She basically interviews scientists about their job and asks all the dumb questions you wish you could ask. She has a huge number of episodes on everything from black holes and dark matter to squirrels to Emojis. And it’s all from the perspective of “the study of”.
One of my favorite episodes is “Ferro-equinology”. The study of iron horses. Trains. I knew trains were cool, but had no idea how cool they really were until that episode.
Her energy is addictive too. Great personality. If you are a part of her patron (which I am) you’ll get a heads up before her interviews and she give an opportunity for you to post questions that she’ll ask the Ologist.
That doesn’t mean buy the most expensive thing. if you rely on this thing to get you through the day, get yourself something of quality. Do your research. Often times, buying the more expensive thing now, can be cheaper in the long run.
Secondly: Use mental health professionals. Go to a therapist, psychologist, or anyone else trained to help people mentally. For years I advocated for my employees to seek help. I built work schedules around their appointments. I could tell that it help or productivity as a team. I did this for years. Finally, this year, I went to see a therapist myself. I’ve been having depression problems for a while but I never took my own advice. Now, just 4 months later I’m doing way better. Not perfect, but I can tell I’ve made very good progress.
Viewers are divided over whether the film should have shown Japanese victims of the weapon created by physicist Robert Oppenheimer. Experts say it's complicated.
Not great logic saying that Germany would have. But he does have a small point. A lot of our reason for developing it was because we thought Germany had been working on it. Our development started before Germany had been defeated and we had reason to believe (via espionage) that they at least had collected the materials needed, and had scientists familiar with the physics. After the war, we discovered that their program was no where close to actually making a bomb. We probably could have, and maybe should have stopped once Germany fell.
So I had this JBLs, one earphone of which stopped working a couple months ago, and I just left em laying around later to be recycled. Today I tried them again and lo and behold, they work perfectly now. Is there any reason why they do act like that? (FYI I used these extensively while running)
My guess, the internal wire likely has an open in the copper somewhere. But since it’s wrapped in rubber, the copper wires are still near each other. So it’s working right now, but I’d bet if you wiggled the wire it’ll cut out again.
Huh. No crackling at all? That is certainly weird. Sometimes electrical things that are acting weird, start just working correctly again. Usually when I see something like that’s it’s a physical problem not electrical. Think about it like rust in a switch, you move it a bunch, the rust falls off and the switch works again.
So my thought is that you got water, or more likely sweat, onto the actual speaker. Which then hydrolocked the driver. Maybe the water finally dried out and the salts dried, cracked and fell out when you finally tried it again.
That’s a total guess and I have no way of proving it.
Evangelos Bitsikas, who is pursuing a PhD in cybersecurity at the Northwestern University in the US, applied a new machine-learning program to data gleaned from the SMS system of mobile devices....
I blame apple for this. They are using imessage and the green bubbles as marketing to get people to buy their hardware. So it’s either you talk to people with iPhones or you use sms.
Meanwhile Google has been trying to get apple to use RCS for years. I would be curious if RCS and iMessage are susceptible. I didn’t see anything about them when I glanced through your link.
I’m reading the frugal wizards handbook for surviving medieval England.
It’s a part of Brandon Sanderson’s kickstarter project.
I guess it’s a scifi/fantasy.
I’m only a few chapters in so far, but I would reccomend it. Brandon always writes good books and this was born out of writing a private novel to his wife during covid.
He wrote four books actually during that time and the first was Tress of the emerald sea. I finished that one earlier this week and it was amazing. Highly recommend. It’s a classic fantasy trope with a good twist. If you can get a copy, you should.
My wife and I have a large collection of books, 2 wall to wall bookcases. It’s a lot, and we’ve also donated a lot of books. We buy them all the time. And no, we haven’t read all or even most of them. We’ve probably, collectively, read about 50% of what we have.
We read a lot, but we don’t view books as just something to read, but also something to collect. Much like some people collect and display coins or figurines, we collect books. So we also have a lot of very nice leather-bound, 1st editions etc.
We have toned down our spending the last two years or so because money is a little tighter than it used to be, but we still buy collector editions and support Kickstarter campaigns.
I received a beautiful piece of mahogany from a neighbor that I would like to turn into a small coffee table. I have most of my design plans figured out but I don’t know what these corners are called. I feel like I used to see them on tables everywhere but can’t find an online example. I even picked up this board from the...
Oh damn. I never thought about adding the extra two pieces. That’s good. Thanks.
Just to add some extra detail for others. The router bits have bearings that ride on the template. The bearings prevent you from cutting farther into your final piece but cuts everything else out.
I have a small table router. I find that holding the router by hand results in some wobbling and therefore imperfect cuts. Because of that I can’t clamp the pieces together. So, I bought some industrial double sided tape that works extremely well.
Oh boy. I’m not the kind of person that rewatches shows, but I’ve seen Yu Yu Hakusho 3 times and HxH twice. Both of them are just so excellent. I had no idea they were by the same guy. That’s awesome
I’m here to give an update to my journey from an Android to an iPhone after much debate in a previous post (from a different account). TLDR at the bottom....
I used the iPhone 12 mini for about a year before I gave up and went back to android. Some of my thoughts:
I don’t actually understand your comment about apps being easier to find. There is no way to organize them alphabetically. You can’t choose which folders they go in. It’s only “easier” because people default to searching for apps. Which is very annoying to me personally. My GF does it that way. But I really don’t like it.
I am a little jealous of IOS widgets and the ecosystem. While I haven’t tried a pixel watch yet, the apple watch is absolutely amazing and it’s the only real reason for me considering to go back.
My two biggest gripes is that there is a serious inconsistency in their apps. I never hear people talk about it. But some apps, have their settings inside the actual apps. Other apps are you tied into the apple settings app. Most apps use gesture navigation. Some, especially older ones, don’t react to it and still rely on a back button in the top left. Which was a good option when the phone were sub 5", but not anymore.
Other stuff, while the ecosystem is great, being locked into it is extremely annoying. Not being able to put a torrent app on the phone is annoying. There’s still a lot of things you cant do.
Maybe I’ll buy the iPhone 16, I seem to try it out every 4 or 5 years. But I doubt they’ll fix anything other than the back button, because no one really complains about it.
Yeah problem is that is usually works. It work often enough that you get used to it. But then an app comes along that doesn’t use it and its infuriating. Android has ALWAYS had a os based back button, so implementing gestures means they just work.
Oh my god! Thank you. I just made my post about those exact same two gripes. Its so rare to see people complain about it and I really don’t understand why.
Yeah. Lots of people give it shit, but it does really “just work”. I’m using endeavor right now and considering swapping back to Manjaro, mostly because I cannot for the life of me figure out why SMB won’t work. Manjaro is the only distro I’ve had it work properly with little to no effort.
Players usually want a good story in their games. I can enjoy a good story too, but sometimes I just want to get going and do stuff without listening to several minutes of dialog in-between action....
Unless you’re in Idaho or Georgia. And technically in California you have to register as a “researcher”. Many sites won’t ship to CA, other sites basically just say “it’s your responsibility to follow applicable laws”.
Either way, ideally you wouldn’t have to rely on loopholes to seek care.
Yeah! Lots of research has been happening for the last decade or so. It seems Americans are finally getting passed it and realizing these drugs can actually be super useful.
Going back to your beginnings in PC gaming: the first game you played and loved, but the frame rate and resolution weren’t ideal. Your first “I need/want to upgrade my specs” basically.
It’s such a gorgeous game and I loved playing it. But the fight scenes would drop frames so badly that I couldn’t finish the game because of one boss battle that requires solid timing to win.
It’s pretty good. It feels like a kids friendly dark souls. Not nearly as hard, but some portions are pretty difficult. But it’s got a good story and beautiful graphics. Highly recommend
What's a good podcast you like?
My personal favourite is Beautiful/Anonymous. Tell me yours.
Anon asks about ARFID (lemmy.ml)
What do you swear by?
Brand, thing, behavior, method, advice, mantra, etc....
'Oppenheimer' draws debate over the absence of Japanese bombing victims in the film (www.nbcnews.com)
Viewers are divided over whether the film should have shown Japanese victims of the weapon created by physicist Robert Oppenheimer. Experts say it's complicated.
weird question about wired earphones...
So I had this JBLs, one earphone of which stopped working a couple months ago, and I just left em laying around later to be recycled. Today I tried them again and lo and behold, they work perfectly now. Is there any reason why they do act like that? (FYI I used these extensively while running)
New vulnerability in SMS messaging could expose smartphone users' location to hackers, researcher says (arxiv.org)
Evangelos Bitsikas, who is pursuing a PhD in cybersecurity at the Northwestern University in the US, applied a new machine-learning program to data gleaned from the SMS system of mobile devices....
What are you reading this week? [7/30/23]
What book is currently on your nightstand?...
Book addiction
Do any of you just buy books to add them to your library?...
Does anyone know what these corners are called? (reddthat.com)
I received a beautiful piece of mahogany from a neighbor that I would like to turn into a small coffee table. I have most of my design plans figured out but I don’t know what these corners are called. I feel like I used to see them on tables everywhere but can’t find an online example. I even picked up this board from the...
can you recommend me anime to watch?
edit: feel free to reply no matter how old this thread gets!...
Which movie makes you crack up not matter how many times you watched it ?
for me it’s White Chicks, lost the number of times i watched it, also recommend Tucker and Dale vs Evil.
Android to iPhone, whats it like? (Update)
I’m here to give an update to my journey from an Android to an iPhone after much debate in a previous post (from a different account). TLDR at the bottom....
NSFW only search terms?
Is there a query or filter to view only NSFW posts? Sometimes I just want to see the good stuff only.
Need Advice on a Distro for Gaming/Programming and Media Server
Alright guys, I’m going to do it. Today I’m ditching Windows and trying to run Linux exclusively as my daily driver....
Good singleplayer games without any story?
Players usually want a good story in their games. I can enjoy a good story too, but sometimes I just want to get going and do stuff without listening to several minutes of dialog in-between action....
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California Psilocybin Legalization Campaign Cleared To Collect Signatures For 2024 Ballot Initiative - Marijuana Moment (www.marijuanamoment.net)
What was your first videogame that made you say "Ok, I need to play this game properly: I need to upgrade my specs"?
Going back to your beginnings in PC gaming: the first game you played and loved, but the frame rate and resolution weren’t ideal. Your first “I need/want to upgrade my specs” basically.