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- Comment on Louis Rossmann spent the week using AI to get his repair business #1 on google - The Modern Internet Is a Joke 2 days ago:
Yes, but what does the cat think about all this?
- Comment on POV: I'm stuck in traffic and the liquor store closes in 5 5 days ago:
- Comment on Is it really dangerous to fall sleep in the bath? 6 days ago:
If worried about falling asleep and drowning, you can always take a household pet in the tub to nudge you awake.
Little-known fact is that cats are very good at this.
I’d put my concerns elsewhere: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6748192/
- Comment on [meta] Wanted: Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show, with English subtitles _and_ cultural refernce notes 1 week ago:
I posted the BSKY link, but noticed you linked to it in the edit. One tip, though. Each time the screenshotted posts end, she continues in the reply to that post. Might be a thread-limit on bsky.
I don’t go on r*ddit much at all any more, but had to take a
bulletpeek, hoping someone had an explanation for some of the references: www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/s/Y4RVLaPfsxPS: the old and new subdomain trick didn’t work for me – they’re now enforcing login. YMMV.
Side note: JFC, that place is positively larded with ads now. But the halftime show was so damn good it was worth getting slimed.
- Comment on The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance 1 week ago:
We all need to go watch Bad Bunny on Tiny Desk to really appreciate the expert musicianship.
- Comment on Unexpected dedication (and yes, it is filled with boobs) 1 week ago:
Checked out the book on Internet Archives (linked in comments).
It all seems so nostalgic and free-spirited now. Was way before my time, but I’ve been to a few of those beaches. So many of them are so conventional now. Guessing people are way more uptight, but maybe also cognizant of the risks of skin cancer.
Bonus: 2/3 of the way in, a surprising amount of copy was spent on technical aspects of nude photography.
- Comment on halal paintball 1 week ago:
Are they also required to be… green?
- Comment on Taste the flavor 1 week ago:
Tried making spicy pancakes. Would NOT recommend.
- Comment on Form over function 1 week ago:
Be fine, as long as they don’t skimp on the waterproofing.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 1 week ago:
We have shoes, flipflops, and crocs piled inside the front door. If that doesn’t give you a clue…
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 1 week ago:
100% shoes off, or failing that, flippahs.
- Comment on Not sketchy at all 1 week ago:
There’s fizzy water on-hand to douse an electric fire.
What’s the problem?
- Comment on What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on What is the optimal handle to chain length for a flail? 2 weeks ago:
Having played with my friend’s nunchucks in high school, I suggest long enough for the pointy bits NOT to reach your own forehead.
- Comment on Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature 3 weeks ago:
I can barely follow and absorb anything at 1.5-2x.
Beyond that, more power to you.
- Comment on Good question tbh 3 weeks ago:
I had a roommate once who played this song every morning to wake us both up so we could get to work.
Not once did we get tired of it.
- Comment on Many parents cab probably relate 3 weeks ago:
We got DESTROYED in pinewood derby one year when someone’s engineer dad carved the body into a smooth, irregularly shaped U, with contoured weights. He said he used CAD software, did wind-tunnel tests, and used a special CNC machine to shape it.
Most kids were happy the wheels stayed on.
- Comment on Many parents cab probably relate 3 weeks ago:
My son’s science fair project was to measure how much water got used by taking showers vs baths, low-flow vs regular toilets, hand-washing vs dishwashers, etc. We had a pretty nasty drought in our state that year. He had plotted charts, calculated cost savings, learned how to use graphic software and printed color banners. Did it all himself.
The next aisle over, a couple of kids had counted the number of colors in a bag of jellybeans. They had hand-drawn a bar chart on a board with a sharpie. However, they also had a bowl full of jellybeans and you could take a handful if you stopped by. They made sure the bowl was kept full. There was a line out the door.
An important science lesson was learned that year.
- Comment on Good night sweet prince 4 weeks ago:
“Say hello to my little friend!”
- Comment on Triggers 4 weeks ago:
What if you end up with a child who likes maths AND crying?
- Comment on Fetish 2026 goals 5 weeks ago:
Super-Intelligence has been achieved.
- Comment on I GOT THAT VIRUS 1 month ago:
- Comment on 64$ the ticket, 1040$ surcharge. 1 month ago:
Thank you for the Fascinating Aida link. Spent the afternoon discovering their great back catalog.
- Comment on Happy [ ١ رجب ] 1 month ago:
Where’s the Baclava? Or if truly culturally insensitive, the Balaclava?
- Comment on Iconic Baseball moment in time. Who is the player in the picture? Name the ballpark? Name the location? 1 month ago:
The Catch: youtu.be/7bLt2xKaNH0
- Comment on new haircut, felt cute, might delete later idk 1 month ago:
“It’s over, Anakin. I have the high ground.”
- Comment on Is audiophile bullshit cheating? 1 month ago:
It’s to boost the volume during Power Ballads.
- Comment on What can you tell from this photo alone? 2 months ago:
That I slept through the Rapture.
Again.
- Comment on How to deploy a satellite and what are the costs? 2 months ago:
I looked into CubeSats in a previous job. Basically, there are four parts:
- What’s the purpose?
- How to design and build one?
- How to launch it?
- How to collect the data?
Part 1: this is the back of the napkin sketch. What are you trying to do? Weather, water, fire, or air data? Imaging? Has anyone already done this? What’s the plan?
Part 2: you can DIY the whole thing, starting with the CalPoly CubeSat workshops: www.cubesat.org. They’re the folks that started the whole thing.
There are also kits and services out there. One example is Pumpkin: www.pumpkinspace.com, but there are a lot of others like it out there. You want to figure out what sensors you need, mechanisms to orient the sensors, radios, power management, etc. Also, what’s the lifespan before it descends into the atmosphere and burns out.
Part 3: The big problem is launch. You need to eventually get it up into space. There are commercial services, but you’re looking at $50K and up to get into the queue. Another option is to go through NASA’s Launch Intitiative: www.nasa.gov/…/cubesat-launch-initiative/ or ESA’s Fly Your Satellite program: www.esa.int/…/CubeSats_-_Fly_Your_Satellite
These require being part of a non-profit or educational institution. And the waiting list is long. Like, years.
Part 4: OK, now that you got it up in space, what do you do with the data? It’s circling the globe and there’s a narrow window where the radio can connect to an earth station, send the data, and maybe receive instructions like where to point the sensors. Forget about OTA. You won’t have a large enough connection window or bandwidth to do that.
You can roll your own comms, or you can see about using an existing service, like AWS Ground Station: aws.amazon.com/ground-station/. Microsoft had a similar service called Azure Orbital, but they retired it last year.
After all is said and done, you now have some cool data. You’ll want to process it and use it for something. This goes back to step 1. Figure out what’s the purpose, what you want to get out of it, and work backward. You can use the AWS service, pipe it into an S3 bucket or store it in a database, then run analytics and visualizations on it. If you want realtime, it’ll cost extra.
It won’t be cheap, but it will likely be a lot of fun. I proposed several projects in a past life. We got pretty far, but the launch window was years away and by then I was heading out. All this is an infodump of what I learned back then. Hope this helps.
- Comment on Bird law is not governed by reason 2 months ago:
I smell an AI lurking somewhere in the shadows.
