The comments again remind me that people aren’t bothered by something they have decided to like having dangers, but they are bothered when those dangers are labeled and made clear. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112467537633267496
This is amazing and I’m sure it’ll be trivial to scale it up from this single-qubit system to real world device applications. I mean, how hard could it be? /s
A24’s Talking Heads tribute album has finally dropped. It’s definitely got some interesting takes on it, so that’s nice. I’d say “alas, not as good as Angelique Kidjo’s cover of Remain in Light” but, well, that goes without saying and is honestly an unfair comparison.
Dammit, after covering "fait diverse" in class (more or less "those boring who/what/where daily news stories” that're a few paragraphs each) I can't see/hear "fediverse" without thinking of these.
I sorta wonder whether that's intentional, or just some accidental good wordplay.
I missed this the other day. Are we taking bets on how many of the partner car companies had their legal teams call Tesla up and chat with very large penalty numbers as part of the conversation?
My manager has just informed me that there is a range of merchandise available on the Internet with the slogan "I can do all things through spite, which strengthens me" and I gotta say I have the best manager. :)
I am currently in the odd position of trying to decide if the utility of yet another French grammar book is worth the extra weight in my luggage for the flight home.
And yes, you can assume I have bought enough physical books that the question's not a silly one. :)
@wordshaper Shipping books, even internationally, is not that expensive if you use “media mail” or the equivalent. The only worry I’ve ever encountered with that was customs duties, which they can hit you with as a traveler with luggage, too.
@davepolaschek Ah, there's a US-based french book site I use, so if I really want I can order the things there and have them delivered for a reasonable shipping fee. It's just... very tempting to browse the section of the store dedicated to the bac (in the bowels of the store, down in the far back basement!) for handy reference books.
(I prefer having ebooks for most things but getting ebooks in any language other than english, because that's my "store", is a nightmare)
Listening to the last gasps of some prog rock this afternoon and heard this:
"In recent times, there is no one at all who can approach Antonio Gaudi. He started a new cathedral, in Barcelona It is called La Sagrada Familia or the Holy Family... The sad thing is they could try to finish it, but I don't think they will do it"
And it's just kinda neat that turned out not to be the case.
@corgidad Double-storrowed! If they were actually carrying Storrowed beer on the truck then honestly they should mark up the price and call it a special batch.
I am amused that whenever I stop by the little Vietnamese place by the apartment for takeout they always give me a set of wooden cutlery but when my husband (who's Chinese) stops by he gets chopsticks.
@ColesStreetPothole I'd say the big downside to a very strict open records law is the potential for "New Jersey Man" to join "Florida Man" in the pantheon of "what the actual fuck, seriously?" except NJ's aready got that (in fairness, somewhat undeserved) rep so it probably won't make things worse. (It's a little amusing that "Florida Man", as a concept, is a direct result of their very strong open public records laws)
@wordshaper It's a weird moment in NJ. Progressives won elimination of the "county line" in primary ballots (the design gave county political parties incredible power over who wins primaries), and Senator Menendez is being tried for being corrupt, but at the same time, he was so corrupt because that's NJ, and at the same time the legislature is consolidating power by being more secretive. So, despite progress, our corrupt reputation is getting a LOT of air time right now.
This is neat but I'm not 100% convinced that breeding bacteria that can withstand normal sterilization temperatures and embedding said bacteria into plastic to degrade it is a great idea. (What happens with long storage? And does it make it food-unsafe?) Though breeding bacteria that can in general eat one of the common types of plastic is probably a good idea.