667

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[–] 667@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir does a great job at hypothesizing a first interaction like this.

[–] 667@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] 667@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Is snooze still the obnoxious 9 minutes?

[–] 667@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If they do see it, they won’t see it that way. It will be reinterpreted by state media as something along the lines of “the evil enemy attacking our boys unprovoked” or something to rile up the base.

[–] 667@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The extent of my knowledge of astrophysics and relativity are around the size of the next comma in this sentence, but wouldn’t a great deal of time pass “inside” such a black hole such that a “universe” could rise and fall in what would seem to us as just a few microseconds due to relativistic effects?

[–] 667@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Always makes me say things I didn’t Nintendo.

[–] 667@kbin.social 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The fibers are too short, but you could probably make a neat paper out of it.

[–] 667@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

There are some really good flint and steel survival rods available now. Not the flimsy Scouting ones of yesteryear, but ones with anodized aluminum housings, hardened metal strikers and large diameter flint rods.

Started our winter stove with it the other day and am really happy with it.

The one I have, from a survival perspective, is a little risky, because when configuring them for use they must be taken down into multiple parts, but damn if it doesn’t make huge sparks.

[–] 667@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

If you’re in the Apple ecosystem, you can toss your vault into iCloud Drive. If you’re technically proficient (and brave) you can write a cron to sync into whichever service you want via a local machine.

In addition to iCloud, I have a one-way sync (rsync) which functions as a poor man’s backup to get all my files into Dropbox; lots of stern warnings from Obsidian not to use Dropbox.

[–] 667@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

May I offer that it really depends on your note-taking style? I’ve been using it since July having come from linear note-taking on Cornell NTS. It’s way faster and much more interlocked once you get past the slight learning curve.

[–] 667@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They just let anyone on the internet nowadays. It’s GIF, not GIF. Get it right.

[–] 667@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Can’t we though? All language is arbitrary at first. A person (or community) often names things, sometimes from pure scratch. The words “Kodak” and “Xerox” come to mind.

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