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RGBes

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Physicist turned into a science teacher. Art, Science, F(L)OSS (word processing, typography) are my main topics. Spanish, English, Italian my languages.

NOTES:

  • the rights of the LGBTIQ+ community are human rights;
  • races do not exist, we are all equally human;
  • immigrants have the same human rights as you or me or anyone else;
  • science-based medicine works and vaccines are the most important creation of humankind;
  • etc. (you get the idea).

Bigots and fascists are immediately blocked!

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ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Bonus panel, and apparently 7 other trolley comics, here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/trolley-8

RGBes,
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@ZachWeinersmith The most interest thing about trolley problems is how easy it is to find so many people interested in trolley problems. It seems to me that there is more than enough material for a sociology thesis on this.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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This will be relevant for about 2 people, BUT

There's a quote from Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed that sounds amazing: "Those who trouble themselves to find a cause for any of these detailed rules, are in my eyes void of sense..."

HOWEVER, as far as I can tell it is invariably out of context. He's not talking about the Torah overall, but about narrow particulars involved in animal sacrifice.

Now, go about your morning.

RGBes,
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@ZachWeinersmith Every single quote from an ancient thinker is

  1. Presented out of context.
  2. Interpreted with our modern view of the world.
    Short quotes tell more about the person using the quote than about the person who originally said it, and almost every time they hide an "argument from authority" fallacy.
veronica, to ai
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A quick reminder that humans have not yet invented AI. It's an imitation puffed up by marketing. They've dressed up a parrot as Agent Smith.

RGBes,
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@veronica you're underestimating parrots 😉

mcnees, to random
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A useful feature alongside spell check would be irony check, which kicks in when I reverse the “v" and “s” in “reverse” and accidentally write "reserve.”

RGBes,
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@mcnees It could appear as a pop-up window that says "not again..."

nixCraft, to linux
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A user and a user walk into a bar. The Linux user loudly proclaims, "My distro is the best!" The FreeBSD user smiles quietly, sips their drink, and thinks, “They just don't know what they're missing.”

Someone from the back yells it is GNU/Linux.

RGBes,
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@nixCraft Afterwards, a Chimera user points out that, actually, you don't need the GNU tool chain at all

franco_vazza, to Astro
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Just had a remote zoom meeting with colleagues who are organising a meeting in their institution.

Question to them: "Could you plan about the budget for the meeting?"

Answer: "Well, you know, we have this crazy president of state and we don't know how it is going to be.."

Now: can you guess the country?
Can you squeeze the range of possibility to less than 5 or 10 countries? 🙄

RGBes,
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@franco_vazza I can only guess the planet

RGBes,
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@franco_vazza Maybe they came to do a clean up of the galactic neighbor or something. But in that case an asteroid would be far easier, I think... 🤔 Now I'm not even sure about the planet.

dgar, to random
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RGBes,
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@dgar Don't worry, a little more rain and nobody will see the sign ever again.

davidrevoy, to physics
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Kicking Erwin Schrödinger out of my idols. Not because he chose a cat for his thought experiment, but because of one thing I learnt: he sexually abused children and kept a diary about it. 🤮 Src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger#Sexual_abuse

RGBes,
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@davidrevoy Celebrate ideas, never people: people tend to have many bad ideas beyond the few good ones for which they have become famous. Schrödinger is a good example of that: he was a horrible person.

RGBes, to random
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On the way to 24.2: comments with style | From Mind to Type

https://frommindtotype.wordpress.com/2023/11/25/on-the-way-to-24-2-comments-with-style/

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ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/infinite

New book out next week! www.acityonmars.com

RGBes,
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@ZachWeinersmith For the last panel I was almost expecting an "Oh my me!" (What would a euphemism look like in this case? "Oh my mesh", perhaps? No, it doesn't work...)

RGBes, to Battlemaps
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Why Tree Planting Campaigns Don’t Work | PBS Terra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSm0nvOa07w

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Working on a comic and accidentally created an extraordinarily valuable math symbol

RGBes,
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@ZachWeinersmith There should be another one for "hopefully"

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Weird question - in singing, how much is opening your mouth wide mechanical vs. aesthetic? So, like, I was noticing in this harmony, you can barely tell at a distance that their lips are moving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-u7yPTDOQ4

Makes sense, since it's a somber tune. It's also hard to imagine e.g. Frank Sinatra opening his mouth wide. Whereas of course in pop or rock, you have to unhinge your jaw.

RGBes,
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@ZachWeinersmith Don't quote me on this, but I remember an interview to an opera singer from the '60s (I don't remember which opera singer, though) who appeared on a few Hollywood movies, and she recalled that during filming, she had to sing an octave lower to make it look good on screen. Of course, they then synchronized the image with the song in the correct pitch.

ct_bergstrom, to random
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If I were to set up a wordpress blog to write about bullshit, science, big tech, large language models, and all that, what would you think I should title it?

RGBes,
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@ct_bergstrom what about "BS all the way down"

(BTW, my phone keyboard keeps changing the full BS word with weird things like Bellshill...)

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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In Europe, how come nobody dips all their food in ranch dressing? How do you cover up the taste of your food?

RGBes,
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@ZachWeinersmith why cover up? Our food is really good as it is, there is no need for cheap delusions. Remember, UK is not part of Europe anymore.

johncarlosbaez, (edited ) to random
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I have so many questions about what just happened with Voyager 2. But let's review:

On August 20, 1977, Voyager 2 was launched from Earth.

In December 1977, it entered the asteroid belt.

In June 1978, its main radio receiver failed. Since then it's been using the backup receiver!

On July 9, 1979, it flew past many of Jupiter's moons, made its closest approach to Jupiter, and took tons of beautiful pictures.

On August 26, 1981 it shot past Saturn and took tons of beautiful pictures.

On August 25, 1989 it shot past Neptune and took tons of beautiful pictures.

On November 5, 2018 it crossed the heliopause and entered interstellar space, 120 times farther from the Sun than we are.

On July 18, 2023, it overtook Pioneer 10 and became the second farthest man-made object from the Sun.

3 days later, some idiot sent a command that pointed its high gain antenna 2 degrees away from Earth. HOW EXACTLY DID THIS HAPPEN?

On August 4, 2023, NASA used its most high-powered transmitter to successfully command Voyager 2 to reorient towards Earth, resuming communications. HOW WAS THAT POSSIBLE?

Voyager 2 is now 133 AU away. How can you "shout" across such a distance and attract the attention of someone who is not looking in your direction? That's very far. It takes light about 18 hours to travel that far.

RGBes,
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@dragfyre @johncarlosbaez That would have happened, eventually, but that's not what actually happened. AFAIK, the antena does not have a single high sensitivity direction (think of diffraction patterns), so even if it's pointing in the wrong direction it's possible to target one of the lower "secondary sensitivity peaks" if you beam loud enough. But bear in mind that IANAVI (I'm not a Voyager engineer)

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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http://smbc-comics.com/comic/garfield

RGBes,
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@ZachWeinersmith On the positive side, after 45 years, Jon looks surprisingly well preserved

mcnees, to random
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Moon count (updated)

☿: 0

♀: 0

♁: 1

♂: 2

♃: 95

♄: 145

♅: 27

♆: 14

♇: 5

@badastro on Saturn’s big jump up the moon charts:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/saturns-youthful-rings-and-newfound-moons-put-it-in-stargazing-spotlight/

RGBes,
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@mcnees @badastro we'll need a new definition of moon quite soon, it seems

darktable, to random

Is it time to hop from .social to another instance?

RGBes,
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@darktable @jill there is no lack of moderation. The was a few massive spam attacks that were quickly resolved and a few very noisy people using that as excuse for creating unnecessary drama. You can of course change instance at any moment, that's the point in the fediverse, just don't be scared by a few noisy "absolutist" that don't like big instances, do it at your own pace and for your own reasons.

RGBes,
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@darktable OK, that's a good point 😉
I mostly use the explore tab and tags, the local timberline is too fast for me

RGBes, to linux
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It seems the IBM induced layoffs that hit Red Hat have had an impact on OpenSource.doc. Quoting from the os.com mailing list:

"The Opensource.com website will remain live, and any articles already in the queue to get published will go live - but the website itself will go idle after that. So no new articles on Opensource.com"

so... yeah

RGBes, to random
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What’s coming in LibreOffice 7.6: style indicator | From Mind to Type

https://frommindtotype.wordpress.com/2023/04/28/whats-coming-in-libreoffice-7-6-style-indicator/

ct_bergstrom, (edited ) to internet
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So I planted my flag over at social.

RGBes,
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@ct_bergstrom it's all for science

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