The most crucial part of the process is that you and i will be the ones paying for the energy used for carbon capture, but the fossil fuel companies will be the ones profiting from selling the energy.

As someone with only a casual interest in 3d printing, are the open source 3d printers worth the effort it takes to make them vs buying one?

If I recall correctly (i.e., I’m talking out my ass), when people have late fees that continue to stack up, some percentage of people will decide to just stop using the library. This results in them keeping the books, and also removes them as customers. This ultimately costs the library more than they gain by having fees.

Also, there’s the saying “a fine is a price”. The idea is that by having a late fee, people are okay paying the late fee. Shame is often stronger than modest fees.

You just have to slowly start printing all the pieces for your own Von Neumann probe printer

Oftentimes, yes. Mine has a series of little rooms. They are often used by teens working on homework together.

In addition to what others said about the availability of the source code itself, there’s a whole legal framework around it.

A company could have code where the source is publicly available, but they still could say that you are not allowed to copy, fork, sell/distribute it. In that case, there wouldn’t physically be anything preventing you from doing it, which sounds strange, until you think about how that’s the exactly how it works for books, music, movies, etc.

There’s also an in-between for software that’s not publicly open source, but is open source to users. A company could sell you their software, and deliver it to you as open source code.

https://www.goral-shoes.co.uk/products/the-smugs-horween-natural-pre-order

Certainly out of my price range, lol. To make a long story short, though, sneakers (and all other athletic foam-based shoes) are inherently not durable, nor designed to be. To get long life out of footwear, you really need to wear more traditionally constructed (i.e., no foam) shoes or boots for 95% of the time, and save athletic footwear for when it’s needed. You don’t even really need foamy shoes for all athletics.

I’m lucky if I can get 700 km out of a standard pair of running shoes, but foamless (or foam-lite) “barefoot” shoes like xeroshoes have a 5000 mile warranty.

It’s okay for some items to be “wear items” while others are held to a different standard.

I think there has definitely been a huge increase in the use of merino wool. It’s nice and soft, doesn’t stink, and handles moisture well, but the fibers are so much smaller than most other types of wool, that they aren’t nearly as durable or warm.

I have wide feet, and I can’t stand having my toes squeezed. What you want to look for is a boot with stitchdown construction. Your most common decent boots have either a storm welt or a Goodyear welt (basically the same thing, but storm welt is better in wet conditions). This involves the upper material wrapping most of the way around your foot and stitching it to the welt (a strip of material around the perimeter of the boot) and the midsole. The welt is then stitched to the outsole. Replacing the outsole then just involves popping those stitches. A cross section of the boot turned sideways looks like a “þ”.

Stitchdown, on the other hand, rather than wrapping in on your feet, turns outward before being stitched down to the midsole and outsole. This results in more of a “D” shape, which is nicer for wide feet.

Not to shill a particular brand, but Jim Green has a lot of good boots (of the work and casual variety) as well as shoes that have a nice, wide toe box, and would be repairable/resolable by any cobbler.

I’m just now learning that “hollywood hills” is an officially delineated neighborhood, including some regular-people housing that’s not actually in the hills. Granted, I think the fire was up in the hills, though it was completely contained.

From the Hollywood hills? To their second or third houses

It depends on the level of humidity. In really humid areas, the dust basically fuses to surfaces rather than sitting on top of it. It’s a lot more annoying to clean.

You don’t like the British accents that swap the “tt” for a glottal stop? “Buh-ins”

There are a million of these throughout the US. I think it’s done intentionally as a shibboleth.

As others mentioned, the geoguessr community has a lot of resources, but it’s largely focused on locations on streets (cause the game is built on Google streetview). Things like streetsigns can really help narrow down a country.

As someone else mentioned, Open Source Intelligence (OSInt) is what you want to be looking for. Investigative journalism sites like Bellingcat actually show their work, which is really cool. For example, they wanted to find the location of a massacre in ethiopia, so they used an app called Peak Visor to match the topology of the mountains in the background to triangulate the position. There’s also tools to use the angle of shadows and things like that. They have tutorials on their site.

Relevant and interesting if you’ve never heard the story.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/great-feather-heist-180968408/

Your mistake is in what you are making your comparisons to. You can’t compare your solid wood bookcase to an Ikea cardboard bookcase, you need to compare it to the fancy brands that actually do make things from solid wood.

The rare occasion that “the thing” ends up being exactly what you needed is incredible, though.

Costco sells them as dog treats

To be fair, most English speakers probably wouldn’t know what to do if you told them the term in English, the Valsalva maneuver.