I type much faster now that I use Dvorak, but I also forced myself to learn to touch type at the same time. Was it Dvorak that made me faster? Maybe! 😛

I viscerally hate this. Thank you

Bullshit propaganda making climate change out as an individual issue instead of the systemic issue dominated by a few companies and the economic system that it actually is.

This is also weirdly anti-natalist.

Ground is a very relative concept in electronics. You are correct about earth ground, but if the case is unplugged and you touch it, you are still grounding yourself to chassis ground. Chassis ground is the important one for this since the danger isn’t electrocution (assuming the PC is unplugged) but electrostatic discharge (ESD) that can damage components.

This is still a massive simplification of the concept of ground.

Probably not as many as we’d like to think. I recently got to run a few days of tests at Lawrence Livermore National Labs with an absurdly massive laser. At one point we needed to bring in a small speaker for an audio test. It took the lab techs and managers about two hours and a couple phone calls to some higher ups to make sure it was ok and wouldn’t damage anything. There’s so much red tape and procedure in the way that I don’t think there’s an opportunity to just fuck around. The laser has irreplaceable parts that people aren’t willing to jeopardize. Newer or smaller lasers are going to be more relaxed. This one is old enough to be my father, and it’s LLNL’s second biggest single laser iirc. And they are the lab using lasers for fusion, so they have big lasers.

And if there’s ever a brand integration, he’ll spout their marketing drivel uncritically and try to pass it off as science. I can’t trust him anymore.

There’s a similar chip that makes a door chime ding-dong sound. M581A

“I took four months off to recover from burnout”

Probably, yeah, but there’s no need to be mean about it.

I’ve actually found 1% to be a lot more common nowadays.

There’s one in the post. (Likely got added sometime after your comment)

Defaced then refaced

Oh… Oh god

I’m good at Python, and I don’t know Rust. This looks fine to me. I’ve fully missed the joke.

I know some phones are starting to work with satellite comms, so these may be replaced by cell phones in the near future heh, maybe not. See the comment below. At least currently, I have several friends who still have wilderness beacons.

That’s glucose (and also fructose). The formula in the meme is for sucrose. All three are common sugars that you eat. Table sugar is sucrose, but glucose is what plants create during photosynthesis which is probably where you came across its formula.

It would stretch like a rubber band stretches just a lot less. Wood, metal, whatever is slightly flexible. The stick would either get slightly thinner or slightly less dense as you pulled it. Also, you won’t be able to pull it much because there’s so much stick.

This isn’t my horny account. Or maybe rather all my accounts are definitionally horny.

Got any good links/sites?

United States

100% tariff on ourself. Hell yeah!