This is something that has always bothered me about roadkill animals (esp deer which are particularly prevalent as roadkill in my area).

Its my understanding that the hide can remain in good and usable condition for days to weeks after the animal’s death. It seems that this could be a decent source of blankets and other light-medium cold weather gear.

I’d imagine it largely comes down to the skinning process. The internal organs of dead animals are supposed to get real gross real fast (and that’s in the best case scenario - if anything ruptured when they were hit, then the grossness increasing exponentially) and removing those is the first step towards skinning. Additionally, everything in harvesting the hide would need to be done by hand.

But boy, if we could build one of those Boston dynamics bots to do it…

"Yeah Facebook, I’d like to report this post.

Reason: I’m in it and don’t like it"

Neat write up. Author included some resources for how he learned to reverse engineer some of the things in the file format. Def saving those off for later perusing.

It appears to be a widely circulated fan art, appearing on her page of the Fandom Wiki (though Tetsuya Nomura may be an official artist for FFX).

Point is that its accredited to an artist, so it would seem the missing teeth was intentional?

So Harry Turtledove’s Worldwar series explores an invasion of Earth by small ish reptilian aliens.

My head canon for the aliens and they’re differences in culture from humans is that they basically came from pre-meteor Earth and evolved from real velociraptors (which as I understand, were actually only about 3 ft/1 m tall, and were considered the most intelligent/pack forming dinos of their time).

Its an interesting series (if something of a bizarre premise).

I’m out of practice with my physics so apologies if this is a n00b question, but:

I’m unclear what (rho V) is and how you converted to that from mass (m). Further unclear what (rho A d) refers to.

Can you explain / link to an explainer on this?

Is there actually a way to do mapping (like google maps) with Vim? Or am I reading too much into the meme?

So there’s obviously alternatives like Mullvad and AdGuard, but those have the potential to evolve into the same corporatist setup as google and cloud flare.

Are there any decentralized solutions that one could use to replace these? The structure of DNS says to me there probably isn’t, but looking to see if you know something I don’t.

Malicious VPN is FreeVPN.One

Maybe shouldn’t be trying to save people clicks, but I would have appreciated this in a top comment.

bUt ItS mIlITaRy GrAdE eNcRyPtIoN!!1!

I want to make a joke, but 25% detection rate is better than some people I know who get paid to look for malware ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Very nice writeup. Don’t have the time to fully read, but did a quick skim. Def saved for later reference though.

You sound like you might have the latest news on the 30% tax credit. Do you know how much longer that’ll be a thing/what you’d need to do now to get it?

This is good info and makes sense. Thanks!

So I’ve heard a typical set up is still dependent on grid power (typical set up => able to push power back to the grid), and so during a power outage, you still lose power at your home. Its my understanding one of the components required for the hook up to The Grid requires continuous power (in case you need to push/pull power from the grid) and since it can’t guarantee power from your panels, it gets that power from the grid (thus grid goes down, your whole home’s power goes down.

Don’t suppose you know more about this or can explain why this is/isn’t the case? This setup seems unintuitive and undesirable to me, and so I’d love to have proof that’s not the case, if it exists.

Can you explain how/why its the same?

My instinct says its actually trying to reach 127.1.0.0 (which is still local host), but that’s an educated guess at best.

Edit: Question was answered later on thread

Yeah, it (in my case, ChatGPT) has been great for helping me along with functions I’m only passingly familiar with / trying to use in new ways.

One that I was really surprised with was that it gave me a surprisingly robust, sensible, and (seemingly) well tuned-to-my-case check list of things to inspect for a used car I intend to buy. I’m already mostly familiar with what I’m doing there, but it pointed to some things I might’ve overlooked / didn’t know were points of concern for the specific vehicle I’m looking at.

TL;DR: Cancer is coming for us all.

So what I’m hearing is we just need to return to tradition and start curing our own meats in our backyard smokehouses?

Looks unpleasant but generally not dangerous.

I think that’s the point he was trying to make.

Damn it.

Could we perhaps grow a whale in the vacuum of space?