Fair points, I hadn’t considered the economic side of it; or even the mass beyond how it affects lift.

True, I hadn’t considered the economic angle at all!

Also for unmanned aircraft, using helium instead of hydrogen is just crazy

Is it? Hydrogen is about half the mass of helium, but the trick is what you’re displacing to generate lift.

1 cubic meter of air is around 1.2 kilograms, depending on a variety of factors.

1 cubic meter of helium is around 0.18 kilograms, displacing the atmosphere to generate about 1.02 kilograms of lift.

1 cubic meter of hydrogen is around 0.08 kilograms, displacing the atmosphere to generate about 1.12 kilograms of lift, a shade under a 10% increase over helium.

That can be significant, depending on other engineering constraints; but is it “crazy” different?

(Numbers will vary with temperature and pressure, back of envelope calculations, etc. etc.)

Why make it a grift? Start reaching out to them to check in after each rapture prediction, and you can get word-of-mouth business!

Hah, I meant why couldn’t the person who committed suicide ask for forgiveness at the pearly gates! What’s so special about being redeemed before death, instead of after?

I never understood why you couldn’t ask posthumously

I mean, it does need to happen.

It’s just part of a long list of other things that also need to happen

Wish Netflix still mailed DVDs, be nice to have another way to fill in the gaps.

Need to look at what DVDs the library carries…

Maybe - but the marketing that won’t affect you isn’t what you need to worry about. It’s the parts that do still work on you need to be careful of - and if you assume nothing will ever work on you, you won’t even notice when something does take. Whether that’s buying a trinket that doesn’t actually make you happy, or joining a group that turns out to be a cult.

Always better to assume you can be manipulated, and check in with yourself periodically.

This… strikes me more as self-aggrandizing than informative.

Yes, many technical folks are put off by certain marketing tricks. Good marketers just use different techniques when targeting people in this market, when they bother to at all.

We’re not immune to manipulation; and thinking that we are makes us more susceptible to it.

Just went through this with both kids… The word “need” always implies a goal. “I need x (to do y)”. Without context, the goal is generally either survival, or more often, comfort: “I need a drink.” “I need a break.”

When you’re speaking in the context of doing something, as superglue was, that becomes the implied goal. “I need those recommendations to automatically populate (in order for my wife to be comfortable using this)” is a perfectly valid use of the word “need”.

Ahh, fair point on the source. I should probably let myself wake up more before posting :P

You’re right though, it’s a weird “study”… feels more like a quick test I’d run locally to check my processes than anything with real rigor.

He wishes he was as cool as Scar!

… doesn’t it say Republicans claim similar spam from Democrats got through?

My main takeaway is the Republicans want to block Democrat messaging, and via projection, assume Google is doing the reverse.

Let us know how it goes!

I was thinking, what else can we rainbow up while they’re all looking at crosswalks?

Pretty sure this was just a play on the similar pronunciations between “Epstein files” and “Israeli pedophile”. It didn’t read to me as outrage bait or an expectation that Nevada should be releasing the files, just a joke that keeps the Epstein file conversation alive as a side effect.

AI will now supplement all interactions with the genius businessman

Teachers are generally awesome. But school boards and superintendents are almost stereotypically control freaks; and that’s who sets this stuff up. There are plenty of good ones too, but it’s not nearly as selfless a group as teachers.

Eh, or he decided to use his unique situation to illuminate how bonkers the situation has gotten.