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i made a really spicy serano chilli once that burns you three times. the first is when you cut the peppers, the second was when you eat the chilli. the third, well il let you use your imagination. i dubbed it "apocalypse later chilli"

define sharp. i can get something called "sharp cheddar" at the grocery store. but i can also get a 4-year aged sharp from a gourmet food catalog. its so good it dominates the flavor of anything you put it on. i used some (with equal parts pepperjack and colby) on a batch of shredded beef enchiladas i made a few weeks ago. it worked out really well. the enchaladas themselves were nothing fancy, just a thing i do the day after we have a pot roast. you can also use canned roast beef. you can also use shredded pork or chicken, though i prefer a green sauce with chicken rather than a red sauce. shred the meat with a fork, throw in a can of chilis, some minced onions, a bit of cumin, chili powder and seasoned salt, stew that in a pot for about a half hour. then your roll it up in corn tortillias (you can steam or microwave them to make them more pliable so they wont tear). arrange them in a square or rectangular baking pan trying to fill up the whole pan (protip, if you have more pan than enchaladas, you can fill the unused areas up with refried beans for a side dish). then cover it with a can of enchalada sauce and your cheese mixture (any cheese you like really), then bake it around 375 until the cheese is crispy. we also got a swiss wheel which i use mostly for cooking. best thing is my monte christo, which ive calculated to be a 900-calorie sandwhich. just get some turkey and ham from the deli, and an uncut french loaf. cut the loaf diagonally in 3/4 inch slices. you then dip 2 of them in an egg and cream mixture (as if making french toast) and place on a griddle. when the first side cooks heat up your turkey and ham. after the first side has cooked completely, flip them over and add a generous slice of swiss to each side, put the now warmed turkey on one side and the ham on the other. once they are done enough to flip, flip one on top of the other, finish cooking flip again and finish the other side until the cheese is melted. reject any notions you have about watching your weight and dig in. i also make cheese steak sandwiches, malibu chicken and a few other things with it. its amazing what you can do with good cheese.

there were a couple games in mwo where i killed a top competitive player. there was also my ace of spades run where i got 9 kills in a single match (the cheevo only required 8). keep in mind its a 12v12 with no respawn. there was also a game of combat flight sim 2 where i landed a very damaged zero on the carrier while my gf at the time was getting frisky and kept putting her mammaries in my face. i set the breaks and i was gone. when i came back my plane had rolled off the deck and was in the drink. i still count it as a win.

i dont know. amazon still hasnt shipped it yet. tracking says it will arrive next week. the tracking gives zero indication of where it actually is at.

so what you are saying is that rather than young you's mind being flat out replaced for a copy of old you's mind, they would still be young you with only your present knowledge but not your memories. you might whip out calculus to solve a problem in gradeschool math class and not have a clue how you knew how to do that. or perhaps any memory of the future you have would be vague, and subject to interpretation by young you. even if you have prophetic visions of the future, you do not have the ability to discern them from your own imagination. you have a premonition about 9/11 for example. how do you know that's going to happen and that your mind just didnt pull elements from various tom clancy movie adaptations? and would know it well enough to be able to stop it? you might have a weird feeling when you see google come out of the woodwork, but would you buy stock because of that or would you have written it off as deja vu and missed the boat completely?

well when i say i wouldn't have gone to college i think id have adopted a trade instead. tradesmen make tons of money. welder or machinist. growing up nobody ever told be jobs like those exist, 'thats a blue collar job, you dont want that! you will die poor if you do that.' i think student adviser people get kickbacks from the universities to say stuff like that. a big name university was never an option for me and i ended up in a hole in the wall tech school. i wanted something better but had no support from my family. i could have gotten that tradesmen education in the military. had i attempted to join the usmc after high school instead of after college, i probibly wouldn't have come up 4-f. my family was trying to get me on disability on bogus childhood disorders, so i had a lot of crap on my medical records that the marines didnt like. but i was already busted by that time, id have to go back to my terrible twos to stand a chance at a proper reset. the only thing of value in my life is any knowledge ive obtained, and in this scenario i get to keep that. the rest can burn. you would definitely regret it. while that tends to work better than any conceivable alternative. throw in the towel about trying to understand them, nobody with manparts ever will.

i think id have skipped college entirely if were being honest. it contributed jack beans to any personal success on my part. maybe going to a less scammy college and taking a major not subject to tech rot. an it degree from 2002 isnt worth much these days.

id hate to wake up a blueshirt.

does this involve time travel or am i just suddenly young again? if so id probibly jump on the crypto bandwagon 10 years sooner and buy stock in google. of course im a lot more jaded now than i was back then, so i dont know if it would be much of an improvement.

i wrote a gui script in lua to control an arduino over a serial connection. i kept having this problem where the serial library i was using would randomly stop working, and i got fed up with re-launching the script from the command line (i kept instinctively closing the cmd window when i was done). so i came up with the bright idea to add a button to launch another instance of the script with a shell command. somehow i accidently used the idle callback instead of the click callback. needless to say when i loaded the script, i was immediately greeted to thousends of instances of my script as the thing spawned exponential instances until i ran out of memory. ikt was reminiscent of some of the computer viruses we had in the '90s.

encode it as base 64. however that imposes increased data requirements on the forum software. however if you compress the source image really well such that its no bigger than a typical forum post. idk if the admins would approve of that. otherwise find an image hosting site that supports hotlinking. i gave up on those after photobucket started demanding everyone pay to continue to use the service.

it will displace anyone who based their entire economy on oil.

read the nature article. looks like this shot was aiming for higher energy output. it was running d-t. the shot only lasted 5 seconds, which is the limit for what jet's coils can handle. this machine formerly set the q record for a tokamak, but that's not what they were going for with this shot.

i knew this was coming. nvm. q-plasma was only 0.33 for this shot. not really record breaking.

i forgot that episode for some reason.

if vampirism was real, it would be considered a disability.

yea, since the enterprise never goes into the atmosphere (at least in the pre-jjverse canon), there is no reason to have it retractable. keep in mind that in trek lingo the purpose of the dish is to detect and clear space debris that can harm the ship at warp. so it has both receiving and transmitting elements. the tng technical manual also indicated that it contained long and short range sensors. i think it may also come with lasers to ionize space dust, and then the dust is steered out of the way (or into the bussard collctors) via magnetic fields. it can also be used to ineffectively shoot at borg cubes. while i generally like the star trek design language, the deflector is a little bit too jack of all trades for my tastes.

id just figure they would be deployable and would be stowed for re-entry. some sensors could be hidden in the structure, such as using the nosecone as a raydome, which is how fighter jets tend to place their radar. optical sensors would be placed in a turret somewhere, like what military drones use for their sensor package, though usually in the chin position or in a pylon mounted pod, a space craft would want that on the cold side of its heat shield, and it might be something you could retract when you are not using it. you probibly want some kind of high gain dish antennae for long range communications, but again this would be retractable for re-entry (which isnt really the best time for communications anyway). when your local afb has an airshow, be sure to look around at the various sensor and communications packages for inspiration, and then realize a system used in space is going to need to be bigger to maximize aperture for the longer operational ranges they will be used at.

super heroes never really made sense to me. i dont really like the genre, except where they are being deconstructed, like watchmen, or even dune. as with typical humans with exceptional abilities, each would tend to use those abilities in their own self interest and would neither be heroes nor villains. anyone who thought their superpower would entitle them to special treatment, would quickly be put in their place by the others.

ive never cared much for spectator sports. whats the point of watching a pro game of a sport you yourself do not play? i can understand if you are in a local baseball league you would want to watch what the pros are doing in an effort to try to improve your game. same thing applies to e-sports. im not going to watch a pro starcraft player's twitch stream unless i play starcraft (which i haven't in a very long time). sometimes its out of nostalgia, say you played football in high school and it reminds you of your glory days. it also provides an outlet for various tensions that result from living in the civilized world, a matter of city, state, or national pride. a less violent stand in for the gladitorial combat of olde.

well something like 75% (i got that number from an actual engineer) of the energy goes to waste heat. problem is hot things like to go up in the air, not down in the road. i supposed if you pointed the radiators down and added really powerful fans to them, you might be able to speed things along. you could probibly try and capture waste heat, and with some really exotic plumbing perhaps you can pump the working fluid through your tires which would need to be designed to be really thermally conductive. never mind that you need to pump a fluid through a bearing to a spinning thing. though i cant imagine that being any more complex than the self inflating tire system on the humvee. tires also have a relatively small contact area with the road, so maybe if you could do the same thing on tank treads, idk, that sounds like really hard engineering. getting fluid to a spinning tire is one thing. you would probibly need heat exchangers in all the idlers. where a network of heat pipes and tubes connect each of the tread segments (this would be a closed loop, likely pumped by the compression of the tread plates sort of like a peristaltic pump). either way sounds expensive. your typical friction interaction between tire and road is usually enough to help melt snow. the roads are the first thing that clears. and that is helped along by salt and other abrasives added to the roadways.

dead men horde no gpus.

they actually heat some parking lots to keep them clear of snow. you really only need to keep the surface just above the freezing point i think to do that they just lay down an insulative material, put in coolant loop and pour concrete or asphalt on top of it. of course this is energy intensive and doing it for the whole road network would really use a lot of energy.

honestly ive seen so many of those that they kind of blur together. i was born at a time where mothers let their four year olds watch scary movies, so by the time i hit adolescence i had become so desensitized to them that i don't really get much out of the genre anymore. still 'the cabin in the woods' is a great movie. every horror fan should watch it at least once.

i binged the first 5 episodes. it was pretty good. we need the god emperor to take over the known universe first.