qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 4 weeks ago

When they talk about being the party of Lincoln this isn't what I had in mind...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 38 points 4 weeks ago

Scully and Mulder would not put up with this shit.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 25 points 4 weeks ago

Sounds like the opposite reasoning may have some truth:

"Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: 'Look, until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American pope.' And his point was, if America is kind of running the world politically, culturally, economically, they don't want America running the world religiously. So, I think there's some truth to that, that we're such a superpower and so dominant, they don't wanna give us, also, control over the church."

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 91 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Look, if you don't want to listen to some random dude who thinks reading is cool, fair enough. But if that random dude also runs level three diagnostics on the warp core and can swap polarity on the main deflector dish with one hand tied behind his back? Yeah...you should probably pay attention.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nah just give them the .tex source and let them deal with it.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It is "backwards" from some other commands


usually you run copy/rsync/link from source to destination, but with tar the destination (tarball) is specified before the source (directory/files).

That, and the flags not needing dashes always just throws me for a loop.

And the icing on the cake is that I don't use tar for tarring that often, so I lose all muscle memory (untaring a tgz or tar.bz2 is frequent enough that I can usually get that right at least...).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

There was an old Top Gear episode with a race in a Nordic country with an interesting take on a price cap


the price enforcement was that anybody could buy your car (for no more than the price cap) after the race.

So I think you technically could enter the race with a brand new tricked out rally car...but anyone could buy it for $500/$1000/whatever.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago

I think some commercial TVs might do what you want.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In grad school I picked up a an old free HP LaserJet, with an Ethernet NIC card (it was an upgradable printer, maybe from the mid 2000s?).

It was great! Only complaint was no duplexer, but the thing printed great from Linux and the generic toner was cheap.

Today though...the experience is a bit different.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

At work on a slack it just means "I'm watching this discussion."

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You discounted space dust.

No I didn't


it would thermalize and radiate.

This is not my paradox, and it's not really a paradox at all, as the big bang model explains it nicely. There are many nice articles on the topic of you'd like to read more about it.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yes. But why is there an absence of light?

If there are infinite stars, then every direction you look would encounter a star. (Things stay the same brightness per subtended angle as they get far away. Space dust doesn't matter, as it would thermalize and radiate.)

So, the universe can't have infinite luminous matter, be static and ageless, because if it were then the night sky would look like the surface of a sun.

This may all seem obvious, but it's neat that you can figure that out with the naked eye.

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