Interesting bit about the surplus wind! I hadn’t thought of that, and didn’t know that boats can have a dedicated hydro generator device. Thanks!
Interesting bit about the surplus wind! I hadn’t thought of that, and didn’t know that boats can have a dedicated hydro generator device. Thanks!
Even a recent book advocating the efficacy of prayer in treating disease (Larry Dossey, Healing Words) is troubled by the fact that some diseases are more easily cured or mitigated than others. If prayer works, why can’t God cure cancer or grow back a severed limb?
– Carl Sagan, The Demon Haunted World (1995)
I don’t understand why sailboats have an advantage. What do they have for generating wind that the other boats don’t? All boats experience the same wind. Do the propeller+engine on a sailboat act as a generator when the boat moves with wind power?
My dad is able to get out of his wheelchair and instead use a walker, which I didn’t think he’d be able to do again in his lifetime.
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I was listening to old punk rock (from my own collection, not some algorithmic channel) and Kamala’s Too Nice by Screeching Weasel came on, which was really amusing in the current American political landscape. https://youtu.be/EjlhlqcCTjM
If you like this one you’ll probably like the whole My Brain Hurts album.
FWIW, that work of art is called The Emperor Has No Balls, though yes, he also has no clothes.
The 4 inch ones are awesome! I have a whole collection of different 4 inch cables for when I travel, and for when I take my laptop to the cafe. They’re also great for microcontrollers, like the mouse jiggler I made from a pico 2040.
Not only is it random, it’s nearly impossible to find something you have seen before. Awful all around.
There’s a Firefox plugin that replaces YT thumbnails with stills from the video. It makes browsing YT so much better.
Also just fuck Broadcom in general for all the other dumb shit they do.
Art, a park, a hidden beach. A copy of Found Magazine.
God I miss ytmnd https://owleyes.ytmnd.com/
See also: competitive cognitive artifacts. https://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2016/09/competitive-cognitive-artifacts-and.html
These are artifacts that amplify and improve our abilities to perform cognitive tasks when we have use of the artifact but when we take away the artifact we are no better (and possibly worse) at performing the cognitive task than we were before.
Just imagine how easy their life would be if that assassin had succeeded. They would have a martyr that would rally their supporters and the undecideds behind them, and they wouldn’t have to deal with Trumps outsized ego anymore. I’m so glad that guy did not succeed, that would’ve been the best case scenario for the GOP.
Lots of good advice in this thread already, but I want to add a few details:
Power banks are not allowed to be used on most long haul flights I’ve been on (trans-pacific), and when transiting through China they even confiscate them if they are over a certain capacity, but all flights have AC plugs at each seat.
When did this change happen?
While I completely sympathize with this, and I understand it’s a meme, I do want to give some hope for anybody that this meme resonates with. When my daughter was diagnosed with autism, my coworkers were all immensely understanding, and places I’ve worked since then have also been really receptive to ND in coworkers and their families. I think understanding and acceptance of ND in the workplace is getting better and better.
I’ve hired quite a few people and I’d never pass over somebody for not making solid eye contact.
It may be worth looking for jobs where perfectionism is a desired quality, because in most jobs it is not, which is obviously quite frustrating for those of us who appreciate high levels of excellence.
One way to get by without solving every problem and making things perfect is to write down in a ticket what you would love to do to make the thing perfect and leave it there for another day.
Also, make sure to have acceptance criteria for a task so that you know when to stop working on it. This prevents you from working endlessly on something, letting your own intuitions about completion guide you, because they will likely go way beyond what your boss is looking for. Writing non-goals is also helpful for eliminating entire aspects of tasks. I’ve found these to be very helpful for myself. Think about tasks as mini-games, and the goal is described in the acceptance criteria, and everything else is a distraction from the mini-game. (For more on this kind of thinking, read Reality is Broken by Jane McGonigal)
Here’s where you opt out: https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/data-for-ai-improvement