These are cute and funny, but a few of these look like really terrible enclosure design. Especially the one with the panda’s head stuck between the two boards 😬

There may also be some energy released from the battery materials themselves burning (like, an uncharged battery might have a significant amount of energy to release when combusting)

What’s the y axis here? I love public transit but 10k riders a month would not be an impressive figure.

A few months ago I made a list of cases of ICE misconduct along with original/unedited (when possible) videos of the event for my family members who aren’t exposed to this stuff in their news consumption. It was a bunch of work and I was surprised that I couldn’t find a simple spreadsheet of events and original footage. It looks like that’s also the case here. Does anyone know of a good source for these? Maybe I just wasn’t looking in the right places.

It seems like the structural properties of the foam could be tricky to get right. If it’s not strong enough it could fail under drag forces or turbulence in the atmosphere, but if it’s too strong then the astronaut would be unable to free themselves once they landed.

Maybe it’s a sign of how the times have changed but the bedroom TV strikes me as an outlier in an otherwise wholesome scene.

Does Las Vegas still have an Amtrak station that can be served by trains? When I search for it I just get a bus stop,

I think the order is forced so that Aquilo is the last planet, but the player can do Vulcanus, Fulgora, and Gleba in any order.

I used to love this game. Such a unique concept, and the soundtrack still gets stuck in my head sometimes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qPwjPFg6DA&list=PLC642184314A6EBDF&index=3

I’m curious about the use of the word “laser” here. The description says the comic is from 1939 but the laser wouldn’t be invented until the 1960s. And the word “laser” is a really specific acronym (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) that doesn’t seem be appear in sci fi before then (There were heat rays and blasters but no lasers from what I can tell).

It’s so tragic that we have no records of Washington, Tesla, da Vinci, Newton, Faraday, or Kant. If only they’d thought to have kids they might have left a mark on the world.

The beginning areas of the video game The Secret World are in New England, and it unironically nails this vibe really well.

• rowhammer
• rainbow table
• global interpreter lock
• race condition (atrocity?)
• core dump

The thing that gets me is that these people are all really smart. If someone is willing to lie and do math, why not work at an unscrupulous pharma/finance company? They’d make way more money and do way less work. I’d even argue that fraud in the private sector is less unethical - if investors give money to a fraud they deserve to lose it, and regulators take an adversarial stance and have whole orgs (in theory) policing fraud like the SEC and FDA.

It takes a really particular kind of scumbag to seek a position of public trust, make a bunch of trainees financially and professionally dependent on them, accept taxpayer money intended to help cancer patients, then commit fraud.

In my experience, there are some niche conferences that have no name recognition, but are amazing. A lot of people haven’t heard of the Gordon conferences, and some of the other top ones in my field are open source package user group meetings and company hosted conferences, which could easily appear low-value at first glance.

The 10K+ attendee conferences have lots of name recognition, but I found them to be effectively useless for accomplishing any goal (they’re not even that great for networking), and they could easily be a series of recordings for what you get.

So, I think it’s reasonable for folks to roll the dice on some conferences, because some of them are really hidden gems (and if they suck you can always audible it to a free vacation).

Wife and I did Dorf Romantik on a recent long train ride and we had a great time. It’s very cozy/calm which helps when you want to stay low energy and not bother your neighbors. And I fully agree with the battery pack idea - it gives me a ton of peace of mind when I’m traveling.

What in the world is the original context here? Have these people never encountered a puddle before? Her foot is completely immersed in gutter water and his white pants are about to be soaked and gross.

According to the article they’re spending $17 billion to increase production.

I like how the first message is in both languages, but the second is only in English.

You would really like the Three Body Problem.