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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

There 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.website 5 points 1 month ago

I think some commercial TVs might do what you want.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In 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.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

At work on a slack it just means "I'm watching this discussion."

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

You 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.website 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yes. 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.website 9 points 1 month ago (7 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27s_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.website 10 points 1 month ago

Widely 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.website 3 points 1 month ago

I've been pleasantly surprised by vegan blue cheese dressings, but blue cheese itself...yeah, it's got a long ways to go.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago

What, the curtains?

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 17 points 1 month ago

TIL NASA is woke.

(/s shouldn't be required but here we are...)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To 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.

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