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New comment by buildsjets in "FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive"

buildsjets — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:31:02 +0000

But that would be a false attribution. The Internet Archive did not create the index, Ben did. And the Internet Archive is not hosting the index, Ben is.

New comment by buildsjets in "Extremely Low Frequencies"

buildsjets — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:36:21 +0000

You are likely correct. That or in an abandoned looking tractor-trailer on one of the many rural properties surrounding the facility.

New comment by buildsjets in "Extremely Low Frequencies"

buildsjets — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:46:03 +0000

The Jim Creek VLF station, about an hour north of Seattle, briefly mentioned in the article, is still in operation.

I would have to assume that this building is pre-targeted by many megatons of advanced weapon systems.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/w9Sr4YkFbtfKf2Fh6

https://www.navy-radio.com/commsta/jimcreek.htm

https://www.cascadepbs.org/culture/2022/07/jim-creek-harbors...

https://www.historylink.org/file/20778

New comment by buildsjets in "Bliss (Photograph)"

buildsjets — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:16:50 +0000

Velvia is a color slide film. There is no negative to see.

New comment by buildsjets in "The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism"

buildsjets — Sat, 09 May 2026 21:27:26 +0000

Look, on a Cub Scout camping trip in 1987, my father the Scoutmaster drove two hours in the wrong direction on I-80 in Pennsylvania, trying to get home to New York. He had a caravan of about 5 or 6 cars following. They all communicated with CB radios. Nobody noticed until they got to the Ohio border.

New comment by buildsjets in "California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy"

buildsjets — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:54:13 +0000

The Grapes of Wrath.

New comment by buildsjets in "Ask.com has closed"

buildsjets — Mon, 04 May 2026 00:13:20 +0000

I’m not sure an unhealthy fascination with incest, underaged Catholic schoolgirls and see-thru mesh shirts constitutes an affirmative defense as parody. Also the whole thing was running on a university server, ‘twas simpler times.

New comment by buildsjets in "Ask.com has closed"

buildsjets — Sat, 02 May 2026 04:42:42 +0000

Oh my, I remember the time they sent a friend of mine a cease-and-desist.

https://web.archive.org/web/20001017194117/http://www.askgee...

New comment by buildsjets in "New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production"

buildsjets — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:31:39 +0000

People are represented by Representatives, real estate is represented by Senators.

New comment by buildsjets in "Bodega cats of New York"

buildsjets — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:22:23 +0000

You do not recall correctly. That's not an article about Seattle. It's an article about Spokane, which is little college town close to five hours away from Seattle. There was no legal judgement, and there was no municipal government action here. A private corporation raised their prices, and their customers reacted by trying to get more for their money. John Smith's invisible hand continues to sculpt our reality.

New comment by buildsjets in "Bodega cats of New York"

buildsjets — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:04:18 +0000

He's being overly dramatic, and it's not a "Judgment", it's simple economics. Seattle is basically out of landfill space, the Cedar Hills landfill is a 96.6% capacity, so all trash needs to be trucked out of state. To minimize the cost of doing that they encourage sending most of your waste stream to recycling or compost instead. Many of the local trash haul haulers provide nice large recycle and compost bins, but a tiny landfill waste container unless you pay extra, hence the necessary compacting and stomping. My hauler charges an extra $25 fee if the flip-down lid on the garbage container is not fully closed, and they send you a photo and video of your non-compliant container along with the bill.

Again, this is not a judgement or a mandate. You can pay for a larger garbage can or for a multiple garbage cans if you want to. But you have to pay for how your consumption habits impact the cost of disposal.

New comment by buildsjets in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

buildsjets — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:11:39 +0000

I have an experiment at work that is generating gaseous hydroflouric acid at 800 degrees F. It's inside a triple containment system that takes a full day to set up and take apart, and we have all sorts of quality checks to validate that it is safe to access and has been fully titrated after the experiment has run. We accidentally ruined a very expensive ion chromatography machine a few weeks ago... Acid gasses are just no fun to work with.

New comment by buildsjets in "Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive"

buildsjets — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:43:30 +0000

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (yes really) do this, but not just for people who buy tickets to the show. They have 444 concerts up on Archive.org for free to all.

https://archive.org/details/KingGizzardAndTheLizardWizard

Plenty of other artists have free concert archives at https://archive.org/details/etree

New comment by buildsjets in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

buildsjets — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:55:44 +0000

How comfortable are you working with chromic acid and boric-sulfuric acid in your home?

New comment by buildsjets in "More likely than not you're using bubble wrap wrong"

buildsjets — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:48:20 +0000

It always has been.

New comment by buildsjets in "How to get better at guitar"

buildsjets — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:01:50 +0000

I guess I am doing it wrong, I thought you become a guitar god by building the perfect pedalboard.

New comment by buildsjets in "Some Unusual Trees"

buildsjets — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:07:19 +0000

As an unusual tree I’ve always liked the Dawn Redwood, Metasequoia glyptostroboides. It was known only from fossil record and thought extinct until a small grove was found in a mountain valley in China in 1946. There was a wave of popularity and a bunch were planted worldwide, which are now mature and easy to find if you want to see one. They grow well and very quickly in cool to temperate climates. They have little tiny deciduous needle-leaves that don't need to be raked, and grow tall and symmetrical without spreading too wide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasequoia_glyptostroboides

I started 2 sprouts I bought by mail order, after one growing season they were nearly 3 feet tall. I got them mail order from Jonsteen Nursery, they have been specializing in various redwood saplings for many years. https://sequoiatrees.com/

New comment by buildsjets in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

buildsjets — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:38:44 +0000

And they have not edited it or taken it down... why?

New comment by buildsjets in "A Primer on Long-Duration Life Support"

buildsjets — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:53:35 +0000

A note on their section on fire extinguishing - just about all aerospace fire extinguishing systems use agents with a fluorine based chemistry. Putting out a fire dissociates some of the agent, and in the presence of humidified air it recombines and forms hydroflouric acid, which will eat you from the inside out. So your air scrubbers had best do a good job at removing acid gasses.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280646417_Acid_gas_...

New comment by buildsjets in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

buildsjets — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:35:45 +0000

Um, yeah. Welcome to the 21'st century, did you enjoy your long nap?