Let’s do a 10 minute AMA. Haven’t done one in a while.
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Designed a strut for my A-class tube that proved too big to print on my 3D printer. Back to drawing board.
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Any progress on tube world?
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Actually have a full outline for 1 novel, but not feeling it, and a first chapter I’m really feeling for another in same universe but no plan. Caught between plotting and pantsing.
But what the hell, let’s say 2024, by 50th birthday 💪
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Full work of fiction when?
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Grindset
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What’s ur plan to make it through august
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Went to school at U. Michigan near Detroit. Ribbon farms were historically how land was parceled in Detroit due to French influence, and I liked the metaphor of shared water access topology. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_fa
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any particular reason for name ribbonfarm?
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On Tuesdays and Thursdays
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Are you happy?
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Probably same as today, but larger? Seems kinda stagnant technologically but gaining pie-share steadily.
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What will be the place for Bitcoin in the world in 10 yrs
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I’d say take my course, but tbh I think “writing skills” cache has been invalidated and we’re all screwing around trying to figure out what works post-Weirding. I don’t think anyone knows.
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How would you recommend becoming a better writer (esp. for online/blog format)?
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That a critical mass of people actually shared my interest in evolving an online hangout devoted to tinkering/studying together rather than socializing or grand change-the-world vision shit. It’s been very rewarding.
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What’s surprised you about the yak collective?
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Not really big on movies. More a TV show guy. Station 11 would top my list. Fresh, not a reboot of 80s/i0s things. Feels post-Weirding relevant, not out of touch. If you must have a movie, I quite enjoyed Jurassic World: Dominion.
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A good recent movie?
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Fermi estimate: Earth area is ~360m km^2, and average cloud cover is 67%, so 240m km^2. Discrete clouds seem to range from about 10deg arc to unbroken continent size in sat photos. Guess average is 30 deg at 3000m, so ~2km across. Assume square cloud, so 4km^2, so 60m clouds. twitter.com/CyberneticMelo
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American: peel with knife, 0.25” latitude cuts. Loose-skinned varieties: hand-peel, eat longitude segments with skin, but remove stringy bits first. Never juice. Chinese restaurant wedges are just sadism, but actually peelable if you must eat. Do not suck on it like a psychopath.
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best way to eat an orange
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Let’s find out. Vote on poll in next tweet, random people.
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You're playing RPS with a completely random person. You think he's gonna pick what he thinks is the most clever option. Which option do you think that is?
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Poll: Your move in rock-paper-scissors
- Rock39.6%
- Paper31.7%
- Scissors28.7%
268 votesFinal results
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It’s been steady bullish at same level since 2017. Between 2014 when I first bought in, and 2017, I had stakes, but didn’t really pay enough attention to have a strong opinion.
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Revised your Blockchain bullishness?
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TikTok?
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how would a shameless yet non sociopathic idiot be successful in modern contemporary life
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Not stalled, but not galloping along either
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How are your books coming along ?
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I don’t know that there is one, or whether or not the question is well-posed enough to be interesting. It’s not personally interesting to me, but I sometimes think about it because I’m curious why other people seem to care so much. No conclusions yet. twitter.com/carnegiepilled
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