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djcapelis

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Certified heavy equipment operator at the intersection of technology and liberal arts.

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skinnylatte, to random
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first time flying without a passport. what a weird experience to be in a country large enough for that.

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte Because I like weird truths about this weird country:

  • Around 80% of US passengers on any given day and a much higher percentage of flights are domestic.
  • You can fly from New York to San Francisco, fly another 4-5 more hours west to Hawaii and then fly 7 hours further west from there (Guam) and still are fine without a passport. And that’s not even trying for longest stretch.
skinnylatte, to random
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I’m angry that I don’t get the same quality of restaurants and food trucks. I’m angry I don’t live in LA (yes cars.. but the food is exceptional)

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte I am sad to agree with you entirely wrt SF’s food scene but hope we can bring back a better food landscape after fixing our town’s affordability problem that has everything but one industry in a stranglehold for continued survival much less revival. IMO is has gotten worse over the last decade and so this is not a constant of SF but a part of the cycle. I tell myself SF goes in waves and so it can’t be like this forever. We may one day have a better food scene here.

djcapelis, to random
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Slightly after midnight, sitting outside in a tshirt perfectly content in this clear warm night after a clear temperate day in what the stereotypes would have me believe is a fog stricken part of the city.

Music plays gently into the night while the breeze grazes the trees. To the west, an ocean under cover of darkness with planes above bound for destinations across the globe. The nearby birds opt for closer destinations. While a train rumbles down below.

Ah yes—the San Francisco hellscape.

skinnylatte, to random
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At a large LA park:

  • kids! Playing softball
  • grandpas and grandmas! Walking around, talking to friends, playing Chinese opera loudly
  • people of many diverse backgrounds and ages

Just some simple things I miss about real cities. San Francisco feels like a very weird, hollowed out city on many fronts. I think if I see a bunch of kids at once in SF I’ll be like ‘wow’. Outside of certain SF neighborhoods (Chinatown, Mission, TL), the city just feels very homogenous and bland to me :/

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte I was actually pretty pleased at the level of diversity I’m seeing in the sf scavenger hunt type game going on right now. :) Was a totally pleasant time today!

skinnylatte, to random
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being from a country that's 31 miles at its widest, it'll never not surprise me that i can get in a vehicle and go many hours in one direction and still be in the same country

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte it takes about four hours just to leave the state :)

skinnylatte, to food
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Me: I never eat frozen food!

Also me: I love yoshinoya frozen gyudon!

I’ve now changed my mind to accept culturally relevant frozen food

https://www.sayweee.com/en/product/Yoshinoya-Cooked-Beef-with-Onions-in-Sauce--Frozen/2478?referral_id=4972487&lang=en&utm_source=copyLink

(Growing up in the tropics, we never had anything frozen. It’s more of a cultural bias from lack of exposure)

Yoshinoya is also what I spent all my pocket money on as a teenager, so it also makes me feel nostalgic even tho I can make better gyudon from scratch now

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte nice I love these for a quick meal

djcapelis, to random
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China just sent a rocket to collect samples from the moon and if we had a better world we would all see more news in various languages following the mission as a group of folks try and grab some moon rocks from the dark side yet once more and get away with it.

May they have the luck they’ll need to succeed.

djcapelis, to random
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The reason every single website takes seven years to load and chokes oddly if there's an error or delay in any of the hundreds of connections is because some engineers decided their jobs would be easier if everything was a microservice and then that decision slowly crept towards the actual frontend code until everyone else paid the price for it.

skinnylatte, to random
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I was thinking about how I used to go backpacking with my mum and she was always adventurous and fun. One time we went to Chiang Rai together, she hung out with so many hippies and then when I was going to France shortly after she was like ‘oh I got their email you should email them’ and then I ended up staying in France with random people my mum talked to.

It tickles me that not everyone’s mums are like that

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte my mother is similarly adventurous and curious and I’m so glad she instilled this in me. We haven’t managed to travel internationally together in decades but I hope she and I do so again one of these years. :)

skinnylatte, to random
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I feel Iike polyamory would be more attractive to me if it didn’t remind me so much of work.

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte what the ever loving terror of the deep kind of relationship writeup is this

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte yeah. I think everything that bothers me about polyamory is people write books about it when they really should not.

djcapelis, to random
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On 13 of the 31 days of March, the California power grid spent at least some time during those days below net zero emissions.

Every year this happens more often, for longer. We are going to decarbonize this fucker and ain’t nothing anyone can do to stop it.

djcapelis, to random
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Okay after that detour we’re back in El Paso where we’ve picked up my car and have resumed our roadtrip back from the eclipse! See ya next time Texas!

djcapelis, to random
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It seems almost everyone I know who made an attempt managed to get some eclipse today! Even in the difficult weather places! Nice work all!

mattblaze, (edited ) to random
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Quick photo of today's solar eclipse over DFW airport

djcapelis,
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@mattblaze Excellent news and great picture!

djcapelis, to random
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100 hour eclipse forecast:

Models are converging for:

  • San Antonio, South Texas through Torreón (high odds of cloud layers)
  • Montréal, Maine and points north (low odds of cloud layers)

Models remain diverged along the following parts of the path:

  • Mazatlán and Durango
  • Dallas through Upstate NY
  • Vermont and New Hampshire
djcapelis, to random
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“Republicans get angry at the calendar” was the only responsible way to report whatever the fuck they were talking about wrt TDoV this last weekend.

mekkaokereke, to random
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Oakland Airport wants to rename itself "San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport?" Seriously?

What in the "Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim yeah we're in Anaheim but nod-nod wink-wink think of us as LA but we're the red one not the blue one but we're better because we have Ohtani wait what do you mean he's a Dodger now whatever bro we're still claiming LA" is going on here?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W7IDRj5KUF4

Is this early April fools? Tell me this is a bit.

djcapelis,
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@scott @mekkaokereke To be a bit pedantic, it isn’t located in Millbrae. It is technically in San Mateo but the land is not part of another city and both the land and airport on top of it are directly owned and operated by the city and county of San Francisco, with an SF zip code and is functionally in many respects an exclave of SF.

The airport authority is a directly managed department of the SF government, police and fire services are part of their SF depts, & city laws apply to the airport.

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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As we hear reports that it will take 10 years (🤯) to replace the 1.6 mile Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore, remember that China built the Danyang-Kunshan bridge and Qingdao Jiaozhou Bay Bridge in 4 years each.

Danyang-Kunshan Bridge is 102 miles long, and 100 ft above the water.

Jiaozhou Bay Bridge is 16 miles and 623 ft tall, earthquake and typhoon proof, and can withstand a direct strike from a 300,000 ton cargo ship. That last point is unfortunately topical.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U7iQqogVmr8

djcapelis,
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@bouriquet @AdeptVeritatis @mekkaokereke @UncivilServant @McBeth @hazelweakly I didn’t work on the Shanghai maglev project but Chinese rail companies meet international electromagnetic standards all the time. I think your post here consists of a fact free string of words attempting to put your bias in the clothing of “just asking questions” “skepticism”.

—someone who worked on electromagnetic compatibility engineering analysis for rail systems including for Chinese designed and built rail cars

djcapelis, to random
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As the eclipse becomes closer the weather sites have started laying the eclipse track down on the maps for anyone looking at a forecast image within six hours of the eclipse time.

But the forecasts themselves are getting pretty grim for many favored locations.

The models are still in rapid flux though and won’t be worth planning around until <120h out.

djcapelis, to random
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Some of the first long range weather models for eclipse day are up! Cloud cover model is unlikely to be accurate this far out but general pressure zones maybe give a vibe. This is going to get a lot more useful as the eclipse approaches but I wouldn’t make any plans based on the current runs yet.

A long range cloud cover model for eclipse day showing clear areas in Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, the southern tip of Illinois, and the adjacent southwestern tip of Indiana, but cloud cover challenges most elsewhere along the area of totality.

djcapelis,
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Just to drive home the unreliability of the models at this point: CFS shows a completely different type of weather happening on the same day. The models are so far from converging that they agree on basically nothing.

skinnylatte, to random
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I met someone who I thought was an interesting dude and then he thought I was interested romantically in him.

He was like ‘you should have been clearer about what you’re looking for’ (we spoke only of hanging out)

I was like I’m gay and everyone knows that and

If you don’t assume hanging out with a dude is a date why the hell should I?

I’m so tired of being a young-looking cis female presenting person

I have so many normal straight men friends, but some of y’all are really not okay

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte they do it if they’re queer too. Bi poly men often assume like many bi folks that their experience of gender not always being that important to them is true of others, and that they’re not straight so that must make them higher up on the list for queer women. (Which they are for some apparently, but not like, all of us?)

Tl;dr: so slightly more house trained than the straight ones but only some and it’s a very relative thing.

skinnylatte, to animals
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When the restaurant is closed but you still think you deserve a treat

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte I really like how often you take pictures of cookie from her own height level. It’s the right way to go but so many people just don’t bother!

skinnylatte, to magASEAN
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Every time I get depressed at the prospect of home ownership in Bay Area I can just read the real estate news from home.

The land of S$1.1M (820K USD) public housing apartments (that you have to return in 93-99 years)

https://www.99.co/singapore/insider/s1-101m-toa-payoh-hdb-most-expensive-4-room-town/

I also haven't caught up on the deets but last I looked into buying there was a plan for 'the gays and single people should only get to buy small apts far from the city centre and let str8 people with kids have the nice apts' thing

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte it should be a lot more but enjoy this weirdly produced video of a track structure in the Central Valley to remind us all that while progress is slow it is not zero: https://youtu.be/1Fj4WAIln4A?si=Qhj603h4sXTSKv4t

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