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I don't actually see that change, unless I misunderstand the meaning of toptext.

This post would be improved by adding a sentence explaining what ScrollPods are. I don't mean the technical details that you promise in an upcoming post, but rather anything whatsoever about what it's like to use them.

Why is the wind-up gear needed? Couldn't the axle be connected directly to the spring gear?

Yeah, I don't understand this. What broken tool is turning newlines into j?

Taking a knee to lock in an American football victory used to be considered unsportsmanlike, but then the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_at_the_Meadowlands happened, where the Giants were up 17-12 with 30 seconds left and played normally. They fumbled the ball, the Eagles recovered it and scored a touchdown, the Giants' offensive coordinator was summarily fired and never worked in the NFL again, and ever since, dropping to your knee when it ensures your win is standard, accepted, and even sometimes called the Victory Formation.

Because if the one falling 20ft lands on a seesaw, the other side of it will toss two balls each of the same mass 10ft up.

To me this sounds more like the Icarus Fallacy: "The lesson of isn't don't fly close to the sun, it's make better fucking wings."

I've never heard of a big red L but I've known about the Japanese new-driver icon for decades.

Do you think it’s dangerous to be in a car going at freeway speed? Do you ever do that anyway, even though you could be walking instead?

People were definitely addicted to IRC.

Priests will read it and then talk to their congregations about it on Sundays throughout the year, if not explicitly, then in how it shapes their homilies.

Yeah, every US sixth-grader can instantly tell you 12x12=144 but will have to puzzle out 2x13 the long way.

I agree. She’ll never get to 20 because kids only do the times table up to 12.

Looks like something that would pop a tire if you drive over one

The Org should make a deal with a manufacturer to produce some huge bulk quantity of these and just sell them pre-cut to camps.

The best solution I know of is to get three-link segments of chain and put one on each screw as it goes into the ground. That not only marks the spot, it also gives you a flexible attachment point which is useful in all sorts of situations. (Two links would be pinned in a stationary fashion.)

Biggest problem is it’s a pain in the ass to chop up all that chain, and nobody sells them in pre-cut lengths.

When I click the actual link I get a paywall.

Can't blame unions, considering how easily Europe gets it done. Most likely issue is that in the US, every landowner and minor municipality is empowered to delay and obstruct these projects and thus milk them.

Passing clouds?

Oh wow, no wonder I never found it; I was always zoomed way too far in.

I’m aware of the map but I’m unclear on where the peak/ridge is.

Could you transcribe the emoji? HN strips them out.

I find it so hard to figure out how close Curiosity is to the peak/ridge of Mt Sharp and whether/when it seems likely to cross over to the other side.

In what ways is Anthropic different from a hypothetical frontier lab that you would characterize as legitimately safe and ethical?

To me it feels more like learning to cook versus learning how to repair ovens and run a farm. Software engineering isn’t about writing code any more than it’s about writing machine code or designing CPUs. It’s about bringing great software into existence.

"This is just a common publicity stunt."

"No, it is an exceptional publicity stunt."

Clickbait antidote: by inventing the pitch speed radar gun after seeing campus police use one in 1974

https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Especially weird in this case since it’s such an over the top case of Submarine Marketing.

Supposedly they could fire it seven times a day, and had to soak it in warm oil in between to minimize thermal shock.