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that is a political distinction

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> "Zoom into this image so that the width of each vertical line is 1 mm or the whole image is 3.2 inches wide." > > Is it possible to pick one system? Also, "3.2 inches" is difficult to measure. Rulers that measure in less than an inch use fractions, not decimals. It usually goes by 1/8ths, then 1/4 and 1/2, but some rulers have 1/16ths. 3/16" is .187 inches which is pretty close I guess.

decimal inch rulers (& tape measures) are available; i have several. imo they're much more useful than fractional rulers in the context of machining, where the natural base unit, if you're not in metric, is 0.001” ('one thou')

funac

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a buddy of mine who works on wordpress said that matt basically announced that without any prior discussion & that it has never come up since

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it's animal agriculture - it's as far from natural, sustainable, or ethical as you can get.

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> SpaceX has made it to MI complex status, and US gov will easily bail them out should worst come.

immaterial: "the worst" here is elon destroying the engineering culture & with it their ability to keep improving on what they've done so far. not going bankrupt (by way of a bailout or otherwise) is a necessary condition for avoiding the worst (boeing syndrome), but it's not sufficient

fedgov can pour money into the military industrial complex, but it can't do a whole lot more, and that only goes so far

funac

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tesla booked musk's much-discussed options package as a $2.5 billion expense. opportunity cost aside, it's silly to imply that a public company isn't going to act differently after it's stuck a significant fraction of its revenue on the wrong side of its balance sheet: analysts definitely will be.

funac

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the discrepancy between solar & atomic time is noisy & irregular; the past several decades have introduced comparatively less deviation & have required fewer leap seconds as a result

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3ADeviation_of_day_length...

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I live in Philadelphia & have family & friends in DC, NYC, & eastern MA. Amtrak is my most frequent mode of travel for distances over 20km by an order of magnitude.

funac

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I'm not sure religious organizations (or, at least, the religious organizations which would realistically be involved) have a very good record of running institutions that involve significant power asymmetries

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you can build very good hydrostatic vibration isolators in a home machine shop nowadays; commerical optical tables are /very/ steady

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bad title:

  After the verdict, jurors told Reuters that the electric-vehicle maker clearly warned that the partially automated driving software was not a self-piloted system, and that driver distraction was to blame.

the jury found tesla not liable for the crash because it sufficiently warns drivers that autopilot is incapable of safely driving on its own. it /did/ fail, but the driver should have expected it

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