Hopefully the human first responders are automatically dispatched when one of the drones responders to something, so that they will be there to patch up the people slashed repeatedly by the blades on that drone. Which, given the world we live in, is guaranteed to happen.

thanks!

Just think of the CoSt SaViNgS when 3 years from now and all that shiny new hardware is obsolete compared with the nvidia Orphan Crusher 3000, and instead of paying for a silly decommissioning and responsible recycling project you can just cover your eyes for 30 seconds and let the meth heads scour the site.

But then I could go around asking “what do you want?” with a suspicious smirk in my face!

iirc, apt-get is the version to use in scripts. They keep the input & output consistent so that it won’t break things.

Regular old apt is for humans to use at the command prompt, and that’s what I use all the time.

I’ve pretty much gone back to my 2000s era mindset of “I don’t need a smart phone when I have PCs in front of me at work and at home.”

But really it’s more like I already have an old smart phone but hate using it and never want to have to upgrade. We’ll see what Motorola can make happen.

Tech idea #8545764 that sounds like it could maybe do some good if only the entire industry and those responsible for regulating them weren’t malicious actors.

When the race starts at the Salt & Pepper 500, they blast “What’s New Pussycat” and leave it on repeat until a winner is crowned.

That jar reminds me of the end result of the sand ceremony that some people do at weddings. Several years ago I photographed a wedding for a middle aged couple who each already had kids, so with their Brady Bunch situation I think they had even more colors than this.

So uh, are any of you lovely gay Lemmings planning on getting hitched with your partner any time soon? I know the perfect container for a sand ceremony that you would display in your home for decades to celebrate your love AND your sense of humor.

I think you are stating that backwards.

You can definitely say that everything with mass has energy. And yeah the two are kind of interchangeable.

But that does not mean that a photon HAS mass. It just means that we can calculate how much mass its energy is equivalent to.

For what it’s worth, there’s a damn good reason that Einstein’s name is associated with being super smart.

Oh it gets even weirder than that.

One observer can see two events happen simultaneously while another sees them happen at different times.

And EVEN WORSE than that, thanks to length contraction at relativistic speeds, you could have one observer think that a train is contained entirely within a tunnel, but another observer sees the train sticking out both ends of the tunnel at the same time without ever fitting entirely within it.

and/or: One observer objectively masures that object A is longer than object B, while another observer objectively measures that object B is longer than object A.

The two observers are not just hanging out together, of course. They are moving ridiculously fast relative to one another.

The speed of causality is a hell of a drug.

I think they do move, but it’s slower than you might think. The voltage / EMF / potential travels super fast on the same order of magnitude as the speed of light, but the net motion of the electrons in a DC current flow slower than WE can move.

I think the word “relatively” in the previous comment is doing some heavy lifting.

If you are going to spend a few hours of your limited free time to plant the shrubs, even if the materials and transportation are free to you, compare that with the relative cost of a small environmental fine to a trillion dollar company building a billion dollar data center.

The people at the top might not even realize anything happened, if anything even does happen.

That is wild.

Well there’s another sensor to add to my wish list!

Although, we have a lot of HVAC flow into the bedroom so maybe the difference wouldn’t be huge.

Now that’s some legit “I’m a big deal” energy.

Both the quiet confidence and apparently being famous enough that they prefer not pointing out who they are.

It’s that way with Webb since it focuses on infrared, but I thought hubble used the visible spectrum.

After a brief search, it looks like Hubble uses the entire optical spectrum which includes some IR and UV along with visible. It depends on the specific image, but the deep field stuff looks like it was a combination of visible and IR, which makes sense considering red shift. But the bluer objects were captured in the visible.

So they inevitably had to compress the spectrum for the photos, but speaking as somebody who has taken tens of thousands of photos in RAW format, all the colors in every photo are translated data. :) (that also goes for the screen displaying the final image using a mix of three wavelengths rather than the actual colors of the original light)

One of my all time favorite wallpapers is the Hubble Ultra Deep field.

Checkmate athei astronomers!

I will do that! It might be a while, who knows.

Do you have anything specific you have started, or have started eyeing up?

I am as disgusted with consumer marketing and advertising as anybody, but sometimes the logo or the brand on something CAN be a positive sign if it indicates the product comes from a company that has earned the trust they have.

I don’t have a Steam Deck and probably never will. However, I am glad to see it being popular if for no other reason than what Valve and the Deck have contributed to gaming on Linux.

I will probably get their VR headset though, whenever that comes out.