Ook the Librarian @ ook_the_librarian @lemmy.world

My namesake is a human librarian that was turned into an orangutan. All he

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Thank goodness it doesn't have windows.

This American told the story from that article in an episode.

It's like they studied at the Kitchen Appliance Naming Institute.

I have a pci-e capture for composite. I do notice an input delay. I didn't really try to get a bleeding-edge configuration setup. Just wanted to mention that it might not be as simple as it sounds.

Have you seen the RetroTink project? I have no first-hand experience, but I've heard good things. Not sure if it fits your use-case. It's used to convert composite video to hdmi with minimal latency. You'd still have to switch monitor inputs, though.

Right, the true cost of the plastic isn't something a business has to pay. They buy straws by the gross for pennies and there is no disposal fee.

The disposal problem isn't free but no restaurant would willingly pay one.

Except any annoying kitchen task that can solved by specialized but not crazy expensive equipment will be.

Like, I don't think a kitchen would bother trying to automate silverware rolling. (I just looked it up. Equipment exists, but not published prices. I've seen pleny of staff doing by hand though.) I have, however, seen a thing that looked like 4 mini vertically spinning carwash-spinning-pole-of-towels thingies that bartenders were using to wipe the insides of glasses. (I just looked that up too. I think I found the model for $810 US.) No one would have that in their home, but not many people use any sort of straw at home.

So what I'm saying is that a specialized dishwasher for durable steel straws doesn't seem hard to design or expensive to manufacturer. I feel OP was hoping for more innovation.

Actually, it was just through the magic of making two accounts. A little trick I learned on youtube.

At this point, it's not even weird. I'm just glad they aren't tarnishing any look I would miss. I mean, in an alternate universe, I could see myself rocking a Chaplin moustache. But they can have the thinning, wiry, bizarrely-styled blond look all to themselves.

These guys had nothing on the Showbiz Pizza Gang.

It's Charles Entertainment Cheese to the rest.

I upvote it twice. By magic!

It's not that I don't care about local politics. You sending a link that's relevant to other people's local politics is completely irrelevant to me. Until the GP option is common on local ballots, not just 5 featured ones, I do not want hear about a presidential run.

By the way, I do commemorate you on your outreach and activism. You're getting shit on in this thread, and you're still politely getting your links out. Good work.

I'm a voter, my friend. I can complain about a party all damn day. If you think that a political party is going get a dime from me before they can even convince me to vote for them, you have strange spending habits.

Honestly, I was just hoping it might help him realize how dumb X sounds to everyone else.

And it's owned by the X billionaire Elon Musk.

I'll level with you. I only called it philosophical so I could hide behind that as a shield against an actual physics debate. But then I so showed my ass and mentioned the standard model. Thus leaving philosophy. I can't hide behind unfalsifiable bullshit.

So I hope someone read this and went down some wikipedia rabbit holes. I'll happily be "Cunningham's fool". I'll give you, weird reader, some more wiki nuggets below.

I don't think you should let some rando make you doubt anything. I don't have a Ph.D. in physics. I only have a mild intro this stuff. I was on my way to getting a phd in physics (nuclear at that, not particle) and got distracted by math.

I don't want to be super specific so as to not dox myself with a research fingerprint, but my research has crossed paths with things like Agmon metrics. Which although feels like I'm doing physics, it doesn't change the fact that physicists don't read my papers.

So I do find myself saying "apparently these graded algebras show up in quantum mechanics" and stuff like that. Maybe some day I'll go back and learn it deeper, but I doubt it.

But I do love knowing that there is a connection even if I don't see all the details. Like I don't think I'll ever understand sentences like "One way to incorporate the standard model of particle physics into heterotic string theory is the symmetry breaking of E8 to its maximal subalgebra SU(3)×E6.". I need to know about Lie symmetries, but I'm not in physics or algebra. So I don't think I'll flesh out this connection, but it really makes me ponder The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences.

So online, I'd rather play the role of a street preacher spouting things like "nature can't take a derivative. there is no continuum." and hoping people read the links when I claim nature solves differential equations by means of weak solutions thereby only integrates. Integration is what nature does. I know that the phrase "nature solves differential equations" is nonsense. But it's fun. So going deeper, nature can't take a derivative because the idea of point particles destroys continuity. This is what saves the natural world from pathologies like the Banach--Tarski paradox. Those ideas are kinda basic, but I'm shooting for 1 in 10,000 read to whom the topic is both new and interesting for.

Sorry that you engaged with an internet crazy person. I hope it wasn't too infuriating.

That explains the extra kitten. Where's the other Mom cat?

Cool. I really hate the English use of "you" when "one" is really the word one wants. But when one uses "one" as opposed to "you", one sounds crazy.

I honestly think a lot of online defensiveness arises from this construction.

I'm saying, it sounds like I'm saying "you need to do blah cuz you're wrong about blah", when I would prefer it to be read as reiterating my earlier point of "if one wants to see Green policies enacted, one would do well to ignore Jill Stein."

That is literally my point. Ignore them until they seem to want governance as opposed to only seeing them in national headlines tilting at windmills. It's worthless.

If you like Stein's platform, voting for Stein will decrease the likelihood of you ever seeing such a policy implemented. If, say, a state rep. runs on a Green platform, they would likely get my vote.

Right. I do believe that many members of the Green Party are good political options. It's just they as a party don't rally around them. They only seem to push for the presidency. I don't see how they can hope to accomplish anything when they seem to shoot for the moon every four years, and only manage to spoil things.

Until I start seeing good options on the ballots from the Greens, I will just continue to hope the progressives win the dem. primaries for my local seats.