Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org
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Software Engineer, mostly in the Pacific Northwest of late
Medical Informatics - Carrier-Grade Network Video Distribution - Real Time Clinical Telemetry
Formerly: Motorola, Tektronix, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Nintendo; others you're less likely to have heard of.
Will code for pie. 🥧
Joined Dec 2022
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Trump: "Immigrant vermin poison the blood of our country."
Media: "Here's why an incredible economy won't save Biden."
Trump: "I'll be a dictator."
Media: "Breaking: Biden gets a word wrong, kinda."
Trump: "1/6 was an insurrection."
Media: "Voters worry Biden is very, very old."
Trump: "I did nothing on gun control."
Media: "Biden is losing the religious vote."
Trump: "Also I'll end NATO, start WW3."
Media: "And now, the weather!"
Dear journalists: DO YOUR FUCKING JOB.
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Random Telegram comments about Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson ROUGHLY took several AFU female prisoners of war and did such things…
Tucker Carlson tried pancake from a shovel and was left satisfied. Our elephant!
Tucker Carlson’s website started to sell NKVD knives from Kizlyar masters
Each of these is loaded with Russian idioms and tropes which I will just leave as an exercise for the reader…
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Nothing to see here, keep moving along. Yes, the pandemic is over. No, no, "flu-like symptoms" is what we said.
Half of my daughter's school is off with what is probably Covid, but no-one's testing because:
1. You don't have to
2. Boxes of the free tests have now expired
3. Getting new tests costs money
The mentioned 'attachment' never appeared. Presumably sending this email was the last act of a member of staff so ill that they collapsed into bed immediately after hitting send.
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So many of those opposed to DEI measures appear to believe that women and members of minorities would never have succeeded on merit, which belief succinctly demonstrates why DEI measures are needed in the first place.
If you're out of spaghetti, just cook a half-and-half ratio of capellini and linguini. It averages out to be spaghetti.
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I may be wrong, but I think the current political state of the US Border issue is:
GOP: The Border is a catastrophe! We must act!
Administration: How about if we..
GOP: NO!
Administration: Perhaps we could..
GOP: NO!
Administration: Could we just..
GOP: NO!
Administration:
GOP: And now we’re going to impeach you for not doing anything.
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Why’d they call it “move fast and break things” when “hit and run” is shorter?
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"Trash me all day, but if you want to feel your hands again, it will be $8"
Of those to whom much is given, much questioning at Customs is expected.
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@xahteiwi You can always tell when someone is calling in from the office because there's someone in the background with a really really loud voice who *never ever stops* and Teams can't filter them out because their voice is louder than the one making the call. (That person is one of the reasons were happy to WFH in the first place.)
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Why Covid Can Never Be 'Just A Cold' - by Nate Bear https://www.donotpanic.news/p/why-covid-can-never-be-just-a-cold
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Everyone I talk to, regardless of the sector, is getting pressure from donors or what to "use AI" somehow. Maybe they think its like sprinkling a little bit of magic. Smh. It is unreal seeing all this unfold.
Speaking of space suits, the Mars suits they use are form fitting and very practical to move around in. Yet for space EVA they still use old-tech megabulky suits. Why? The pressure differential is the same. If you've managed to invent a suit like they use on the surface, you'd use it everywhere in preference to the 60kg Michelin Man.
What didn't make sense about "The Martian".
Okay, the film's like eight years old now and there have been numerous articles about it, but none really go into very many of the problems it has. But this is a sufficiently nerdy place to try outlining them.
- The storm could not have carried that much force.
Most articles touch on this one. Mars' surface pressure is less than 1% of Earths. It has dust storms all the time, but the main problem they'd present is visibility. Even 100kph winds would not so much as raise a pebble, let alone jeopardize an ascent vehicle or impale an astronaut.
- If somehow your ascent vehicle IS about to blow over, the *worst* thing you can possibly do is launch it.
What's wrong with stakes and guy wires? Better than taking off, instantly losing the only thing that's keeping you stable and upright, and immediately tumbling and blasting into a hillside, or the ground. NASA doesn't launch rockets in a hurricane. For good reason.
- Non-organic potatoes are sprayed with a sprouting inhibitor. You can't plant them.
Given that they were sealed in transparent plastic, NASA would not have skipped this step. Okay, that's nitpickery. But this isn't:
-- Mars is 50% further from the sun than Earth is (inverse square law, anyone?) and the habitat's skylights are at best translucent. It's VERY difficult to believe the spuds got enough light.
- Retaining a full atmosphere of pressure over a two-metre diameter hole requires an extremely strong structure. Plastic wrap and duct tape won't cut it by, many orders of magnitude.
- You cannot achieve measurable delta-V by poking a hole in your glove. You just depressurise your suit and die without going anywhere much.
- You cannot lose 40m/s velocity in a massive ship by venting some of its atmosphere forward. The math doesn't work, again, by orders of magnitude.
- No competent crew would have mutinied and gone off on that rescue without a known, feasible mission plan. A course is not a mission plan. Incredibly difficult problems were only solved after they were committed. Not even one of those astronauts would have gotten their job if they were that irrational, let alone all five.
But even give all that, it's a fun movie to watch. But more as a kind of meditation and an appreciation of what we can do than as hard SF.
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#Poland sitting minister of foreign affairs Radosław Sikorski teaches a lesson of actual political realism to his counterparts in Davos. An argument raised by some Western politicians is that Russia’s defeat in the war will bring throw it into an abyss of civil war and further from democratic reforms. To which Sikorski replies:
If Russia is defeated militarily, the we will have liberal reforms in Russia. Every time Russia lost a war, there were reform. Crimea war, Russo-Japanese war, the big losses in WW1, and Russia’s self-collapse in the Cold War. There were reforms. Successful, unsuccessful [that’s another question], but only then they try.
Then he goes into more comparisons with past colonial wars and mechanics of decolonisation
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Here they've ripped off a Distractify article about Star Wars YouTuber drama and write "let's be honest, War of Stars fans"
I just learned that in Spanish, to say you "spent" time with someone is a little bit insulting; equivalent to saying you wasted it. (Instead you'd say you passed time with them.)
Translating from your native language is full of these kinds of pitfalls. Fluency requires an intimate familiarity with the way people actually say things.
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The number of people who sent me this Welsh Tidy Mouse. You all know me so well. 🧪 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/08/mouse-cleaning-shed-wales/
Also yeah, it's cute! But also this mouse is not cleaning. Mice (and rats) hoard stuff! They just do. And this behavior can be useful for historians and archaeologists! I actually got to check out some of the rat-collected, er, collections, at Colonial Williamsburg for this piece. https://www.snexplores.org/article/rats-archaeology-human-history-paleontology
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🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing:
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Chagrin Falls: Diner Journalism
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https://boingboing.net/2024/01/17/tom-the-dancing-bug-chagrin-falls-diner-journalism.html .
- Enthusiasms
- 🏍️ 🪂 🚀 🎷 🔬 🔭 🎞️ 🐧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
- Credit
- A Quinn-Martin Production
Software Engineer, mostly in the Pacific Northwest of late
Medical Informatics - Carrier-Grade Network Video Distribution - Real Time Clinical Telemetry
Formerly: Motorola, Tektronix, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Nintendo; others you're less likely to have heard of.
Will code for pie. 🥧
Joined Dec 2022
