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swope

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Aerospace engineer working to make aircraft greener & safer.

He/him. 🇺🇲

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clive, to random
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How to make Google more usable with this One Weird Trick

By @ernie: https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/

swope,
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@clive @ernie

Oh my, it works!

swope, to random
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@Enora

Does Shipyard have any hydrofoiling sailboats?

nyrath, to random
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From https://x.com/beanhowitzer at the hell-site.

Little thing says it likes Space War.
Audience thinks it means cheesy fake-ass space-opera space-war crap.
What time really means is hard-science-fiction scientifically-accurate space war.

https://x.com/beanhowitzer/status/1791616943230697624

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@nyrath

nyrath, to random
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Spaceplanes: why we need them, why they have failed, and how they can succeed

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4791/1

swope,
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@60sRefugee @nyrath

C_Miller, to martialartsmemes
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Apparently it kicked off between Fury and Usyk at their weigh-in.

Whenever I see pictures of boxers squaring up to each other, it always looks to me like they're getting married and staring intensely and lovingly into each other's eyes.

Am I an overly pacifist dove; or do others see this as well?

swope,
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@C_Miller

I'm curious what a generative AI would do if you asked to uncrop this photo.

TMEubanks, to random
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International Atomic Energy Agency head calls for a roadmap for nuclear energy at sea

https://splash247.com/international-atomic-energy-agency-head-calls-for-a-roadmap-for-nuclear-energy-at-sea/

swope,
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@TMEubanks

Nuclear Energy Maritime Organization (NEMO)... Hmm.

Wasn't Captain Nemo the character going around sinking imperialist ships because colonialism is evil?

Seems ominous.

capntransit, to random
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We currently have a system where we rely on hundreds of millions of individual drivers. If any one of them has a genuine medical episode, let alone some lapse of attention or judgment explained away as a "medical episode" by the cops, it is very easy for it to kill or seriously injure that person and others.

We used to have a system where most people walked or were passengers and the really dangerous vehicles were guided by rails, but apparently this is progress.

https://www.amny.com/police-fire/one-dead-in-six-car-pileup-on-gowanus-expressway/

swope,
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@capntransit

It's even worse because even when we have predictive factors we usually don't restrict high risk people from continuing to drive.

We invest so much into safety in other domains (aviation is the one I'm most experienced with), but somehow drivers get a pass to be much more risky to the people around them. I don't understand why.

swope,
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@capntransit

I can see that reasoning. It's not just the economy, but the whole structure of our zoning and transportation. Taking someone's license is tantamount to house arrest in a lot of suburbs and cities.

nyrath, to random
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And they told us to tell you hello

https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/manamplifier.php#curiosity

swope,
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@nyrath

I think this is a poem.

nyrath, to random
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Derek Lowe's "Things I Will Not Work With", a series about insanely dangerous chemical compounds.

In this episode, The Higher States of Bromine.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/higher-states-bromine

swope,
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@Steveg58 @nyrath

I recently saw FOOF as a gaming handle and I got excited but the player had no idea about the chemistry.

foone, to random
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Select every square that contains a basilisk:

swope,
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@foone

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capntransit, to random
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RT @thecharlier State DOTs: "Our fuel tax revenue is in danger. What shall we do?"
Every Analyst Ever: "You must replace fuel taxes with mileage fees; you should do it soon."
State DOTs: "But that will be controversial."
EAE: "Yes."
State DOTs: "Let's study it some more."

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/05/09/michigan-road-funding-road-usage-charge-mileage-based-revenue/73630456007/

swope,
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@capntransit @thecharlier

If we make commercial trucking pay for the wear and tear they put on highways, won't we push freight onto relatively efficient trains?

Too bad our cargo train system is fubar.

swope,
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@capntransit

Sometimes I wonder if urban rails like trams or subways could be used for cargo deliveries during off-peak times.

Are there any cities doing that already?

swope,
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@capntransit

CarGoTram is such a Germans-speaking-English pun. 😆

nyrath, to random
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Well, my smartphone just screamed at me. It informed me that at 5:00 EST the army Corp of engineers will be using explosive cutting charges to slice up the part of the collapsed Francis Key Bridge which is currently draped over the cargo ship.

They said anybody within 2,000 feet should either wear hearing protection or hide inside a house.

I will comply...

swope,
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@nyrath are the crew still onboard the ship?

swope,
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@nyrath @jstevenyork

2000 yards ≈ 1.8 km (warning)
1.4 miles ≈ 2.3 km (Winchell's house)

swope,
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@nyrath @jstevenyork

... I mean, unless we're talking nautical miles because a ship is involved.

cstross, to random
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  • Looks out window at: three bus stops, 2-5 pubs, a row of restaurants, and a busy shopping street at ground level *

Reader, those things were all there before I moved here. They're a big chunk of the reason WHY I moved here. 17 years ago …

swope,
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@cstross

Weird that places that have this in USA tend to be very expensive. Like demand is sky high and supply is extremely limited.

nyrath, to random
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https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-contractor-warns-boeing-valves

swope,
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@nyrath

I've been on 4 projects with Boeing (not as their employee), and in each case there were cultural things or people in leadership that I was uncomfortable with. The good people all seemed to leave Boeing as soon as they could.

I avoid working with Boeing now.

danirabbit, to random
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Fascinating piece of US culture: if you have an American flag sticker, t-shirt, hat, etc you are almost certainly a huge asshole. And there are even special variations of the flag (eg thin blue line) to let people know specifically what kind of asshole you are

swope,
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@danirabbit

I'm trying not to be an asshole, but I slip up sometimes.

lorenschmidt, to random
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i got the new placeholder a* road builder working and integrated into the world generator. i plan to return to the ant trail inspired approach, but i can do integration work with this just fine.

swope,
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@isaackuo @lorenschmidt

Would slime mold simulation help here?

swope, to random
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Cookies'n'cream ice cream is technically against the Oreo Code because you can't twist or scrape.

But the First Amendment lets you be as sacrilegious as you want.

danirabbit, to random
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Walked one block to the store real quick and got cat called twice. NPC-ass behavior

swope,
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@danirabbit

Sorry that happened but I'm jealous you can walk to a store.

danirabbit, to random
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Okay but how exactly are you supposed to use cup handles

swope,
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@danirabbit

<sips tea> ☕

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