Wolf314159

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[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Then maybe you can tell me what "attempting to do more" means, because the author of the article certainly didn't. Or why that's bad. My only take away is that the author thinks the system should facilitate the running of applications and just get out of their way already. But that sounds a lot like building a road network and then failing to install traffic controls because the DOT should just stay out of the way of traffic.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago

This is why I set up tasker to lockdown my phone under certain conditions, such as: getting disconnected from Bluetooth (like when my phone is separated from me and my watch, my headphones, or the car), getting disconnected from WiFi (like when it's taken from where it's supposed to be), getting a slight jolt from the accelerometer (like getting thrown to the ground or even just a swift tap). My phone may get locked down a bunch during day to day stuff, but at least I know it will lockdown automatically when it matters.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

Mentioning anatomy isn't substantially different than photos of anatomy in a classroom setting unless you're a troll looking for a knit to pick.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ok, the title comes from the linked article, but they aren't banned from "mentioning anatomy". They are banned from showing pictures of reproductive organs.

How is that any better? Next your going to rationalize having no books in a literature class, showing no pictures of cells in a biology class, or having a trigonometry class without using the devil's radians.

I don't know why some people seem compelled to ignore all context and rationalize state sponored religious persecution in the name of "protecting the children". It's not post-truth just because you've decided to willfully ignore all the context.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 42 points 2 months ago

Crowned Crane

I'm sure there are other birds that look more like the sketch on the right.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, they got the sudo placement inside out. You "sudo crontab -e" and put your commands there that need sudo, you don't sudo the individual commands in the regular user's crontab.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago

Larry Niven kind of works out this naming in several of his novels. I don't remember all the specifics, and he also used a similar scheme to describe travel in ring world, but it's close enough. First, don't bother with calling it north, that is just confusing. In the reference frame of yourself or the map you're drawing in a spinning galaxy, you've got spinward (in relation to the galactic spin) and anti-spinward, in (toward galactic center) and out, and then normal (orthogonal) to those dimensions, which you could call up and down depending on your preference. I'd probably call spinward, inward, and up positive.

If you need a reference (north) for a galactic map, it's really unlikely you'll want to use anything like grid coordinates. You can use the same ideas from the local map. You'd probably want an origin at the gravity center of the galaxy and pick another object as a reference point from which to zero angular measurements around the disc. That other object could be another galaxy (if you want to measure galactic spin itself) or something distinct and obvious in our own galaxy (if you want to navigate within the galaxy). Most civilizations would probably just use a line between their home system and galactic center as their prime meridian. Up and down should be orthogonal to spin again. If you're home planet had a magnetic pole roughly pointing out of the galactic disc (like ours), you'd probably choose your "north" pole's side up.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago

I know the Hogwarts Legacy game got a lot of hate from Rowling being a monster, but the game mechanics really let you optimize stealthing. I've snuck into many a goblin stronghold and just sneaky sneak murder-hobo'd like 20 or more of them, one at a time, looting the bodies before they even hit the floor. They even show the little ! icon. I feel like I'm playing Solid Snake goes to Hogwarts sometimes.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website -1 points 2 months ago

At they end? The whole thing is toxic incel red-pilled hate speech.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

Actually, I kind of hate omelettes. Not that there's anything wrong with them, just not my thing. I appreciate the links though, I might try them. For me it's more like there are things I love without a adding a bunch of other competing flavors to like chocolate, bacon, coffee, a good glazed donut, and eggs.

My scrambled egg recipe can be wet, or drier if you let them cook a little longer. If not for the consistency of the whites, I'd probably prefer my eggs almost completely raw. I like the method I posted because it brings so much of that yolk flavor I love to the forefront with grossing out someone that likes their eggs completely cooked.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The sun isn't wet. It's not going to dry out.

Strictly speaking asking the weight of an astronomical body is nonsensical. Weight is a measure of force and only has meaning in relation to mass and acceleration (in this case due to gravity). The sun has a mass of 1,988,400×10^24kg.

As to the question about turning it into a rock, let me put it to you this way, "Which weighs more, a pound of rocks or a pound of feathers?"

Or think of it this way. I weigh about 200 pounds on the earth (pounds being a unit of force, not mass). That's the force holding me down on the planet. That's also how much the Earth weighs on me. My mass, about 91 kg, is the same on earth, the moon, outer space, the surface of the sun, etc. My weight however, depends entirely on whatever massive gravity well I happen to be standing on.

Don't ask "What is mass?", there be dragons. You'll either get trite over simplified to the point of being meaningless answers (like the reply below), you'll just barely start to understand that learn more about the world around us leads to more questions than answers. That's kind of the whole point though.

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