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I have Baldur's Gate 3 downloading and somehow I am supposed to do 5-6 hours of work now and just, ignore that it's downloading

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Remember, no matter how this goes down, Trump is the symptom, not the disease.

I was reading about the physics of sound waves on the Y.U. (Yale University) website, and it's absolutely fascinating. According to Haskins Laboratory, all sound can be described as a combination of pitch, which is measured in hertz (abbreviated Hz) and pressure, measured in either decibels or micro-pascals (abbreviated with the Greek letter mu-P). I prefer thinking about this in decibels, though, because I'm never gonna give Y.U. μP.

@sarajw This blows my mind. Imagine making infrastructure so car dependent that you make walking illegal.

'#Siri: please give me a visual metaphor for the status of cycling infrastructure in the United States'

Yes, that is an actual bike path.
Yes, those are actually 8 protected lanes for driving.
— Lakeshore Drive, #Chicago

Hello la commu #SciArt ! 👋

🎨🧬Cette semaine c'est la #SciArtPortfolioWeek alors voici un petit aperçu de mon travail d'illustratrice scientifique.

Cliquez sur le hashtag, vous verrez des merveilles ! 😍

You know what’s software engineering? Regaining control over a computer 20 billion kilometers away thanks to the design decisions made 50 years prior. #voyager2

starts the names of primitive types with lower-case letters and all others with upper-case letters.

*could* do that.

Or, reasonably, it could use capitalization to distinguish between value types (like ints and structs) and reference types (like classes).

But no. C# uses this to indicate whether a type is *predefined*. So string and object, unlike all other classes, start with lower-case letters.

Worse, string and object are actually aliases for System.String and System.Object, respectively.

Why would you add aliases to make things *less* consistent?

Suppose class B extends class A. In your constructor for B, you want to call the constructor for A. In :

public B(int x) {
super(x);
...
}

In :

public B(int x) : base(x) {
...
}

Why does C# introduce special syntax (and overload the colon) for this?

Lesser known pop music facts: The song "Nothing compares 2 U" is actually about the floating point value NaN.

i'm glad it's not the 19th century, because i am able to go on computer and shitpost with other weirdos. if it were 1860 there would be no computer, instead you'd have to read a book titled "a treasury of wisdom, wit, humor, and proverbs" and all the stuff in there would be like "if a woman gives you a watch-chain of horsehair, her father will surely receive you coldly unless you bring him a gift of marmalade" and i'd rather just get tuberculosis

"Emperor Georgiou has 4 tea services: the Uhura, Burnham, Georgiou and, for kids, the Tribble (named after the furry species.)

"Customers who show up in costume or even just wearing the insignia get a discount. And the owners say there have probably been more Trekkies coming through the doors than tea fans.

"'When people come in and see the mural, it’s just so great to see,' Brendon said."

koin.com/news/portland/star-tr

#StarTrek #Portland #Tea

Hey, just a reminder about Mastodon: It's really irritating to read a long thread in which every post has a CW on it, but the Mastodon software anticipates this, and the thread view has a little eye icon up in the corner that will expand every post in the current thread all at once.

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bike infrastructure in the Netherlands: we built a bike garage that look like an Apple Store!

bike infrastructure in California: enjoy the new suicide center lane on this highway overpass

Night photography can be hard, especially when there is action; this is not improved when the photographer has had a few drinks and doesn't have a tripod.

Imagine my surprise when I see that this Samoan fireknife dance photo turned out this good all things considered!

#samoa #Fa'asamoa #fireknife #culturalheritage #travel #photography #travelphotography #nightphotography

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