lapetitejort 1y ago|1 comments
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
I have been an Ansel Adams fan for decades, and yet never knew he took extensive photographs of the University of California system in the 1960s. University of California, Riverside has thousands of photos and negatives in their archive. So
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
If they survive they can just donate their own plasma and PFAS later. One of the rare instances where a pyramid scheme makes sense. Every generation has a larger pool of untouched blood in which to hold our PFAS.
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The Ghost in the Ice Cream Machine (2020)(gizmodo.com)
2 points by lapetitejort 1y ago|0 comments
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
> Interpretation of the Lighthouse of Alexandria. Credit: Midjounrey / Open Domain / Free Use In addition to not paying artists for interpretations, they also apparently do not pay editors to proofread.
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
I clicked because from the name I thought it would be some new genetically engineered form of lettuce, one with perhaps the capability of destroying our ecosystem as we know it. I am now upvoting because it is funny.

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