Pat @Pat@qoto.org

@bonifartius

WTF does TFW mean?

@mc

That's cool.

I remember watching an EVA when they were building the ISS, and the astronaut was performing a procedure that required releasing some gas from a valve on the space station, and when he did it, he said he heard the hissing sound of the gas right through his space helmet!

EVA = extra-vehicular activity
ISS = International Space Station

@twotwenty @iron_bug

>"your right I wasn't checking my techabulary there I actually meant WM and not DE."

Okay. Now it makes sense.

I've use KDE or xcfe depending on the application, some apps require KDE, but I prefer the UI on xcfe. I still run into "undocumented features" with xcfe4, but it's actively developed/supported.

Yeah, systemd is Devuan's raison d'être; init freedom and all that, which I support.

I've never used Void. I just now looked it up and it looks like the main feature is the package manager.

@twotwenty

I've never given it much thought. Why would you want any particular display manager?

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #moon #film #movie

Retro SciFi of the Week...

https://tubitv.com/movies/497806/cat-women-of-the-moon

**** Next Week's News ****

CDC makes free respirators available to all Americans.

Over 737,000,000 respirators have been gathering dust in the national strategic stockpile, but now they will be distributed to Americans to finally end this pandemic in the US.

(Watch what happens to case rates as these respirators begin to reach people.)

#masks #USA #respirators #covid19 #N95

#vaccine #mandate #liberty

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@lurker @skells

I did a double take.

@mc

So there really is sound in space. And here I've been laughing at all of those scifi flicks that have sound effects when a spaceship explodes.

Sound in space would make a good #TruthBeTold.

@twotwenty

I do.

Why?

@factolvictor@mastodon.social

I'd like to but I don't know where to watch it. I'm sure Paramount has it on their website, but I certainly don't want to patronize them after what they did, letting Abrams enviscerate the franchise, and of course all the racism in the later product.

@lupyuen

I guess some content is designed to make your mind wander.

@lupyuen

I can focus much better when it's sped up. My mind tends to wander when the content is delivered too slowly.

@factolvictor@mastodon.social

I never got into DS9, actually. I wasn't watching a lot of TV when it first aired and the few episodes I did see, I didn't really like (possibly because I was unfamiliar with the characters/narrative.

You're absolutely right, though, often when a project doesn't have a lot of attention from the suits, it frees up the writers/producers to be more experimental, often with a much a better product.

@mc

>"Okay lady… I’m puzzled now.

>"I’ve been trying to figure out how you got to the factorials formula.
Could not be empirically. (Could it?)

>"So, how did you get there? Please."

For example, assume n=5 days. Then the numerator part of the standard formula says, 5 x 6 x 7. Well, that's a fragment of the factorial 1x2x3x4x5x6x7, except without the 1x2x3x4. And of course 1x2x3x4 is 4!, so it's 7! without the 4!, so it's 7! / 4!. For n=5, that works out to:
(n+2)! / (n-1)!

(I could have shown the same process using the n variable, but it would take a lot more space -- it's easier to show this way.)

(and I ain't no lady )

@freemo

Either that or your meter is set to gallons/minute instead of liters/minute.

@mc

A couple mistakes in my explanation...

The equation I posted has extra parenthesis. It should be

total = n(n+1)(n+2) / 6
where n=# of days

(I tried to post this here using LaTex, but it didn't work.)

Also, I said that six tetrahedrons fit into a rectangle, but that should be six square pyramids, not six tets. But tets use the same formula to determine their volume: Ah / 3
(A=base area, h=height), so it still works, except the base area uses a different formula.

I also just noticed that factorials are, indeed, part of the solution because the equation can be written as:

((n+2)! / (n-1)!) / 6

@tripu

I meant to say, "I recently pondered whether consciousness could ever evolve *without* pain."

Yeah, philosophical zombies are an interesting thought experiment. I haven't really thought about it too much, but my unconsidered impression is that they could not exist. Certainly machines could be made that mimic human responses, but if something (someone) was an exact duplicate of a human, they'd have consciousness, I think.

We can now look into a working brain and see whats going on with fMRI and other tech, and going forward that will improve, so I think sometime this century we'll have some kind of an answer to the hard problem.

I think we will find that consciousness is much more pervasive, beyond just human consciousness.

@trinsec

I just made a change to add the photo credit and so it re-posted. Your original comment got "disconnected" from that one -- sorry.

#TruthBeTold

The truth is...

The electoral college offers no master's degree programs.

#vote #elections #USPol #politics #electoral #college
#president #USA #electors

#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun)
Photo has been modified; Original photo by DAVID ILIFF; CC BY-SA 3.0