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Paint everything white! Why stop at rails? Mostly because it doesn't stay white and looks bad. But it doesn't stop people from painting their siding white, for example. Why paint t…

"we all more or less look the same in gym clothes" Maybe my brain works differently than the author, but I'm surprised at this statement. Gym clothes don't change recognition for m…

What does "simulate exactly" mean? To me, exact simulation is not so much an impossibility as a nonsensical concept. What subset of reality are we simulating, and to what degree of…

Just when I thought sama was irredeemable, then this.. it's easy to hate the guy, this makes it much more difficult for me. An apology means a lot, I appreciate it. And hope that i…

https://tumblerridgelines.com/2026/04/24/openai-apologizes-t... “To the community of Tumbler Ridge,” writes Altman. “The pain your community has endured is unimaginable. I have bee…

I used to attend elementary school on a military base. I didn't feel like a human shield at the time, then again I was more naive and had less life experience than I do now.

Uh oh, that toilet looks pretty heavy, how much does that thing weigh? Will the extra weight be worth it during reentry? Or will the crew push the whole thing out the airlock on th…

Nice, but maybe you need to travel more! The USA and Canada is not representative of the wider world. Also, demand elasticity in USA/Canada suburbs is again not representative. So …

While we're at it, let's think the rest of the way through, and consider the marginal effect that additional transportation cost has on price and therefore both the supply and dema…

What was the tooling cost for the 2 ton mold?

I think what I mean by colonial remnant is "administration and control from afar", not "subjugation of indigenous peoples", and it's concerned with what's happening now, rather tha…

There seems to be some confusion around the basis of morals. Once you are in power and you have things arranged the way you want, you claim that violence is not the answer. Otherwi…

From the 1600s to immediately after WW2, Battleship meant roughly the same thing, not "fast armored ship with big guns", but literally "Ship fit to stand in the line of battle". So…

Plenty of people use Joules or rather kilojoules or megajoules or even gigajoules for various purposes. Watt hours is saying, how long will my personal battery pack last me that po…

I'm not sure if people realize this, but Iran suffered more than any other nation during WW2, including Poland, Japan, the Philippines, China, and that's saying something. As a neu…

I call this the "judgement day" scenario. I would be interested if there is some science fiction based on this premise. If you believe in God of a certain kind, you don't think tha…

You can tell when someone is a process or chemical engineer, by how they carefully consider each of the system boundaries and the inputs, outputs and processes inside and outside e…

But if we own real estate, we see the limitation and destruction of housing stock as value creation benefiting own personal assets. From that perspective, reducing this sort of low…

We should have federal legislation requiring tugboat assist adequate to recover from complete loss of power and steering, through shipping channels that go under bridges supported …

Algal blooms with limited mixing sounds like a pretty good carbon capture mechanism! I wonder if there is oil and gas at the bottom of any of these deep lakes? /s It would be inter…

The cartwheel fails are pretty brutal, it never learned how to catch itself and break its own fall. Cartwheel is a remarkable demo, I initially thought it was a joke and fake until…

This is one of those cases where we fly by and don't think much about it because we live in a plentiful environment. The more detailed we get, the more we realize that everything h…

It's on the same level as people using incandescent light bulbs. Well we clear 160k Euros after taxes and have public medical care, and electricity is 10c/kWh here, so why does it …

But it says in your article, "We record a demo and dent Akash’s car while recording, just minutes before the deadline." So I think the only thing to do now is to own up to it and p…