funac

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by funac 11mo ago
that is a political distinction
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by funac 1y ago
> "Zoom into this image so that the width of each vertical line is 1 mm or the whole image is 3.2 inches wide." > > Is it possible to pick one system? Also, "3.2 inches" is difficult to measure. Rulers that meas
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by funac 2y ago
a buddy of mine who works on wordpress said that matt basically announced that without any prior discussion & that it has never come up since
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by funac 2y ago
it's animal agriculture - it's as far from natural, sustainable, or ethical as you can get.
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by funac 2y ago
> SpaceX has made it to MI complex status, and US gov will easily bail them out should worst come. immaterial: "the worst" here is elon destroying the engineering culture & with it their ability to keep improving on what th
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by funac 2y ago
tesla booked musk's much-discussed options package as a $2.5 billion expense. opportunity cost aside, it's silly to imply that a public company isn't going to act differently after it's stuck a significant fraction of it
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by funac 2y ago
the discrepancy between solar & atomic time is noisy & irregular; the past several decades have introduced comparatively less deviation & have required fewer leap seconds as a result see: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by funac 3y ago
I live in Philadelphia & have family & friends in DC, NYC, & eastern MA. Amtrak is my most frequent mode of travel for distances over 20km by an order of magnitude.
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by funac 3y ago
I'm not sure religious organizations (or, at least, the religious organizations which would realistically be involved) have a very good record of running institutions that involve significant power asymmetries
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by funac 3y ago
you can build very good hydrostatic vibration isolators in a home machine shop nowadays; commerical optical tables are /very/ steady
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by funac 3y ago
bad title: After the verdict, jurors told Reuters that the electric-vehicle maker clearly warned that the partially automated driving software was not a self-piloted system, and that driver distraction was to blame. the jury found t
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by funac 4y ago
agreed, but: in the ruling, the judge cites a separate law that encourages US courts to cooperate with foreign courts for the purposes of information finding: >Glassdoor is headquartered in this district, and under 28 U.S.C. § 1782(a), a
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by funac 4y ago
not in Illinois: here, after whoever arrived first goes, the right of way goes to whoever is to their right (or, next, going counter clockwise), regardless when they arrived (as long as they arrived before the first car went)