It’s more like 3 really wide pixels.

I haven’t had the courage to run executable code from P2P networks since the early 2000s. Even then it was probably a bad idea.

I’m just documenting how the world is, not how it should be. In general women can form relationships passively (be excellent and accept/reject offers), while men have to engage in active pursuit, or else nothing happens.

Yeah, I think some people are born with an innate desire to understand how things work. It’s possible to recognize it in toddlers, based on observations within my extended family. Our society would be enriched if we were better at recognizing and nourishing that trait when it appears in women.

I don’t think “anyone” can excel in STEM, but there are likely a lot of women (and to a lesser extent men) who potentially could, but fail to get the right exposure at a young enough age.

I would like to think that my biggest accomplishments (at a major tech company for 10+ years) happened through making good technical/ideological arguments, listening to people’s problems, and telling computers how to fix them, rather than my physical appearance. Whenever they asked me to be a manager, I was like “ugh, no that sounds awful.”

Then after 15 months of COVID isolation, I burned out and left. Now I’m thinking it’d be nice if I’d learned how to approach women and do standard masculine things. The world doesn’t just give you sex for excelling in school/work.

I guess my point is that a patriarchal society makes it difficult for men who don’t actively pursue power over others to form relationships.

My thought while watching the movie was:

Wow this “patriarchy” concept is intriguing. It seems like it would be really useful if I hadn’t gone through life avoiding any kind of power or responsibility.

SMOKING WORDS CAUSES CANCER

You are 10% hydrogen already.

Between 2017 and today, it was a mostly-blank page with the letter “x”: https://web.archive.org/web/20230722020649/http://x.com/

Wikipedia says ± 525 kV DC. They’re sending 1.4 GW a distance of 765 km. Previous record was the North Sea Link at 720 km.

BL-5C is becoming a de facto standard size for random electronics, but it’s too small for a smartphone.

It is straightforward to run an isolated network with TCP/IP, DNS, and web servers. The hard part would be dealing with software that complains/fails if you’re not using HTTPS.

In general, you would want an offline copy of the entire software stack (e.g. a Gentoo Linux mirror) so you can patch whatever problems you encounter.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It is possible to smooth PLA using ethyl acetate, but I don’t know if that’s good enough for food safety, plus you have to remove the ethyl acetate itself.

PLA won’t survive in a dishwasher. PETG might, but there are no reasonable solvents for smoothing PETG.

Maybe it’d be best to print a mold in PLA, smooth with ethyl acetate, clean thoroughly, and then pour silicone into the mold.

The best you can realistically do is vote for people who care about solving the problem, and against people who ignore the problem.