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by mrexroad 2y ago
Your comment is so misguided I can’t tell if you’re joking, trolling, or serious. I don’t know what else to say other than please keep the following in mind: CO2 is transparent to solar radiation, but opaque/reflective to the IR wavele
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by mrexroad 2y ago
Care to back these up with some facts/data? > Is mostly hype. Doom predictions in the last 20 years on this topic have been very wrong. > +1 to 2C increase over 100 years is not world ending
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by mrexroad 2y ago
s/Pulanski/Pulaski/ Sorry, had to be that trekkie :) and nice job referencing Measure of a Man — such great trek.
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by mrexroad 2y ago
Ferengi Rules of Acquisition Number Ten
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by mrexroad 2y ago
Nonsense! Just one more story, please? (Thanks for sharing!)
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by mrexroad 2y ago
The Blackberry 7100t had a side scroll/job wheel like this along with a body narrower than other blackberries thanks to its 20 key qwerty-ish keyboard (2 characters per key). It still ranks as one of my favorite mobile devices. Great e
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by mrexroad 3y ago
For those in the Bay Area, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office puts on a similar event [1], albeit slightly less extreme, at their regional training facility. Part of the day is spent in a crown Vic with slicks on a skid-pan (smooth concret
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by mrexroad 3y ago
Web content itself had gone to shit these days, in order to win google’s SEO game to win google’s Adsense game. “Google going to shit” is just a second order effect (or third/forth depending how you look at it).
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by mrexroad 3y ago
Agree! Along with the Mies van der Rohe pavilion — one of my favorite spots.
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by mrexroad 3y ago
My bad, my dyslexia and reacting to less-than polite comment got best of me :)
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by mrexroad 3y ago
Maybe I replied too hastily. I reread your comment and it seems you lament intertwined societal/technological changes rather than simply wishing to spend more time hanging out with the trees.
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by mrexroad 3y ago
Do you do any outdoors activities? One thing I’ve learned over the years, and was somewhat surprised by, is that I find type-II outdoor fun more fulfilling than my hobbies or work. For me, it’s a mix of 1) nature is awesome and indifferentl
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by mrexroad 3y ago
s/allegory/analogy/ It may just be a side effect of my dyslexia coping, but I read it as ‘analogy’ until reading your comment. Even then, I’m am pretty sure everyone knew they meant ‘analogy’ and just moved on. It’s okay to p
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by mrexroad 3y ago
Economy-minus section.
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by mrexroad 3y ago
> “As a result of the changes in systems, flights under different numbering systems could have the same number with one having a letter appended, e.g. flight STS-51 (a mission carried out by Discovery in 1993) was many years after STS-51
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by mrexroad 3y ago
Thanks! I’d seen about the bailout capability mentioned in passing, but had always wondered what it would be in practice (spoiler: a pole!). Also, I didn’t realize a second engine almost shut down on STS-51-F . Per the links: “A particularl
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by mrexroad 3y ago
Forget CSS and design principles, I’d be happy if folks just had a basic grasp of information hierarchy / content architecture and relevant semantic elements.
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by mrexroad 3y ago
> it's meant to be evocative more than illustrative Agree, and those evocative references were one of things I loved when first reading the Dune series many years ago as well as watching the '84 film. I still remember being tak
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by mrexroad 3y ago
I’m a fountain pen user (helped me tremendously with RSI), but the Pilot VP <F> is my daily driver for note taking — it’s retractable. Other frequently used pens: Kaweco Sport (Brass) <F> as a pocket pen and a Pilot Custom 823 &
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by mrexroad 3y ago
> Easily dismissed as "conspiracy nonsense” That’s because it is conspiracy nonsense. It’s totally bonkers if you read it with an actual open mind… as opposed to a mind already seeking to reinforce notions about some NWO and that mo
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by mrexroad 3y ago
So then, how about a ratio of spoons to no-spoons? Sorry to pun, I couldn't resist.
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by mrexroad 3y ago
This. I am genuinely excited when I am faced with a problem set where I don’t know something (e.g. need to research, explore, gain a skill, or otherwise educate myself) — seriously, it’s the best. The only thing better is learning (or bei
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by mrexroad 3y ago
American here, so I’m automobile-dependent, but I most often just put the individual items directly in my trunk, without bags. I do keep a collapsible bin in my trunk that I use when I get home to carry in a bunch of the smaller items. My w
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by mrexroad 3y ago
Strict routines and places for EDC items can help too. For other things, like tape measures, buy a half dozen. Put them the first place you checked the last time you couldn't find it.
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by mrexroad 3y ago
I’ve done this a few times. A few years ago I got a call about some Microsoft Windows something or other and decided to play along. After 30min of hilariously bumbling through his steps I got on my high-horse and shamed them for hurting mos
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by mrexroad 3y ago
Seems like this bill was written to generate headlines more than anything else. There’s been a huge uptick in pedestrian/biker fatalities in my area (South Bay) over the past 5 years. Even in my neighborhood, a group of students got pl
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by mrexroad 3y ago
My understanding is that Target’s loss prevention forensics team makes some police departments look amateur. Also, the aggregate shoplifting for an individual is “allowed” until the dollar amount crosses the line for it to be considered a f
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by mrexroad 3y ago
How about a game of thermo… erm… tic-tac-toe?
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by mrexroad 3y ago
Slight non-sequester, but the DS9 episode ‘In The Pale Moonlight’ comes to mind here in this thread
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by mrexroad 3y ago
The article only mentioned SF schools having done so a decade ago. FWIW, I have several kids in K-12 in the Bay Area schools and can say there’s zero talk of this within our school system or from the administrators I’ve interacted with. One

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