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by mrexroad 4y ago
I just watched Gremlins with my kids during the holidays. My older teen had to look away and hated it (they can’t do horror films), my other teen was abhorred by all the death, and my pre-teen had the full range of emotions from cracking up
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I very much enjoyed it. Sad it was a box office failure.
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You mean like in Japan? > hasn’t been implemented I’m not going to evangelize what a correct stance on this is, but IMHO tipping is a big, not a feature.
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Paging George P. Burdell, paging George P. Burdell.
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Hat in hand here — I miss read that as BCE…
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> “[…] archaeologists believe that the mound's creation could have been influenced by two different astronomical events: the light from the supernova that created the Crab Nebula in the year 1054 CE […] The light of the supernova wo
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by mrexroad 4y ago
One tragedy, on top of the mountain of others, is that their histories were passed down orally. Much of that has been destroyed. One thing that struck me when I read about The Great Flood of 1862 [0], was that the Native Americans recognize
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non
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You’ve made the right choice. I haven’t had a choice at various times in my past, so I’ve spent a lot of time over the years fixing house/car/etc. instead of playing with my kids (of which I still did plenty). When my daughter was
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And don’t forget that facial recognition is only one tool for identifying individuals— gait recognition, clothing patterns, etc. are utilized as well.
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They do already :) Fwiw, Tesla already utilizes active (liquid) cooling as passive (air) cooling is insufficient even without insulation; further, air+liquid cooling is still not enough so refrigeration and heat exchanger is also used to r
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FYI, you have a typo. It should be “Before sunrise or after sunset”
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> thermally insulate the battery enclosure to try to retain that heat as long as possible Might pose a problem during heavy discharge with 105F ambient temps?
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Yep, but it depends on what’s rate plan you select. > SEASONAL PRICING The cost of electricity on your rate plan is lower during the cooler months from October to May, and is higher during the warmer months from June to September. For fu
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I don’t think that was my hope. My comment, if anything, is that the dynamics of pg&e’s retail pricing make the comparison a bit of (pardon the pun) apples to carrots. Plus, there’s no analogy for energy, at scale, to refrigerated supp
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by mrexroad 4y ago
Electric rates change seasonally as well, that part of the analogy holds. However time-of-use pricing is different.
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Eh, like many things in life, it’s not that simple, but the reality of it is that YouTube plays a role within a clear framework intended to bring wider sense of balance their life (BSA scouts, sports, literature I choose every now and then,
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But retail prices of carrots don’t increase dramatically from 4-9pm.
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Several kids in my household. YouTube plays a vastly different role for each, which is frustrating. Oldest goes down rabbit hole of topics of interest - benign useless filler stuff, e.g. mostly pro sports commentary, random things like Disn
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I tend to write with an excessive amount of parenthesis with context/tangents. I used to joke it was due to Lisp/Scheme being one of my first languages. Took me a few years to realize the ADD connection.
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Curious why you say that? I’m seriously considering an EV pickup in next few years. I currently am using a minivan with seats removed for most of my construction and hauling needs (fwiw, I beefed up brakes, monitor tranny temp w/ heavy
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“The map is not the territory”… until the map is the territory?
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Source?
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In most the the aftermarket LED bulbs that I’ve seen, the location of the diode(s) causes light to emit from different point(s) that it would from a halogen bulb, thus reflecting differently than intended. https://ledlightinginfo
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by mrexroad 4y ago
Haha, that’s awesome. The first time I visited there with my wife, I started on about how the “Cetacean Institute” sign was missing (gasp!) and before I could even finish whatever joke I was leading up to, my wife simply gave me a look that
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South Bay (area) suburbs.
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Fwiw, the police helped me successfully recover my kid’s stolen bike and arrested the thief/seller as soon as I ID’d our bike at the “meet-up.” It’s easy to over generalize.
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Had same story, except at the meet up, the cops arrested the bike thief. It might have helped that the cop recognized both the thief and thief’s “back up” muscle guy hanging out ~30’ away, ordering him by name to walk away as he approached.
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I’ve heard someone say a few months back that a zoom setup is the new business suit/attire. After spending the pandemic working from an unfinished/unheated garage near a loud expressway, I definitely felt there were situations whe
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I’ve been tempted to dig out my minidisc recording deck and player from storage, and use them for to add a bit of friction for more constrained listening. I’m probably projecting other problems onto music streaming services, but I often shu

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