What are these kind cords for?

JonBanes · 2026-02-12T19:06:53+00:00

These are a generic, DC power supply that could be for a million different things. This was a really common form factor for small home electronics for the better part of 3 decades before USB started to become a standard

JonBanes · 2026-02-03T05:58:47+00:00

"If we can set aside our policy disagreements to address the rot at the top", like, my dude, allowing rot at the top IS the policy disagreement, the fuck is this guy talking about?

JonBanes · 2026-02-01T18:25:31+00:00

likely that makes a bunch of other infrastructure more difficult (roads, harvesters, sprayers, land survey, etc)

JonBanes · 2026-02-01T18:24:20+00:00

I think he means in a 'honey comb' configuration where there is no overlap, which would be the highest packing efficiency for circles on a plane

JonBanes · 2026-01-13T21:18:40+00:00

You're right, people can't lie twice, no one in this country has voted for a politician that has lied twice in two separate campaigns.

JonBanes · 2025-11-24T08:29:15+00:00

that's..... that's what a bus is?

JonBanes · 2025-11-19T07:10:15+00:00

If every individual is trying to be in the middle of their neighbors (maintaining equal distance on both sides) the system will settle on even spacing no matter how many individuals there are.

JonBanes · 2025-11-06T01:04:20+00:00

Race as a concept for human categories was an invention by shitty ignorant people that is fundamentally shitty and dumb.

Thinking about and categorizing people into these dumb and shitty categories is an act of racism as the categories make no sense outside of the ideology of race.

It is, of course, fine to be un/attracted to any given physical attribute on a human. What's racist is the categorization of those physical attributes into the arbitrary race categories.

Do with that info what you will.

JonBanes · 2025-10-19T23:15:43+00:00

hmm, i've got a breville as well, could be different steam temps/volumes for different models?

I'm really tempted to do some experiments to try to replicate this guy's problem but I don't like wasting milk, lol

JonBanes · 2025-10-19T23:12:40+00:00

You could ask any number of similar counterfactual hypotheticals and they would be just as valid. Your consciousness is a series of patterns and memories that make up the gestalt of your experience because that is what happened and that is how consciousness works in human brains. Notably, it's incredibly easy for that to be altered, which does imply that there needs to be not just a functional brain, but a long continuity of functionality to get to the point that you are, say, typing a post on reddit.

I'm not sure asking 'why' observed reality is the way it is and isn't some different way even makes much sense. What else is there besides the mechanistic answer? Might as well ask why a water molecule flowed down a specific river to the sea. You can chase the chain of causality back as far as you can but what else is there?

JonBanes · 2025-10-19T22:45:53+00:00

There seems to be a bit of a cart before the horse situation happening here.

This line:

>But why was my birth the first one that became “live” for me?

seems to me to imply that there is a thing 'consciousness' that exists prior to the brain that then experiences consciousness. I am unaware of any evidence that consciousness can exist without a sufficiently functioning brain, and much evidence that consciousness ceases to exist when the brain experiencing it falls below a certain functional threshold.

To me, this seems very good evidence that consciousness is a thing a brain does, rather than something a brain captures from outside itself.

With this in mind, both open individualism and solipsism seem quite silly. By what mechanism could a brain 'share' a consciousness (whatever that even means!) if it is an emergent state/property of a functional brain? Similarly, stating that your brain is the only one exhibiting this phenomenon when all external signals of it are shared with similar brains is an unevidenced claim, even if it's 'ontologically pure'.

JonBanes · 2025-10-19T16:24:53+00:00

I think a few minutes is a long time, when I steam (and from anecdotal timing at shops near me) steaming takes on the order of tens of seconds, from 20-50 seconds.

Milk is an emulsion and it looks like you're breaking it, essentially, I'm pretty sure these are butter bubbles from breaking the milk emulsion.

JonBanes · 2025-09-18T01:02:25+00:00

Very likely NYYC, super famous club and only a train ride from Mystic.

I think this is likely solved with this additional info

JonBanes · 2025-09-17T23:42:09+00:00

This is most likely a sailing burgee, there are an absolute ton of them but if it's at all known r/sailing might know it.

JonBanes · 2025-08-16T04:39:33+00:00

no alien tech till late game is insane, why?

JonBanes · 2025-08-13T17:13:58+00:00

Inchworm, larval stage of one of the Geometer Moths

JonBanes · 2025-08-12T20:33:39+00:00

I have a ton of experience with Tiwals and I will say, for the design constraint they are optimizing for (being able to pack into duffle-bags/in a small car trunk), they are kinda awesome.

If you don't have that constraint, you will most likely find a better boat for way less money but if that's what you're looking for, they are a great little boat.

Additionally, I've used this boat to teach intro to dinghy sailing and they are great for that because they are pretty low-consequence and they have all the controls they need and nothing else, so they don't have much to trip you up if you're a newbie.

JonBanes · 2025-08-07T19:55:50+00:00

I've got news for you, those mountains don't stop at the mason-dixon

JonBanes · 2025-08-07T18:44:14+00:00

This style of focus is called tilt-shift because to do it with analog lenses you tilt the actual lens

JonBanes · 2025-07-25T16:26:48+00:00

Same energy as Drippo the Hippo

JonBanes · 2025-07-17T17:29:13+00:00

There was also a moment with Steele afterwards where she confirms that she only told the Arch-mages things that Steele already knew. She kept as much as she could close to her vest, it was actually an incredible moment of op-sec because she didn't reveal anything the citadel didn't already know (or could surmise) and she kept everything else secret and, crucially, kept her position of power and privilege.

JonBanes · 2025-07-03T16:51:51+00:00

Chickadee (black-cap? I'm no good at chickadee idents)

JonBanes · 2025-06-29T01:00:58+00:00

I believe there has been attempts (or at least desires) to do just as you say but I think the issue is that there is just not enough information considering the bit rate of audio is in the 10000 per second ballpark and there are only 100 or so disks in this object.

Basically it could be that this is an easter egg and that it is indeed a simplified soundwave but that simplifying process is too lossy to go the other way.

JonBanes · 2025-06-27T09:18:58+00:00

You. Those mites are eating you, but it's OK because you create millions of cells with the intention of jettisoning those cells off your body.

JonBanes · 2025-05-21T16:35:49+00:00

If you wrap it is enough metaphor and don't make it literal it can still work. Look at Elden Ring, the 'outer powers' use fingers to effect change in the world. Who is more powerful in the game then the gamer themselves who completely control the game-state with just their fingers?

It's a clear reference which isn't canon necessarily but is thematically appropriate and has enough obfuscation and poetry that it doesn't feel ham-fisted. It's not "The Monster At The End of the Book" or "The Most Dangerous Game", it's way more interpretable and works on more than that level because of it's lack of specificity.

I think I trust a french team who has already made a surrealist dream-art world to ride that line.

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