duckythescientist @ duckythescientist @sh.itjust.works

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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.

I have one like this but another who puts up with a lot. If I pet her or put a hand on her before I turn in bed, she's fine with it. I think it's because she then knows that I'm aware of her. I've also accidentally kicked her (not hard) a few times while tossing and turning and she didn't care. But heaven forbid I sneeze or even inhale like I'm about to.

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.

Yeah, I have a couple over 800MB PNGs that I can only get Gimp to open properly. I need to look into pyramidal TIFFs.

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.

Why are you making it weird and tied to race. I'm not thinking about the cat's genitals. That woman isn't, and her cats sure aren't. You are the only one thinking about cat genitals in this situation.

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.

Yep! It's running fine right now on my Pixel 9.

Google removed my app because I wasn't updating it regularly enough. I WASN'T UPDATING IT BECAUSE IT WAS FINISHED AND IT DID EVERYTHING I WANTED IT TO DO!

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

I read it more like "we were planning on helping the blind next but now this bullshit got in the way and we have to deal with it first unfortunately. DRM is hindering accessibility."

I think more specifically for C, 0 is false and anything nonzero is true. Idk about NaN/inf.

Defaced then refaced

Oh... Oh god