qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 17 points 2 months ago

It's on https://www.thefarside.com/ today as one of the "Selections of classic The Far Side comics." Comic says ©1984, but doesn't give a specific date (an image on reddit suggests 4/6/84).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago

I mean, I don't think "reflexively opposing" is really a good thing, ever


in this case though "reflexively opposing" and "opposing on merit" would (as far as I know) yield the same outcome, so it's functionally the same thing.

I don't hate Trump's nominee's because I hate Trump, I hate them because they're antithetical to a working government.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sounds like it was a 2 petawatt pulsed laser, with picosecond pulses, so 2kJ/pulse. Staggering amount of power and energy for a pulsed laser!

Note that it's not CW, so the average power will be much, much, much less than the pulsed power. Too lazy to find the rep rate to see average power.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

man rot13 ;)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago

Great shot! I live in SF so I've ridden them


they're fun, but also...they just work. Not as smooth as the new Siemens units that run on the other lines, but they get the job done.

I also really appreciate that they're not a tourist gimmick


they run a real route, and they take the same payment & cost the same as other Muni bus and rail lines.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

TIL, thanks! Edited my earlier comment.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I recently started using voice (SSB) on the HF ham bands, and have made contacts on 15, 17, 20, and 40m. No real DX, but made one foreign contact ~1000mi away and another domestic ~2000mi away.

I live in a city and it's challenging to get a good antenna setup, so it's always a compromise where I am.

Nothing very impressive by ham standards, but it's fun.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

Momentum could still be conserved if the velocity is unchanged, but it would mean there's now a lot of kickback once it gets big...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah, the only thing I could imagine would be that image loading/processing uses an optimized library, but a single color is (unlikely but possibly) implemented poorly as a loop over every pixel, with some egregious overhead.

~~Most likely shit post though...~~ See reply, apparently real!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh I wasn't complaining, I was making a bad joke (the cartoon is a stalemate).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

One of the coolest parts of The Expanse IMHO was that The Mormons commissioned a giant space ship, and it didn't feel forced or far-fetched.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Ugh, Lemmy is full of stale content.

(Edit: it's a joke. Stalemate/stale content...I chuckled at, and upvoted, the post.)

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