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Theoretically, it could have easily returned to Earth with the Space Shuttle, assuming another vehicle could rendezvous and transport it to LEO.

The Ascent State was 2.8 x 4.2 x 4.04m with a dry mass of 2150 kg.

The Shuttle's cargo bay was 18 x 4.6 x 4.6m (at least...can't find a depth weirdly) with a return-to-Earth payload capacity of 14,400 kg.

I'm an engineer, but have had a similar observation with my wife.

I am constantly tweaking and fixing things that bug me in our relatively new-to-us house. The feedback is usually along the lines of "I never realized how annoying that was, but this is better". She has a strange-to-me ability to just not register the little annoyances.

Her approach is probably a better way to go through life, but I'm just not wired that way.

Yeah, for all its faults, I'm going to be really sad when "old reddit" dies.

The main pages are garbage, but I'm in some truly great niche communities that are going to be hard to replace. And even if I do, they'll be spread over a dozen websites instead of organized in a single place.

I suppose cobbling together a replacement on discord is the future, which I've really tried to avoid.

I doubt it's feasible, but I've always been hoping for some payment service that would allow me to pay by the article across all news sites.

My problem with paywalls is I don't want to buy a full NYTimes subscription just to finish reading one article.

I want to pay $.10 to finish reading that one article, then $.10 to finish an article on USA today, then $.10 for something on Wall Street Journal.

Man I was furious when the Zappos settlement a few years ago was a 10% off a future purchase coupon. I don't see any possible way that was a punishment.

Never purchased anything with them since I saw that.

The biggest conflict I see is in many fields were you are dealing with dimensionless numbers, you are dealing with a lot of them once.

Having to specify "With a Reynolds number of 1300 U and a Prandtl number of 1 mU" is a lot more cumbersome than common convention of "With Re=1300 and Pr=1e-3".

It really reminds me of this exchange from Better Off Ted:

Veronica: There is no program to green the building.

Ted: Yeah there is. They made a commercial about it.

Veronica: I didn't say there wasn't a commercial about greening the building. I said there is no program to green the building.

Ted: So it's all a lie?

Veronica: They prefer to look at it as a dream.

Ted: But one they're not working towards?

Veronica: Are you working toward all your dreams, Ted? Then stop pointing fingers.

Yeah, it depends on what you're looking for. McMaster is great for high quality serious Machine Shop level stuff, not so much for household oddities.

Recently I needed some vinyl siding hooks[0], a really oddball size drawer slide, and replacement window springs. I ended up getting all of them on Amazon - even tracking back the manufacturers they seemed to exclusively sell on Amazon.

0) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083TPKJN1/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_awdb_im...

Same. Anything that plugs in, has batteries, or goes in my family's mouths is a no go for me now.

I'm pretty much down to a few books, video games, and obscure fasteners/hardware/tools (which annoyingly they're just about the only good source for).

If you saw Clarence Thomas's comments today, it seems a lot more likely:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/clarence-thom...

I'm still piecing it together, but what I've found so far:

In 2018 the Supreme Court declared the prohibition unconstitutional, and gave the legislature a deadline to pass a legalization bill - all the rules necessary for dispensing, growing, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_in_Mexico#2018_Suprem...

The deadline came and went several times, with a few extensions, and the ruling today was the court decriminalizing it on their own because the legislature couldn't get it done after 3 years and were asking for another extension (see below; they originally had 90 days to do it and were granted over 30 months worth of extensions).

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/mexicos-supreme-court-strike...

I haven't tracked down what prompted the 2018 ruling.

Edit: What I've found:

Mexico seems to have a system where 5 similar rulings on the same matter by the Supreme Court set binding judicial precedent for all other judges, and starts a timer whereby the legislature must resolve contradictions. 2 seemingly minor cases in 2018 gave them the 5 needed and started the process:

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/mexican-supreme-court-strike...

Seems like this is about as far as I'm going to get without learning Spanish.

Edit2: Probably the last update, but I found a bit about the "5 Ruling" thing:

> Later, if the Chambers or the Full Court set case law by five consecutive and uninterrupted decisions, the Supreme Court, once again, will inform the issuing authority of the norm in order to amend the un-constitutional part of the norm within ninety days.

> If the unconstitutionality problem persists and it is not solved, the Full Court, with the vote of eight of its members, will expel the norm from the Mexican legal system. If it is a criminal norm, it may have re-troactive effects. It must be noted that this procedu-re is not applicable to norms involving tax matters.

https://www.scjn.gob.mx/sites/default/files/pagina/documento...

I'm still shocked Craigslist has survived, virtually unchanged, since 1996.

It's may not be the cleanest interface, but it's a nice reminder of the more utilitarian days.

I've started having weird redirects on any v.reddit.com posts too - they redirect back to main page instead of taking me to the video.

I haven't fully tested what combinations don't work, but it feels like the beginning of the end of old.reddit.com.

Its slowly became harder from update to update over the last couple years of updates, and completely removed under normal circumstances in one of the last major updates.

AFAIK leaving the ethernet unplugged is the only way to do it now.

Yeah, it's crazy that even things like my fingerprints are out there somewhere.

I've sorta lost track of what's happening, but the credit monitoring thing they're offering has been really good, and seems to be extended indefinitely.

Bizarrely it's given me some peace of mind; no matter what other breaches I'm part of, it can't get worse.

No problem. It's a fun game that I'm looking forward to playing more, I'll just have to be a bit more deliberate with my mouse movements in the future.

Thanks for posting it!

It seems like there's a bug if you drag your mouse from the board area, off the board, then back on; it will automatically select the first unclaimed tile the cursor hits. I just progressed the game to a 14-36 loss by just waving my mouse randomly without a single click.

It seems to require some fairly fast movement, but I did accidentally trigger it a few times when I was trying to play for real.

I've tested on Firefox 89 and Chrome 91.

At least things things like Kitchenaid mixers are easily fixable if you still have it. Ours recently died after about 8 years, and it was a pretty quick turn around from model number > spec sheet > motor number > $80 replacement. The actual swap took less than 15 minutes with nothing more than a phillips screwdriver.

I did the same with our microwave when the door close sensors failed. The internet has made fixing things infinitely easier, as spec sheets and part suppliers are available to everyone.

Interesting, thanks. I hadn't considered the disconnect between the particles and the door.

Possessing only an undergrad level of physics, I've never understood why this is a remotely interesting question.

It seems to effectively be equivalent to "Imagine we have a refrigerator with a massless, frictionless motor that also doesn't need to be plugged in. Isn't it crazy that this refrigerator would violate the second law of thermodynamics?"

Man I love when stories like this go down. Not because I have any interest either way, but because it will silently be deleted from thousands of management "how to ideation" slide decks, to be replaced by something equally as bite-sized.

If only the "McDonald's Milkshake Job to Be Done" would be next.

https://www.concurate.com/how-jtbd-job-to-be-done-theory-hel...

I often prefer it in scripts for easier parsing later.

cat file.txt | somemonstrousoneliner

immediately tells me it's reading file.txt and doing something with the contents.

Burying the filename deeper in the string makes it harder to figure that out.

As far as I'm aware, rm -f !(text.txt) isn't enabled by default, at least in bash. You have to enable extended globbing by running 'shopt -s extglob' first (or add it to your profile).

Great feature though, it adds a ton of extra pattern matching. Not (!) is definitely my most used though.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/bash-extended-globbing

As I understand it they're aggressively marketing and lobbying to become the standard mapping system in underdeveloped countries without a strong addressing system.

Once they've achieved this (either informally or by getting enshrined in the legal system) they can start squeezing local businesses and the government for access to their service. It's pure rent seeking.

As part of this strategy, it's in their interest to create an unnecessarily unintuitive service so you can't go anywhere without using their app. The three words provide absolutely zero geographic information about the location.

They're about as close to a truly evil company as I can think of. Luckily they seem to have had minimal success so far, as the revenue numbers are awful.

Very cool. Images like this are fairly popular in woodworking for low poly pet art:

https://www.reddit.com/r/woodworking/comments/7vcgar/boyfrie...

(search "low poly" on /r/woodworking for a lot more)

DMesh is probably the most popular tool in this space that I've seen, but it's a very manual process (manually select vertexes and it fills the space with the average color).

http://dmesh.thedofl.com/

Yours definitely gives a different look - a bit more aliased - which is interesting. Would be fun to try this one out too.

Usually something like 48 hour read-only, and restricted to some BS viewer that doesn't allow printing.

Fairly trivial to bypass usually, worst case is just printscreening it.

Edit: Ah -

    View the article PDF and any associated supplements and figures for a period of 48 hours.
    Article can be synced in the ReadCube Cloud.
    Article can be viewed offline in ReadCube's desktop and mobile apps.
    Article can not be printed.
    Article can not be viewed or saved outside of ReadCube.

I'd be shocked if this wasn't true in just about every city proper (not suburbs).

For fun one time, some friends and I checked the modern basic lot requirements against our homes, and every single one of us failed some check.

Almost everyone had issues with setback, some were footprint to lotsize ratios, and one minimum lot size.

The city just found a massive plot of undeveloped land (hugedefunct corporate campus is being developed) and we're all kinda curious how different those homes are going to look, being the first major development of new homes in the city in quite some time.

My #6):

Not "letting go" to be a manager, which turns them into a micromanager. I got stuck under a brand new Engineering Manager in what is effectively his old role during the last reshuffle, and he still has to be intimately involved in every aspect of every project because it was his job. Every minor decision goes through him and I don't think I've attended a meeting in over a year where he wasn't part of it.

Between other issues with #3 and #4 it's a nightmare. I've been bringing up these issues for most of that time (it's gone from diplomatic to brutally honest over the last few months) and nothing changes.

Thankfully the job market is starting to rebound after tanking during early Covid.

Isn't that what caused the PS1 graphics "wobble"? I remember you could just stare at a wall, rotate the camera, and the textures would slightly jitter and move. It's really obvious in some the Metal Gear cutscenes, especially this conversation with Donald Anderson where the camera pans up from the floor (at 15m) or the sweep(15m31s):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLTqIXZ1jQQ#t=15m00s

I never had a PS1 but it always bugged me when playing on someone elses.

An easier starting point would simply be shifting meat subsidies to fruit and vegetables:

> According to recent studies, the U.S. government spends up to $38 billion each year to subsidize the meat and dairy industries, with less than one percent of that sum allocated to aiding the production of fruits and vegetables.

https://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/removing-meat-subsidy-our-cogn...

Broadly it would keep food prices stable and encourage healthier alternatives.

Edit: Sorry, I assumed this is a US conversation which may be incorrect. I understand UK is similar, but don't know about the rest of the world.