duckythescientist

I viscerally hate this. Thank you

The body horror gore effects in The Substance (2024) were amazing. The rest of the movie was reasonably good, but I disagree with a few directorial decisions. It treats the viewer as if they are really forgetful or not paying attention (which is a direction that a lot of streaming is going iirc).

Ass to ass?

Bullshit propaganda making climate change out as an individual issue instead of the systemic issue dominated by a few companies and the economic system that it actually is.

This is also weirdly anti-natalist.

That was a fun one

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I have one like this but another who puts up with a lot. If I pet her or put a hand on her before I turn in bed, she's fine with it. I think it's because she then knows that I'm aware of her. I've also accidentally kicked her (not hard) a few times while tossing and turning and she didn't care. But heaven forbid I sneeze or even inhale like I'm about to.

Ground is a very relative concept in electronics. You are correct about earth ground, but if the case is unplugged and you touch it, you are still grounding yourself to chassis ground. Chassis ground is the important one for this since the danger isn't electrocution (assuming the PC is unplugged) but electrostatic discharge (ESD) that can damage components.

This is still a massive simplification of the concept of ground.

Probably not as many as we'd like to think. I recently got to run a few days of tests at Lawrence Livermore National Labs with an absurdly massive laser. At one point we needed to bring in a small speaker for an audio test. It took the lab techs and managers about two hours and a couple phone calls to some higher ups to make sure it was ok and wouldn't damage anything. There's so much red tape and procedure in the way that I don't think there's an opportunity to just fuck around. The laser has irreplaceable parts that people aren't willing to jeopardize. Newer or smaller lasers are going to be more relaxed. This one is old enough to be my father, and it's LLNL's second biggest single laser iirc. And they are the lab using lasers for fusion, so they have big lasers.

Yeah, I have a couple over 800MB PNGs that I can only get Gimp to open properly. I need to look into pyramidal TIFFs.

Especially considering it's back above $100k currently

And if there's ever a brand integration, he'll spout their marketing drivel uncritically and try to pass it off as science. I can't trust him anymore.

I've done it. It cooked well enough.