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by perilunar 4mo ago
I was a kid once, we had no floppy drives. 'Borrowing' your Dad's Playboy or Penthouse mags was the thing.
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by perilunar 4mo ago
> The www is an ad network. Not a great place for non-commercial activity No, hard disagree. The web is great for indie content. Anyone can publish anything, at any time. And there's still plenty of great content out there. Ads can
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by perilunar 4mo ago
201 MW for 53,000 homes is 3.8 kW per home. That's 10 x 400 W panels. Seems low. It would be better to put them on the houses and save the land for crops.
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by perilunar 4mo ago
Several megabytes downloaded instead of (checks dev tools) 5.1 KB.
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by perilunar 4mo ago
> If you swipe up with three (or four) fingers from a full-screen window the previews are visible immediately. Previews are also visible immediately if you set Mission Control as a hot-corner action. In never see the title-only spaces —
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by perilunar 4mo ago
More recently (Nov 2025): Creatine supplementation for treating symptoms of depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41189312/ "Our findings suggest that creatine may off
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by perilunar 4mo ago
> it seems improbable that 10,000 individual contributors running around doing whatever they think is best will ever result in engineering a new airplane, for example. Individuals and small groups build new airplanes all the time. It&#x2
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by perilunar 4mo ago
But local governments are much easier to leave than state or federal governments. And easier to influence if you decide to stay.
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by perilunar 4mo ago
> local representatives choosing state representatives choosing federal representatives You don't have to have that though. You can still have a local population electing local, state, and federal representatives. But you need the t
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by perilunar 4mo ago
> Local first, with taxes flowing there first, and only then do they start to trickle up... Works well with Georgism. If all tax is land and resources, it makes sense to collect locally. If most of your tax is income and company tax, it&
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by perilunar 5mo ago
I visited a piggery once. The smell was intense, but what amazed me was that the ceilings of the sheds were completely covered in spider webs, so thick that you could barely see the metal ceiling. So… if they want bugs to feed the spiders,
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by perilunar 5mo ago
For comparison, the Saturn 5 was 140 tonnes to LEO and 43.5 tonnes to TLI.
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by perilunar 5mo ago
Big magnets. [8] 8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_driver
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by perilunar 5mo ago
None of the SpaceX orbital launches so far have been fully reusable. The second stage is not recovered.
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by perilunar 5mo ago
> RSS is truly in its own little universe. More like a little island in the XML archipelago. > RSS stylesheets. Apparently there is a specification for that called XSLT XSLT is a bit more than just “RSS stylesheets”.
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by perilunar 5mo ago
Save a few watts per device making the client-side code a bit more efficient. Spend Gigawatts running data centres for LLMs.
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by perilunar 5mo ago
I’ve never really understood why automobiles need to look so visually different from a horse and carriage. I feel like if more automobiles just looked like normal, great-looking carriages, a lot more people would probably be interested in b
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by perilunar 5mo ago
> What prevents car manufacturers from taking a normal-looking body style and electrifying it? Nothing. That's exactly what early car makers did — they took a carriage and removed the horse. Electric cars with big hoods and radiator
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by perilunar 5mo ago
> atheists have no explaination for ... So? Better to not be able to explain something, than a glib "god did it". > atheists have no answer other than "thats just how the universe works, period" I've never hea
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by perilunar 5mo ago
Yes. Any flow content is permitted inside a <dd>. See: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-dd-element https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...
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by perilunar 5mo ago
Mars might not be profitable, but the asteroids may well be.
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by perilunar 5mo ago
An entertaining and scathing writeup.
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by perilunar 5mo ago
I think this is overblown. <noscript> works fine for simple things like "this page requires javascript" messages. Of course it doesn't work when scripting is enabled but scripts fails to load for some reason. The WHATWG
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by perilunar 5mo ago
Is that really any simpler or clearer than: <script> ... </script> <noscript> ... </noscript>
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by perilunar 5mo ago
No, the one in Sweden is bigger. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System_model#Permanent_t...
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by perilunar 5mo ago
This is literally true on a physical level: The US airforce did a study in the 1950s that showed none of the thousands pilots they measured matched the average across multiple body measurements. i.e. no one was average. https://a
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by perilunar 5mo ago
Kevin Kelly is a bit more than some "Substack philosopher".
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by perilunar 5mo ago
Don't tax profits (or incomes) at all. Tax land and resource use instead. And treat the knowledge that was used to train the AIs as one of those resources.
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by perilunar 5mo ago
My parents bought some really nice modern furniture when they married in the early 1960s. 5 houses and 60 years later (and a few re-upholsterings), it still looks and works as beautifully as ever. My brother will probably inherit it in a fe
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by perilunar 5mo ago
Does no one read Gerard K. O'Neill anymore? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_K._O%27Neill#Space_colo...

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