Look, if you don’t want to listen to some random dude who thinks reading is cool, fair enough. But if that random dude also runs level three diagnostics on the warp core and can swap polarity on the main deflector dish with one hand tied behind his back? Yeah…you should probably pay attention.
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qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Trams, Trolleys and Streetcars@lemmy.blahaj.zone•When Streetcars ruled Market Street, San Francisco, 19403·1 day agoI’m really bummed I missed this event — a streetcar has a period appropriate jazz group for a free show. And they didn’t charge fares either.
Turns out you can also rent the streetcars for events, which is pretty neat — would make for a fun night on the town.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Trams, Trolleys and Streetcars@lemmy.blahaj.zone•San Francisco Historic Streetcar on Route Through Dolores Park3·1 day agoNice!
This isn’t the service route for the vintage streetcars — they use those tracks to get from the rail house to their normal Market/Embarcadero route. But you can still ride them, kind of a Muni “secret menu.” Easy way to find them is to use an app/website with realtime locations and look for an F streetcar that’s on the wrong tracks.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Trams, Trolleys and Streetcars@lemmy.blahaj.zone•When Streetcars ruled Market Street, San Francisco, 19408·1 day agoThey don’t dominate like they used to, but we still have vintage streetcars on Market and the Embarcadero — https://www.streetcar.org/
Same fare as other Muni busses and trams.
It is “backwards” from some other commands — usually you run copy/rsync/link from source to destination, but with tar the destination (tarball) is specified before the source (directory/files).
That, and the flags not needing dashes always just throws me for a loop.
And the icing on the cake is that I don’t use tar for tarring that often, so I lose all muscle memory (untaring a tgz or tar.bz2 is frequent enough that I can usually get that right at least…).
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•Car race where cars cannot cost more than $50040·2 days agoThere was an old Top Gear episode with a race in a Nordic country with an interesting take on a price cap — the price enforcement was that anybody could buy your car (for no more than the price cap) after the race.
So I think you technically could enter the race with a brand new tricked out rally car…but anyone could buy it for $500/$1000/whatever.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•My dearest Lemmy, what is the appliance you have the most beef with?5·3 days agoI think some commercial TVs might do what you want.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•My dearest Lemmy, what is the appliance you have the most beef with?5·3 days agoIn grad school I picked up a an old free HP LaserJet, with an Ethernet NIC card (it was an upgradable printer, maybe from the mid 2000s?).
It was great! Only complaint was no duplexer, but the thing printed great from Linux and the generic toner was cheap.
Today though…the experience is a bit different.
At work on a slack it just means “I’m watching this discussion.”
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are your favorite and or famous thought experiments?1·3 days agoYou discounted space dust.
No I didn’t — it would thermalize and radiate.
This is not my paradox, and it’s not really a paradox at all, as the big bang model explains it nicely. There are many nice articles on the topic of you’d like to read more about it.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are your favorite and or famous thought experiments?41·4 days agoYes. But why is there an absence of light?
If there are infinite stars, then every direction you look would encounter a star. (Things stay the same brightness per subtended angle as they get far away. Space dust doesn’t matter, as it would thermalize and radiate.)
So, the universe can’t have infinite luminous matter, be static and ageless, because if it were then the night sky would look like the surface of a sun.
This may all seem obvious, but it’s neat that you can figure that out with the naked eye.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are your favorite and or famous thought experiments?101·4 days agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers's_paradox
Olbers’s paradox, also known as the dark night paradox or Olbers and Cheseaux’s paradox, is an argument in astrophysics and physical cosmology that says the darkness of the night sky conflicts with the assumption of an infinite and eternal static universe.
The night sky being dark has some profound cosmological implications.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are your legit experiences where "the obstacle was the way"10·4 days agoWidely regarded as the best Seinfeld episode is The Contest. It’s about who can go the longest without masturbating, but what makes it great is that they never say that explicitly — it’s just euphemisms and insinuation. And it’s hilarious IMHO.
I believe they initially wanted to spell it out, but the networks wouldn’t let them (I could be wrong). Definitely for the better that they danced around the topic the way they did.
(Yes I know, Jerry Seinfeld is a problematic person, I’m just trying to answer the question…)
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto vegan@lemmy.world•Scientists perfect plant-based cheeses - stretch, melt, and taste like dairyEnglish3·4 days agoI’ve been pleasantly surprised by vegan blue cheese dressings, but blue cheese itself…yeah, it’s got a long ways to go.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.world•Swamps have hidden terrain bonusesEnglish7·4 days agoWhat, the curtains?
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•NASA issues warning after sudden change in the ocean surprises scientists: 'Getting faster and faster'17·4 days agoTIL NASA is woke.
(/s shouldn’t be required but here we are…)
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Who needs stable, feature-rich desktops anyway4·4 days agoTo each their own though? I can’t imagine why anyone would want something other than i3 (or similar), because almost by definition the DE is not the program I fired up my computer to interact with, and i3 “gets out of the way better” than most others in my experience.
But…that’s just my use case. It’s a horrible UX for most people, just happens to work well for me.
I feel old…when I was learning how to run Linux I started with an old 386 (maybe 486?) my dad wasn’t using. I think it had 32MB RAM, which was fancy for those machines.
We had dial up at the time, so only one machine could be on the Internet. So, I set up a modem on the x86, plugged into an Ethernet hub (switch?), and learned enough ipchains (this was before iptables) to share a connection. It also ran Samba, an AFP server, and probably FTP and HTTP (just for local access) — but it worked for filesharing.
It could also run MP3 streaming software which amused me because the machine itself was too slow to decode MP3 (but that’s not necessary to stream).
Sounds like the opposite reasoning may have some truth: