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Going to be a long "day" Friday night. They've got me down to work from 9:45PM Friday to 11:45AM Saturday (local) for the LUCY launch. Why are these things always o-dark hundred, or the weekend?
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So I finally escape my office today only to find firesky* outside. No news of a brushfire that I can find, and we’ve had no wind to speak of. No smoke smell either. No idea what’s going on. Just more weird weather sh..tuff I guess.
*”firesky” is caused by a high-altitude layer of smoke, soot, or smog that turns the sky orange. It usually is caused by a large-scale fire, such as a forest fire, somewhere nearby.
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I got 100%.
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I can hardly wait! (Order status is still at "assembly".)
System76’s updated 15-inch Pangolin laptop ships with Ryzen 7 5700U CPU -
“Earlier in the year, the Northwest experienced a historic heat wave, which set all-time temperature records and contributed to hundreds of deaths. This week's heat wave, focused instead on the Southwest, won't be as extraordinary, as wildfire smoke can block some of the hot sun, but it can still be dangerous.”
IOW, the sun would have made it super hot, but it won’t get that bad because the smoke from the wildfires will block some of it. Kind of a good news / bad news thing going on there.
For the record, it was already over 90F on the patio here by 9:30am today.. and that’s on the shady side of the house!
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“Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac” vs “black flag sticker…”. A bit weird to parse since caddys aren’t exactly the status symbol they once were but I guess the point is there’s sellouts in every generation.
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When Tesla's AI research is making people like Lex Fridman and James Douma laugh and shake their heads in amazement you know the company is onto something.
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So Tesla announced they're getting into making 'bots. I just want to know, does it do laundry and wash dishes?
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Making baked garlic fries for lunch..
Yummy and something even I can handle! Without (much) risk of food-related sickness or injury I mean.
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Just yesterday I was reading that the drought in the southwestern US, to include the Colorodo river basin and the central California valley, has reached such a severe stage that soon many gigawatts of hydro power will be lost due to no water behind the dams. Going to be interesting to see if we can run the air conditioner here in the desert in a few months. Now I read that a recent heat wave in Greenland has melted enough of the glaciers there to cover Florida in two inches of water.
Glad climate change isn't a thing or else we might all be in deep trouble.
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@RZ. melting tundra is problematic. Buildings built on supposedly solid "perma"frost are falling over and/or sinking as the ground thaws. Then there's those craters. A lot of Alaskan islands and coastal areas are also in trouble as the ice that used to protect them from the sea disappears. Gotta pic my new homestead site carefully!
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Fully stacked!
Not since Apollo has anything this big sat on a launch pad.
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Something like that, though that would be more a New Shepard thing than a Starship thing.
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Drone + volcano + 4k = cool video.
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@Q-Tip amazing to see waves of liquid rock flowing like a river and crashing like water at the beach!
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Apple pie with whipped cream and raspberry syrup. If you have to ask about the calories then you probably don’t want to know but soooo good.
