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steinarb

@steinarb@mastodon.social

Oslo, Norway, somebody's son, sombody's man, somebody's dad. Boy from the north, living in the south. Electronics engineer and software developer, occasional motorcycle rider, former "alpin-pappa"

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nyrath, to random
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Well this is embarrassing.

I've never been a fan of Doctor Who, since is only marginally science fiction. But I just watched the first two episodes of Series 14, and I rather enjoyed them.

[1] I personally like scifi that if it cannot be scientifically accurate, is at least internally self consistent. E.g. the history of baby station.

[2] I am fond of movies and shows where the characters are nonplussed by absurd things that go shambling by. E.g. the goblin ship.

steinarb,
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@nyrath (I watched the 9th doctor series, because, well...) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Tyler

steinarb, to random
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@nyrath Seen this one? https://gizmodo.com/nasa-pulsed-plasma-rocket-advanced-concept-mars-1851463831

steinarb,
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@nyrath "Not entirely new" they say... I guess... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus

jwz, to random
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Just replaced a 2014 computer with a slightly faster 2014 computer.

steinarb,
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My current desktop is 2016 and it's still doing just fine.

https://steinar.bang.priv.no/2016/02/06/debian-jessie-on-intel-skylake/

(since it is debian it is no longer "jessie" but currently 12.5 "bookworm". No re-installs since 2016. Just "apt full-upgrade")

evacide, to random
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A journalist sent me a bunch of questions about Baby Reindeer, so I watched it this weekend, and not only did I not answer the questions, but now I really need to watch something that is not about stalking and sexual assault.

steinarb,
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@evacide Wife is watching that right now.

I have to remove myself from hearing distance of the telly when it's shown.

I found that crunching peanuts made it possible for me to sit in the same room, reading Stephen King's "The Drawing of the Three" (I'm on a Dark Tower/Gunslinger read).

(The main character is such a dumbass asshole, that it is hard to sympathize)

nyrath, to random
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https://hushkit.net/2021/10/23/10-extremely-sexy-spaceplanes/

steinarb,
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@nyrath Oooh! Nice!

(but I'm missing a few sexy ones... (non-US spaceplanes. E.g. HOTOL))

Always nice to read about a cool Philip Bono project though.

Mars glider was a new one for me.

jwz, to random
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There should be WhatTheFont for screws. I take a picture of a weird tiny screw and then they mail me a package of them.

steinarb,
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@ratkins @wdh In Oslo it used to be these guys https://tingstad.no/

But last time I tried to use them they couldn't find what I needed: a replacement bolt for the replacment bolt I got from a VAG shop in Austria that I rolled carefully into after losing a bolt in my front brake caliper of my motorcycle, just as I entered the 50 zone of a small dorf.

Lucky that didn't happen at speed on the Autobahn...

gutenberg_org, (edited ) to books
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Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Anders Celsius died in 1744.

In 1742, Celsius introduced the temperature scale that bears his name. His original scale was actually the reverse of what we use today: it set the boiling point of water at 0 degrees & the freezing point at 100 degrees. However, shortly after his death, the scale was reversed by Carl Linnaeus, resulting in the 0 degrees for freezing & 100 degrees for boiling that we are familiar with.

steinarb,
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@gutenberg_org Title of the article in the picture: "A new way to fish in the rivers of Norrland"

Is that the temperature article or is it something different?

fatsam, to random
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It will surprise some of you that I actually do agree with the dead internet theory. There is zero doubt that the internet has become progressively crappier over the course of the last decade or so, since automated content started being pushed out. People added "reddit" to their search strings for quite a while, just to insure that they reached human experts.

Inevitably, in time, automated content will get better and more useable, and less corporate, perhaps most critically.

steinarb,
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@fatsam Yeah.

I pay wikipedia once for every funding drive (luckily they have an "I paid elsewhere" checkbox). Usually pay the recommended amount.

I also pay for mastodon.social (just a little bit, but I pay).

Stuff cost. People have bills to pay.

nyrath, to random
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https://news.mit.edu/2007/asteroid-tt0926

steinarb,
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@nyrath Another MIT idea: The Biosuit.

Whatever happened to it?

Hm... seems it was still a thing in 2022...? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibwHRjfdjyA

Dainese has been involved in its design...? Interesting! (and not really surprising, giving its look)

Italian designer spacewear!

steinarb,
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@nyrath (Hm... from the URL you linked to, the skinsuits do seem to have some... er... downsides...?)

Vigdisol, to random Norwegian Bokmål
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Av og til finner jeg interessante ting når jeg leiter i eldgammel slekt. Orm Ivarsson Lydvo er direkte ane 16 generasjoner bakover (om man kan stole på slikt). Mer interessant er at heimgården fremdeles finnes! Noen som har vært der? https://www.grind.no/en/voss/voss/lydvo

steinarb,
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@Vigdisol En genetiker som heter Adam Rutherford har i sin bok "A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived" en artig vri på det med "rett nedadstigende linje".

Se på stamtreet ditt: du har to foreldre, fire besteforeldre, åtte oldeforeldre osv.

"Oi! Det må ha vært mange folk før i tida!", tenker du...

Men nei... det var faktisk færre folk før i tida... så hva betyr det...?

(jeg overlater konklusjonen til leseren...🙂 evt. les boka...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Brief_History_of_Everyone_Who_Ever_Lived

steinarb,
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@Vigdisol tror kanskje det er en Monty Python- referanse?

jwz, to random
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Let's check in on the enriching discourse over on Facebook.
https://jwz.org/b/ykPP

steinarb,
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@jwz Happy 17th of May! 🇳🇴 🍦 🍾 🌭

cstross, to random
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Up early, because today is New Dishwasher Delivery/Old Dishwasher Removal Day.

Sanity is cancelled for the next 12 hours.

steinarb,
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@cstross Note that when your new dishwasher starts talking to you it is just user friendly AI and not demonic posession.

steinarb,
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@cstross Ok! Now our 1998 or 1999 vintage Bosch dishwasher has more or less thrown in the towel.

It makes very strange (stranger than before) mechanical sounds that don't sound good and it doesn't clean the dishes anymore.

So I've been looking into a replacement.

However, finding one that doesn't have wi-fi reduced the field significantly... that excluded all Boschen...

Also, few seems to have a cutlery basket for vertical cutlery anymore?

It seems to be all cutlery drawers now...?

jwz, to random
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUt6Mrrp27U

steinarb,
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@jwz Yeah! Or you could just send the Marines... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHhZF66C1Dc

nyrath, (edited ) to random
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Artwork by Charles Oines

The rear heat radiators are droplet type, the guy wires emphasize the low mass they are.

The forward are conventional panels.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/LRNqr5

steinarb,
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@nyrath (book looked interesting btw. Putting it on my list!) https://extrapolatedworlds.com/the-extrapolated-man/

cstross, to random
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Small Island: Gary Younge asks, What has happened to Britain?

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/03/21/small-island-gary-younge/

steinarb,
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@cstross I must admit "Brexit will make your children smaller!" wasn't on my list of arguments.

slashdot, to random
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World's First Nuclear Fusion-Powered Electric Propulsion Drive Unveiled https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/03/22/2029229/worlds-first-nuclear-fusion-powered-electric-propulsion-drive-unveiled?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

steinarb,
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@nyrath @spaceflight Caught this? (see start of this thread)

cstross, to random
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DARPA are soliciting proposals for how to build a train on the Moon: https://www.businessinsider.com/darpa-futuristic-lunar-railroad-solutions-astronauts-living-moon-2024-3

Given the goal is to minimize exposure of moving parts to abrasive moon dust, and one option is a maglev track, has anyone proposed wrapping the maglev sheet in a loop and making a magnetically levitated caterpillar track? ie. a tank track that uses electromagnetic levitation and induction instead of wheels?

steinarb,
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@cstross Don't tell Musk!

He'll just throw an idiotic idea on the table to derail the train so that he can sell Tesla Model Ms there.

mollerup, to norge

Hva sang romerne når de kom til Trøndelag?

Rai rai, nå blir det 54!

steinarb,
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@mollerup Ååååååååh!

cstross, (edited ) to random
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Mitch McConnell’s billionaire sister-in-law Angela Chao made panicked last call before dying in ‘completely submerged’ Tesla on Texas ranch: report

https://nypost.com/2024/03/09/us-news/angela-chao-made-panicked-call-before-dying-in-completely-submerged-tesla-on-texas-ranch/

—Incoming Congressional hearings and regulatory investigation ahoy!

steinarb,
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Ah! That's where the cybertruck boat reference comes from?

Boat briefly! Sub forever!

steinarb, to random
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Just finished re-read for the first time of a book bought late 84 or early 85 (I bought the book after I had seen the Lynch movie)

The arabic and muslim background of the fremen is much more present in this book than in either of the three film/tv-isations.

And the scenes common to them are all in the book.

Impressive book to be written without text processing, really.

jwz, to random
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By the way, I don't go to movie theaters any more but if someone were to pick up one of those Dune popcorn fleshlight buckets for me, I would appreciate it!

steinarb,
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("fleshlight"? that sounds kinda creepy...?)

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