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Joe B. Transue

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Enabler of artists & makers. Wooden boats, electric vehicles, solar PV, fancy cameras, yurts and domes, Iceland, high performance computing. Opinions my own.

Connecticut, USA

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Joined October 2011

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@SawyerMerritt I’ve been dabbling in various structured light scanning and photogrammetry systems since I used a Nikon 5000ED to get high resolution scans of slow black and white film, the goal being to analyze the hull shape on wooden boats. LiDAR has no home on an autonomous car. At best, I

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@tim_cook Who thought this was a good idea?? Did you hire the one person that *liked* the scene in Who Framed Roger Rabbit where the bad guy dips the animated shoe in the toon-killing bath??

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@LibertyCappy If that doesn’t work, try a big bag of steam.

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@isislovecruft This was years ago; I took a screenshot and it lives in my favorite photos album.

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@kristenschaaled That is bananas. Artists should always get a hard media copy for their archive.

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@CATeam04 @closequarters92 Somebody is going to defend those actions by saying “they are just doing their job.” which is an odd way to admit the system is pretty well fncked.

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@Imposter_Edits You have a 100k followers, they should know this isn’t the whole story. The truck was literally smashed before this shot. ffs…

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@zorendk @Rainmaker1973 He was clean shaven when they started.

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@AmoneyResists @elonmusk If you thought this video was meant to show anything objective, you’d also be mistaken.

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1 year

@quantumbiosis @historyinmemes At 21kT for Fat Man, we are looking at a factor of ~1,000. Not 25,000. Admittedly, scale is hard with that sort of thing.

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@paulfranckza @ThatJewishLady @hannahrosewoods At least 3 hours. Less is unseemly.

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@Hi_Jack_2020 @historyinmemes Lion 1.0

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@MattWalshBlog Imagine hating the 1st amendment.

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@InternetH0F All well and good until.. you calculate that all the electrons (assuming each can have a binary state) in the universe passing at the highest theoretical bandwidth still can’t extract that size before the heat death of the universe.

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@smpager @astrayfen @ante_pit @mirabiledicktu Quarantined by Wrenten Tarandecto

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@KaoTeK_DJ @iamharaldur Listen to the entire song “John I love You” on a decent sound system. That’s an incredible song with universe appeal.

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@Imposter_Edits Or, hear me out... you could just avoid being deceptive. Nah, I get it. You’re having too much fun!!

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2 years

@silver_charm @cyber_hooligan_ @EZebroni Making a video that gets exactly that reaction. So, huge win I guess??

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1 year

@dcagle10 @historyinmemes Many early photos were around 20mp equivalent. Large format slow films were higher. It wasn’t until the mid and late 20th century that photography got cheap enough to be casual, but the cost of it being casual was that pictures were made with much smaller negatives. 110 was

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@positivegenki @VonAnneli Twittber is a global platform, but the US audience needs to hear that because many places here have done a poor-to-abysmal job dealing with the pandemic. We’re reaping the poison sowed in 2016. What comes next? Preparedness and actionable planning help with getting over anxiety.

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@Rainmaker1973 One should never take such accumulated wealth for granite.

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@CatholicOrca I’m not sure “not screwing the nanny” is the ground floor for sainthood, but maybe my math is off.

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2 years

@alex_avoigt A lot of Microsofts out there talking about how their Zunes are going to shake up this iPod market.

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5 months

@bangalorbatman @DedalusDev @aordring Windows has a cool feature where you can download Linux and then delete windows.

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@astro_Pettit Splashdown jokes. Go.

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@ArmandDoma What the fuck is up with the fire?? Was the prompt “beer commercial set at a backyard cookout that ends in complete immolation”

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5 years

@Borgel @McMasterCarr Please tell me they have STL/3d files for them.

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@tony2studs The vast majority of people who say he’s incompetent are those who disagree with him politically. Similar to the morons who say Kamala slept her way to the top; one can spot signs pretty easily when looking for signal in the noise.

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@jonreismanMD @historyinmemes I mean… that may actually be the origin of that??!

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@CentrePompidou Is he on loan from a private collection or did you acquire him?

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@isislovecruft Circa April 2016… so much was simpler then.

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@nytimes As much as I disagree with the sentiment, that is *clearly* free speech.

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@lsn0449 @OmarRiverosays You seriously believe that?

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@creator_grimm This and taxes.

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@ryancodez @NoContextHumans Newton’s lesser known 4th law.

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@CanadianKayMD I’ve heard that when an Amish person (often farmer) shows up, it’s going to need everything.

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@rodeoman We’ve been decodied.

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@_sakanachandesu @WholeMarsBlog The biggest upside IMO is a superior remote.

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@mr_benhart @AJ_FI Welp, they’ve got one data point on that now.

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@thedooberhead Attempted murder. Fuck that piece of shit.

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2 years

@jeffmason1 And he’s GOOD!!

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@GSpellchecker @JamesOfNorthEnd “could have killed her” If something there was going to kill her, it would have been hitting her head on the corner of the bar. That could have happened when she struck him, too. If your point is “a man shouldn’t kill a woman that slaps him”, fine. This video is not that.

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@Rainmaker1973 Opening the box is agreeing to TOS. This is going to lead to a niche legal practice related to interstellar copyright… Some day: “The residuals from Rigil Kentaurus and Ross 154 paid off my boat.”

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@iamharaldur I like you, but I don’t think that is a good idea.

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@jhall I’ve often pointed out he gets in trouble for punching back. The examples are numerous.

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@travcom13 @Rainmaker1973 I doubt anyone ever screws up that maneuver more than once in their career.

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1 year

@alex_avoigt There is an H2 station north of downtown Hartford. I asked an employee at the mini mart there how often people use it. She’s worked there 5 years (close to the whole time it’s been open) and she can’t remember ever seeing it in use. You can buy a gently used Mirai for like

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@classicalollie @abledoc @historyinmemes The grand theft auto of the 19th century. (crime, not game)

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@ElectroBOOMGuy @JustXAshton @veritasium Don’t engage these fools man. Life is tooooo short.

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@YoAndyZou @thebadcode @caesararum Unlikely it was CO2. May have been CO. With CO2, your discomfort becomes acute before any chance of passing out. You would even wake up if asleep.

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@Rainmaker1973 My best guess: The clear liquid is actually a gradient of polar and non polar fluids with the same refractive index (but different densities) as one another. They separate more slowly than the plastic after agitation.

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@gunsnrosesgirl3 The difference between there their they’re. 10 minutes really drilling them should do it.

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1 year

@JenniferSensiba @dictionaryhill It isn’t though! NACS isn’t just a little better and a little further ahead. CCS stations suck and cost more, and the vehicle side system costs more. It was a massive fuck up by SAE. It will literally be in textbooks.

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@DaBruRu @KameronBennett I’m white and I’m always trying to gauge whether guys actually know what they are doing or just had enough money to buy a boat. The latter category say things like “I think the GPS just needs a minute to get the correct location” and “I didn’t know that could start a fire..”

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@JamesonDaniels @iamharaldur In a skeptic/nonbeliever and I completely love those teachings. Absolutely one of the most powerful ideas on the planet.

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2 years

@JehanneIDubrow The moral of the story is, get the hell out of Texas.

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1 year

@emollick So is “human motivational coach to AIs” going to be a career then?

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@bilboofshire Not as sleepy as you when you thought this post was a good idea.

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1 year

@somi_teslagirl @Matt_E_Baumann The point stands though, and doubly so for places that get a lot of snow and or a lot of sun. Yes, the PV on site won’t be much. But the value of the shade/shelter will be significant.

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@Rainmaker1973 I know I’m just an uncultured American, but I want my bakery and my crematorium to be at separate addresses.

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1 year

@JustinPBarnett I’m ready to believe. I really don’t think people are gonna have iPhone 24s. My guess- less than 15 years on this paradigm and then @neuralink hits the (hopefully sterile) shelves.

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@nilestree @ananayarora Hahaha!!😆 “…. All representatives are currently assisting other officers. Your estimated time on hold is FOURTEEN years FIVE months and TWENTY TWO days.”

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3 years

@SophistTrifle @AdrianL16882023 @geravoin They are delivered via tornado. (Timing and exact location not guaranteed)

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3 months

@VladTheInflator Yawn. History is littered with “RIP Tesla” tweets. “RIP Toyota” is at least as likely to be aptly applied, and sooner than most people think.

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@smartereveryday That sucks, I unfollowed. Destin, I know you are a guy for whom integrity matters.

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@Dhoopen11 @LibertyCappy The fact that people can’t take water through after demonstrating it is harmless (by taking a sip) should tell you that the security theater is really about getting you to spend the $4.50 on a water or $7.95 on coffee (or both) once you’re in the terminal.

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@DzintraSullivan Potato If you thought I was talking about the movie Deliverance, that’s an amazing coincidence.

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1 year

@kr0mb0pul0smike You forgot the Model Y, which is the best selling car in the world right now. I know, little details.

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@nomanautomata @NickParkerPrint At 320x320, is it even really considered voyeurism? “Dude!! Is that her??” “No, I think that’s the roomba…”

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@DanMicovic @NateSilver538 It isn’t clickbait if the title gets the whole point across. If anything, that’s the opposite of clickbait.

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@NEDLClarets1973 @knowitall143 @zorendk @Rainmaker1973 They built the tower under him.

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@okaypoet (deep breath) Niggardly. I’ve been assured there is zero etymological connection to TNW, but the fact that people don’t know that… tends to make it de facto problematic.

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@Out5p0ken Six Feet Under. Old but amazing. Rewatching now.

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@mattfore11 @DanKats23 I would ask “If I do a background check, is there anything I’ll find that you’d like to tell me about now?” If a late 20s aged person has a DUI from 5-10 year ago, we can talk about it. If a 34 year old has one from 18 months ago, it would be a steeper hill to regain my trust.

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@sokurovark *not shown to scale

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@enviroenforcer @SierraClub @elonmusk So he was supposed to spring a fully formed EV company into the world with safety certifications and support for longer distance road-trips? Just conjure some suppliers, IP, enthusiasm... let me guess, you would have done it all with a GoFundMe campaign, right? Get real.

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@Funzito @MillerLite One which replicates the experience of being born? Because that was the vibe I got and frankly it is creepy in an ad. Also, still too early in the pandemic to tell people to go have some beers with friends. Just irresponsible AF.

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@chaedria Mostly no. It is important to remember that after 4 years of COVID, reflective cantaloupe borrows water hammer from forest cheese. Also, never forget floor joists quark jellyfish.

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@CGrantWSJ @Flick_AF Capitalism means they sell the higher margin car first. I agree it is a long path to get to $35k, but they are selling a shitload of them now. What are you selling, and are people lined up to buy it?

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@NWMike There are some people at work who stay well past their car‘s max state of charge. I pull plugs all the time. Charge etiquette goes both ways.

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@WinnieSchola @NoCapFights Fly Spirit 2-3 times and you’ll absolutely understand. I was at an airport once when the police were called at the Spirit gate. People had been stranded for almost 48 hours, and the flight I was going to take had been canceled and rescheduled a day later and then delayed several

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@Fikkert If you chose evil: (Booming voice) “And you are going to need a LITTLE one!! *squish*”

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@gunsnrosesgirl3 Imagine the science literacy after a generation or two if we built all sorts of challenges like this. Eventually we’d have a society where 15 year olds get dropped at the edge of a black hole and they use whatever 35th century understanding of physics to get out. Maybe that’s

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@engineers_feed I might chance mine to “Chinese spy balloon unofficial downlink”

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@TeslaSynopsis Does screen rotate? :)

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@Comed_Ai_n @Hilbe @FelipeBuccianti “Elon is driving people to racist ideologies” is sort of just going with the current narrative though. I don’t think he has a perfect record by any means, but I think people are mostly creating an alternative reality around him. Honestly, it started with “emerald mines”, and you

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@LupoMP @MattWalshBlog I can’t imagone!

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@joebarnard Good stuff. A few years back I had the joy of being partially responsible for this bit of fun nonsense:

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@JoeTransue @Borgel We're always adding to our CAD library, but we moved this one up the list for you.

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@vorotato @LauraFearnArt @realSuaine @JanelleCShane If somebody posts a video of their dachshund making this, I’m going to *lose it*.

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@_phyxx_ @Imposter_Edits If a guy with 100k followers posted a 29 second video of you smashing a car window in an empty parking lot, and elsewhere is the rest of the video where you see an exhausted sweaty toddler locked inside?

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@NikiMarinis What about sex once and Africa 6.3 times??

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@MoneyJrod Tesla Model 3/Y. Loved our Prius but they have fallen far behind in the last decade.

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@AnchorInvestor Imagine being that desperate to escape the judgement of people who *will* find something to judge you for? What if (and I know this is a stretch) everyone just took a fncking sec to chill out?

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@JilianneParker But you left out the part where you died when it caught on fire! Most Tesla drivers are already dead. /s (which is crazy to have to point out because somebody will retweet this as true)

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@MatthewDR If you’re going to key a Tesla, do it in the parking lot of the facility where you’re getting your vasectomy.

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@auto_schmidt Toyota survival is worse than 50/50 at this point. They need 5 years to get to where Tesla was 5 years ago. Acquisition in 7 years for less than their current value is a possibility. Sounds crazy, but that’s the cost of thinking passenger cars would use high pressure H2.

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@Rainmaker1973 So is there a scrap metal yard located next to the airport? Because I feel like they probably could get a few thousand pounds of aluminum every month or so, with a minimum of travel involved for pickup.

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@Rainmaker1973 Following this account leaves me gaslit in the best possible way. Reality shmeality.

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@waitbutwhy If that is true, you might be medically interesting. For the 99%* of us who have, it can be extremely unsettling if it comes on strongly enough. *I have no idea how many people have experienced it.

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@IanDMcLean @SarahKSilverman @ThatEricAlper In the history of waitressing, like 8 men have ever gone home with the waitress. Billions have made complete asses of themselves trying.

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