Sculptus Poe

Calling it a low blow is mean to Steve or Christina. Best just to let it stand. Shelley won’t complain.

Well, these guys aren’t working, as far as I’m concerned, if they can do it without bringing out a mouse and real keyboard and probably a second monitor. (My laptop bag is pretty heavy.) They can at best be checking emails.

Definitely finding a cafe with a plug. I don’t want to be outside.

Co-pilot slowed down my work machine to near unusable, and they make it pretty hard to get rid of. I’m not anti-AI at all and I hate co-pilot because of how it was deployed. Windows in general got in the habit of hiding options from users and installing things like security that bogs down the computer more than helps but can’t be easily turned off.

(Just including the graph for reference. I’m not sure it helps with proper description or the answer the teacher was asking for, but you can see that from one direction it goes negative as you approach 8 and from the other it goes to positive infinity.)

Your words are true. I grew up catching fresh freshwater fish, but I would rather eat saltwater fish fresh or no.

I fed some crickets oranges before taking them to a demonstration speech I was giving for speech class. My demonstration was on making “crispy critters” which are rice crispy treats with dry roasted crickets. As an opener, I ate a live cricket (new personal fears of parasites would stop me from doing this now). The cricket tasted just like orange candy, because he had a belly full of oranges. It was better than my dry roasted crickets. I ate a cricket live out of the yard and it tasted like grass. They are what they eat. Even so, when you cook them, they dry up to the point that you are just eating their shells mostly.

So yes, you could make them salty if you drown them in salt water, but the muscle is the major part. We need to figure out how to make them get major gains. Little barbells maybe.

I guess regular bugs have way less need of muscle than swimming bugs. I have eaten crickets in a few different ways, and they never taste anything like shrimp. ALso, living in salt water pre-seasons the flesh maybe. That is my working theory. If we could figure out how to breed crickets that taste anything like shrimp, I would make them part of my diet and maybe even breed them.

dagnabbit

I offered to leave my senior design group and find another when they were going to build a system for the military as their project. They were nice enough to change it to an automated feeder.

Last time I played KOPNP2, I saw that you could pay for some stuff, but I never paid for anything. There was a lot of grinding, so maybe they purposefully slowed progress to make paying more tempting. I guess I didn’t finish the game, but I did get pretty far. That is very disappointing of them, though. (UPDATE: I just tried to play the game, and it put a big banner saying I have to upgrade and stops me from continuing my game, I went to the play store to upgrade, and the game is no longer “compatible” with my phone despite me playing for months before… So it is an even bigger problem than in game transactions)

Well, nothing is stopping the super soldiers, with or without open DNA. Most of those are not all that worrisome in any practical way, except employment and insurance. The only real answer for Insurance is single payer insurance at one price for everyone. The way we let insurance companies hold the noose around our necks in the US is flabbergasting. I don’t know for sure that the rest of the world is quite as good as all that, since I’ve talked to people of many countries and never heard one that didn’t have major complaints when they weren’t just trying to dump on the US. I do feel like the US is the worst of the wealthy countries anyway. If we could stop the insurance companies from having the leverage to hold us to the fire, open DNA could facilitate research on lots of medical treatments. So I guess, first put the insurance companies out of business permanently, then open source the DNA. Which I suppose means never at this rate…

I think everybody’s DNA should be open source…

Haven’t played Unciv, but the other two are ones I went long runs of addiction to. I would add Slay the Spire, Knights of Pen and Paper and Merge Maestro to that list.

They are in low orbit and meant to de-orbit at eol. It is better they do that than stay up there really. The article throws out a lot of fear mongering language then at least it follows up with the reasons it isn’t a problem mostly. Except they make it sound like these sattelites are hitting the ground , but really just some kind of space debree hits the ground. These are made to burn up and only one piece has ever been proven to hit the ground. That does mean it’s possible, but still unlikely to be a problem.

The moon takes up only around 0.00077% of the visible area of the sky. That’s a pretty small target. A deviation of .52 degrees from any point on the moon you are aiming from earth will miss.

I remember when mice were a neat new peripheral for use with graphical interfaces instead of typing in a command line.

Back in the 90s and early 00s when I was in HS and college, going to the video store and finding gems like this and watching them at midnight so I could return the tape the next day made movie watching much more of an adventure. I enjoy my streaming services, but might suffer a bit from too much choice. The closest I get now is when I watch some movie I never heard of because it is on Netflix’s removal list.

Time was when you would be in a forum and think “This is the second post in a row where nobody referenced Douglas Adams.”

We wouldn’t even know if He had to turn it off and back on again a couple times.