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Watermelons . . .

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GIFs are the least efficient way of sharing motion. We should have been using MPNGs or MJPGs for quite some time now ... What are you doing Internet?
 

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GIFs are the least efficient way of sharing motion.

Bureaucracy (byoo-rok-ruh-see)
1. Government by many bureaus, administrators, and petty officials.
2. The body of officials and administrators, especially of a government or government department.
3. Excessive multiplication of, and concentration of power in, administrative bureaus or administrators.
4. Administration characterized by excessive red tape and routine.
5. Any organization that endeavours to proceed using the most inefficient means possible for any given situation.
 

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Because you can't just redirect a Sirius-bound rocket mid-flight to go towards Arcturus just because you found a potential habitable planet there.
Kinetic energy is an unforgiving thing.

Same thing with the GIFs, IPv4, Windows and many other standards.
If we could change habits to better ones on a dime, steampunk would have been a chapter of a history book, not a fantasy. :)
 

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ZOMG! Look at this pic of the early shuttle cockpit! Why are so many spots covered up with blue velcro?!? What is NASA hiding?!?!?!?!?
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#TheTruthIsOutThere #StopTheLies #TellUsEverything
 

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ZOMG! Look at this pic of the early shuttle cockpit! Why are so many spots covered up with blue velcro?!? What is NASA hiding?!?!?!?!?


#TheTruthIsOutThere #StopTheLies #TellUsEverything

Actually, the Velcro holds the shuttle together. On one occasion, they tried to save a lot of weight by reducing the amount of Velcro in the shuttle and it disintegrated during launch.

They then claimed something about O-rings and the need to install heaters, for hiding the fact that they just taped more Velcro over the shuttle.

#velcro #challengertruth #thetruthisoutthere
 

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This is what I found when trying to search for my username in Japanese (ピップカード). I can see jump cuts...
 
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I'm sitting on my balcony between green trees, smelling flowers and listening to birds singing.

After NYC this feels like a paradise.
 

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Who had the idea that randomArray[some,stuff,in,the,array] has positions from 0 to 4 but a length of 5? At least try to be consistent. :rant:
 

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Well, the positions use zero-based numbering and the length uses one-based numbering...
What?
How can there be a non-one-based length?

I.e. There are 5 train stations and 4 segments of rail in between.
0 segments before the first station, 1 before the second, ..., 4 before the fifth.

0 to 4 index, 5 total.
Perfectly consistent and logical...

But it does kills mental arithmetic ability of children that are introduced to this the hard way.
 
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