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This sort of thing used to annoy me in my youth. But there is a lot of good stuff in there. These are directions on how YOU should live your life, so strike out as appropriate. SQLite is great and if pondering these rules helped, only a fool would avoid pondering them out of spite.

This sounds very similar to how various car manufacturers rigged their products to be benchmark aware. It did NOT turn out well for their shareholders.

You seem to be getting a lot of downvotes for pointing out something fundamentally true about the purpose of TikTok.

We had a whole series of cars robbed on my street last week 100% of them were the "proximity keyfob" types. I would be more excited about the shift to electric if it was just the motors and not the endless stream of marginally helpful but insecure and expensive "features" you are forced to buy on new cars now. I mean if manual window winders are cheaper and use less resources, I want those. It's impossible to get them on front doors now.

I read it as three quarters of a Daft Punk reference (only).

There is no shortage of compression tools that are better in this or that. At the very least this is a fun engineering exercise, but there is always a massive inertia propblem regarding install base with compression, esp. for data-at-rest. gzip is still used by default in so many contexts, and that's not such a bad thing IMHO.

I'm not sure exactly how you're meaning this, but I think there is widespread ignorance around how people whom are poor are simply unable to improve their lot. It's often not about making the right choices and more there not being any choices.

Oh, they knew. They were just being casually traitorous.

(Or editorializing to add an accented-e. I honestly thought I was about to read a story about resuming some process after it was interrupted!)

The only way this is in any way interesting is as a 1950s style death ray, and even then, it's only enough to warm porridge at that distance. A close-quarters vehicle mounted version at 100m might be a different proposition.

Testify! His "elevator music" explanation tangents alone are worth the price of admission. The Apollo ranging stuff was fascinating.

Worth noting that one of the authors is this guy https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/958916

"The largest nonprofit health system in Texas has secured a temporary restraining order against cardiologist Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, a COVID-19 vaccine skeptic [...]"

I'm sorry to hear about your mother.

/verytrivial existentially sighs ....

I watched that video when it first came out and saw what looked like sun glare in the middle of image and ignored it and kept looking for what was meant to be the UFO. It was even rotating like you see those FLIR videos that keep up-up during fly-overs. I was like -- "That's it? Seriously? Come on!" The rotation looks like ansiotropic surface features on the lense where someone has wiped (perhaps a bit too hard) the surface and left streaks. (Or it's reflections between elements, I don't know.) It's hard to know if the lense is rotating, or the camera itself -- you only see the nett result on the monitor after all the transformations are done.

Exact same thing with the more recent super fast UFOs that are so totally birds locked while the camera orbits against a deep-zoom background. I wonder how many other people have seen these exact features dozens of times, tried to point it out, but it just gets lost in the endless garbage factory that is media these days.

They got one free change with the dropped "The". Facebook is final.

You're right and now I realize I must look rather silly. Thankfully there's a timeline where I saved my $1.99.

This is my main data backup app. I sleep soundly knowing that after a total HDD crash my data is still safe and sound on a different timeline.

Anyone who finds this interesting is probably already watching the YouTube channel 'Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't' but on the rare chance someone isn't:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MncyGuQc_gc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4yHbM9w4BI

Probably in my top-three de-stressing channels.

Warning: NSFW language, rambling, but deeply enthusiastic and knowledgable host.

derive.exe was like a super power in highschool.

In the context of nutrition the word calories always means dietary calories, so the kilo- prefix is redundant unless discussing physics, or commenting on HN...Ooooh, ok.

Yeah, I've kept a close but unfortunately deeply skeptical eye on that technology. Seems that all the tolerances are razor thin and all the failure modes catastrophic. Like, water vapour in the pre-cooler tubes? This is waaay out there in engineering terms IMHO.

Reading the recent heat exchanger news [1] the are very careful to talk about Mach 5 airflow temperatures, not velocity. Surely it the product of these two that produce the mind-boggling heat flux that the pre-cooler is tasked with cooling. It feels like they're going to keep carving out smaller and smaller targets until they run out of money.

[1] https://reactionengines.co.uk/reaction-engines-test-programm...

Jakob is clearly the bottleneck here. Surely GPT3 or something could write these mundane "messages" for him? So inefficient. With a bit of luck and some elbow grease he could sell this as a service. To his friends. Then they'd never have to think about each other ever again.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Can you explain what you are comparing?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrust-specific_fuel_consump...

My understanding is that rockets are good at getting a small mass to move really quickly. They will never win moving a lot of mass within the atmosphere. The fuel costs are radically different.

A 747 can lift and land ~80% of Starship's design cargo but uses something like 7 times less fuel.

> Were people uglier back then?

I think in the same way then as now, media is selective in amplifying certain ideas of human asthetics. There are millions of similarly poor, hard-working people now who don't spend a lot of time tweaking their image. These people are not in your Insta feed either.

(But I think this specific set of photographs sought out a more unbiased view of whomever was working in these areas, and I can see why people were and are furious about the casual destruction of these records!)

Also from TFA: "If it was sequenced in early 2020, it may have been contaminated from experiments carried out by researchers trying to learn more about the emerging virus."

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I have zero "smart" device is my life exactly because the FURY that would be caused by being treated like this would far outweigh the drip-feeding of trivialities the devices would otherwise dish up each day.

I don't get into these sorts of argument with my pen or chair, for example. Why should I tolerate it from my TV?

English also has a preference to producing lists with vowel sounds generated with the tongue posture at the back of the mouth first, followed by those made towards the front. "lat" comes first with this unwritten rule.

"fi fy fo fum" "friend or foe?" etc

"Almost" is doing a lot of work here.