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by scrumper 5y ago
This is perennial, and no less terrifying for it. There was briefly a 3D version integrated with Google Earth that was even more depressing. Also check out (by the same developer, Alex Wallerstein) MissileMap, where you can plant a launch p
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by scrumper 5y ago
I think it's better than that. The interlocking circles aspect was clever, surprising, and enjoyable when I spotted it.
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by scrumper 5y ago
Yep. As a boy in the UK, "Steam gives way to sail, but don't try it with the Isle of Wight ferry."
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by scrumper 5y ago
Depending on how far out, you might've still been under the inland rules. Not that my pedantry changes anything - sailboat still comes below "vessel restricted in its ability to maneuver" and you gotta give way all the same.
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by scrumper 5y ago
(2019) I used one once in a server room in a quasi-government agency in the very early 2000s. Compared to the plastic Toshiba Windows junk around at the time, it was a total revelation. I tried to get my boss to buy me one for customer demo
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by scrumper 5y ago
> Like presenting everything as pseudo magical and religious I'm not sure they're so wrong with that. In the books, Hari Seldon understands his math and so does Gaal, but nobody else can. Same in the show. His line in the colon
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by scrumper 5y ago
I believe that with screenplays there's a fairly direct correspondence between the space taken up on paper and time in the movie. So a page is generally a minute. In the article, he talks about how it "creates acts" - each ac
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by scrumper 5y ago
This entire thread contains some beautiful shots, I've really enjoyed watching them all this morning! I can add the battlefield traversal scene from Children of Men https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjFHqohaHYU which cer
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by scrumper 5y ago
I'm glad that awesome ballsy bird didn't get injured by the blades on that ridiculous noisy irritating gimmick. I mean, a cup of coffee, not even a pound of ground coffee so you can make your own and only force this intrusion on y
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by scrumper 5y ago
This was interesting, the haptic digital virtual carving thingy especially so. But my favorite bit about this article was the first related item link - a story about Hot Wheels treadmill racing.
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by scrumper 5y ago
TFA talks a bit about that. The short of it is kinda as I was discussing above - if you consider the entity temporally as well as spatially, the Trigger's Broom/Ship of Theseus problem becomes moot.
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by scrumper 5y ago
That's just it: jumping from discussions of the biological repository of consciousness straight to souls might be missing a whole big area. These thought experiments got me thinking about how a conscious entity might better be consider
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by scrumper 5y ago
Nothing, as long as it's a low voltage capacitor. Do it to a filter cap in a power supply and you'll have a huge spark and probably damage your screwdriver. Best practice if you're working with large capacitors is to discharg
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by scrumper 5y ago
> short any capacitors with a screwdriver Not universally a good idea to do that, especially not in a power supply. Safe enough in some circumstances but not all. Better to buy a discharge probe or make one by soldering a 2200 ohm 5w res
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by scrumper 5y ago
That was excellent but stopped tantalizingly short - he's on to something. He's uncomfortable about the concept of a "soul", but the idea of continuity is really interesting. It suggests that the boundary of a conscious
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by scrumper 5y ago
They have a very interesting project of a clock custom built for NASA to calibrate high speed cameras. Apparently these tubes can switch 100,000 times a second and their lack of any flicker makes them well suited to this purpose: https:&#
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by scrumper 5y ago
BAe 146 deserves an honorable mention - 4 engines mounted under wing, but the wing is on top of the fuselage (“high wing”) so benefits from lower FOD risk and avoids many of the issues the article calls out with tail-mounted engines. Common
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by scrumper 5y ago
It does rather seem that the default answer with anything cryptocurrency is to waste vast amounts of energy with replication.
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by scrumper 5y ago
The very first picture (next to "The Heart of the Community" reminds me a lot of one of those neo-primitive settlements the Enterprise would visit in a Star Trek: TNG episode. Captain Picard would have some kind of intense relatio
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by scrumper 5y ago
I think this would have greatly helped my youngest, 6 at the time, stay more engaged during virtual learning in last year's lockdown. His teachers, who did a better job than we had any right to expect, quickly figured out some little t
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by scrumper 5y ago
This was my favorite, the 37 year old manager: "Fearful of losing one more junior employee in what has become a tight job market, Mr. Singer has allowed a young colleague to work from home one day a week with an understanding that they
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by scrumper 5y ago
Yes this, it's Global Crossing which is a telecoms infrastructure company operating big sea cables and the like.
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by scrumper 5y ago
I spent a good chunk of my early 20s commuting across the Atlantic. Before 9/11, all you had to do was ask a flight attendant and they'd go check with the pilots and bring you up a short while later. I used to do it most flights o
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by scrumper 5y ago
This is interesting, and I broadly agree with Kieran's complaints about the quasi-REST-lite that passes for web APIs today. Sadly there's not much tooling or guidance around to try and encourage people to do REST properly. It&#x27
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by scrumper 5y ago
Right? That's fine, surely, I at least am not saying that we need to hate the films now. Society is better, is all. He was certainly the hero of 2.
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by scrumper 5y ago
I'd forgotten entirely about SS2 - he goes to the big city and learns about rock & roll and dancing? Completely agree on different standards back then. Definitely an area in which I think we have collectively improved.
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by scrumper 5y ago
This is super similar to my start. I was hired at 17 one summer to do data entry for a surveying company, by putting timesheets created in Excel into a central system for billing clients. That got boring after a day, so I figured out how to
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by scrumper 5y ago
Yeah it's all good except for that, and definitely touches on some pretty cutting edge concerns as you mention. I didn't remember the Ben stuff either. I hadn't seen it since I guess age of 10? Put it on for the kids to watch
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by scrumper 5y ago
My 6 & 8yr old kids adored that when I showed it to them recently. Ben's character more than a little out of place these days: he's used entirely as an object of comedy (and that as a target rather than a source), does nothing
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by scrumper 5y ago
These suits (Gravity Jetsuits) were on sale in Selfridges in London for 340,000 GBP a few years ago. I had no idea they were so far out of the prototype stage. Astonishing. There's a racing series, you can book experience flights in th

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