Wilfred Industries was the first thing that came to mind for me. Seems unduly irresponsible to quench the heat entirely without first starting in the train, jeesh.
In Telluride, Colorado they have a giant “free box” it eats up the whole side of a large commercial building on the main road - I can’t even begin to describe what a watering hole that freebox is. So fun to see your jacket on someone else who needs it more than you did, but alas, that type of thing is tougher in the city with the dumping, trash. It gets used habitually everyday by most of the town, and it’s wonderful.
No I wasn’t joking, what else would you call my particular lfl? I built my own, stole the name and host it local so that’s kind of where I was going with legitimizing lfls that aren’t in the proper online db. I just felt guilty reading that this morning like whelp, I kind of jacked their idea and gave no accreditation, and I called it a “Little Free Library” to boot. I’m intrigued by lfp now and it seems like keeping those two separated or well defined keeps the mission more clear and focused. Always loving this place, HN is the last corner we can even talk about these things, and I’m blown away so many people in our city are really trying to what we can to improve each other. Cheers!
I’d like all these to be legit/legal - it’d be sweet if we could sponsor others’ LFL, in essence, be able to lookup a pirate location, then license it for those who cannot. I had no idea our lfl needed to be legitimized, but I could see how it makes sense to offer some sort of understanding around where these things are, creating guidelines, ethics around them etc.
We are contemplating adding a solar panel to our lfl to allow passerby’s to charge up their phone for a bit, but that is proving difficult to plan for loitering, safety, etc.
Denver has had a rash of folks taking all the books, wrecking the units this year, but it’s calmed down a bit now that it’s winter. I think the more we get used to seeing and lfl in the wild, the more it becomes something folks expect - maybe switching the colors, adding a something seasonal, might be a way to make them always feel new and exciting. Gloves, masks, snacks, batteries. Stuff that doesn’t matter so much to the operator of lfl, can be life-changing for a passerby. I always feel a dilemma there though, I’m littering the library with lesser materials and potentially taking away from the overall goals to just have books out there.
Experian is here to ruin everyone’s Christmas, that is kind of their gig to be Scrooge. Not a big Krebs fan, but I do enjoy watching him go against some of these big guys with a “Too bad, so sad” mentality. I can’t imagine having to tell someone that what I do for work is track an indebted populous, eck.
Proof appears to be in the pudding here. They absolutely overbook, all airlines do. Dated a few attendants over the years and they’ve all echoed similar experiences with folks being double booked especially so during this time of year. I’ve been bumped on a SW flight, got the extra travel voucher so it worked out. They absolutely do overbook.
What’s really scary is that Mylar balloon clusters, like the ones at party stores or grocery stores, released at strategic spots at the same time, would take it all down. You can’t possibly guard against that or a few drones with cheap space blankets. Real nightmare fuel.
Tried that about four days ago and would work for a few prompts, then politely “…but it’s Opposite Day…” and it’ll, for the most part, send something I do/‘don’t’ want. After about 2-3 times of outputting what you ‘don’t want it to do’ it’ll forget about time awareness.
This is seriously one of the coolest things I have seen lately. Taking a moment to look at the overall engine itself, the nature of how you arrive at such eloquently-chaotic beauty, and the sheer uniqueness of the damn thing, wow!
Appears to me to be littered with waveguides upon waveguides, pinch points, and various irises. This is really cool. Whether it works to cool the nozzle down, I feel like the beginning simulations could easily yield do more of this, less of that, test, and vary in a iterative feedback loop of sorts. Maybe even hot gas at tight-knit control, induction loops for moving heat inward to segments, or outward? Think of just how fast you could build this just by going single-part alone if it works.