bashinator

<3 B&H. Finding them was a breath of fresh air given how garbage Newegg has become.

The most amazing thing I experienced during the last annular eclipse was the thousands of crescent-shaped shadows from wherever a pinpoint of light shone through, say a pair of tree leaves. It was legit astonishing; literally every surface was covered in these crescent refractions of the eclipse.

I doubt very much you'd experience anything like that on an airplane, but possibly that's just me having sour grapes this time.

Because the same movie doesn't flood the market with hundreds of different names. Similarly, the content of a movie doesn't change from year-to-year while the name stays the same.

I bought a 3060 Ti in late 2019 :-D. About as well-timed a purchase as I've ever made.

So true. Thank goodness for Microcenter and B&H. Especially the latter still has a hand-curated product selection.

I always thought both of those books would make excellent graphic novel or anime adaptations.

Yikes, talk about normalizing violence in political discourse.

It's also a bit different from learning to play music in that almost everyone appreciates music even without being able to create it themselves. There's a much more direct connection between the craft and its outcomes than with math.

I don't think anyone is arguing that getting usage metrics from your tools in a professional setting is a big value add. The argument is that it requires internet connectivity, a heavyweight client, and third-party cloud services. If you just want to track basic metrics like torque and battery, stick an OpenTelemetry server on the wrench.

Everyone knows that once you've addressed a problem it goes away forever and no further attention ever has to be paid to it. That's how we fixed racism in the United States back in the 1960s!

Don't look at Dyson Sphere Program.

I don't see what the feasibility of Hyperloop has to do with the article. It was never intended to succeed.

As a devops type person, I've been advocating for basic performance testing to be part of microservice unit tests. It'd be really wonderful to get rough numbers for peak and idle cpu/memory usage along with other test output.

Why should government investigate whether their employees practice pseudo-biological bullshit?

> French republic and many other European nations dont collect on race.

Which is a convenient way for them not to track patterns of racial discrimination in their social systems.

Have you ever felt pressured to do work for a corporation when you'd prefer not to? (E.g. take a job for the health care/other life needs).

I mean, if unions are cartels, then so are corporate boards.

I was lucky to be born into a middle-class family in the USA with access to good schools.

I'm lucky to be a quick learner.

I'm lucky that all the challenges I've faced in life have been manageable.

I can't think of how I would have made that kind of luck for myself.

Not a corporation, but I've certainly seen that reaction to any number of subreddits getting shut down.

Slow down to get into a lower orbit, where you will overtake your target. Then speed up to get back into the higher orbit where the target will catch up with you.

I'm just curious; should I be able to profit from selling high-quality prints of a living artist's paintings that I surreptitiously photographed in a gallery?

I have a new law: "Sufficiently large quantitative change always turns into qualitative change."

To extend your argument, nothing we perceive is _exactly_ how it exists in the universe. Everything that comes into our senses is an approximation, whether directly or via technological instrumentation. I don’t think any of that contradicts the possibility that consciousness is some state of matter.

Aren’t there sex offender public registries that are legal extensions of the conviction?

Says the guy who knows about neutrinos.

That would bring us back to parity with pre-Internet society, assuming said info could still be accessed through court and library archives.

> impossible to know anything about a universe that doesn’t include our perception of it

The optimistic take for me is that this is a fundamental feature of the Universe.

AFAIK there are plenty of observations that can't be accounted for by any MOND theory either.

I like Occam's razor as much as anyone, but it really is starting to seem like there might be more than one cause of the phenomenon called dark matter. My understanding is that WIMPs (weakly-interacting massive particles) are in trouble too, as the LHC has failed to produce them in the expected energy regimes.

Apologies, I was bringing problem-solving to an emotional support thread.