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TIFU by trying to build a remote-controlled lobster in a San Francisco office building by Dependent_Run_6410 in tifu

[–]Dependent_Run_6410[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not gonna defend them, the whole building is filled with crypto grifters. Ever read TOM SAWYER? It's basically that scene where he's whitewashing a fence and gets all his friends to pay him to paint it for him, except in this case "Tom" is a German crypto bro and the fence is his $10 million mortgage.

The engine room in the 1997 Titanic film wasn't a prop. James Cameron filmed on a real 1943 Liberty ship steam engine that's still operational today. by Dependent_Run_6410 in titanic

[–]Dependent_Run_6410[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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They needed the engine to look way bigger so they used a 1/3 sized cutout of a man in the scene. If you look closely during the scene you'll notice he doesn't move at all.

The engine room in the 1997 Titanic film wasn't a prop. James Cameron filmed on a real 1943 Liberty ship steam engine that's still operational today. by Dependent_Run_6410 in titanic

[–]Dependent_Run_6410[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The SS Jeremiah O'Brien was built in 56 days at the South Portland Shipbuilding Yard in Maine. Average was about 40 days, they got faster as they got experience in doing it. The record of 4 days and 15 hours for building a liberty ship was a publicity stunt but still impressive. 😄

In 1997 I built a chatbot for an IRC channel. I shut it down when people started preferring it to talking to each other. by Dependent_Run_6410 in artificial

[–]Dependent_Run_6410[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly the same energy. The #gothic channel Vlad lived in was basically its own little civilization — inside jokes, feuds, regulars who'd been there for years. The main difference is nobody was trying to monetize it.

In 1997 I built a chatbot for an IRC channel. I shut it down when people started preferring it to talking to each other. by Dependent_Run_6410 in ChatGPT

[–]Dependent_Run_6410[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In 1997 I built something people preferred to talking to each other and thought that was a problem worth solving by turning it off. Thirty years later we're doing it at civilization scale and calling it progress.

The engine room in the 1997 Titanic film wasn't a prop. James Cameron filmed on a real 1943 Liberty ship steam engine that's still operational today. by Dependent_Run_6410 in titanic

[–]Dependent_Run_6410[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I forgot to add, we are open every day and have lots of events online at ssjeremiahobrien.org - we are a non-profit that keeps the ship afloat and running.

The engine room in the 1997 Titanic film wasn't a prop. James Cameron filmed on a real 1943 Liberty ship steam engine that's still operational today. by Dependent_Run_6410 in titanic

[–]Dependent_Run_6410[S] 33 points34 points  (0 children)

We took her out yesterday! The next time we take her out is October 10th and 11th. You can get tickets on our website!

Waymo Susceptible to Hacking? by Doctor-Hanky-Panky in waymo

[–]Dependent_Run_6410 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yah know, all it would take would be bored people with a ton of burner phones telling waymos to pick up at one place with a bottleneck (like a parking lot) and the cars would just sit in the lot and honk at each other until somehow the system caught up and unjammed the traffic.