qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It looks like they were super lazy and took the half life of the longest lived isotope of radium (226


approx 1600 years) minus its age (approx 100 years) to get to 1,500 years.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago

Burnt tips >> frosted tips

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As others replies have said, it seems that her expertise was welcomed in the community.

Having spent my fair share of time in grad school, my experience with the arrogant scholar trope is...not exactly what this meme suggests. Academics certainly can have strongly held beliefs, but often are very good at gauging their own certainty. If a professor is lamenting that data taken around 3:17pm always looks bad, and the janitor says "well the electric tram goes by around then"


well, I have never met a professor or postdoc who wouldn't take that very seriously.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what I love about these sapling trees, man. I get older, they stay the same age.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I always thought "so," when used to roughly mean "thus," should be spelled with one "o," but when used to mean "very," should use two. It would sort of be analogous to to/too.

And so I went to the park, but it was too hot and soo humid.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 20 points 1 year ago

Ranked choice works well in my city (San Francisco). Just wish it could realistically


given the political uphill battle


be applied to federal elections.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Missed opportunity for chart to go all meta and have a slightly larger piece say, "some people don't like it and it might upset them so you shouldn't want it, which shouldn't matter because a plurality of this chart wants it..."

Or something meta that's more clever.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 32 points 1 year ago

"Over the last 3–4 months, we have observed that CPUs initially working well deteriorate over time, eventually failing," he claims. "The failure rate we have observed from our own testing is nearly 100%, indicating it's only a matter of time before affected CPUs fail."

Not used to seeing significant age-related degradation in silicon used under normal conditions. Sounds like Intel dun goofed...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

Also X often supported a different size viewport and desktop so the view would scroll.

I remember encountering that the first time I used Linux! Can't recall personally finding a good use for it but...neat I guess?

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago

Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from the Borg Queen to Seven of Nine, you're goddamn right I'm living in the past!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

I love my (newish) wired Intellimouse! It's never connected to a windows computer...but I love the mouse.

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