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I firmly believe that a “crustless ice mantle” meets the definition of an ocean.
- Comment on In the US, it's finally socially acceptable again to clap when the plane lands 9 hours ago:
If they can still clap when the plane lands, they will.
- Comment on We could be going towards Star Trek like earth, but instead we're going for Star Wars like democracies 6 days ago:
Look up the Bell Riots.
Great stand-alone two-parter from Deep Space 9 about the 2020s.
- Comment on We could be going towards Star Trek like earth, but instead we're going for Star Wars like democracies 6 days ago:
Yeah, right after the wealth inequality and homelessness crisis and plagues of the first half of the 2020s.
- Comment on Good for Franklin 1 week ago:
Size matters!
Also: a few extra vertebrae to share the load and reduce the local curvature. Don’t slip a disk!
- Comment on Good for Franklin 1 week ago:
Ribs aren’t what get in the way.
- Comment on my version is better 1 week ago:
That’s when it’s time to write a cover.
- Comment on Envy is a strong sentiment [Trump / Musk] 1 week ago:
He never did, he just bought them.
- Comment on UV solder mask laser exposure 1 week ago:
Photolithography is so satisfying to watch. Thanks for sharing.
- Comment on The Safety Alternative 1 week ago:
Stool forme s
- Comment on NASA Ordered to Remove Anything About 'Women in Leadership' From Its Websites: Report 2 weeks ago:
New perspectives and ideas and life experiences to draw from when a creative solution is needed. Diversity of experience yields creative solution-space possibilities. The more diverse your input space, the more potentially diverse your output space, depending on the function.
NASA is an organization whose activities push the boundaries of possible future technologies. We need people from all parts of society dreaming of and contributing to the future if we want a future society that is considerate of the needs of all parts of society. NASA’s wonder changes the world. The more people who are different and who are wondering in different directions, the more possibilities can unfold for the future.
Maybe short-term productivity benefits from a monoculture of people who are currently “the best” and all know how to work together seamlessly because they come from the same culture. Such a monoculture will not be adaptable as the landscape of technology changes the metrics by which “the best” get measured. It will not have the diverse foundation required for creative solutions. Being adaptable to a changing world requires creative solutions. Diversity is an investment of current productivity into future resilience. Diversity is extending the promise of contributing to grand societal projects like space travel to anyone who is capable. Diversity is building a future that can support all of us.
- Comment on NASA Ordered to Remove Anything About 'Women in Leadership' From Its Websites: Report 2 weeks ago:
Prior to Trump’s orders, NASA was named as one of the best employees in the U.S. for diversity in 2023. NASA’s workforce is composed of approximately 35% women and 30% minorities, according to a 2021 report by NASA’s Office of Inspector General. Still, the agency had more work to do to improve inclusion amongst its workforce. A 2024 report concluded that “despite support from Agency leaders and multiple initiatives to increase diversity, we found NASA has made little progress in increasing the representation of women and minorities in its civilian workforce or leadership ranks,” NASA’s Office of Inspector General wrote. “Specifically, over the past decade NASA’s overall workforce demographics have stayed roughly the same, with small increases (1 or 2 percent) for some groups.”
After decades of improvement, our strategies were stalling and starting to either hit diminishing returns or backfire. Instead of reflecting and listening and learning how to bridge the final gaps, we are going to forget and eliminate all progress made so we have to do it again and start from scratch.
- Comment on Life's 'basic building blocks' found in asteroid samples 3 weeks ago:
Bennu is like a primordial soup bouillon cube.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 1 month ago:
Sharing data with the plebs is the true crime.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 1 month ago:
This article’s preamble cites this news story as the motivation for writing the rebuttal presented.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 1 month ago:
Literally the news story that this author cites as motivation for writing this article in the preamble to the article.
- Comment on The soundtrack occasionally gets stuck in my head all these years later 1 month ago:
Diddy Kong Racing has a better story than every Mario Kart put together.
Mostly because Mario Karts don’t have a story.
Mario Kart is a party game you play with people you want to casually hang out with one night.
Diddy Kong Racing is a game you play with someone (or yourself) over the course of many nights and sink into the story, fun worlds and characters, while taking on the racing challenges.
Mario Kart is a social lubricant party game with tight, balanced, and fun racing chaos. Diddy Kong Racing is a game with heart and soul and humour and exploration and a story.
tl;dr: I think this
- Comment on Gender 4 months ago:
No factory default due to data corruption, so I uninstalled it as bloat. Then I wrote a few of my own to play with, but instead of dynamically assigning at boot I set up hotswapping.
- Comment on Mafs innit 4 months ago:
Is that what they call an upside-down cake?
- Comment on Hey nerd 4 months ago:
That word is especially disgusting because we all know Bill Gates chose it so he could name his company after his penis.
- Comment on Is linux actually gaming ready or is it just not for me? 5 months ago:
I searched “gtx 1660 vs amd” and saw that your card is usually compared to the rx 590 from amd on speed tests, with similar results. Price is also similar.
One example that includes the prices I was comparing. I have used neither card. I’m not familiar with that website. Do your own research before making a purchase,
- Comment on Is linux actually gaming ready or is it just not for me? 5 months ago:
What motivated you to switch branches? Did it solve another issue? Why were you not on the latest branch yesterday, ie, why did you roll back originally? Does one driver work better for some games, and another driver works better for others?
Nvidia drivers are jank. I honestly haven’t touched them since 2017. I remember having to reboot and switch drivers to switch games I was playing with friends and finding the whole experience annoying as hell. I realized that Linus Torvalds was right, fuck nvidia, AMD is the way to go. Have not had to touch anything with my drivers since switching. All of my interactions with nvidia since have confirmed that they are not a company deserving of my patronage.
- Comment on Is linux actually gaming ready or is it just not for me? 5 months ago:
Please try versions 535 and 470.
See if either fixes your issues.
You need to reboot after switching. It’ll take you 30 mins max, even if neither works and you have to switch back.
- Comment on Is linux actually gaming ready or is it just not for me? 5 months ago:
There’s usually only like 5 tracks. “What’s recommended” is nouveau, which works but not for gaming. It’s recommended because it’s open source and can do most things that the proprietary nvidia drivers can do. Nvidia is really bad at maintaining their drivers, and different drivers work better for different cards.
Nvidia sucks. Switch to AMD and never have a problem again. Or spend an hour testing each of the proprietary options maintained in the debian repos, and most likely find that at least one of them works. Until an update to the drivers or kernel comes along, and breaks it again, so you have to play around with driver versions and kernel versions to find a combo that works. That’s less likely to happen if you stick with a debian-based distro vs a bleeding-edge distro like arch.
And buy AMD for your next machine to send a message to nvidia that their driver support sucks!
- Comment on Is linux actually gaming ready or is it just not for me? 5 months ago:
Each nvidia card works better or worse with different version releases of nvidia drivers. Older cards usually need smaller version numbers. Since you are running mint, all versions you need to test should be in the default repos. Try different drivers and see if you can find the right one for your card.
apt-cache search nvidiashould give you a list of options, which you can install with
apt-get install. - Comment on August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget. 5 months ago:
Star Trek really was overly optimistic.
Star Trek future now!
- Comment on Shart, not fart 6 months ago:
Just keep waiting.
- Comment on NASA is about to make its most important safety decision in nearly a generation 6 months ago:
s/Fire/Nationalize/
- Comment on Olympic anime 6 months ago:
How is America the worst at shooting?
It’s almost as if the gun culture here is obsessed with something other than sportsmanship.
- Comment on Wood smells like we should be able to eat it, but we can't. 7 months ago:
Potato plants absolutely have flowers. Have you ever grown one? Be careful with the potato flowers and fruits. They are poisonous nightshade.
- Comment on Wood smells like we should be able to eat it, but we can't. 7 months ago:
It only gets boiled down to pure sugar. You boil off or break down a lot of the aromatics and volatiles in the original sap to make syrup. It gets processed by boiling to concentrate the sugar and reduce the presence of the rest of what the tree was living on. Maple sap does not become “pure sugar” (maple syrup) until after it gets the good stuff processed out.