Dan Clementi

@spllattt @OMApproach Yes. Seems the proportions would have to be so different at that size.

@OMApproach His femur bone would snap in half at that size. As an animal gets larger, the bone must become thicker.

The further you go back, the larger the human species are. Second Temple Jewish texts and Christian literature describe Adam as an enormous cosmic being, so the only specific size we have is from the Hadith, where Adam is described as being sixty cubits tall. That's 30 meters, or over 100 feet. Next we have Gilgamesh from the Sumerian texts and the Epic of Gilgamesh, described as being 11 cubits tall, or almost 6 meters and 19 feet. Today, we humans are much smaller. If we take into consideration the megafauna that went extinct during the Younger Dryas and almost every animal having giant ancestors, why is it forbidden for humans to know their true history? The antediluvian civilization was not only bigger, but its people also lived longer...

@DeanTTraining I remove half the bun and eat the QPC open -face most of the time. There is nothing I eat that has a better satiety to glucose-spike ratio.

The haters and losers on this app (of which there are many) will fight you about this but it is 100% TRUE: McDonald's QP burger patties in the US are made from 100% USDA-inspected beef with no fillers, additives, or preservatives and they are grilled on a flat-top griddle with no added oil, butter, or fat GO ARGUE WITH A WALL!

@jeffreytucker If they are close enough (personally) to be invited into my home, they are close enough for me to pick-up/take them to the airport. For perspective: PHL is 55 minutes, EWR is 80 minutes (one-way drive times).

I just spoke with a person who says it is almost rude not to pick people up from the airport or take them home after a visit. More precisely, it is nice to do this. I had thought all this was over with Uber, that no more would we ever do this thing. Honestly asking your opinion.

@NolteNC Since I don't see it mentioned in the comments...Stallone's portrayal of the gangster Dwight Manfredi in "Tulsa King" just perfect. Great fun to watch.

Stallone created, wrote, and played a character so iconic, the first chapter won Best Picture and the character of Rocky still matters 50 years later because Stallone has single-handedly kept him relevant through 7 sequels (6 of which are good to great) and five decades. Schwarzenegger hasn’t done anything close to that. Rogen will be lucky to become an asterisk. No one has done that.

Discussion of house price differences is disingenuous without talking about monthly payments. Yes, we bought houses that were 3x our salaries, but interest rates were in the low-to-mid teens. Everyone was strapped with payments (principal, interest, taxes, and insurance) that were 35% of gross income.

BOOMER: “We bought our first house at 25.” ME: “How much was it?” BOOMER: “$45,000.” ME: “What were you making?” BOOMER: “$15,000 a year.” ME: “So 3 years of salary.” BOOMER: “Exactly. We worked hard.” ME: “Houses are $420,000 now.” ME: “Average salary is $60,000.” ME: “That’s 7 years of salary.” BOOMER: “You kids just don’t save.” ME: “We save. We just can’t afford to buy.” BOOMER: “That’s because you’re lazy.” ME: “Or the system changed and you benefited from it.” BOOMER: “That’s not my fault.” ME: “No. But stop blaming us for noticing.”

@FlyPanAm A

We did this a few years ago. Help us decide. Which logo for our avatar is better. A. or B.? A. Is the original globe logo from 1958 and B. was the final logo when Pan Am ceased operations. Comment below.

Agree..no argument with the 2nd statement. Expanding: when comparing the power of two amplifiers, one 0 dBm and the other 10 dBm, we would say the second one had 10 dB greater power than the first. One wouldn't call it an offset. Similarly, if we were comparing two noise floors, one -100 dBm and the other -110 dBm, I would say that the second had a 10 dB lower noise floor than the first. "Offset" seems awkward in that context. Maybe there is some other context where the use of the word offset with dB (or dBm) makes sense, but it hasn't occurred to me yet. Probably retired too long.

@danclementi @simulacraSuperb You mean, it's weird to talk about offset in _dB_. You can subtract two values in dBm and get an offset, but that offset would be in units of dB.

Alright my RF electronics mavens, here is your chance to show you're smarter than Anthropic's best non-ITAR AI. Claude Opus 4.8 said that a measurement "shows a +4 dBm offset shift". What did it get wrong? I've give you a gold star and a virtual cookie if you get it right.

@simulacraSuperb @BackwoodsEnginr Yeah, it's weird to talk about offset in dB. It's not additive but instead used to express a multiplicative (power) relationship.

@BackwoodsEnginr Can't add dBm. My Claude Opus would never get that wrong, maybe you've been cut off from intelligence

@az2pt We used Porto as our base for northern Portugal and NW Spain about 10 years ago. Would go back in a heartbeat.

Porto, Portugal 😍 On the north bank of the Douro River, the incredible city of Porto. #History #Culture #Architecture #Gastronomy #Wine #Hiking #Beaches #Travel #EnjoyLife #AnotherDayInParadise 😎

@johnrich A carve-out needs to be made for electronic fuel injection, but otherwise...yes!

The first auto brand to make a pickup with ZERO TECH will sell out so fast it'll make their head spin. No brain, no GPS...just engine, transmission, rear end, and get the hell outta my way:)

@i2cjak Reminds me of a story...a guy I know was hired as the first EE at a small company but his manager was a ME. To stock the electronics lab, he put together a list of standard 5% R and C values. Boss said "I don't understand...why don't you just order the ones you need".

what’s a good resistor value for someone just getting into electronics

@atensnut 35. 38 if I can count St. Louis, Kansas City, and Oklahoma city airports. The two solid misses: New Orleans and San Antonio.

Been to 24.

@MakeAugusta I = sqrt(-1)

The E in the standard Ohm's Law triangle stands for Voltage or Electromotive Force, but, without looking it up, who knows what the I stands for? No cheating. Wrong answers allowed.

@nntaleb I took his post as a gentle poke at your trademark nature....nothing more.

There is a historical constant: no amount of wealth can liberate a third-rate thinker from intellectual envy or from the deeply degrading sense of scholarly inferiority -- that feeling of impoverished erudition. No amount of wealth.

@FritzPeasant Back in the mid-70s, I got a ticket in PA for 17 mph over the limit. Back then that one offense was enough to get my license suspended for 15 days plus I had to take classes consisting of gory accident videos. Those videos were all from the...you guessed it...Ohio Highway Patrol.

The Second Child sent me this. It reminded me of a story. Did I ever tell you guys about the time I was a hero? It was circa 1992. I was headed back East after a school break visiting my family in Indiana. Somewhere on the Ohio Turnpike I came across a long line of traffic in the right lane, doing exactly the speed limit. "WTF is this?" I slipped into the left lane and started to pass, until I came to the front of the line and realized that there was an Ohio State Highway Patrol car leading the pack. "Damn it!" I fell back to the rear of the line to consider my options. Even back then, Ohio staties had a reputation for giving zero grace on speed limits, as the infographic suggests. Getting across Ohio was a long, tedious part of the trip under the best of circumstances, and this megalomaniac was going to make it much worse. It simply would not do. But what could I do about it? A plan formed in my mind. "F this!" I slipped back into the left lane, set my cruise control at one mile over the limit--literally just one mile per hour faster than the line of traffic in the left lane, took my feet off the pedals, and began slowly--ever ... so ... slowly--creeping back up the line. It took several agonizing minutes, but eventually I reached the cop again. This time I passed the female patrolman, and stayed in the left lane for the several more minutes it took me to open a safe distance between us. Then I flipped my right turn signal on, waited several seconds, and moved over. I kept the cruise control locked into the original +1 mph the whole time. Either I would very slowly widen the distance between us until she lost sight of me--at which point I would be free--or she would have to do something. Shortly after I moved over, her lights came on. I shook my head, snorted, and pulled to the shoulder. As she followed me, I watched with grim satisfaction as the ~two dozen vehicles that had been bottled up behind her dropped the hammer and sped east into the distance. She fed me some BS about my speed creeping up--nope--then issued me a warning, because she knew no judge was going to back her up on a ticket for one mile over the limit. Then she turned around and headed back the other way. I continued east at a reasonable speed. Absolutely worth it. FREEDOM!!

@jockowillink Reminds me of how my dad talked about a dead soldier he saw on Utah Beach....all he could think about was that poor guy's mother getting the news. One of the few stories he shared about the war.

"I shall never forget that beach...one dead soldier in particular who caught my eye. I wonder about him. What were his plans never to be fulfilled, what fate brought him to that spot at that moment? Who was waiting for him at home?" — Corporal William Preston D-Day

@GoombaBohunk @ProfMJCleveland 8 pm-9pm IIRC....it meant: time to get that homework done before school the next morning.

@danclementi @ProfMJCleveland What time was that on? 7? (before my time)

My number one memory of 60 minutes is the feeling of dread and anxiety I felt hearing the ticking clock and knowing that the weekend was over and Monday was almost here.

@cdrsalamander @TheEconomist Some time back, I deduced that the BBC, FT, Guardian, and Economist learnt everything they know about the US by way of the New York Times. Of course they aren't really that lazy...it just suits their narrative too.

I’ve been complaining about the quality of @TheEconomist’s coverage of the USA for about a decade and a half, and shortly after then, cancelled my very expensive annual subscription that I had had for most of my adult life. It appears it is about to get even worse. Shame, really. For the 1990s and most of the 00s, it was fairly solid, if a little off frequency, as you would expect for a foreign publication. North America already has @thenation … it doesn’t need another one that inserts random “u” into words.

<She takes out her red sharpie and crosses “Scott Pelley” off her list> <She smiles and turns the page>