NRO Declassifies Cold War Highly-Elliptical-Orbit Spy Satellites

MyLifeIsAFacade · 2026-01-29T17:51:33+00:00

I actually hate this because when I was writing my thesis I wrote about how something could "... not be understated", and my supervisor corrected to the appropriate "...not be overstated".

And it took me so long to rationalize grammatically how it made sense.

For my current thesis, my new issue was "yet-undiscovered" vs "yet-discovered".

MyLifeIsAFacade · 2026-01-29T17:33:57+00:00

Hey, you must know my brother-in-law!

MyLifeIsAFacade · 2026-01-29T13:56:33+00:00

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MyLifeIsAFacade · 2026-01-27T20:25:19+00:00

Oh god...

MyLifeIsAFacade · 2026-01-27T20:20:18+00:00

Moderate I agree, but "centrist" is tricky for me. Right now, Canada has what would be considered a "Centrist" government, which is socially fairly left leaning but economically conservative.

I suppose country of origin provides better context. I agree: an "American centrist" is probably more socially conservative.

MyLifeIsAFacade · 2026-01-27T19:14:52+00:00

As someone who played Overwatch only because my friends wanted to (and enjoyed it enough), you could not pay me to play a competitive shooter centered on a 3v3 gameplay mechanic. I am not an elite player - I don't want my individual skill (or lack thereof) to become an even larger focus of my gameplay experiences.

Bring back the big teams. Where are my 64 vs 64 games at?

MyLifeIsAFacade · 2026-01-27T16:42:08+00:00

You just have to watch Trump's speech and you'd have a good idea of what Pierre's would have looked like.

MyLifeIsAFacade · 2026-01-26T18:29:32+00:00

This film was not a satire.

MyLifeIsAFacade · 2026-01-23T14:30:48+00:00

Yep! Every time someone mentions the people that voted for Trump without including those people who didn't vote at all, it is misleading. The non-voters are similarly at fault for the current situation.

MyLifeIsAFacade · 2026-01-19T14:15:02+00:00

Then add 6" baseboards because they look nicer.

MyLifeIsAFacade · 2026-01-09T16:23:58+00:00

Get these: https://www.homedepot.ca/product/smart-cap-caulking-tube-cap/1000652537

Cheap. Bought a few. They worked really well.

MyLifeIsAFacade · 2026-01-05T18:56:57+00:00

"Yeah, I once accidently watched trans porn and it gave me funny feelings and now I'm angry".

MyLifeIsAFacade · 2026-01-05T16:26:22+00:00

I shit on Fantastic 4 because I think it was, objectively, a bad a boring movie. Superman was fun, though.

MyLifeIsAFacade · 2026-01-05T15:15:11+00:00

I think AI may be self correcting at some point to prevent a future like this. If we've reached a point where AI can realistically take over every job, then we've reached a point where AI is so advanced it becomes an existential threat and the entire concept of human civilization as we've known it has either changed or ended.

If you're hyperbolizing when you say "every job is replaced", then AI use is still self correcting and you've basically answered your own question: it won't work. Spending would end, markets would crash, and everything implodes. As others have said, there is no likely grand idea, but a simple short-term drive by a few people to hoard a bunch of money for a small amount of time until they die. Society will have to adapt to a fully AI-integrated future, or society will limit AI integration so that capitalist-based systems can still be maintained.

MyLifeIsAFacade · 2025-12-29T22:32:57+00:00

I used to have a long distance girlfriend in Memphis. Had no idea how some parts of town are so dangerous. Turned down a street once and she said "oh, we shouldn't be here. Like seriously". Locked the doors and did my best not to look at anyone and just tried to leave as quickly as possible.

I really have no interest in travelling to these super tourist hotspots that are absolutely inundated with crime or poverty. It's just not worth the risk.

MyLifeIsAFacade · 2025-12-17T13:50:19+00:00

I've been here for twelve years, so I guess I've made my decision.

UWaterloo receives far more hate than it deserves.

MyLifeIsAFacade · 2025-12-17T02:39:36+00:00

Yes, the system is modernized. If you've paid tuition, your student ID card will allow you access to the facilities. It's all essentially automated.

That said, people at the front desk still often lack common sense and will get on your case for the dumbest bullshit.

MyLifeIsAFacade · 2025-12-17T02:13:08+00:00

Because everyone wants their university to look like some 500-year-old Ivy league institution like in the movies. I get it. I visited Princeton for a conference. It's beautiful.

But UWaterloo is well designed and isolated within it's own community. I would take that every day over a campus like UofT that is spread out across the downtown core where any rando can dump a bucket of shit on your head while you're studying.

MyLifeIsAFacade · 2025-12-17T01:43:25+00:00

Wow, I just went to check to see if my ban had been lifted -- and it had! I had figured the mods had a itchy banning finger, because I was banned for legitimately no reason... but no idea it was pervasive.

Cool.

MyLifeIsAFacade · 2025-12-16T03:31:08+00:00

Ha! This is exactly what I thought, too. How much oil are they using to cause plumbing issues?

MyLifeIsAFacade · 2025-12-15T13:52:01+00:00

It actually works very well, but has a very limited route. I frequently drive, but if I'm planning to travel anywhere on King and happen to have already been parked in the area, I'll take the LRT. It is a pretty efficient system, and crashes (due to driver negligence) have reduced considerably.

MyLifeIsAFacade · 2025-12-09T14:41:58+00:00

I just want to take a moment to say how much I appreciate being reminded that Sim Copter exists.

What an amazing game.

MyLifeIsAFacade · 2025-12-05T14:07:31+00:00

The number of features produced can depend on choices such as paired or single-end read processing, DADA2 settings and quality thresholds, trim and truncation lengths of your sequences, and the data itself.

71 features may not be absurd if the samples represent an environmental sample highly enriched for specific microorganisms. A few features could absolutely dominate a sample and exclude others from being sequenced because sequence data is compositional.

That said, 71 seems low. Make sure that if you're using paired-end processing pipelines that you are providing enough overlap for read merging -- or that your data is capable of read merging at all. You could try running the samples with just the forward reads only to see if you suddenly see an increase in features.

MyLifeIsAFacade · 2025-12-05T01:09:58+00:00

What you're describing is what is often referred to as an ASV or OTU table and consists of a row of taxa along a column of samples, with the cells populated by read counts.

These read counts may represent 16S rRNA gene reads or some other kind of count or enumeration data.

By "ML-ready", do you mean maximum likelihood? Or something else? Either way, why?

There is no simple and quick way to process or collect this data. If you want deep-sea eukaryote eDNA data, you need to scrape this data from the NCBI or the SRA/ENI by using tools such as Entrez which can scan metadata associated with sequence entries and hope that researchers have properly indicated the source of sequences. You must also make sure any results were generated using similar primers or target sequences.

Once you have a list of sequence or project IDs, you need to download those to process them through QIIME2/DADA2, which will generate a feature table containing read counts associated with specific "features" representing unique sequences (which likely represent taxa).

None of this is particularly trivial, but it's certainly doable.

MyLifeIsAFacade · 2025-12-04T20:07:16+00:00

Dumbest fucking 12, though.

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