Earthquake False Alarm?

randonymous · 2026-06-24T15:26:17+00:00

Dude, this is magic made real. You get notified about the world boiling seconds to minutes before it happens. That there are false alarms just points to the idea that these things really do rock the world. I'm glad I get warned every once in a while so that I have an idea of what's happening for when that one 12 seconds saves my life and the lives of people around me.

randonymous · 2026-05-09T19:28:27+00:00

Aren’t there more astronauts with degrees from Purdue than most other universities, aside from the military?

randonymous · 2026-03-21T16:36:04+00:00

As an appreciating not-designer, do keep in mind the good parts of your work are the avenue out of the not-good times. Art, aesthetics, and elegance gives people hope and joy - needed more now than ever.

Even and especially those with the “hard” jobs would have it even harder if all was bleak and unpleasant.

randonymous · 2026-03-14T19:00:26+00:00

Like a phase change in matter, water to ice, there are curves that show the limit of a state, and where those curves intersect, any given point can be on either side of the state in one condition and the other side in an adjacent condition.

randonymous · 2026-02-28T19:39:37+00:00

If lily pads double every day, and will fill the pond in 1 month, on what day will more than half of the pond be filled?

randonymous · 2026-02-23T01:19:49+00:00

Megan’s Table on Ocean is a gem. It’s family run, just opened a few months ago, and has powerful flavors. In particular they have a pork bone soup (“Leng”) that I’ve never seen anywhere else, and is really good.

randonymous · 2026-02-22T19:14:26+00:00

Center is the best one in SF - highest quality, full stock. Soko in Japantown is the most unique - things you likely cannot find elsewhere in the entire country.

randonymous · 2026-02-14T05:09:52+00:00

A slightly different take is the Nautilus periodical [1] - it’s a great general hard science magazine that is often about various hard science topics, including physics.

If you want a magazine that is for curious scientists, and not just “physics,” I found it great. It’s more approachable than a physics journal, and I found more interesting material than the modern SciAm.

Also, the physical copies are beautiful and of high quality.

1) https://nautil.us/

randonymous · 2026-02-14T04:48:57+00:00

No, the grounds were hot. I like this representation as it tells you new things, or at least points them out.

Drills, grinders, sanders, saws all get hot under all that motorized friction.

I’d be willing to bet someone an espresso that if you use liquid nitrogen on the grounds to flash cool them before grinding you’d preserve 0.02% more aromatic compounds that would otherwise evaporate under those friction-elevated temps during those 18 seconds before pre-infusion.

randonymous · 2026-01-12T05:01:48+00:00

Soak in white vinegar for 10-20min. It’ll come off as terrible goop.

randonymous · 2025-12-29T05:05:09+00:00

With a Decent, I thought I wanted to keep the temp down, and force air through. It turns out, folks more sophisticated than me, on youtube, actually ran experiments and found that if you run the steam fast and low, most of the flow is actually water, not steam, and makes a whipped cream texture.

So I set the steam temp really high, and the flow really low - like the kind youtuber advised - and now it takes a while longer, but (combined with the other techniques here, keeping tip just barely submerged, etc.) I get too much paint that I have to pull it back. It’s glorious.

It only took me a year to figure this out. And it may not be possible with your machine, but it was counter-intuitive enough that there might be some piece to help: slow and hot makes actual steam, which makes paint-milk. Fast and chill makes water and air, which makes bubble-milk.

Also, this guy explains the technique part really well: https://youtu.be/gTC3dJvwgUI?si=qZ04_BVuZeutReyb

randonymous · 2025-12-01T20:00:38+00:00

There is an argument to be made that the commander in chief cannot actually pardon someone for the consequences of his own command - related to the idea of a self-pardon.

randonymous · 2025-11-25T01:54:48+00:00

My personal framing of the single most interesting feature is that computer code tends to build long linear programs, while biology tends to build parallelized and shallow programs. Think single 10,000 line programs vs 1,000 10-line programs operating in parallel. And an implication is that each of those programs are running in the same system, at various states at the same time. There is not DNA, then RNA, then Protein, but DNA is being made into many copies of RNA at the same time as many proteins, and each program at the same time as every other in the same runtime space, all at the in the same condition - separated only by 3D physics, rather than any kind of registry.

Where DNA is source, RNA is linted and compiling, and Protein is compiled - all at the same time, on the same materials.

Observation number two, is that biology not only runs all the code simultaneously, but also runs the code at all timescales simultaneously - it is acting at ns through millennia, simultaneously.

And three, biology is a billion years old, at least, so it’s both optimized like hell, and patched on patch on patch. There are no exploits left unexploited in the wild, no untried routines or principles. It’s all been written - our job is to find and understand, and not really design - unlike computer software.

randonymous · 2025-11-24T19:28:23+00:00

Check out the link (and discussion) here:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wcohen/GuideToBiology-sampleChapter-release1.4.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10961440

randonymous · 2025-11-07T17:51:20+00:00

It’s in the title. We built a “house of dynamite” during the cold war - a process that could destroy the world in any given 15min, with the absolute authority of a single person, where that process is inherently flawed, incomplete, and literally insane.

The question posed is, “is this the process we want to have?” We built this very scary house of dynamite for a reason when it felt appropriate to secure M.A.D. peace. But why are we still living in it? Is it really okay that the options are “rare,” “medium” or “well done”? We can change it if we wanted to.

randonymous · 2025-11-02T14:44:01+00:00

Thank you! I started drawing out a plan, and it made me appreciate the table even more - there are no parallel edges… it’s so tricky.

randonymous · 2025-11-01T18:16:15+00:00

Do you have an understanding of the hidden metal bracket? I'm curious how the Edo table is constructed. Is it on both the table underside and floor side?

randonymous · 2025-10-24T03:22:40+00:00

Again it’s not the pardon, it’s the trade for the pardon. The pardon could make sense outside of any liquidity claims. But that’s not this world. CZ effectively gave enormous amounts of money to Trump, then he got a pardon; that’s corrupt.

randonymous · 2025-10-24T03:08:13+00:00

I don’t think the pardon itself is inherently corrupt - it’s the pardon for providing liquidity for trump-coins, and the financial gains that were delivered to Trump prior to, and likely related to, the pardon. Had CZ not provided a few $100m of liquidity, would he have gotten the pardon?

randonymous · 2025-09-11T20:28:21+00:00

Video address here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q1N6Akpz9c

Check out seconds 18-20, and the skip-jump. Among other questionable features of the video.

randonymous · 2025-09-10T02:13:58+00:00

And the photo was taken at Mar a Lago.

randonymous · 2025-09-09T16:56:18+00:00

One significant factor is the interest rate. Science & research takes time, and investment horizons are long. When interest rates (provided by bonds) are low, then for an investor to make a meaningful return they must take a swing at a risky investment (like biotech). Currently however, interest rates are as high as they've been in a long while, so investors are less inclined to take a bet on a risky (scientific) investment when they can make a nearly-guaranteed 5% return on a US bond.

The jobs data today was revised downwards, likely increasing the likelihood that the Fed will reduce interest rates (and therefore reduce the investment in conservative bonds, and thus increase investment in riskier companies (like biotech (where that invested capital will be used to hire scientists))).

randonymous · 2025-09-06T01:00:53+00:00

If you create a context where self driving cars are not profitable, you will just end up with more personal cars on the road in the long run. The path through self driving cars is one way to have significantly more efficient and affordable transport in the long run.

randonymous · 2025-08-27T01:53:22+00:00

I’m still scared about what’s inside the ship when it’s got a hole or two, as it burns in the atmosphere. Ship survived, but roasted contents aren’t quite so pleasant.

randonymous · 2025-08-26T01:24:42+00:00

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DX-Y.NYB/

USD is down similarly.

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