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Cruz introduces bill to limit using preferred names, pronouns; critics note he uses a preferred name
Rules for thee, not for me?
Basically my intro to improved jpg is the Library of Congress Sanborn insurance maps. Either download and archive a 300MB TIFF or a 20 something MB JPG2000.
GIMP is a fine viewer for me, but it is incredible
I hate that you're not wrong
So many concrete buildings replacing the masonary. 😩
7 was a stand in for a single digit numbet.. didn't realize it was that low. Yikes
But inanimate objects? I remember hearing a story about a Russian (Soviet) machine that is a "He", not a ship "Her"
I guess we humans do tend to personify stuff
My brain went "Firefox has what 7% market share? What's 50% of that?? Actually, that probably is 4x the 'Fediverse' user total right there"
That's the Curiosity/Perseverance rovers. The second generation Spirit/Opportunity are much smaller. Spirit is to the upper left.
Story still pisses me off to the day I heard about it.
TL,DR: in the dead of night bulldozers physically tore up portions of runway. Standing 50+ airplanes. FAA approved using taxiway to evacuate
It just the other guy is a giant
The induction is mindboggling. Haven't gotten the hang of it yet because I JUST CAN'T UNDERSTAND THE HOW.
It's life changing. I'm coming from the electric "coil" stoves
Granted, it sucks that a few of our old pots are useless now, but we have plenty good still, so not a huge loss
Just some light reading
The black widows really get that screamish response that most bugs don't give me. There's something about that red on black that hits my primal buttons in a tizzy
The only other bugs that get me like that are the too many (more than eight legs) bugs. Milli/centipedes
It took me a second, then 😱
Assembly is probably the closest thing to magic humans have ever created.
(I'm disqualifying String/Quantum as they are "theories" and not in common use)
I was worried for a second, but this BOLTR was fine.
I think if you pick and choose he's fine still..
I like the longer form videos from him
TIL You can use systemd-analyze plot > plot.svg to plot the service startup time to find bottlenecks
If you go far enough, everything is.
But SVGs are one of the few image types that can be human readable and editable
One of my favorite things about Nuka World is the insect enemies. I just saw a group of crickets, and then movements are exactly the same as in the game. It's creepily scary, but it's a great DLC
AJR - The Maybe Man Trailer
I found AJR a few months ago (Thanks Shorts), and I fell in love with their "Overtures"
I was disappointed with the comment that there wasn't going to be an Overture in their next album (TMM)
Two thoughts:
- This will have to suffice for the "overture".
- This short clip/overture is better than most songs I've heard.
The best thing about the Arch community: the breadth of knowledge publically avaliable
Sure Windows is the most used operating system, but its error codes and fixes are so obfuscated it's nearly impossible to drill down to find the root cause.
It basically the opposite with Arch. You take a system designed to show what breaks, well maintained documentation, and an interested community, and you get an easy fix for most annoyances.
I'm still new to the point of "it's probably something I don't know how to ask", but if your GoogleFu is well exercised, a fix is typically a search away
Nobody:... Cicadias: Let me sing you the song of my people
Rumbles of a programing error causing the Russian Lunar mission failure.
Perhaps the 84 second burn overflowed the integer (26) and was caught by a 27s check (127s)
A brief break from the >100°F heat
Two goat kids under a laundry baskrt
arstechnica.com NASA’s buildings are even older than its graying workforce
The space agency says its facilities are in an "increasing state of decline."
Day five. And gotta get those bugs under control right freaking now
Day Three (from finding the melon bud)
It's right by our pathway, so I can get a nice timelapse.
The city of Santiago, Chile
I'd love to back track and figure out the original post. (XPosted from here)
TIL "jerk" had the meaning of "stupid"
www.theringer.com The Forgotten Former Meaning of "Jerk"
The curious pop culture etymology of "jerk," from 1979’s ‘The Jerk’ through today. (Or, "When did jerk stop meaning ‘stupid’?")
Great article by the host of my favorite Podcast.
I remember hearing the "...that jerk" and mentally translating it as "dumb meanie" kind of mixing the current and archaic meaninga
Gemini VIII Docking target
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/geminis-first-docking-turns-to-wild-ride-in-orbit
"Flight, we are docked," Armstrong radioed back. "It was a real smoothie."
Things had gone well up to that point. Shortly after docking, Lovell had a message from Mission Control Houston just before the spacecraft passed out of communications range.
"If you run into trouble, and the attitude control system of the Agena goes wild, just send in command 400 to turn it off and take control of the spacecraft," he said.
The Agena was designed to obey orders from both the Gemini spacecraft and ground control. The Agena soon started a command program stored in its internal system. This instructed the Agena to turn the two spacecraft, but Scott noticed they were moving the wrong direction.
"Neil, we're in a bank," he said.
Armstrong used the Gemini's orbital attitude and maneuvering system, or OAMS, thrusters to stop the tumbling. However, the roll immediately began again, and Gemini VIII was out of range of gr