interestica

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by interestica 10mo ago
> Talking about “thousands of tonnes” of nuclear waste is comically misleading when you realise how tiny the volume is. You’re mixing mass and volume here. From what I can tell, their numbers were essentially right. Are you saying we don
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by interestica 10mo ago
We have all lost functionality of a device we paid for after an update. You can’t fault a user for avoiding it. It’s the root that should be addressed.
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by interestica 10mo ago
This was genuinely innovative and intriguing. Did the numbers just not work out for manufacturing or some other thing get in the way?
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by interestica 10mo ago
Having representation based on land/physical space will increasingly be seen as absurd. Maybe we will have “youth reps” in the future. Or reps based on other organizing group (hunters? Musicians?). The problem is…taxonomical? People wo
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by interestica 11mo ago
Share yours! I use this as a bookmarklet to grab the front page of the new york times (print edition). (You can also go back to any date up to like 2011) I think they go out at like 4 am. So, day-of, note that it will fail if you're in
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by interestica 1y ago
I was incorrect here. The letters were all from december 61 to jan 62.
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by interestica 1y ago
You are absolutely right! The couple from 62 are correct.
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by interestica 1y ago
They had a long history of correspondence. The preceding letter is archived and you can probably get a copy. ( https://bracers.mcmaster.ca/79128 ) > Jan 6/1962 Re nuclear disarmament and world government. BR is not in
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by interestica 1y ago
If you’re really interested in his works and correspondence, McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario holds the Bertrand Russell archives. Some stuff is online. Here’s a curated collection of some really interesting letters sent to him: ht
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by interestica 1y ago
This is like cable with extra steps ;) I think we are already seeing some packaged stream services and we will probably see more. It’s a lot of overhead to maintain a separate service to do the exact same thing (with only a different librar
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by interestica 1y ago
I think we have it backwards by attaching it to the life/death of the creator (or the works’ creation). People should be alive to experience the works they consumed in new and open ways. Creation doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It buil
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by interestica 1y ago
In a weird quirk that must be a bug, you can watch the first season of the Good Place in French in the USA but not in Canada.
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by interestica 1y ago
I mean this is already kind of the case with general search (eg google) as it is now.
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by interestica 1y ago
> "Truly", we understand each other better and communicate faster ~ when we out speech draws from a a collection of words ~, idioms, and grammatical constructions familiar to the listener. This linguistic inventory is not natur
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by interestica 1y ago
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin
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by interestica 1y ago
This was the (corp) argument in Canada for allowing companies to expire gift cards. They no longer expire.
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by interestica 1y ago
real inanity
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by interestica 1y ago
I think that wordpress probably had a big impact on PHP's success. It's on 40%+ of sites. It was set up in a way for people to make modifications to actual code (or at least see). Hosting providers had to make sure PHP was preinst
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A Look at the Lasting Supersuit Swimming Records(swimmingworldmagazine.com)
2 points by interestica 1y ago|0 comments
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by interestica 1y ago
Interesting! As a continued hypothetical, it's interesting that the "No Smoking" permanently-lit sign is next to the seatbelt one. It's a weird contradiction: by being an electronic illuminated sign in the most prominent
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by interestica 1y ago
> Elon is trying to reinvent public transportation If done well, this should fix the most critical gap in public transit. You can move massive amounts of people via trains and buses -- but that doesn't get them from transit to home
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by interestica 1y ago
ConfessionGPT?
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by interestica 1y ago
I saw an example recently of a sort of “AI Codec” : A person has to send a message to a respected figure of authority. They organize their thoughts and requests into a clear and concise bulleted list with explanations. But, that seemed heav
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by interestica 1y ago
Sounds like a (fusion) menu item. https://www.seriouseats.com/the-food-lab-how-to-make-the-bes...
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by interestica 1y ago
Fluoridated water? Nah. GLP water.
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by interestica 1y ago
Are we not in agreement? MCAS overrode the inputs and the thumb switches could override MCAS?
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by interestica 1y ago
> at which point the aircraft will have "landed" one way or another. Ah Also we need more rocket thrust takeoff airplanes.
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by interestica 1y ago
https://ad.easa.europa.eu/blob/NM-18-33.pdf/SIB_NM-18-33_1 > Recommendations The FAA recommends that all owners and operators of the affected airplanes incorporate the following actions at the earliest opportun
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by interestica 1y ago
It was a series of events and failures rather than simply “pilot calculated incorrect”. And it was a bit more nuanced than metric/imperial conversion. Via wiki (but accident section is more detailed): “ The accident was caused by a ser
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by interestica 1y ago
That’s absolutely applicable here. It means that an engine cutoff shouldn’t be allowed at all during certain parts of flight. It’s not crazy to think that a design fix would be to prevent those engagements during certain parts of takeoff (

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