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Sometimes you build community by simply being the first to organize something – anything.

Simple example: it’s really hard to find a D&D game to join sometimes. But if you start a new table (and offer to DM), then you’re flooded with prospective players immediately.

The whole “if you build it, they will come” angle works provided you’re willing to put the effort in.

Killed by big business

In conclusion, he wanted 12002 spears, ±1.

Progress :)

The dunes threatening but not inundating it. Very cool

Too busy with other addictions. Video games. Social media. Etc.

Very cool style. Looks like some weird alien in amber or something.

Well, ignoring climate change for a moment. The Sun is still the source of the heat, but it is more or less constant. The atmosphere is just the tin foil around the potato.

Put another way: if the sun were to vanish, the earth would cool very quickly. Probably we’d all be dead within a month. I’ve never run that calculation. Would actually be fun to do the calculations. But the sun can’t just vanish, so ultimately it’s navel gazing.

I presume your comment was related to climate change and atmospheric composition though.

I can hear this photo

Until I start seeing combat footage, I’m assuming they still aren’t in theatre.

As a former slackware aficionado, I’d have to say that the general mood of the users and development team was super chill. Hell, the name slackware comes from “slack”, the goal of the Church of the SubGenius. The whole thing is a meme that’s been going steady for decades.

I had the privilege of meeting Patrick and much of the core Slackware group at the KDE 4.0 release party. They are all awesome.

I can expect that users that tolerate the Slackware style are also those that are pretty laid back to begin with. Probably they were happier people already, and using slackware just vibes with them.

Hell, depending on what you’re doing, reading it into a numpy array instead of a panda dataframe will yeild huge performance gains too.

Been meaning to try polars… Haven’t had a good excuse yet :)

Or scholarships (once you have a few on your resume, you find it much easier to win more). Or grants.

All those professionals competing in amateur Olympics really messes with the concept though, eh?

Furthermore, many countries reward medalists with a small bonus. In Canada, for example, you get something like $10-20k ($CAD) per medal. Not a lot, but you can probably cover a month or two of expenses. Being an athlete isn’t cheap.

Or, looked at another way: everything we’ve ever thrown in the ocean… Is still in the ocean. Space junk seems unique because it is moving. But really we’ve been discarding crap wherever for all of human history.

Parking lot?

More of an engineering problem – see the subfield of engineering called “statics”. Physics has equations for everything here, but the specific combinations of materials and geometry and so forth is solidly engineering.

Then, the route to go would be physical testing. As long as the load is not balanced in front of the front axel, the bike should be drivable. If it’s balanced in front of that axel, then you will have a real limit eventually where the back tire is no longer able to make contact with the ground. The load would have to exceed your body weight somewhat.

If you exceed that load, you’re probably fine on smooth ground. The welds in the frame are likely first to go. During an impact (bump in the road), engineering statics no longer applies, and you end up in dynamics. So you could load it up and it’ll be fine sitting in one spot, and then start pedaling and hit a bump and a joint crumbles or something.

Finally, the bike probably has a rated maximum rider weight listed by the manufacturer. If you just want to play it safe, find that number, subtract your weight, and go nuts.

If this were a D&D meme, I’d much prefer being at the latter table.

Yes, but they got rid of the submarines in the West Edmonton Mall.