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rayckeith

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writer, software developer, fan of "star (trek|gate|wars)", he/him, married, Esperantisto

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/16/us/daniel-perry-texas-pardon-recommendation/index.html

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We rented a Kia Soul to go visit my FIL and it plays a musical flourish when you start the car. And sad, lonely chimes if you leave the door open.

It's like driving a Nintendo Wii.

rayckeith,
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@cheribaker sounds like my fridge's ice/water dispenser.

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if someone can publish (this dreck I just read), then I should be able publish my book.

rayckeith,
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@jackwilliambell simulations have shown that something getting to the equivalent to best-seller status is based on chance (kind of a butterfly effect), but I only want a modicum of success.

rayckeith,
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@jackwilliambell seems like the pins were promoting him rather than his books?

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@jackwilliambell sorry I missed him. I'll check out his books.

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The Double-Edged Sword of List Building Promotions | Jane Friedman

"I learned about list-building promotions the hard way and want other authors to avoid this potential pitfall. Many book promoters run these types of contests. When the prime attraction in their advertising is the shiny new ebook reader, they inevitably will attract entrants who are only after the grand prize. Despite checking the box to receive author emails, they may quickly turnaround and unsubscribe from author emails they receive (or worse, report them as spam).

Also, all email service providers set qualitative standards to prevent people from building email lists that deliver spam and clutter subscribers’ email boxes. I’ve discovered that other providers’ standards are less restrictive than my provider’s limits. It’s important that every author is aware of what their provider’s tolerance level is for unsubscribes, bounces, and spam reports."
https://janefriedman.com/the-double-edged-sword-of-list-building-promotions/

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Quantum networks are closer to reality - The Verge

"Like the internet we know, quantum networks send information carried by light — in this case, quantum-entangled photons. But they need “repeaters” to prevent those photons from scattering across long distances, as light is wont to do, and the repeaters have to be able to send the photon without breaking its entanglement and modifying the information.

Harvard and AWS say the experimental nodes use cavities in diamonds that “trap light and force it to interact with quantum memories.” These nodes can be mass-produced with existing nanofabrication technology. During their experiments, the team took a qubit encoded into a photon and bounced it off a quantum memory in a Harvard lab."
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/16/24158365/quantum-computing-network-aws-amazon-harvard

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Template-Based Development Then and Now – NeoPragma LLC

"There’s an old saying: There’s nothing new under the sun. Maybe there’s something to it. Details change, but the general patterns of things remain consistent. The wheel keeps turning, and if you live long enough you see the same spokes come around again and again.

James Shore, a well-respected figure in the software development field and the author of the highly-regarded book, The Art of Agile Development, has developed an approach to software development he has called a pattern language for testing without mocks."
https://neopragma.com/2024/05/template-based-development-then-and-now/

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Wind farms can offset their emissions within two years | ScienceDaily

"After spinning for under two years, a wind farm can offset the carbon emissions generated across its entire 30-year lifespan, when compared to thermal power plants.

That's according to a new peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand -- which also shows within six months a turbine can generate all the energy consumed across its life-cycle."
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/05/240516122608.htm

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How did sabre-toothed tigers acquire their long upper canine teeth? | ScienceDaily

"Despite the relatively recent extinction of sabre-toothed forms 'only' a few thousand years ago, feline predators have in fact been in decline since the Miocene epoch (between -23 and -5 million years ago). "Some of these feline predators, particularly the sabre-toothed species, rapidly occupied fairly specialised niches, which made them more susceptible to extinction," explains Dr Tamagnini. This phenomenon, known as 'ratchet' or macroevolutionary ratchet, has been proposed as a potential driver for the decline of certain groups."
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/05/240516122644.htm

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Mars Express review: smart and stylish addition to the animated noir canon - The Verge
Andrew WebsterMay 3, 2024 at 7:00 AM PDT
https://www.theverge.com/24146379/mars-express-review-animated-sci-fi-gkids

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The best entertainment of 2024: movies, games, and more - The Verge

"we’ll be updating this page all year long as we continue to check out the latest in film, television, and gaming — so stay tuned."
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/24090208/best-entertainment-2024-games-film-tv-streaming

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"The similarity of the comments suggests an organized campaign. Attorney Jeff Jacobovitz, in an appearance on MSNBC, suggested that Merchan may hold a hearing over whether Trump has violated the gag order by directing his surrogates to make these attacks on his behalf. Jacobovitz noted that "if Trump is feeding information" to his allies, it would violate the gag order."

https://popular.info/p/is-trump-orchestrating-a-new-criminal

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The problem with #Upload tv series is when it's interrupted by commercials, they sometimes seem to be part of the show's universe. (e.g., Tushy brand bidets.)

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"While corporate landlords have long owned apartment buildings and other multifamily housing, advocates worry that as they encroach on single-family homes, they take away opportunities for homeownership and raise new concerns for tenants.

Once they buy the homes, single-family rental companies often prove to be bad landlords, critics charge. A 2022 study by federal lawmakers found that five major rental companies hiked their fees by 40 percent over a three-year period and saw their tenants fall behind in rent. In California, the state’s largest corporate landlord, Invitation Homes, was forced to pay $2 million in sanctions after the state attorney general found it was charging tenants illegally high rents."
https://kolektiva.social/@EricLawton/112448328589005619

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Election Countdown, 176 Days to Go: ‘Hot dogs. Let's talk about hot dogs.’

"2) And speaking of a guy in a bar …

Among Donald Trump’s virtues is that he does not drink. That is useful to remember in considering his current speaking style. On Saturday night Deb and I sat through the nearly two-hour entirety of his rally performance at Wildwood, on the Jersey shore, as televised by Fox. The whole thing is archived here, courtesy of Right Side Broadcasting."
https://fallows.substack.com/p/election-countdown-176-days-to-go

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"But I find it hard to picture the voter who—if not already a member of the MAGA minority—will get a fresh look at today’s Trump and think: Yeah, I’d like the next few years of news to be all about this! Jerry Brown told me years ago that shrewd politicians know that the public doesn’t always want to hear from them. Less is more. This is not Trump’s approach."

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"Here are just a few samples of what Trump said this weekend. As far as I can see, they went unmentioned in mainstream stories about the event. (“That’s just Trump.”)

Trump claimed at the start of the speech that “over 100,000 people” were there. “You can’t even see the end of the crowd.” Fox had earlier placed the attendance at “thousands” and, briefly, at “tens of thousands.” A huge crowd for a beach event would have been around 30,000.

More than an hour into his talk, Trump said: “You guys! Not a single person has left.” Photos from that time showed that most of the crowd had long since bailed. (The screenshot below is from a Xitter video by Zac Anderson, showing the thinning crowd.)"

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"He riffed at length about hot dogs. Some parts of the speech included “policy points” and details; these Trump was obviously reading, reluctant-schoolboy style, from a prompter. But whenever a point struck him as interesting he would light up and freewheel into an aside like this one.

The hotdog section was a fair sample of his improvisations. This is my best effort at a cleaned-up transcription. What’s below was all part of the same continuous passage, with nothing cut out:"

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(Trump said)

"Hotdogs, let's talk about hotdogs. I just had one actually. I just had one. It was very good. I hope it was. You know it was very good.

"Frank Sinatra told me a long time ago, never eat before you perform. I said I'm not performing. I'm a politician. If you can believe it, I hate to be called a politician. I like ‘I'm a businessman’ much better. But I guess I'm a politician.

"Because we did great in 2016. We did much better in 2020 A lot better. We had millions more of votes. So I guess, and this time, and I will say this, this spirit that we have this time blows both of them away. You know why?

"Because you still like me. But you saw what the alternative is. The alternative. It's just, the alternative is not a good thing.

"But I just had the best hot dog, so I said, Frank, I'm sorry.""

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(Trump said)
"Now Pavarotti was a good friend. [Out of the blue,] He didn't have that same. He ate all the time. He didn't care.

"But I just had a hot dog and it was very good. So the price of hot dogs is up 22%, chicken’s up 32%. Hamburgers are up 37%. That's why I had the hot dog. It went up the least.

"Eggs are up 50%, gasoline’s up 50%. Bacon is up 79% Bacon! That's why I don't have bacon anymore. So expensive. Not one thing is cheaper.

"There's not one thing anywhere, there's not one item that's cheaper. Energy is way up. That's what caused the problem."
(End Trump quote)

"The whole speech was like this. And I’m not even getting into the parts about Hannibal Lecter. Again, think if you encountered a person like this on the street. Also, remember the front-page coverage Joe Biden got for saying “President of Mexico” rather than “President of Egypt.”"

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"OK, here is one other part. It’s about how Joe Biden is no longer up to the job. I’m presenting it as one long paragraph, verbatim, because that is how it came across:
(Trump said)
“He [Biden] doesn’t know what the hell he is saying. Don't forget, he can't put two sentences together. He can't find the stairs off the stage. Let's see this stage when I'm finished. I got stairs there. I got stairs there. I got a nice ramp there. I got stairs. If it got really dangerous, I could jump off the front. You ever seen him when he's finished? He finishes the speech which usually lasts about a minute and a half. And he always goes like this [looking around] and then he doesn't know where he goes."

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(Trump said)
"But you know we have great people. Secret Service, they always run up on the stage and they lead him off the stage. But he wants to let our tax cuts expire. And I don't do that anyway. You know I don't imitate him anymore. Because I called my wife, our great First Lady, and I said: First Lady [he actually said this], we had a big speech. By the way, not as many people as this! This is like big record stuff on television. Even from the haters. They said this may be the biggest rally they've ever seen, a political rally.”"
(End Trump quote)

"We’ve all heard things like this. In bars. In public parks. In institutional care. We move away from people talking this way. Bill Barr, Mitch McConnell, JD Vance, the GOP as a whole think this person should be back in charge."

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Hahahahahhaha someone parked their cybertruck at the coffee shop and every single person who comes in is talking about how dumb it looks and the guy is sitting there fuming this is the best morning ever

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