logfromblammo

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   by logfromblammo 7y ago

   I also rankle at the "sell experiences" trend. It pegs my bogon detector from the moment I walk in until the instant I leave. If I want a memorable experience, it's not going to have a prominent, obvious cash register in it
2. 752.▲
   by logfromblammo 7y ago

   How about "advanced amusements, gadgetry, builder kits, and hobbyist supplies"? One wouldn't want to inadvertently age-box anything by implying any particular position on the toddler-geezer age axis. Kids of sufficient skill
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   by logfromblammo 7y ago

   Except he also would not have recovered his stuff, because the police would not actually do anything to help. You're basically on your own regarding the security of your possessions. Lock your doors; don't leave valuables unatten
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   by logfromblammo 7y ago

   N dimensions can give you 2^N degrees of freedom. If you have 3 spatial dimensions x, y, z, then you can have 3 degrees of freedom by translation and scaling along those dimensions. You can also have another 3 degrees of freedom by rotatio
5. 755.▲
   by logfromblammo 7y ago

   It was probably constructed in the 1960s, as it originally belonged to my father. Not a canteen-style bottle, but a bona-fide canteen. Imagine two pie pans, one inverted over the other, and welded together at their rims, with the cap hole
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   by logfromblammo 7y ago

   Or use a federated contact book, such that a site operator could openly publish a memorable name, and those names could be propagated to others and given aliases. ...so then the nodes operated by the FAANGs would be authoritative just by vi
7. 757.▲
   by logfromblammo 7y ago

   I would have added .img, .res, .txt, .src, .var, .dev, .etc, .bin, .lib, .bak, .dir, .key, and (of course) .log, as gTLDs without charging for them. But I guess that's why I don't work for ICANN.
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   by logfromblammo 7y ago

   I used to refill my stainless-steel canteen from faucets and drinking fountains. The container was round, and the hole was on an edge of the circular side, rather than poking out of the cylinder wall, so it could fit almost anywhere that w
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   by logfromblammo 7y ago

   At least the holodeck cut down on the amount of inexplicable time travel, theme planets, or theater-loving superbeings in order to get to the alt-history episodes. That excised a big source of random woo, and replaced it with one frequentl
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    I first learned about this stuff from the game manual of Conquests of the Longbow. Knowing the spiritual properties of different minerals and gems got me past the guard at the swamp monastery. And I haven't found it useful since. I b
11. 761.▲
    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    Buy two; use one to sniff the other?
12. 762.▲
    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    > "We don't let people yell "Fire!" in a movie theater, it is considered a form of terrorism." https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha... Please use a differ
13. 763.▲
    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    I can barely tell the difference between the parrot call that means "Ohshithawkhawkhawkhawk! Take cover!" and the one that means "Hawk! Just kidding; pay attention to me now." I'm not certain a machine learning sy
14. 764.▲
    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    Ready Player One is stacked manufactured homes. Snow Crash is storage units. I am not aware of any sci-fi story that predicted people living in ISO shipping containers prior to its real-world occurrence.
15. 765.▲
    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    Crime exists. I advocate that everyone apply whatever measures that fit within their means to ameliorate it, or avoid it altogether. It applies on the small scale as easily as the grand. If you insult someone's mother, watch for and
16. 766.▲
    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    It is not "legitimate". That word shares a root with "legal". But we should not pretend that some people do not do illegal things when the stakes are high enough. Rich people get kidnapped and held for ransom to fund r
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    I would stake Bank of America through the heart, bind it with chains until sunrise, vitrify the dust, and then dump the evil slag into an ocean trench, and I'd still bank there long before trusting Zuckerberg's Facebook with my mo
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    Every mortal may be ousted from their offices; the wisest will provide a peaceful means for doing so. As Zuckerberg has obviated any lawful means of removing him, by structuring the stock classes such that he holds the majority of votes, he
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    Or a day-night-day-penumbra-umbra-penumbra cycle. The primary-facing side would get maximum light just before entering the penumbra, experience total darkness in the umbra, and get some light directly from the star and some reflected from
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    ~From playing Dwarf Fortress, I learned that ramps are better at reducing pathing collisions than stairs. If these buildings take out their escalators and put in stairs or elevators instead, they might not see visible congestion, but their
21. 771.▲
    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    I like a keyboard better than a touchscreen for writing text, and I like a keyboard with mechanical switches better than one with membrane switches. More expensive, yes, but the user experience is very much better. One of the primary advan
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    Well... not THE most aggressive of chemicals, fluoroantimonic acid (H2F[SbF6]), the acid designed by top chemists to be the best acid that ever forcibly protonated a carbon atom into pentavalent carbonium. That will dissolve the glass. (
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    We don't need to be cured ; we need to be respected . How would the larks like it if we just stayed up until they were in phase 3 of non-REM sleep and just smothered them all in their beds? That's just as offensive as forcing u
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    Zork III (1982), Sorcerer (1984), Spellbreaker (1985) and Trinity (1986) all did time travel, and Suspended (1983) did multiple characters. Zork Grand Inquisitor (1997) definitely did time travel as different playable characters in a grap
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    I'd be willing to advertise a culture string like "en-US" if I thought adtech would respect it, and not try to override it or profile me further.
26. 776.▲
    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    Advertising allows those who have fleeting excess brain-seconds of attention to convert it into non-ephemeral money. People give away their brain-seconds of attention based on interest, and the interest-providers are profiting on the differ
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    I sense a demonstration wherein a large APH crystal prepared in an alkaline environment is heated to 60 degrees, and then a single drop of acid is dripped onto it, and the whole thing melts away. My vote for nomenclature is "catalyzed
28. 778.▲
    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    In other words, women get a lot of "date spam". Imagine a heterosexual relationship dating pool of 100 men and 100 women. 40 of the men are date-spammers, and 5 of the women are date-spammers. They will all attempt a first date
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    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    Why not? Just add a valve that allows air out if the interior pressure rises more than x% above ambient atmospheric pressure, and allows air in through a filter if it's more than y% below. It wouldn't be that much more complex th
30. 780.▲
    by logfromblammo 7y ago

    > they will certainly close ranks and attempt to protect their own AKA obstruction of justice. By cops. At an institutional level. In every other industry, if you are caught breaking the law by a co-worker, you will be thrown under t