Andy Lowry @AndyLowry@qoto.org
Retired SysAdmin living in the high country of Arizona, USA. I enjoy learning about physics, cosmology, genetics, neurology, and suchlike. Deeply confused by worldwide trends towards authoritarianism. I thought we'd already learned about that stuff. But I guess not.
Joined Nov 2022
Andy Lowry
boosted
By the way, Southwest blew $5.6 billion on stock buybacks in the past few years.
They could have made investments in their services and infrastructure.
They could have prepared for extreme weather events.
But no. They decided to enrich their shareholders.
Bad tech joke
@threepio
And it used to be the "floppy...."
@everywhereist
In the first half of the 13th century, the Soto Zen master Dōgen wrote instructions on bathing and cleanliness for his monks. The text is in chapter 7 of his masterwork Shobogenzo. He's very specific about how many balls to prepare and use. A good free translation can be had here if you'd like to look at it:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Pq2MCIiUnLUZepRE0OLs1ptkCCWziq6c/view
That translation is broken into four volumes, and this first volume contains fascicle 7, which starts on page 47.
@everywhereist
So sort of a dual-purpose ceramics function! Very efficient to think of that.
Are you aware of the medieval Japanese thing where they used balls of clay? I can provide info if needed.
@chaosblade @nova
Glad to see you finally made it here! 😉 Welcome to you. Now let's get down to having some fun. I'll tag along with you and see where this trail goes.
Andy Lowry
boosted
Right, #introduction time.
I'm a too close to 40 years old software engineer from Israel, married + toddler princess. He/him.
Some of my favorite things are #dotnet , #Metal music, #Football and especially #juventus and #maccabihaifa and #gaming in general, esp. CRPGs.
Also an aspiring weeb who still watches #onepiece after so many years.
Hello #hachyderm and thank you @nova !
Ask me anything and all that.
Andy Lowry
boosted
Even the FBI recommend blocking Ads
Using Ad-blockers is one way
Doing it at aggregation points is another
Or, just don't clock Ads. I cannot recall ever clicking an Ad
@_4_d_4_m_
I've used a PiHole for years, both at home and at my office back when I used to work. Not only cleans up the ol' browser, saves some bandwidth too! Not to mention it gives me an excuse to play with Raspberry Pi's, since they're perfect for stuff like that. 😃
@democracydocket
This Arizonan is VERY grateful that she got the job. Still puzzled over the debate refusal, but all's well that ends well I suppose. Hey, I should write that down, it's kind of catchy.
@womump
Oh well, seemed like a good idea at the time. 😉
@clmorgan
That is the tidiest trench I've ever seen. It looks like it was cut with a laser. Didja find anything?
@awalshe
The first time I watched my TI-99/4A do exactly what I'd told it to do, it changed my life forever. It was electrifying. 😍
@Kashalot@mastodon.world
You know, I don't think I would do that. I don't think I would even THINK about doing that.
Andy Lowry
boosted
While we know that the degeneration of dopamine neurons causes Parkinson's disease, we still don't know why those neurons degenerate.
One intriguing idea is that these neurons are particularly sensitive because their dendritic arbors are absolutely HUGE. Each neuron has 1 million terminal release sites, and operates under an extremely tight energy budget.
Paper: "Living on the edge with too many mouths to feed: Why dopamine neurons die"
https://movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mds.25135
Picture from: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2018.00455/full#B136
@dambaras @sethcotlar
WHOA. Duuuuude. You just blew my mind. 😆
@xtrems876 @Joaquincastrotx
Some have been, and have been convicted-- though not the members of Congress who engaged in the planning and such. That's what I would like to see, though I know I won't. All the fake elector people deserve some law enforcement attention too, but I guess they get a pass for trying to defraud a government proceeding.
@awalshe
It's not only fun to live in an imaginary world for a time, it's a great distraction when you need a distraction-- it's one of my tools to deal with occasional bouts of chronic pain. 🙂
Andy Lowry
boosted
In England, “booster shot” is spelled “borchestershire shot.”
@vickyveritas
Publishing is the greatest mystery in the universe. Almost everything about it is inexplicable. Somewhere in the world-- my guess is deep in the Romanian forests-- ancient robed men with skull headdresses gather and chant and sacrifice a horse, and then they make their pricing and printing decisions.
I really needed a book last year for a curiosity project I was doing. It was the only book that could have provided me the information I needed unless I wanted to pay somebody to translate the original for me. I mean, I had to have it. Hardback price was $70, there was no paperback, and digital price was $100. I am not making that up. Book was a good 800 pages or so, so no way was I going to heft that around with me, so digital was what I wound up doing, amidst much emotional turmoil and angst. Hey, wait a minute, I think I see the marketing genius there after all...
@lrau
OY GEWALT
I will make great use of that today, thanks. Where should the royalty checks be sent?
Retired SysAdmin living in the high country of Arizona, USA. I enjoy learning about physics, cosmology, genetics, neurology, and suchlike. Deeply confused by worldwide trends towards authoritarianism. I thought we'd already learned about that stuff. But I guess not.
Joined Nov 2022
