JustinTheGM

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[–] JustinTheGM@ttrpg.network 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The vegetable vampire one was Bunnicula!

[–] JustinTheGM@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 week ago

I'm gonna guess 17:25:20

[–] JustinTheGM@ttrpg.network 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not an "if" detector, it's a "how much" detector. It looks like it's using the LED chamber to light the film in a consistent way, and then the phone camera measures the color change to quantify how much radiation it was exposed to.

[–] JustinTheGM@ttrpg.network 2 points 4 weeks ago

Right, what I was suggesting was that the fact that it makes sense both ways might have been the reason the inventor settled on that name, as opposed to 'cabin logs' or something else.

[–] JustinTheGM@ttrpg.network 5 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

I'm curious whether that was intentional. The wiki article doesn't give any background on the choice of name, so I'd say it's entirely possible that the name is a play on Lincoln/linkin'.

It's also super cool that they were invented by one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons! One biographer claimed that Frank's middle name at birth was actually Lincoln and his mother changed it, so there's a possibility of that being an inspiration for the name as well.

Great post, thanks!

[–] JustinTheGM@ttrpg.network 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

That's what you'd call a negligent discharge, not accidental. The first time I saw the video of the thug taking Alex's gun, I immediately noticed and said, "Why the hell is his finger on the trigger?"

There is a concept taught to anyone handling firearms professionally: you DO NOT put your finger on the trigger until you are ready to fire.

[–] JustinTheGM@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 month ago

Aside from the marriage bits, I don't actually hate SB 371 (the sex ed bill). I don't really like how open it still is to manipulation by zealot teachers, but it's far better than an abstinence-only curriculum and any half-decent teacher should be able to explain the difference between a thing and the partially assembled version of that thing. Unless I'm missing something - I didn't see a quick link to the existing statute to get the full context.

[–] JustinTheGM@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 month ago

Even $1,000,000,001 is too much. I'd probably cap it somewhere closer to $10m, if we have to use money.

[–] JustinTheGM@ttrpg.network 4 points 2 months ago

One aspect to consider is exactly what data these devices are exfiltrating from your network. You usually can't see the contents of the telemetry sent, but given that a LOT of smart devices have cameras and/or microphones, do you really trust that your IoT devices are not sending back audio and or video recordings of the inside of your house?

[–] JustinTheGM@ttrpg.network 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's an interesting point, and leads to a reasonable argument that if an AI is trained on a given open source codebase, developers should have free access to use that AI to improve said codebase. I wonder whether future license models might include such clauses.

[–] JustinTheGM@ttrpg.network 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I always understood that phrase as more like "no point in half measures if the consequences are the same", because a lamb is a small sheep.

[–] JustinTheGM@ttrpg.network 3 points 4 months ago

So, wild thought. If you can't brace from the front to prevent tipping, the other option would be to lock down the back. It also sounds like you need a smoother surface for your desk chair.

What if you laid down a sheet of plywood and attached the rear legs to it? If the rear legs can't lift, the desk can't tip to the front.

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