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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I ran to the mailbox for these. Sad day. And yet, as others have said, “It felt inevitable.”

Popular Science was never the bastion of journalistic integrity, and yet this leaves me worried about print publishing in general. If a periodical can’t make it, what happens to print news?

Comment · 3 years ago
The people I know that have played it, have all dumped 1,000+ hours into it.
Comment · 3 years ago
There’s quite a bit of overlap, actually. For some reason all of the old hams want to do .NET applications, though.

I really think this is one of the reasons for the stagnation in the field.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
And yet I can show you image after image of treeless streets and sidewalks. Therefore, there is room for improvement.

Is it possible that Dallas has the largest urban forest in the US, because it has the most urban sprawl? (I know nothing of this urban forest claim).

Comment · 3 years ago
1) While, I can't personally speak (much) to walking around Dallas, I can speak quite a bit to walking around Austin, Texas. Walking around on a day that is 110º is doable, because the humidity is rarely ever that high, when the temp is.

2) Shade trees lower the temperature for the air under them, by as much as ten degrees.

Comment · 3 years ago
It’s possible that some trees might help that.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
I’m fairly certain that percentage will still be less than the number of minors, which no one has a problem with excluding in the same way.
Comment · 3 years ago
Early last month, I found myself turning to Yandex in a search for the out of print manual for a 1980s mobile radio. Google had nothing. Yandex had almost nothing. But it was enough to piece together an answer.
Comment · 3 years ago
You can frame this as a lack of political willpower, but that won’t get you closer.

China will have spent far less per commuter, in this process. Whether you want to chalk it up to the lack of certain standards in China, or onerous regulations in the US, doesn’t matter. End result will be the same. Just like Europe is not a fair comparison for the US, neither is China, or Siberia, for that matter.

Comment · 3 years ago
“If simply having a lawyer present made a conversation privileged, then every mobster would pay one to follow them everywhere and sit in the corner of the room.” ~ Opening Arguments
Comment · 3 years ago
Your character has a name, and even a portrait made by you, of your player's 3D model, but after those initial ten minutes of character creation, you basically never interact with the 3D character again. As soon as you begin the tutorial, you're floating in space in a ship. When you switch ships, the game unloads one model and loads the next. When your ship gets exploded, players see an escape pod. Then you get back in another ship.

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