Blue_Morpho

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Godzilla (2014) was pretty good, except for Muto having that electromagnetic pulse weapon. Why would a biological evolutionarily develop such a thing? It's useless against Godzilla.

Only useful against technology really, and that seems so unrealistic. That's where it lost me, the convenience of a creature that can EM machines. So unbelievable....

Blue_Morpho ,

Electric eel? It stuns prey. If scaled up it would as a side effect cause an em pulse that would affect electronics.

Blue_Morpho ,

Yes! The anti mow people don't understand that your yard doesn't turn into a wildflower meadow if you stop mowing.

I spent hundreds of dollars on wildflower seeds and tiller rentals to get a wildflower meadow started.

5 years later and it's just weeds. And not nice weeds- It's 1/2" long thornbush weeds- perfect for spreading tics onto the local deer population.

Blue_Morpho ,

I still let it grow despite the weeds. But weeds is an understatement. As I said, it's thornbushes and they grow into impassible thicket. I have enough acres that I'm fine with it. But it's not something the average homeowner could allow to happen. It isn't child safe.

Blue_Morpho ,

I did that as a kid on occasion and have done it as an adult to relive my childhood.

Don't knock it until you try it. In the right proportions, the sugar of the jelly mixed with the fat of the peanut butter, creates PB&J flavored frosting.

For example eating a stick of butter is gross or eating a cup of sugar is too much. But mix them together and you get frosting which when spread on cake is amazing.

Blue_Morpho ,

That seems wrong. I underestimate my son's skills and therefore made him practice more than my daughter who was always in GT math.

If I had overestimated my son's math skills, he wouldn't be doing as well today.

Blue_Morpho ,

I miss Grammatik. It was so good at finding problems and I'm not sure if there's anything as good today 40 years later.

What software today will analyze your paragraph and report:

"Overstated and pretentious"

TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 05/18/1964 ( youtu.be )

The Animals record "House Of The Rising Sun" in one take at De Lane Lea Studios on Kingsway in London. The song would top the UK singles chart the following July and reach number one in America two months later. In 1999, the record was given a Grammy Hall of Fame Award

Blue_Morpho ,

I just went down the wiki rabbit hole:

Sky pilot was also the Animals? How did I not know that??

Eric Burdon's wife left him for Jimi Hendrix.

The guitarist for The Animals was Andy Summer who went on to The Police.

The bassist was Chas Chandler who left to manage Jimi Hendrix and Slade.

Eric Burdon was the Eggman in the Beatles I am the Walrus. There are two stories confirming it. One is from Malcolm McDowell with Eric being at Lennon's house for breakfast, and one story is racy. Although both stories could be true with the common thread being Lennon calling Burdon the Eggman.

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Despite what Lucille Bluth believes, vodka doesn't bad in a few days after opening bottle. Milk goes bad quickly.

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Unless you are at an extremely expensive or extremely small restaurant, their sauces come premade in a bag from Cisco.

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I'm hoping this gets adapted to cross compiling for all the retro handhelds.

I went through crazy hoops to get a native compiled Mario64 running on my Anbernic and the results were amazing compared to emulation.

This could bring a large library of N64 to every low end handheld.

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I bet like the emulator they "stole", they will use this software without even acknowledging the author.

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I followed this guide:

https://retrogamecorps.com/2020/12/28/guide-super-mario-64-port-on-rg351p/

It was tricky both because the website that retrogamecorps linked sometimes didn't work and there are many variations of the SM64 ROM that all play identically but the website that reads your ROM only works with one particular version. I downloaded several before I found one that worked.

Blue_Morpho ,

While I agree that ROM + emulator is best for preservation, you absolutely can fix the space invader bug because you have the C code which would let you add in delays. Just like there are many versions of Space Invaders for different consoles an none of them use emulation but play like the original. I'm a fan of si78c, a memory accurate reimplementation of the 1978 arcade game written in C.

Of course Space Invaders wasn't written in C so this new tool doesn't apply.

But the article does talk about how the decompiler sometimes introduces bugs and how they were manually fixed before compiling.

So you were right but the problem you brought up has already been addressed. (And will continue to need to be addressed as more cross compiling bugs are found in each game.)

I interpreted the word "legacy" the OP used as the fandom for old games rather than perfect preservation.

Blue_Morpho ,

I was very pro nuclear but in the past few years, solar+batteries have become cheaper than nuclear. We can go 100% solar + batteries for less than building nuclear and save the uranium for important things like spaceflight.

Blue_Morpho ,

Lithium production has dramatically less environmental impact than coal mining.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster

Sodium just went large scale grid installed:

https://cnevpost.com/2024/05/13/china-1st-large-sodium-battery-energy-storage-station-operation/

But for grid, even ancient nickel iron batteries are fine. Lithium is only needed for mobile device (car/bike/laptop/phone).

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So if you type cats but the item is called pets get no results. Now the ai can find context based matches in the auto complete list.

Google added context search to Gmail and it's infuriating. I'm looking for an exact phrase that I even put in quotes but Gmail returns a long list of emails that are vaguely related to the search word.

Blue_Morpho ,

It shouldn't even automatically fallback. If I am looking for an exact phrase and it doesn't exist, the result should be "nothing found", so that I can search somewhere else for the information. A prompt, "Nothing found. Look for related information?" Would be useful.

But returning a list of related information when I need an exact result is worse than not having search at all.

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It's near the bottom. The Libyan Haftar family is paying Russia.

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Regular heatpumps are mounted that low too.

Where do you live that you get 4" of standing water when it rains?

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People trashed Last Jedi for everything but that. That was the one highlight and people were upset it wasn't followed up on in Rise of Skywalker.

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It was such a weird transition from Q being fearful of Guinan to Guinan's only power being vague feelings about timelines.

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People started listening to Beverly so Q just turned her into a dog to stop it!

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5b341b60-0be6-49f2-89ff-4354a901be37.jpeg

Blue_Morpho ,

An alternative to vinegar is citric acid. You can buy it as a tub of crystals so it's much cheaper because you aren't paying for water. It's great because you can add more teaspoons to water to make it stronger than vinegar. Plus it doesn't smell bad like vinegar.

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Sorry, I got mine on Amazon.

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It's really good on rust. I used it on some 50 year old tools and they came out of a 2 day soak looking new.

I have since learned about better rust removal chemicals from Adam Savage and Project Farm on YouTube but the citric acid has worked well for me.

Blue_Morpho ,

If you want rage, Midwesterners put marshmallows in pistachio pudding and call it salad.

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It's a great dessert. But Midwesterns treat it exactly like a lettuce salad. Like you go to a buffet and people will put pistachio/marshmallow pudding on their plate next to their steak.

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Reminder:

Steve Buscemi is not a Brown Shirt.

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If you want to up your game for your next party, try hex paper.

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A party typically includes a fighter, magic user, thief and cleric.

What party did you think I was referring to?

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I don't understand Dylan but I believe he was lauded because of other musicians looking for anything new. Dylan pioneered the 3 minute song as a short story. So if you are a pop artist struggling to write a new song, it opened up lots of new ideas.

Dylan called his technique his crutch in writing "4th Time Around" to Lennon about Norwegian Wood copying Dylan's style.

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This is different because it wasn't like his jail time was delayed at sentencing.

Instead, unlike standard sentencing, he was allowed to ignore the sentencing until AFTER his appeals.

You know how every criminal in prison spends their free time in prison working on appeals? They would all be free if the US justice system treated them like Steve Bannon.

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It depends on whether Sisyphus has learned calculus.

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$270 includes everything like Keurig coffee pods, ground beef, and laundry detergent- not just vegetables.

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Those fertilizers in turn are mainly made from Oil,

Fertilizer is not made from oil. Oil/gas is used to power the factory but that doesn't make the farming unsustainable.

Because if you use the criteria of where we get our energy from, home gardening isn't sustainable either because your house is powered by oil/gas.

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Imagine instead of putting leaves into plastic bags to get shipped to a landfill, or burning, houses normalized having compost piles.

I appreciate your argument but there's no need to throw in a strawman. Leaves in plastic bags have been illegal in most US states for decades. Yard waste must be in paper bags.

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These states and cities have yard debris bans:

https://www.compostingcouncil.org/page/organicsbans

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Fertilizers are made from Amonia which in turn is made using the Haber-Bosch process which requires fossil fuels to provide the necessary energy and as reactants

That's exactly what I said! Fertilizer is not made from oil. The factory is powered by oil. Just like your home where you garden is powered by oil.

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Oil and Natural gas are not required. Ammonia is nitrogen and hydrogen.

It is why solar powered fertilizer factories exist.

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/small-green-ammonia-plant-farm-kenya#:~:text=A%20small%20fertilizer%20plant%2C%20built,applied%20to%20crops%20as%20fertilizer.

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It's a trick question. You also need to factor in special relativity or you don't get in.

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If all jazz was like this, I could say I like jazz music.

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That wind is coming at us at almost a million miles per hour

To be fair, it's only a few scattered atoms. The astronauts on the moon didn't have to fight through a hurricane.

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So if I get some to agree that fire is only flame from wood grown from trees native to Israel, then I can barbecue on Saturday and it's Kosher.

( The idea being that if rules are allowed to be interpreted, then they can be interpreted into anything. If electricity is fire (many Jewish sects say yes), then my sect can say oxidized propane isn't fire and also be correct.

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Jewish interpretation isn't that electricity is fire,

Unfortunately that was original the interpretation. It has since been amended into "building a circuit" and/or "doing work" as explanations. Of course neither of those hold up because turning on a water tap or turning a door knob aren't prohibited.

So there is no basis for following laws. It's only tradition and tradition can be however you define a word.

BBQ can be declared as not cooking by definition just like turning on a cold water faucet is declared as not work by definition.

Blue_Morpho ,

I've always hated recursion. It's always seemed like a cutesy programming trick that's not reliable in all conditions.

You could blow the stack in an edge case that you didn't think of. So it should never be a standard pattern. It's only good if you need to rewrite something for optimization and recursion is appropriate. But in many cases recursion is slower.

"Look at what I can do in 5 lines of code!" is for programming contests, not for anything important.

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