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Congrats to the author. I plan to do Oregon -> Virginia next year but I'll take more like 80 days than the author's 51.


He probably started out wanting to make just one pipe bomb but you know how it is, you get a great discount if you buy the ingredients in bulk. So he made his pipe bomb and then he had all these leftover ingredients just taking up space in his closet. And so he went ahead and made another 149 pipe bombs.


Could be, or maybe they had a really good discount at the pipe bomb store and he'd basically be losing money if he didn't buy at least 150 pipe bombs.


“We had two barrels of fertilizer, seventy-five pellets of gunpowder, five sheets of high powered C4, a salt shaker half full of nitro, and a whole galaxy of 50 cals, buckshot, slugs, tracers... and also a quart of kerosene, a quart of diesel, a case of grenades, a kilo of raw uranium and two dozen rockets. Not that we needed all that for self defense, but once you get locked into a serious explosives collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.”

-Osama Bin Laden


Destroy it now.


"Moreover, even for those who would like to rightfully consider Airbnb results positive, there’s a huge price on culture companies managed this way have to pay. We can get a glimpse from a few Glassdoor reviews I found, all subsequent to Chesky’s new approach..."

Glassdoor reviews are a poor measure of a company's culture.


Or perhaps Elon is not personally involved in what network protocols they use on their Dojo AI supercomputer.


For you cyclists, the Great Allegheny Pass trail and the Chesapeake & Ohio towpath meet there.


Also has an Amtrak station!


How many trains a day?


CUM has a train headed for DC show up once a day at 9:30am. Takes 3½ hours, which is about an hour longer than driving.

In the other direction to Pittsburgh leaves at 7:30pm and takes 4½ hours, more than 2 hours longer than driving.


The idea of DC to NYC being roughly as far away as Maryland to DC is kinda funny to me.

I guess that's just how the panhandle panhandles.


Not even one per day as far as I can tell.

The Amtrack website also mentions:

Known as Maryland's “Queen City,” Cumberland was an early gateway to the West. Today, it is a bustling arts center and popular stopover for cyclists using the trail network between Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.


Eh... I'm always mind-blown by the amazing nature the USA has... :(


You're suggesting one of the developers went through all the trouble to create a browser, then allowed someone to add assets to the repo without the developer reviewing them first?


I'm suggesting that you don't know who wrote the content. You don't know the developers wrote it. And if a non-developer wrote it, then that person probably isn't going to commit the content to a repo.


Just playing back what you said because it's surprising. You're saying that explosion was not caused by water that was superheated by the supervolcano below the greater Yellowstone Caldera? It was heated by some other source?

Interested because I was there a few weeks ago.


A defined hydrothermal basin like this is heated by a very local pocket of magma or more properly magma-that-has-mostly-solidified-into-hot-rock, only a kilometer or so deep in this case, that has leaked up from multiple layers of deeper basins creeping up through faultlines, and which is being gradually cooled by water seepage in a dynamically stable way. Depending on the area, there may or may not be an intermediary superheated brine functioning as a heat transport mechanism, per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_areas_of_Yellowston...

Local explosions like this are not very indicative of movements in the county-sized reservoir of magma ten times deeper down that underlies the entire caldera.

Local hydrothermal basin, upper magma chamber, lower magma chamber, mantle plume: https://www.yellowstonepark.com/news/supervolcano-magma-cham...


My experience: a lot of the confusion in technical conversations is due to two parties using the same term for different but related concepts. Relabeling the concepts to clarify the distinction is the right thing to do.

>> or could we just use longer words?

Agreed: relabeling, with longer words when necessary, can help.


Fun parallel: https://inkscape-manuals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_images/in...

The toolbar is called "tool controls bar," the tool controls bar at the left is called "toolbox," and the toolbox at the right is called "commands bar."

If you asked me I'd say it's 3 toolbars. And why is palette not palette bar?


> And why is palette not palette bar?

My guess that's because palette, the real world object, is something close to a bar itself, so it would be a bit of tautology. From the dictionary:

Palette: a thin board or slab on which an artist lays and mixes colours.


All of that. Plus, wrap your head in aluminum foil.


Oil the guns. Count the ammo.. .


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