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by mrexroad 3y ago
Where in California, specifically?
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Picard: The first vessel that I served on as captain was called Stargazer. It was an overworked, underpowered vessel, always on the verge of flying apart at the seams. In every measurable sense, my Enterprise is far superior. But there are
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by mrexroad 3y ago
Agree. Obviously a few orders of magnitude in cost reduction would be required... but this seem like it could have interesting potential for energy generation in high-rise buildings, which currently have near-zero solar footprint. With that
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by mrexroad 3y ago
Interesting! Per your Wikipedia link… there was an early ‘00s proposal for a dedicated sleep symbol: line through a crescent moon. Same proposal would have defined line-through-circle as the generic power symbol. Though, this was superseded
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by mrexroad 3y ago
Agree. Friday night X-Files was is such a great memory. My 90’s-geek-self (and current) especially loved any episode with the Lone Gunmen — such a different era of hacker culture. On the opposite end of the spectrum, while I enjoyed watchin
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by mrexroad 3y ago
I want to believe! Thanks for that, I wasn’t aware of this (it was my sister’s CD back in the day). Things like this are a nice reminder of when I believed in more things, when stuff was done for passion rather than profit and being a nerd
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by mrexroad 3y ago
Differential privacy, meet notifications: just add random notifications as noise to everyone. If payload decrypts to junk, then drop/ignore as a faux-notification; else, trigger notification. Eh, what’s a few orders of magnitude increa
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by mrexroad 3y ago
Yeah, the mmWave sensors are a good step forward for detection presence compared to PIR, especially being able to define behavior based on multiple zones, although the latency is extremely high compared to PIR/ultrasonic. I was hoping
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by mrexroad 3y ago
> pretty much every driver going through a suburban neighborhood does prepare for a child to chase a ball into a street. Strongly disagree with this as a general statement. I live on a street near one of the several exits to my neighborh
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For those in the Bay Area, check out the Pinball Museum in Alameda (not too far from where they used to keep the nuclear wessels ).
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If you haven’t read the book Diaspora, you might enjoy it.
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I have extensive experience with it. I would disagree that there’s nothing irresponsible. I don’t recommend anyone try skipping a night just to see. Blood pressure, heart rate, and glucose levels can easily go to shit and exacerbate underl
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Not to be flippant, but that’s called sleep deprivation. I did this daily for 18-24mo straight, sleeping a 3h block early morning (~4:30-7:30) and a 27min nap aligned with my sleep/wake cycle during mid-afternoon. I did this without ca
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by mrexroad 3y ago
Either way, it’ll get to a point where a few generations removed from cutting edge will be “good enough” for existing problem spaces to a degree models are further commoditized. Like any other tech (e.g. iPhones) Next-gen will enable new e
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by mrexroad 3y ago
If you’re bored, checkout renderings/maps of California during the Great Flood of 1862! My favorite trivia about that event was that the native Americans warned the settlers and relocated their villages to the hills just prior to the a
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by mrexroad 3y ago
Great advice for those already outside, away from structures, and already at Potrero hill
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Covering doesn’t do too much (in the moment) to stop a building coming down, but it def helps stop heavy objects from concussing or worse. For those in the Bay Area, Cal academy of sciences has a nifty simulator exhibit. For everyone else,
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by mrexroad 3y ago
Loved seeing the Opsvik chair in Lower Decks.
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I mean out of boredom, or being a captive audience, yes I’ve watched… but I’ve never selected an airplane seat based on reducing risk in event of an emergency or crash. Or checked for the vest. I do however verify my safety situation when I
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by mrexroad 3y ago
This. A decade+ ago I made a Jesus-riding-dinosaurs type joke around a friend I’d known for years. He called me out on it. I knew he was from TX, homeschooled, and a devout 2A supporter, but for some reason I was floored when he said he bel
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by mrexroad 3y ago
10x is for specific body parts, largely due to the (predatory) disfunction of our health care insurance and for-profit care system. Even the x-ray I was required to have before an MRI, due to plate in my arm, was billed higher than your MRI
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by mrexroad 3y ago
Satellites (points), swarms, rings, sails along a spherical plane (e.g. spherical lune w/ axis along ecliptic)… seems like ”realistic” progression. In a far-future where a TNG-inspired Dyson structure were somehow feasible (1AU size, h
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by mrexroad 3y ago
> why […]? Their world-view (and knowledge) of disaster response was shaped by steady diet of 90’s disaster films — Volcano, Dante’s Peak, Armageddon, Twister, etc.
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Already done. Check out Strange New Worlds if you haven’t.
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Diaspora [0] by Greg Egan. A fun dive into post-human civilization published in late ‘90s. Great read if you like hard sci-fi. Tao of Wu [1] by RZA. Because, perspective. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(nov
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Book 2 was my fav. Book 3 was fine but was kinda like RTJ to ESB.
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Yeah, lengthy, but I found it to be a very heartfelt video and I appreciated how open she was in explaining something so personal.
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Sure, asbestos was awesome at what it did, but I’d be game to what some specific examples.
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V’GER is that which seeks the creator.
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Yeah, they’re targeted specially because they do not have immobilizes.

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