we're flying aboard SpaceX Transporter 10 from Vandenburg SFB in California.

it was fun meeting c_hawkthorne in person!

I'm at SpaceOps 2023 in Dubai, where I just gave two presentations (my colleague couldn't make it so I presented his paper as well since I was a coauthor).

The most amazing thing is that as I was wandering around the conference afterwards, meeting people, I'd go to introduce myself and they'd tell me they'd attended one of the two presentations and wanted to talk about it. Super crazy feeling.

here's a representative sample:

In my case, a satellite mission patch (image / physical embroidered patch / stickers / etc), representing a particular satellite mission that I've worked on / flown.

I drive a 2017 BMW i3 with a gas-powered range extender. It has a 33 kWh battery. I bought it used. If I drive at 70-75 mph on the freeway, I get about 100 miles of electric-only range before the range extender needs to kick in. If I drive slower, or have a higher mix of city driving, I can reliably get 120 miles. If I'm only driving in the city, that number can go even higher. And I'm not a hypermiler--I drive it like the hot(ish) hatchback it is, though I'm very good at using regenerative braking.

I (believe I) am a typical car commuter. On office days, my commute is about 40 miles round-trip. On the weekend, it's not uncommon for me to have a 100-mile day in the car--charging outside the house is optional.

Based on my last year's worth of driving, my little go-kart is about 96.5% EV (14,000 miles driven). I burned about a dozen gallons of gas last year (including 2 road trips >250 mi). I'd say 96.5% of my driving is not a "will we make it dance".

For about $10k more I could've had a 2019 i3 battery-only EV with a 42 kWh battery with 150 miles of range and accomplished the same thing with a dozen fewer gallons of gas. For the same price, I could have had a new Chevy Bolt with 250 miles of range.

I think people tend to buy cars for their edge use cases (I'm going to go on so many road trips!) and over-index on convenience (but right now I've got a 500-mile gas tank! I only have to go to the gas station every 10 days!). Yes, it's easier to say because I park in a garage at night where I've got a level-2 40A charger, but a $25k (new!) Chevy Bolt with 250 miles of range could be fast-charged (DC/level-3) once a week in the time it takes you to do your grocery shopping.

Live updates w/ a map, unlocked for non-subscribers

...as a service

https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2019/05/usc-rocket-propulsion-laboratory-shatters-student-altitude-record/

as an aside, after seeing this, I tried to open Samsung Health on my phone (I have a samsung smartwatch) and learned that I'd been signed out.

To sign in again I have to provide my phone number, which Samsung will use to "help my friends find me".

I used to be pro-fitness tracker because I was interested in gathering my own heartrate data but I've realized I made exactly one project with it in 3 years and the only reason that I've been wearing it now outside of running/exercise is because until I can afford that sweet sweet Grand Seiko GMT it's my only watch that can display both local and UTC... (and even so, my Alpinist's rotating bezel can be used for that...)

FYI you left a name reference in there bl00, 4th para

Hubski Chat was truly timely. Thanks mk!

For what it's worth, I just walked by the local Episcopal church on my way to the grocery store (yes, grocery shopping is an allowed activity under this shelter-in-place order, as is running/walking/hiking for exercise, en fait).

They had a sign on the door saying all services had been moved online until further notice.

So no, religion doesn't have to be the problem.

ah, right, good call.

Just came back from a trip to Europe! Saw veen and birchbarkcanoe and had a multitude of adventures!

I'll post a trip report soon-ish. Should be a good one.

Fell off the wagon of regularity for a couple of years. Hope to keep it up for a while longer this time!

In 1893, the US Supreme Court ruled that a tomato is a vegetable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden

Work

Week and a half left of classes, then a week we call "dead week" around here, and then finals week. The home stretch. We're building mapping software in my CS class for the final project, which is pretty neat. Uses OpenStreetMap XML data and stuff.

Playful work

Rockets! More rockets! Rockets all around! also there's an election tomorrow for leadership in that club so please vote for me in your heads

Coffee

Sermon from Verve Coffee Roasters. MmmmmmMMmmmMmmmmm.

Life

Feeling good. Tired, but hanging in there. Visiting my girlfriend and other close friends in New England in less than 50 days!

It's sunny outside. Maybe I'll take a walk later.

Ruleset proposition WEIRD-QUORUM

Terms defined:

  ruleset number as N in form: N.m.o
  rule number as m in form: N.m.o
  subrule as required as o in form: N.m.o
  ruleset proposition: unratified ruleset
  ratified ruleset: ruleset already approved
  immutable and mutable rules: as stated on the Wikipedia page about nomic games
  player: human user of Hubski subscribed to #hubnomic
  vote: statement of support for the ratification of a ruleset proposition
  shall: must, required, mandatory
  parent post, child comment.

2.2 all new ruleset propositions shall be incremented plus one from the parent post (eg all ruleset propositions on this post should start with 2)

2.3 ratification of ruleset propositions shall occur 96 hours after the post of the next ruleset under the following conditions:

2.3.1 voting shall occur on a specific version of a ruleset proposition, i.e. changes may be discussed but players should not vote for a child comment containing a ruleset proposition unless they agree with it in its current form

2.3.2 changes to a player's ruleset proposition shall be at the discretion of the player proposing the proposition

2.3.3 changes to a player's ruleset proposition can be made at any point but votes shall count for the ruleset which is quoted in a vote

2.4 votes shall contain the word "Ratify" under a quote of the version of the ruleset proposition they wish to ratify

2.5 ruleset propositions shall contain a unique identifying term at the top which shall change if the proposition changes to make vote counting easy (i.e. ADJECTIVE-NOUN)

2.6 at the end of the 96 hour period marked by the post time posted in ratified rulesets, the ruleset proposition contained in a child comment with the most votes counted using the above method shall be ratified

2.7 ratification shall occur when the next post by entity hubnomic is created in #hubnomic with an incremented ruleset number.

2.8 terms used in rulesets and ruleset propositions shall be defined in the post unless the term already exists.

2.9 edits shall be detailed below the post

edits: added 2.9, changed wording from 'will', 'must', and 'should' to all use 'shall' per my own rules...

yeah that was me, hope you guys don't mind. I just don't want to post unnecessarily under my own banner, plus then the history of hubnomic could be seen directly in hubnomic's post history.

Nomic is a game created in 1982 by philosopher Peter Suber in which the rules of the game include mechanisms for the players to change those rules, usually beginning through a system of democratic voting.

... rules are divided into two types: mutable and immutable. The main difference between these is that immutable rules must be changed into mutable rules (called transmuting) before they can be modified or removed. Immutable rules also take precedence over mutable ones. A rule change may be:

    the addition of a new mutable rule
    an amendment to a mutable rule
    the repeal of a mutable rule
    the transmutation of a rule from mutable to immutable
    or the transmutation of a rule from immutable to mutable

Besides my parents? or my brother? birchbarkcanoe. She's pretty awesome.

I'm loving the updates, cgod - best of luck to ya

and hey, good that you're learning to do some of the servicing yourself. that should keep things running smoothly.

#cgodscoffee ?

Congratulations cgod! I'm super excited to hear how things go down the road. Just got into specialty coffee this past year (and roasting my own beans thanks to ecib's popcorn popper guide putting the idea in my head) and actually convinced the school to fund my coffee club (so now I get a budget, and some extra equipment......hehe).

Let me know how things work out. I'd love to come by your shop next time I'm in Portland, though who knows when that'll be haha :)

Also, I would be absolutely chuffed if you wouldn't mind switching the stars on one side to the little dipper. I'd do it myself but I just opened illustrator to find that my CC account has lapsed.

In a way, it's a one way street, innit? Once you put two and two together, there's no separating them again.

ever.

I see absolutely nothing wrong with that sentence--after all, sometimes you need long sentences to break up the flow of a paragraph (and in any case, it seems that this semicolon use is exclusively a choice the author made to articulate and punctuate a point)--but you do bring up an interesting point, namely, #animmensepileoffilth.

Sentences, man. Sentences.

Dolphins are extraordinarily garrulous. Not only do they whistle and click, but they also emit loud broadband packets of sound called burst pulses to discipline their young and chase away sharks. Scientists listening to all these sounds have long wondered what, if anything, they might mean. Surely such a large-brained, highly social creature wouldn’t waste all that energy babbling beneath the waves unless the vocalizations contained some sort of meaningful content. And yet despite a half century of study, nobody can say what the fundamental units of dolphin vocalization are or how those units get assembled.

There are no two shared prime factors

#theydidthemath

#hubskiemergencyservices

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