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A data center is a near-zero contribution to ocean warming.

This is basically how an optical CMM (OMM) works. There are tricks to determining and calibrating out alignment issues and determining snapshot viability, and you're touching on bo…

"courts have long given voucher programs a pass, ruling that they don’t violate the constitutionally mandated separation of church and state because a publicly funded voucher techn…

I'm regularly involved in the car community, and this is far more common than is often thought. I've met dozens of people who have illegally modified their diesels, and that's in C…

"What if no one likes your idea? If an overwhelming amount of feedback you receive is negative, perhaps rethink the idea." Truly groundbreaking advice

Always interesting how when commodities increase in price, it's a price increase, but when labor increases in price, it's a shortage.

This is most fun if you're not allowed to say the target phrase. Otherwise, I could just say "Is numbnuts a word?" and of course the language model will say numbnuts in the reply.

Can we roll it out to Google Home as well? The idea of having a home voice assistant is great but in practice it falls short in so many ways. "Hey Google, please turn the tv on for…

"If you read past accounts of how Wayne drives a car you hear about the usual tactics, like being super-light on the throttle, keeping the vehicle’s speed down, and trying to time …

You might be surprised at the number of vehicles over $100k. Performance and luxury trucks bump into that category. Genesis and Land Rover have vehicles easily in that range. Just …

Question: would this have been a devastating tsunami if it weren't confined inside a remote fjord?

"In June, Cox Automotive noted that the Cybertruck was the best-selling vehicle in the United States priced over $100,000." That's very surprising. Almost more so than the headline…

Oh wow, I'm really glad your side project has given people so much value over these years! Deep inside, I feel like stuff like this is what the Internet was really for.

What a beautiful state ravaged by the growing trend of anti-collectivism.

Traffic noise has nearly always dominated the urban soundscape. Idling, honking, accelerating, and just tire noise. I'm involved with a number of car enthusiast groups, many member…

Disagree. I'm a night owl, and I work best with bustle around. Silence is eerie and distracting. I would keep the tv on when studying late into the night and I worked best in group…

A big red flag for me is that safety is not one of their foundational values.

I love these, they're all adorable. I can't wait to display my voting status with a werewolf tearing off its shirt.

Defraud the general population: business as usual. Defraud a big company: 1000 years dungeon.

I've used CAD nearly every day for my entire engineering career, and this feels like a logical step. My day is filled with a tedium of micromanaging Solidworks or NX to simply do w…

Arm foreign crime syndicates and then scare your citizens about the dangerous foreigners. Solid strategy.

"By contrast, Apple has been an industry leader in reducing its use of plastic. It uses paper for packaging, and metal rather than plastic for its computer line." Okay

Reads like someone who is blissfully privileged and wants to spread their cultivated attitude as some kind of virtue that only requires a change in reference frame to achieve actua…

I've built hacks to undermine recurring payment structures in games. It has very little to do with cheating, and everything to do with fighting a corporate trend that I would like …