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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 2 points 15 hours ago

He wasn't bad in the role, but he was definitely more of a foil / straight man / punching bag. Or, at least that's how I'm remembering it, anyway. I just feel bad for having thought, "Wait, he can be funny?!" when I saw him in other roles later.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I literally just saw that clip on YouTube.

What do you recommend [for canker sores]?

Tennis shoes.

 

Growing up in the 90s, my first exposure to Mull was in StTW as the crotchety, vindictive, humorless, principal. The dude's actually hilarious in just about everything else, and it took me a long time seeing him in other roles to shake the uptight principal image out of my head.

 

In the realm of science fiction, [sun-energy capturing] Dyson spheres and ringworlds have been staples for decades. But it is well known that the simplest designs are unstable against gravitational forces and would thus be torn apart. Now a scientist from Scotland, UK has shown that certain configurations of these objects near a two-mass system can be stable against such fractures...

[A] rigid ring around a star or planet, as in Larry Niven's "Ringworld" series of novels, is also unstable, as it would drift under any slight gravitational differences and collide with the star. So [engineering science professor Colin] McInnes considered a restricted three-body problem where two equal masses orbit each other circularly with a uniform ring of infinitesimal mass rotating in their orbital plane. The ring could enclose both masses, just one or none... McInnes also investigated a shell-restricted three-body problem with the shell also of infinitesimal mass, again with the shell enclosing two masses, one or none.

For the restricted ring, McInnes found that there are seven equilibrium points in the orbital plane of the dual masses, on which, if the ring's center were placed, it would stay and not experience stresses, akin to the three stable Lagrange points where a small mass can reside permanently for the two-body problem... McInnes restricted this research to a planar ring (in the plane of the circularly orbiting masses) but says it can be shown that a vertical ring, normal to the plane, can also generate equilibria...

These results can aid the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, McInnes said, "If we can understand when such structures can be stable, then this could potentially help direct future SETI surveys." An important technosignature would be one bright star orbiting in tandem with an object showing a strong infrared excess. Shells around a sun-exoplanet pair or an exoplanet-exoplanet pair could also be possible. A nested set of Dyson spheres is also a feasible geometry.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Can't recall "Wishing Well" but will try to check it out and see.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 23 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ptz@dubvee.org 3 points 20 hours ago

I've never been enamored with social media in general (this is my last vestige of it), so it doesn't bother me much; like you said, 'Same as it ever was'. The only thing that does is seeing that kind of behavior bleed over into real life.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 0 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

It's even worse than that.

With social media, no one ever really ever gets to know anyone (in general; there are obviously exceptions). We call the topic-based groups here "communities" but they're anything but. People just read your comments in a vacuum, put on their judge's robe, make snap decisions (often taking you completely out of context or putting words in your mouth), and start throwing labels/accusations around. Then the bandwagon effect kicks in, the keyboard warrior lynch mob shows up, and fuck you, I guess?

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

You'd think. I mean, Firefox Mobile has full PWA support, so it's not like they're blind to what "PWA" means for most people (assuming the mobile and desktop teams actually talk to one another).

I've held out hope this long, so I suppose I can wait a bit longer. The announcement just got my hopes up, and I was pretty salty when I read the actual details of how they're (initially?) implementing it.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 99 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (15 children)

but I assume this is a face-eating leopard farm

In sooo many ways.

  • Voted for leopard, leopard's tariffs are screwing her over
  • Was awarded a $400,000 grant (under Biden) but now that's frozen, can't get reimbursed.
  • Can't hire H-2A visa workers.
  • "Nobody wants to work anymore" attitude
  • Complaining she had to spend $200,000 of her own money to renovate her house. Claims it's a business expense.
  • Can't use taxpayer money to pay her staff and can't stay afloat without government subsidies she would likely deny anyone else.

The usual "I got mine" attitude and subsequent whining when the consequences of their own actions finally affects them personally.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Same, though only for my self-hosted webapps and the occasional odd website that hates FF. I've not had any issues with YT in FF like some people have reported over the last several months. I would love to ditch Chromium entirely though.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Firefox announced it was finally adding support for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) after years of ignoring its own user's request to do so.

FINALLY! 🎉

The flag is there, but it currently doesn't do anything.....

Oh...

...web apps in Firefox will not use a minimal browser frame and will continue to show a main toolbar with address bar, ...

Does....Mozilla understand why people want/have been asking for PWA support? Because it sure as hell doesn't seem like it.

Element, Emby, CodeServer, Tesseract/Photon/Alexandrite/Lemmy-UI, Pairdrop, HomeAssistant, Nextcloud, and more. You know what all those have in common? I can "install" them in Chromium and they appear exactly like native desktop apps. THAT IS WHAT WE WANT, MOZILLA.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 15 points 1 day ago

Rule of Acquisition 76: Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.

 
[–] ptz@dubvee.org 7 points 1 day ago

It was too hard to meat the butcher, and the candlestick maker was a bit of a drip.

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Because he was after her dough.

 
 
 

Now I'm scared the bookie-man is going to get me.

 
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