Sundar @digital_carver@social.cleverlibre.org
- Languages
- English, தமிழ்
- Some fiction I love
- Discworld, Mother of Learning, பொன்னியின் செல்வன், Dresden Files, HPMoR
- Buy me a Chai?
- https://ko-fi.com/digital_carver
Teacher, trainer, developer.
Interested in books, tech, pets, being less wrong, and having my mind blown every now and then.
I'm also @Sundar where I'll be posting Julia tips, resources, etc.
#programming #education #training #learning #julialang #julia
#science
#webfiction
#meditation
#fedi22
Joined Sep 2020
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I know that a lot of people have the opposite experience, but I have rarely experienced these famed "stability problems" on Windows, and certainly not to the level I've experienced them on Linux over many many years.
The fifth time I've had to hard reboot my system, after having installed Linux. Looks like I'm dual-booting Windows after all, this Linux-only experiment has run for months and has had its fun parts, but the results are clear.
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Chalk is composed of the skeletons of countless microbes, long-dead, even their seas are now dead.
When chalk squeals on a blackboard it is the impotent scream of countless dying wraiths as their reliquaries are annihilated
Honestly I did the same, read it as "I don't want to keep my ass", until your post. I'm a sleepy boi too.
@faho
It's also a problem for Javascript (though probably worse for PHP to be fair). There's a lot to dislike about StackOverflow, but searching for some JS thing and getting a load of crap from careless content farms reminded me how bad the situation was before them.
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An oddity in English: "island" and "isle" are unrelated. "Isle" is from Latin (insula), and came into English as "ile" through French. "Island" is Germanic, and was originally "iland". In the 16th century, scholars added the "s" back into "ile" to make it conform more with the Latin original - and people mistakenly started adding it to "iland" as well, creating the modern "island".
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When there's news about bad decisions by a company/org, reading the Hacker News comments helps calm me down. I realize "at least *these* dumbasses aren't in charge, so it's not as bad as it could be".
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This is a picture of the first moments of a nuclear explosion taken in 1952. The blast radius at this moment is less than 20 meters wide.
There are so many extraordinary things about this photo. First off the fact that they had a camera in the 1950's capable of such insanely high speed frame rates (they created a movie from this) that it was capable of 1,000,000 frames per second. In many ways that is more impressive than the nuclear bomb itself.
Second the fact that you can see, in real time, a nuclear explosion as it happens. Those spikes at the bottom are called the "rope trick effect" which is caused by the support cables inside or holding up the bomb. The light radiation is so intense it vaporizes anything nearby causing things to explode just from the intensity of the light itself (before radiation has any effect at all). So those spikes are literally just the support cables exploding in the extraordinarily bright light from the bomb.
@tripu
Thanks for sharing!
The Website link to Tsundoku and the one after that seem to have an extra prefix, that's stopping the link from working and gives a 404 instead.
@urusan
and then half the time when you're trying to update your F-Droid apps: uwu do you want Play Protect to hold your hands? we spy on you only for your own good, pinkie promise!
@rootbsd@distrotoot.com
Nomacs is the one I've found closest to the Irfanview experience on Windows, in the sense of being configurable but also being non-obtrusive (getting out of your way). Open to better options though, hope someone posts one here!
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@worldsendless
Enclosing it in backticks as code: `^\([^ *].\{3,15\}\)\s-*$` should work. Or you could change the post content type to plaintext instead of markdown, but that would be the non-fun way to do it. 🙂
@freemo
anything, if you measure from the thing's own reference frame (*this is why riddle-makers hate science nerds* 😄 )
@freemo
I was in my late teens before I realized there were people that actually smiled showing their teeth (and that it wasn't just a toothpaste ad thing). I haven't noticed anyone it looks particularly bad on though.
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I deny this. I don't know what they are talking about
@sexybiggetje@mastodon.social @packbat
The Diya lamp is an Indian thing, we use it for rituals and festivals for example. The one shown in the emoji is an earthenware one, which are the "original", but somewhat messy to take care of, especially if you don't have a single fixed permanent location for them. There are many metal equivalents though, usually brass, that are easier to handle and clean.
- Languages
- English, தமிழ்
- Some fiction I love
- Discworld, Mother of Learning, பொன்னியின் செல்வன், Dresden Files, HPMoR
- Buy me a Chai?
- https://ko-fi.com/digital_carver
Teacher, trainer, developer.
Interested in books, tech, pets, being less wrong, and having my mind blown every now and then.
I'm also @Sundar where I'll be posting Julia tips, resources, etc.
#programming #education #training #learning #julialang #julia
#science
#webfiction
#meditation
#fedi22
Joined Sep 2020
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