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2026-05-07 16:59:16 GMT

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At 50km altitude on Venus the temperature and pressure is similar to Earth

2026-01-17 18:03:47 GMT

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Sure, they could have been instructed to do that. There's no way to know and I think we agree that guessing is not likely to work despite how fun it is. Eventually I'll stop writing out the intrusive thoughts on a public forum

2026-01-17 17:51:55 GMT

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There's no way they made any proactive decisions after choosing to arrive on scene dressed for civil war

2026-01-10 18:44:56 GMT

RE: https://sfba.social/@cvvhrn/115872268004024136
This makes me want to design thousand-gallon cistern kits that cost a hundred dollars in materials
#note1hmm…cwg6

2026-01-10 18:38:05 GMT

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Have either of you seen people use quiet wood chippers and is there a market for those? A high torque low speed cutter could do it slowly but I've never seen that for sale

2026-01-09 14:42:45 GMT

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Ending live interviews for known fascists makes sense

2026-01-08 17:39:36 GMT

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Yes, I expect there are many institutions that have adopted that marketing copy.
I do disagree. Banks need presence on decentralized social media just like all companies so. Accountability is important and public social media is a tool we have to use especially while we live in an almost lawless federal jurisdiction.
Also, institutions should agree that decentralized social media should be encouraged to grow because it strengthens their customers and their profits by extension.
And they don't need traction. They need presence. Not everything a company does is directly profitable

2026-01-08 17:31:52 GMT

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Sorry I guessed. Do you want me to delete all these posts?

2026-01-08 17:27:31 GMT

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Ah, yes, in that case they wouldn't use the logo because they're not interested in providing access to people on decentralized social media. They're purposefully using the wrong icons and purposefully not maintaining a presence on mastodon and generally when people are making huge mistakes they make other mistakes.

2026-01-08 15:57:14 GMT

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Spotify

2025-12-31 17:14:58 GMT

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The bw fence fading into the fog in a grass field is great thanks for sharing

2025-12-06 18:27:52 GMT

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Why would you publish without reference to relevant context? Is it too hard? We can bring technologies to market faster if the public is well informed but that won't happen if news is disconnected from history.
I'm not saying Chinese molten salt reactors need credit for their work I'm saying the field is more than this one event you mentioned.
What is your process for including relevant context in your reporting? Just whatever comes to mind?

2025-12-06 18:08:54 GMT

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Keep telling yourself that, I guess
And regarding my other questions?
https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/673/958/493/804/093/original/4af39b1e931d7339.png

2025-12-06 17:38:47 GMT

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Your news was full of "firsts"
If you do that you ought to include the relevant timeline context
Please help improve the landscape of social media news
We are on an impactful path of getting to better fission reactors but obscuring the path could make people think they're interested in something that happened recently that actually happened a decade ago.
Now that you're probably fuming and want me to fill in the gaps, please also recognize that while I noticed a gap that doesn't mean I know all the other gaps. You reported on the Chinese reactor I mentioned? Well, what else did you report on that you should have mentioned?

2025-12-06 17:08:17 GMT

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/china-completes-monumental-task-using-110056982.html
Here's some context you left out. China has made a large scale molten salt reactor.

2025-09-26 14:38:00 GMT

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I suppose that when they're losing the war it makes sense to declare that they're are at war with everyone so that when they finally stop flopping around they can claim they lost to the planet and not ukraine

2025-09-23 15:46:34 GMT

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That's what I'm expecting. Three more years of this can go in any direction
Everyone ought to ask their local law enforcement if they will protect their residents from masked kidnappers and that law enforcement action will probably need loud and real backup from the state

2025-09-17 22:13:57 GMT

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Bitwarden

2025-09-12 15:03:19 GMT

Utah and Idaho seem pretty similar

2025-09-07 16:43:51 GMT

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You and I have the same sense about this. Allergies are not well understood. Honestly I don't know if we'll make big social impact with allergies or mental health first because it's that hard of a problem

2025-08-14 18:18:13 GMT

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Repeatable isn't the only way to describe better, more scientific economics. Studies that write about what they expected before getting the data, what data they got after making a well understood change to the system, making predictions about the outcomes of future experiments, and I'm sure there are more

2025-08-14 17:48:09 GMT

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I was just thinking about this recently. Economics doesn't seem like science to me and the mix of tools they use and improve, if I had to choose one, includes things from politics, history or anthropology, and from engineering, and math.
There must be a best example of a prospective experiment and its data but those studies seem few and far between

2025-08-12 15:12:25 GMT

Big balls got beaten
So DC became a warzone

2025-07-23 23:05:40 GMT

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There are also cell hotspot data only plans being offered by nonprofits already so that could just ship with the computer for some. I want to help cell internet rollout in rural areas but not in a structured way yet so I'm just hoping internet gets to everyone soon. With Thunderbird and an accessible reset setup people could pop into town to pick up the email and the real packages

2025-07-23 21:40:42 GMT

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Right, the visible orgs get too many requests and can't set up long term stuff with all of them.
With demonstrated capacity the school would be more than happy to pay you for computers

2025-07-23 21:34:24 GMT

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Companies retire fleets of computers and they want assurances that data is securely destroyed and value write-off and free pickup. A fiscal sponsoring organization might let you pick up on their behalf. I don't know how to find the fleet-retiring orgs but flyers asking for their contact and explaining what's going on could be wheat pasted around town

2025-07-23 21:25:51 GMT

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I probably still know a guy with stacks of laptops they got for free, but I left that nonprofit with the entire board all at once. They give them to schools and have particular software requirements but if emulation or whatever works for locked-in software then that could work. Support after delivery was not tenable but your method might work

2025-07-09 16:07:56 GMT

If basic income programs remove the historic disparities in outcomes by targeting the groups most affected-- that is a tide that will lift all boats
Redistribute the wealth to them by just giving it to them. They will build economies that I will benefit from.

2025-06-16 17:15:06 GMT

I think the hoa covered the irrigation box in sand so they can tell if I tampered with it

2025-04-02 15:15:00 GMT

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Here are some more for April 5
Pleasant Hill (12 – 1:30pm, sign up to get location)
Hercules (11am – 1pm, San Pablo Avenue & Sycamore)
Orinda (12 – 2pm, 229 Brookwood Rd)
El Sobrante (1 – 2pm, San Pablo Dam Road & Appian Way)
El Cerrito & Albany (12 – 1pm, caravan from El Cerrito through Albany to the Berkeley protest)
Berkeley (1-3pm, 2151 MLK Jr Dr)
Oakland (1-2:30pm, Frank Ogawa Plaza)
Alameda
Fremont (11:30am-1pm, Mowry Ave & Paseo Padre and 12:30 – 2pm, Walnut Ave & Paseo Padre)
San Ramon (12 – 1:30pm , City Hall)
Walnut Creek (12 – 1:30pm, 1275 Broadway Plaza)
Livermore

2025-04-01 18:34:08 GMT

Senator Cory Booker for potus

2025-03-28 16:08:22 GMT

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the left fall apart when the right show ineptitude because winning seems inevitable
i think we can counteract this with good faith push-back to the left's leaders especially when the right take power
we need people to continue saying how to do better while referencing the good faith efforts we've made in the past

2025-03-04 17:56:20 GMT

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The Purpleair map doesn't work on librewolf on Windows 11

2025-02-08 17:02:06 GMT

the mandate to drop overhead to 15% effectively wrecks research at universities everywhere in the country. they'll choose to not renew the contract workers, which is overwhelmingly adjunct instructors, lab support staff, and student workers.
those are all the people that do the work
https://mstdn.social/@lawprofblawg/113969331355752507

2025-01-28 16:33:31 GMT

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Just all of it, lies. All lies

2025-01-03 18:43:30 GMT

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oh for sure. check craigslist

2025-01-03 18:41:01 GMT

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not available cheaply, at least. i assume there are always some for sale for the right price
i have no problem not buying or using eggs. agarose is a good replacement, i hear

2025-01-03 18:12:10 GMT

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there were no eggs for sale at my restaurant supply store but they had cartons of homogenized egg. the staff said they haven't received eggs in weeks. i don't expect to find them on shelves for months more at least

2025-01-01 01:37:21 GMT

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a compromise old as time

2024-12-31 17:02:05 GMT

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"I just like the taste of road runoff, and I'm supporting the local economy"

2024-12-06 15:30:35 GMT

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Fascists everywhere agree their enemies should spend more time talking to them while they destroy the planet

2024-12-05 19:28:56 GMT

Evacuation order for West Berkeley
https://local.nixle.com/alert/11314267/?sub_id=0
#earthquake #tsunami

2024-11-25 20:40:48 GMT

i feel like we could sign everyone up for 9 pounds of instant ramen delivered to their door every month. which politician is working on that?

2024-11-16 19:57:50 GMT

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Any resourced organization could instantly onboard thousands, create training on an ongoing basis, moderate community, and change the way the internet allows for social networks.
But most don't. The ones that do are who I would talk to about community moderation. Those who think about community moderation ought to be paid to do so for these organizations. There should be ten thousand such positions in the americas and teams should include key degreed academics, writers, teachers, readers, techs

2024-11-16 19:43:07 GMT

Mastodon is an easy scapegoat for enterprise and community alike. It's just hard enough to make most fail but more importantly it represents something that cannot be controlled through acquisition.
The capital-rich enterprise want us to believe this project cannot succeed because it's decentralized.
Quite the contrary: this project can _only_ succeed because it is decentralized.

2024-11-13 18:04:01 GMT

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nice to meet you Julio I'm David

2024-11-13 18:02:56 GMT

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i hope to inspire your future contributions

2024-11-13 17:50:40 GMT

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i respect and enjoy your questions and commentary. i do not wish to win but speak to you about physics and related things.
thank you for engaging with this account.

2024-11-13 17:40:07 GMT

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no one wants to pay moderators to maintain a community sorry was that a rhetoric question

2024-11-13 17:28:27 GMT

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they wouldn't be able to pay everyone to just work on the moonshot compound bow manufacturing and development program.
and if cheaper weapons can disable more expensive weapons the more expensive ones aren't better.

2024-11-13 17:26:45 GMT

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are you worried more people will be harmed because of bow engineering out in the public view?

2024-11-13 17:24:20 GMT

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i doubt they'd get behind the engineering process required for manufacturing the metal bars of these compound bows, cams, and braided wire.
roman generals would look at the process and decide it's not worth fifty longbows because of cost.

2024-11-13 17:14:32 GMT

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during the conclusions chapter in this youtube video they speak of maximizing impact for the archer with new compound bow design. specifically, they speak of fitting the effective arrow throwing ability of a bow with 170-lb draw weight but with a force letoff at the end of the draw to improve aiming by lowering the holding force.
the throwing power depends on the arrow weight, but for a given arrow, the force vs relaxation of a bow can be tuned with the shape of the cams on a compound bow.

2024-11-13 17:04:55 GMT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFAzmu505pM
this archer tries to beat medieval plate armor with a heavy arrow, armor piercing tip, and a record breaking draw weight on a modern compound bow. 170 ft/s 110 J

2024-11-11 02:00:35 GMT

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we are building a baseball charity, but charities are still companies. The stakes are low for a while longer.

2024-11-11 01:46:01 GMT

I'm so lucky to be able to talk to people at a park while playing baseball. Things like how to set up a double entry bookkeeping system and how to get branded uniforms. Six fifty for a shirt and pants that we'd have to put the logo on

2024-11-10 16:48:30 GMT

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but they don't have access to those training environments. or they think they don't. or those training environments cost money and take time to initialize and so the best they can do is plan for a future when the training environment they want becomes available.

2024-11-10 16:45:10 GMT

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the media are indeed making money by racing to the bottom
but i think the people that resort to exploitative media are doing so because they're frustrated in their personal pursuits. the education i'm proposing isn't just political education.
if the angry, jaded, cynical, traumatized blue or white collar worker living in a bad situation had the training they wanted. if they believed they could improve their situation through effective and intentional training environments... if

2024-11-10 15:39:10 GMT

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I don't propose the solution where I vote for them. I propose improving education.

2024-11-10 15:19:04 GMT

Listening to these trump voters on the radio get absolutely everything wrong about their own life and how government works

2024-11-09 18:01:15 GMT

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we're replacing our toaster oven with an air fryer setting for one with a slot design from the fifties
Air friers are basically convection ovens and I'm choosing to avoid that style of cooking because it requires slicing the potatoes. I want to minimize the time spent making food, so cutting before baking is out. I could be wrong but I need to try it to see if the process on the whole is better.

2024-11-09 17:06:18 GMT

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even with the steam?

2024-11-09 16:48:13 GMT

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I don't think I need to coat them in oil if it's a steam oven

2024-11-09 16:47:24 GMT

My next potato bake will include a tray of boiling water in the oven with the potatoes and I think I'll try 350 f for an hour or maybe 1.5

2024-11-09 01:33:16 GMT

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the work done by this compressed air during adiabatic expansion is (p2V2 - p1V1) / ( 1 - gamma )
i deleted a previous solution and updated my notes linked in bio
the new volume after expansion is V2 = V1 ( p1/p2 ) ^ (1/gamma) and gamma for air is 1.4 until very high temperatures so V2 = 8 gallons * 3.8 L/g ( 90/14.7 ) ^ (1/1.4) = 111 L
pV compressed is 90 psi * 6.9 kPa/psi * 8 gallons * 3.8 L/g * 0.001 m^3/L = 19 kJ
pV uncompressed is 14.7 psi * 6.9 kPa/psi * 111 L * 0.001 m^3/L = 11 kJ

2024-11-08 18:38:36 GMT

what's an estimate for a maximum cooling efficiency using this particular air compressor?
https://www.californiaairtools.com/contractor-grade-ultra-quiet-series-of-air-compressors/1-0-hp-air-compressors/cat-8010/

2024-11-03 18:24:16 GMT

i heard on kqed this morning that it can take a half hour for a coworker to recover from interactions with another

2024-10-17 14:34:40 GMT

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I love the green orange and blue. Excellent. Thanks for sharing

2024-09-27 17:13:04 GMT

I made sausage mac'n'cheese the other day by simmering the pasta in milk on low heat while stirring. I fried the sausage in a separate pan with bell pepper at the same time

2024-09-20 15:21:47 GMT

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Just that easy if the group working on such projects together all have the same research values, reliable and sufficient funding, and good leadership. And the luck to have contributed the right useful thing needed later for a larger breakthrough made in an unrelated research community.

2024-09-20 15:12:06 GMT

"draw it out" is common advice for solving physics problems, but it extends usefully to novel scientific exploration.
Draw the figure that will win you the nobel prize. Imagine the data collection went to plan and draw what you want to be. Label the axes. Write the methods section that would have produced that data. Collect the methods references into an introduction section. Come up with a title for the project. Set up and calibrate an actual experimental setup. Collect the actual data.

2024-09-16 19:39:41 GMT

i presume from my experience that the number of high school seniors that took ap physics and ap calculus is very large

2024-09-12 20:40:48 GMT

There's no reason to assemble things into sandwiches. Just put the stuff on a plate that's fine with me

2024-08-15 16:06:23 GMT

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and I also think it would be dumb to arrest us for failing to improve the situation.
But we can change laws. We do have the power to change society.

2024-08-15 16:03:00 GMT

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A better society wouldn't have driven him thusly. We all have some blame because we continue to choose to not improve.

2024-08-10 19:48:13 GMT

i'm having a great time collecting free algebra books

2024-08-08 20:08:15 GMT

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same

2024-07-26 04:05:25 GMT

the 50 ah 12 v iron phosphate battery arrived for the low cost of ninety dollars
the charger was twenty five
the 12 to 19 v converter was fifteen
the dc dc converter with usb a and c pd ports was ten
the car outlet socket was five and i have a loose barrel jack to use
that's a 500 watthour battery pack system for $145
i need to do some soldering, but it'll run a 12450h mini pc with portable monitor at full tilt for two work days and any car electronic will plug in directly to the battery

2024-07-09 17:29:52 GMT

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https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mitch_Hedberg
I walked into Target, but I missed. I think the entrance to Target should have people splattered all around. And, when I finally get in, the guy says "Can I help you?" "Just practicing."

2024-07-09 17:27:54 GMT

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the entrance to target should have people splattered around

2024-07-06 17:51:31 GMT

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that's a band name, douglas

2024-07-06 17:45:00 GMT

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my dad fixes electronics like that. i still don't have the patience for it

2024-07-06 17:42:58 GMT

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bring back kilocycles

2024-07-06 17:42:00 GMT

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that's more like it more of that

2024-07-06 17:39:01 GMT

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yes and bigger ones