ngvrnd

12 ms·

121.
by ngvrnd 7y ago
hence the "also" in the comment, one imagines.
122.
by ngvrnd 7y ago
"... just one huge mega-city that fabricates all of its needs, ... " Plug for "Girl's Last Tour" anime/manga.
123.
by ngvrnd 7y ago
For fun, look up "vampire taps" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_tap
124.
by ngvrnd 7y ago
See "canine transmissible venereal tumor" for an example of the adversary having bootstrapped itself into ... being a semi-independent life form?
125.
by ngvrnd 7y ago
This is the way I think about it: Happiness is an excellent experience, but a terrible goal.
126.
by ngvrnd 7y ago
The HP-65 was pretty swank.
127.
by ngvrnd 7y ago
No. Cormac McCarthy's Road, or William Gibson's Jackpot, is coming.
128.
by ngvrnd 7y ago
How often does this RF Seismograph show disturbances when no earthquake follows?
129.
by ngvrnd 7y ago
"Marshall McLuhan, casual viewin', heads buried in the sand."
130.
by ngvrnd 7y ago
Everything happened earlier than you think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
131.
by ngvrnd 7y ago
(looks around) Nods.
132.
by ngvrnd 7y ago
See the remarks about de-institutionalization and the insane.
133.
by ngvrnd 8y ago
Is this interesting primarily because of the noted correspondence with octonions?
134.
by ngvrnd 8y ago
Didn't iRobot own ASC at one point?
135.
by ngvrnd 8y ago
When I read this title I imagined a person getting out a chest of D&D dice. Change my mind.
136.
by ngvrnd 8y ago
I liked "Always Coming Home". And "The Lathe of Heaven" made a big impression when I was a kid.
137.
by ngvrnd 8y ago
some reading: https://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2011/12/27/memristors_an...
138.
by ngvrnd 8y ago
Wes Hayward is an awesome guy. His "Introduction to RF Design" may be of interest: https://www.alibris.com/Introduction-to-Radio-Frequency-Desi...
139.
by ngvrnd 8y ago
they tried a couple of times.
140.
by ngvrnd 8y ago
the newer ones are much better at avoiding lobster-trap situations. but you are correct.
141.
by ngvrnd 8y ago
The tutorial starts with a quote from a song by Rammstein. "Der Mensch ist doch ein Augentier -- schöne Dinge wünsch ich mir." Humans are just creatures of the eye -- Beautiful things are what I want
142.
by ngvrnd 8y ago
I think this presents an instance of a larger principle -- trying to do something, regardless of whether you excel at it or not, teaches things not learnable any other way.
143.
Drawing is the best way to learn(qz.com)
1 points by ngvrnd 8y ago|1 comments
144.
by ngvrnd 8y ago
It's said that no work of art is finished, only abandoned in frustration. Is this work of art ongoing, I wonder?
145.
Diamonds with water ice in them suggest lots of water in the mantle(quantamagazine.org)
3 points by ngvrnd 8y ago|0 comments
146.
by ngvrnd 8y ago
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29007415/robert-joseph-t...
147.
by ngvrnd 8y ago
let's hope.
148.
by ngvrnd 8y ago
but what if microwaves don't heat solid ice at all, they heat the water that forms on the ice because the microwave is at room temperature? google "how to melt glass in a microwave".
149.
by ngvrnd 8y ago
Hey Randall! If you put a microwave in a sub-zero walk-in fridge, and after the device had reached equilibrium with ambient conditions, you connected the microwave to mains power, then put a chunk of ice in the microwave and turned it on at
150.
by ngvrnd 8y ago
It may be a major point of the article, but that doesn't mean it's correct, or that the remark about coyotes trying to be domesticated is necessarily wrong. Doesn't mean it's right, either, by the way.

More ›