It's not the ticket system that is broken; it's the people. The problem with stadium tours is that 95 percent or more of the seats are awful. They provide an extremely poor concert experience. The sound is very bad for…
Too. Many. People. True for the entire planet; the effects are not evenly distributed.
This is Volkswagen, so they actually got 20km and the rest was measured rolling downhill with the engine off.
Occasion-related giving is madness on a finite planet. It is one of the main drivers of the waste economy. We buy things people don't need and exchange them for things we don't need. I refuse, on principle, to buy or…
That is a work of stunning arrogance and foolishness. Math is a game we play in our heads that represents a fictionalized ideal version of reality. An alien intelligence might have realized that two plus two never…
I am dissapoint.
And that is the killer app! When you have 3 dozen 4GB DDR3 SIMMs sitting around doing booger all, it is overwhelmingly tempting to get a card like this, if it is priced aggressively, and run something really fast.…
Cheating... I'm not sure that word means what you think it means. Give a quiz that can be completed in your own time over the course of a week. That sounds more like an assignment to me. So... the cheating was violating…
I came across an "Eight Sleep" unit, which is a high-tech system for cooling a mattress topper. Apparently, someone had problems with leaks in the topper section and threw it out. I took it apart. It has a custom ARM…
Because market research has discovered that many customers are not price-sensitive, even when it makes no sense. Some people with limited means do not even look at prices. The ready availability of consumer debt allows…
One aspect of basic biology that is almost invariably neglected when discussing the possibility of the continued existence of cryptids like Homo floresiensis is that there must be an isolated breeding population. Plate…
They fixed it. Possibly indicative that someone from the USGS reads this website.
When are we ever going to learn that our activities are needlessly destroying the planet? Make a phone. Sell it. Make it repairable and upgradeable. Let people keep it for a long time. The only drawback is the company…
You need to make an account and then you find out you have to put in a credit card just to try it out? Oh, heck, go fuck yourself with a sharp cactus!
"You will be eaten by an aurochs. We don't know what that means."
I spent my childhood worrying about a nuclear attack on my city and now I find out that we didn't even make it to the map? I am disappoint.
We often exclude obvious apects of natural selection in these studies. In this case, the decision to have children during a pandemic may be indicative of a predisposition to poor mental functioning in the parents, which…
This man is illiterate.
It's matter and it's dark, but that means it's dark matter, not Dark Matter. That matters.
Or, and this is radical, we could just stop buying cheap Chinese-made crap like inflatable Halloween decorations made from petroleum products and shipped across the sea using bunker oil. Or, we could pass strong…
Why is learning anything so damned hard? Mainly because we are monkeys to whom a reasonably accurate reductive analysis can be applied if we label the axes "asshole" and "idiot". It was a good blog post by a reasonably…
It's not the ticket system that is broken; it's the people. The problem with stadium tours is that 95 percent or more of the seats are awful. They provide an extremely poor concert experience. The sound is very bad for…
Too. Many. People. True for the entire planet; the effects are not evenly distributed.
This is Volkswagen, so they actually got 20km and the rest was measured rolling downhill with the engine off.
Occasion-related giving is madness on a finite planet. It is one of the main drivers of the waste economy. We buy things people don't need and exchange them for things we don't need. I refuse, on principle, to buy or…
That is a work of stunning arrogance and foolishness. Math is a game we play in our heads that represents a fictionalized ideal version of reality. An alien intelligence might have realized that two plus two never…
I am dissapoint.
And that is the killer app! When you have 3 dozen 4GB DDR3 SIMMs sitting around doing booger all, it is overwhelmingly tempting to get a card like this, if it is priced aggressively, and run something really fast.…
Cheating... I'm not sure that word means what you think it means. Give a quiz that can be completed in your own time over the course of a week. That sounds more like an assignment to me. So... the cheating was violating…
I came across an "Eight Sleep" unit, which is a high-tech system for cooling a mattress topper. Apparently, someone had problems with leaks in the topper section and threw it out. I took it apart. It has a custom ARM…
Because market research has discovered that many customers are not price-sensitive, even when it makes no sense. Some people with limited means do not even look at prices. The ready availability of consumer debt allows…
One aspect of basic biology that is almost invariably neglected when discussing the possibility of the continued existence of cryptids like Homo floresiensis is that there must be an isolated breeding population. Plate…
They fixed it. Possibly indicative that someone from the USGS reads this website.
When are we ever going to learn that our activities are needlessly destroying the planet? Make a phone. Sell it. Make it repairable and upgradeable. Let people keep it for a long time. The only drawback is the company…
You need to make an account and then you find out you have to put in a credit card just to try it out? Oh, heck, go fuck yourself with a sharp cactus!
"You will be eaten by an aurochs. We don't know what that means."
I spent my childhood worrying about a nuclear attack on my city and now I find out that we didn't even make it to the map? I am disappoint.
We often exclude obvious apects of natural selection in these studies. In this case, the decision to have children during a pandemic may be indicative of a predisposition to poor mental functioning in the parents, which…
This man is illiterate.
It's matter and it's dark, but that means it's dark matter, not Dark Matter. That matters.
Or, and this is radical, we could just stop buying cheap Chinese-made crap like inflatable Halloween decorations made from petroleum products and shipped across the sea using bunker oil. Or, we could pass strong…
Why is learning anything so damned hard? Mainly because we are monkeys to whom a reasonably accurate reductive analysis can be applied if we label the axes "asshole" and "idiot". It was a good blog post by a reasonably…