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troyunrau, (edited ) to science_memes in Probability.... Need I say more?!
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Too small to supernova and black hole, yes. But large enough to have a decent boom. Probably at least red giant, then a nova (explosion casting off outer layers) leaving a white dwarf remnant.

If I’m around by then, my model of medical science progress is wrong ;)

E: I’m wrong. That casting off of the outer gas envelope is not a nova. It’s just a death throe of some sort.

troyunrau, to science_memes in Probability.... Need I say more?!
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Missing: any sort of physicist who will tell them both that the forward model says that the sun won’t explode for a few billion years, and so far that model hasn’t been wrong.

troyunrau, to lemmyconnect in Any way to add the new sort options inside the app?
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My hero. Thanks! I’ve been using the web interface for a few weeks because Scaled is just such a better choice. I’d even go so far as to suggest making it the default for all apps and servers. :)

troyunrau, to linux in What is the point of dbus?
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No. DBUS has its roots in freedesktop.org and the KDE+Gnome projects. It’s basically a desktop agnostic reimplemented of KDE’s DCOP, which was itself a simplified CORBA (gnome was using ORBit at the time, if I recall correctly). DBUS was so useful that the domain spaces its been applied to soon rapidly outgrew the desktop space, and this is why it’s usually started earlier these days.

It also works on Windows.

troyunrau, to linux in What is the point of dbus?
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Look into history of object brokering in object oriented environments. I was around when KDE went from CORBA to DCOP to DBUS, but not involved in the decisions. Basically: object sharing between processes with security, type translation, and a few other things. In the Microsoft world, this was called “component object model” if my memory is correct.

DBUS is pretty nice for complex interactions.

troyunrau, to baldurs_gate_3 in Baldur's Gate 3 - Otiluke's Conveniently Long Range Stealth Bomber (Cheese Strat)
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Well, the underpants glitch is going to get patched haha.

troyunrau, to linux in KDE's Nate Graham On X11 Being A Bad Platform & The Wayland Future
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Likewise, KDE3 got forked to Trinity. But KDE kept producing (largely) quality software, so Trinity is pretty much an anecdote now.

troyunrau, to linux in KDE's Nate Graham On X11 Being A Bad Platform & The Wayland Future
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Pasta? Pasta.

troyunrau, to comicstrips in Cialis [Mr Lovenstein]
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In some countries, like Canada, directly advertising for prescription drugs is illegal. But the marketing folks behind the drugs find these sorts of legal loopholes. The “ask your doctor” line is a cover-your-ass version which is actually saying “Google it”.

troyunrau, to baldurs_gate_3 in [Spoilers] I bought my friend BG3 for Christmas and
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It’s fun getting commentary from newbies – makes me want to start a new run all fresh and innocent like :)

Maybe I’ll play something older, like BG2 or Planescape: Torment or something – to scratch that itch again

troyunrau, to askelectronics in What's your solder of choice?
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I’m all about the leaded solder – but I also use it very infrequently and don’t worry about the motility of my swimmers ;)

troyunrau, to risa in Honor to Joseph's House
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Took me a second

troyunrau, to lemmyshitpost in Coincidence?!
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Yeah, they were mining chunks of it historically.

troyunrau, to lemmyshitpost in Coincidence?!
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troyunrau, to science_memes in uncomfortable levels of eye contact
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Pedantically speaking, yes. At least some small moons do freely rotate. But they are all very small and very far from their parent planet. If you were on the surface, you wouldn’t see details.

Mars has two small moons close to it, but neither rotate relative to the surface. They’re also really small and zip about super fast so they’re cool for other reasons.

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