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by stevenwoo 4mo ago
Maybe? https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/sustainablebuildings/...
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by stevenwoo 4mo ago
That’s true, your comment reminded me of The Electric State which maybe 50 pages of drawings with descriptions and the trailer for the movie was unintentionally funny to me like it was a parody and World War Z where I loved the short action
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by stevenwoo 4mo ago
In addition to sibling comments for intent, the book Cadillac Desert documents how this government agency can be used to further moneyed interests, ie subsidize developments that would otherwise not be economically viable from local funding
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by stevenwoo 4mo ago
He says he mainly summarizes plot and that the qualities of the writing are not important. It seems like that would miss opportunities - for instance he didn’t think Vineland was adaptable and didn’t even recognize One Battle After Another
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by stevenwoo 4mo ago
I went into it blind and the first thought ( which is probably very common ) is that this experience would greatly benefit from a hypertext implementation. There's a neutral interpretation here. https://www.tundrasquid.com&
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by stevenwoo 5mo ago
thepiratebay is fine they just don’t run indexes often so searches often fail for stuff just uploaded within last hour or two. Limetorrents updates indices frequently but uses ad providers that try to hijack your clicks and presses so it ta
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by stevenwoo 5mo ago
Tangentially related, this is a bit trying to sell upcoming book, but the discussion of origins of life was interesting to me. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2526959-how-a-radical-n... YMMV but It’s free via my l
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by stevenwoo 5mo ago
There’s a fascinating case study on how this happens - Mexico had population much less overweight than USA until NAFTA was agreed to and cheap USA processed foods began inroads so that now Mexico has close to the same obesity issue that the
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by stevenwoo 5mo ago
Right my bad the floppy Disk drive that was almost as big as the C64. I was confusing it with the Atari ST I got next with the hard drive eventually.
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by stevenwoo 5mo ago
the USA already went through this when we opened up trade to China and displaced manufacturing workers in USA, the mfg centers in USA that could not adapt withered away. https://www.npr.org/2025/12/29/nx-s1-56
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by stevenwoo 5mo ago
We really can’t know why, maybe it was continuous or maybe it was to have the dingos spirit guide their mussel harvest or maybe they wanted their dingo to never be hungry in the afterlife and that particular dingo was forgotten after a gene
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by stevenwoo 5mo ago
I remember only having enough money to buy the C64 initially and being so relieved to have the checksum on the typed in programs match up, it was ephemeral but it was either that or cartridge programs. The tape drive was the next purchase f
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by stevenwoo 5mo ago
This covers it pretty well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48229319 , TLDR -memory for AI uses more wafers from same production line as other memory and is more profitable, building new fab very risky historically for c
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by stevenwoo 5mo ago
I would argue we had a few good years of Reconstruction before President Johnson put an end to it and it took a century for this country to partially rectify this with a few constitutional amendments and Supreme Court decisions(that were cu
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by stevenwoo 5mo ago
If you like sci fi in general you might ask on /r/printsf on Reddit for recommendations based on what you like. The Libby and Hoopla app also gives recommendations based on what I have already read. I, too, completed Bobiverse but
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by stevenwoo 5mo ago
Just a question - why do you classify Long Way with PHM - because there are aliens working with humans? I don’t see any other similarities. The technology IIRC (haven’t read in years) in the Becky Chambers book is closer to Star Trek than r
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by stevenwoo 5mo ago
Part of the problem is the decisions of the US Supreme Court have codified a lot of unwritten rules to favor law enforcement/status quo - we would need a radical change in our form of government to undo this (the lifetime appointment o
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by stevenwoo 5mo ago
I feel like the reporter missed the boat by not including Wozniak’s recent speech with the complement that the students were A(ctual) I(ntelligence).
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by stevenwoo 5mo ago
The destruction of the research and development education pipeline in the USA that took 75 years to build because “college and women and minorities bad/Israel always good” was vying for the title only a few months ago.
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by stevenwoo 5mo ago
This is a change from the prior roughly 150 minutes and looks to scale depending upon the subject's starting fitness - higher fitness can get by with less, lower fitness needs to hit the higher duration numbers.
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560-610 minutes of exercise a week needed for substantial heart benefits(bmjgroup.com)
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by stevenwoo 5mo ago
11 stripes is not that big a deal to someone who buys this phone, they could have gone with a three stripe flag like American Dad and no purchaser would blink.
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by stevenwoo 5mo ago
Even in the day when all communications were slower by post or hand delivered messages, George Eliot wrote a joke about people not responding quick enough in Middlemarch "The bias of human nature to be slow in correspondence triumphs e
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by stevenwoo 5mo ago
But supporting industry of coal mining/coal power plants gets money to tilt or buy senators and their votes - college students are too sparsely distributed to have an equivalent effect in USA. It only took one senator to give us an com
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by stevenwoo 5mo ago
The article makes out it’s an open legal question if the county can do this and the current state attorney general is saying the county government do not have legal right to do this so this could be settled in court if the developers want i
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by stevenwoo 5mo ago
Did you read all three parts? They laid the groundwork by alerting local police and store owners about the counterfeiter probably living in that area of Manhattan and got lucky because the neighbor's apartment caught fire and the build
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by stevenwoo 5mo ago
Have you ever read any investigative journalism about those crime stories? Or about local crime news via papers and television? Those two news sources are starved for news stories and law enforcement agencies have well funded PR arms (one s
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by stevenwoo 5mo ago
I live in Santa Clara County in northern California, the county library has Playstation, XBox and Switch games for rent (you do have to take either a box or a slip of paper to the counter to get the physical game - they do not leave them ou
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by stevenwoo 5mo ago
I just checked and it’s $53 at Costco. Also free to rent without waitlist at local library.
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by stevenwoo 5mo ago
The whole retail theft epidemic (and the ensuing Union Pacific cargo theft ) was a corporate scam perpetrated by local news and law enforcement PR departments.

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