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by robonerd 4y ago
> It's the music player that made me stop using a dedicated music player program. More or less the same for me. I loved Amarok until KDE4, but had to abandon it then. For a few years I used an XMMS2 client I wrote myself, but
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by robonerd 4y ago
People are very resourceful, pretty good at swimming, the English Channel not particularly wide, and it might have been walked across. The real trick is how monkeys got from Africa to South America about 40 million years ago.
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by robonerd 4y ago
KDE 4.0 was abysmal, so bad it seemed like deliberate sabotage, and it didn't get much better through 4.2. That's when I gave up on KDE for several years (until about a year or so ago.) Now I'm trying to like it again, all
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by robonerd 4y ago
Mature? I don't know about that. Each time I upgrade I'm faced with new inexplicable bugs. This time on 5.25.0, I'm hit by: Brightness controls are broken, both from the keyboard keys and plasma applet thing. echoing in
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by robonerd 4y ago
> "I'll never be able to succeed" Is it the condition which causes this, or the diagnosis of the condition? I think diagnoses can easily inspire feelings of futility. It's no longer something you can change abou
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Whenever I was moping around inside, my mother always told me "Go be bored OUTSIDE"
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> (tickets often end up costing a multiple of the advertised price), Are you adding a lot of optional extras to your purchase?
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by robonerd 4y ago
For flights under two hours or so, I think I'd rather be forced to stand than forced to sit. Of course, an aisle seat where I can stand or sit at will is the ideal.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Tangentially related, but I wish the Tourist class would let me talk my way out of adversarial encounters by explaining that I'm merely a tourist and unfamiliar with local customs. Like Twoflower in The Color of Magic.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> You can't solve a problem if no one is willing to vocalize and point out that there is one. Societal meta-awareness is a necessary pre-condition of change. I am reticent to discuss this matter at all since I doubt even delicat
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Fatal crashes of private, business, and corporate-executive airplanes have increased after publicized murder-suicides. The more publicity given to a murder-suicide, the more crashes occurred. The increase in plane crashes occurred pri
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by robonerd 4y ago
> We don’t talk to our children enough about pursuing sex to fulfill carnal needs that delight and captivate us in the moment. Yep, they're groomers.
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Are you sure your lease doesn't rule it out anyway?
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Backyard sheds seem like the best place for battery packs this large. However, I think a lot of people with electric cars and attached garages don't think twice about it.
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by robonerd 4y ago
It would be easier to list the government software projects with contracts that large which aren't set up to fail. How many billions have been spent building all this government specified CRUD that never ends up working properly, bu
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by robonerd 4y ago
What you do on the street in public is for the whole of the public to comment on, you're not immune to criticism just because the parade is "yours". As soon as you do it in public, you are giving up any conceptual right to n
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Correct, but that is just the workaround to achieve more immediate thrust variability from a combustion engine Well no, it's not just a work-around to the thrust response of combustion engines. Cyclic control is also how trad
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by robonerd 4y ago
Wow, I thought jwond was being disingenuous by posting something indefensible but atypical and not representative of the whole. But you jump to unconditionally defend it so quick? Wew, what the fuck.
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But can you carry enough of them to make the whole thing worth it?
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> That is a fantasy that almost never works out in real life. Can you quantify this? > Most helicopter crashes happen outside that narrow zone of survivability. AFAIK the majority of helicopter crashes are not caused by a loss of
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by robonerd 4y ago
I am 100% serious. I don't pretend to have data on how many priests or psychologists the average person has to try before they find one that works for them, but from my personal experience I believe it's somewhere in the same ba
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by robonerd 4y ago
> VTOL requires engines which provide very high thrust and very short response time during vertical ascent Not necessarily. That's how you do it with electric multirotors, because it's simple and electric motors are good at
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> you should try another one; If you try enough astrologers, fortune tellers or priests, you'll probably find one with the necessary life experience and empathy to earnestly benefit you. Their stated methods differ, but I think
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by robonerd 4y ago
> It cannot punish other than removing access to children. Anything else punishes the children as much as the parent. I can think of other possibilities, but I'm sure they wouldn't be popular (in the west anyway.) For instan
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That flight is about 230 miles (365 km) as the crow flies, and they're doing it with 737s that seat 100+ each and fly dozens of these flights a day. Compare that to this battery plane that can fly 200 miles: https://cleantec
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by robonerd 4y ago
> a range of a few 100 km, which is possible with today's batteries. Not with a meaningful amount of cargo it isn't; look up the electric planes that are actually flying today (and it's certainly not for want of trying,
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by robonerd 4y ago
> if we can sequestrate it somewhere else? That seems to be the big if .
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Atmospheric carbon capture seems like an petroleum industry scam to me (check the 'Members' page of that website.) In principle it's what plants do, but plants do it using scale; there's a whole bunch of them. CO2 is u
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> New York City could be a prime market but there are only a few heliports. Afaik rooftop helipads have been banned in NYC ever since an accident in 1977 killed five people.
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> The energy density of gasoline does not matter at all. Well if we're talking about commercial aviation, we're talking about jet fuel not gasoline. Regardless, it obviously matters a lot. A fully loaded 747 freighter has s

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