@troyunrau@lemmy.ca

troyunrau

@troyunrau@lemmy.ca

Centrist, progressive, radical optimist. Geophysicist, R&D, Planetary Scientist and general nerd in Winnipeg, Canada.

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So this goblin in the cage was upset that his tribe converted. I hope this brings him closure. (lemmy.ca)

Brakkal is in a cage in the goblin camp. I decided to kill all the Absolute worshipping goblins so he would feel better. Brought him the dead goblins like a cat would. I left him in his cage though, because he worships Maglubiyet and he is probably evil. Right? ;)

troyunrau,

Running with Astarion as my main, this made the goblin camp super fun. Used Gale’s cat familiar to draw goblins out one at a time, then ambushed them. None of them could bang on any of the drums to cause the camp to turn on me, but I just slowly picked off one goblin at a time and dropped them here. I’d like to imagine the goblins started noticing their missing friends and panicking about a vampire. By the time I dealt with the three bosses, there were maybe 6 goblins left in the camp (immune to being lured by the cat). Fun RP ;)

troyunrau,

Excellent work folks. Bug fixing is not sexy (even more so in open source projects), but greatly appreciated 👍

troyunrau,

Y tho

troyunrau,

My stovetop is a light emitting resistor. And compared to LEDs, it is multifrequency! Checkmate atheists.

troyunrau,

Wall of rant incoming, sorry ;)

The website is a general aviation news source, and a decent one. Caveats: Given the size of Boeing in the global market, I have no doubt that they cover a lot of Boeing stories. Furthermore, given the size of Boeing in the global market, I would suspect they also advertise within, causing a bias to creep in there. However, none of the major bias reporting websites indicate anything about Simply Flying being bought and paid for. Furthermore, the numbers they are reporting are not their own.

Air incident doom and gloom stories make for excellent attention grabbing articles for news organizations – clicks sell advertising, so of course they’ll publish every doom and gloom article they can find, and Boeing makes an excellent target. Statistically speaking, due to the number of Boeing planes in the air, a good percentage of aviation related incidents will involve Boeing. But, even more so, there’s now a narrative, and media organizations love articles that reinforce narratives. The narrative may be partially or wholly true, but it is often disproportionately reported.

Simple example: how many Tesla fires are reported my major media organizations, versus Ford fires, even though statistically there are far more Ford fires out there (both in terms of absolute numbers, and once normalized by the total number of vehicles). But that wouldn’t fit the narrative and thus drive clicks.

The narrative in the media is that aviation is dangerous, and Boeing in particular. But the reality is that you’re far more likely to die in a car crash on the way to the airport than you are in an aviation related incident. That, however, is not sexy to report and doesn’t drive clicks.

The reason I’m posting this is because it’s not doom and gloom. People should feel comforted getting into modern aircraft that there are a ridiculous number of safety systems, regulations, inspections, and more going on and flying is literally the safest form of transportation.

(I’d add some exceptions for private bush planes, remote access to the Arctic and Antarctic, etc., where there is added risk due to lack of infrastructure or “cowboy” outfits operating ancient equipment, like the DC-3.)

troyunrau,

In 2024 so far (to the best of my memory), we had one crash on a runway in Japan, but zero casualties (on the jet – several casualties on the other plane – not a jet). And a door fell off a plane in Alaska with zero casualties.

There are always a small number of bush plane or private small plane casualties every year, but they don’t count against jets either.

troyunrau,

Tulips. Grow up, sell them, stick em in the dirt. But whatever you do, don’t invest in imaginary tulip futures.

troyunrau,

Likely a typo. Out and Our often autocorrect to each other, and the keys are next to each other.

But once again this proves: the best way to start a conversation on the internet is to be nearly correct. Bad memes start more conversations than perfect memes haha.

troyunrau,

Water vapour isn’t really applicable here, unless you’re talking about very low pressures. Although you could consider it a component in a mixed gas, it’s not really gaseous water. The true gaseous form of water is steam. Water vapour is more like water that has been dissolved in the atmosphere.

By analogy: sugar is solid at room temperature. But you can dissolve it in water. Have you converted the sugar into a liquid? No. Because sugar is a liquid only at temperatures above 160°C. But the resulting mixture is liquid.

troyunrau,

I keep bumping my head on the roof tho

troyunrau,

Not sure if it’s still the same as it was back in my day, but KDE’s “release candidate” nomenclature was always a bit of a misnomer. You’d never see RC1 actually released as final. What it really means is that the alpha “feature refinement” beta “bug fixing” phase is over, and it’s the final testing phase for showstoppers. However, the definition of showstopper seemed always to be very wide. Thus, a lot of bugs still get reported and fixed during this phase, and RC really means “beta, but towards the end of the pipeline”.

Which is in contrast to the Linux kernel where a RC can be declared ship-ready and simply get renamed.

Admittedly there’s a fairly large impact difference between kernel level bugs, and say a bug in Okular…

troyunrau,

The hydrologist in me always asks: why dig a well at the top of the hill? Surely that is more effort than digging it at the bottom of the hill where the water table is closer to the surface.

But I guess wells like this predate modern hydrology. And outhouses and such could be polluting the water as it flows down gradient. So the water at the top of the hill was likely cleaner and safer to drink…

I’d wish for clean drinking water in every well. ;)

troyunrau,

I worked in diamond exploration for years. We joked that we were turning diesel into diamonds – just not through compression. Seriously kids, buy a lab diamond if you want one.

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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,

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,

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,

Klingons are traditionally a standin in Star Trek for the Red Scare (60s era caricature of communism). What you have to understand is that the cold war of the era was simultaneously a display of might, but also fraught with spycraft. The Klingons had to represent both of these fears. You couldn’t see what was happening on the other side of the iron curtain (cloaked).

Practically, they later created the technobabble rule that you had to drop your cloak to fire. That somewhat squares the circle regarding honourable combat, while still allowing Klingons to scheme.

troyunrau,

You look like you like rigatoni. Perhaps you’d be interested in trying SmellFresh Fabric softener. It helps keep your knees bent while you use the tobacco masher.

troyunrau,

Applied physics is a thing. Lots of jobs there. Geophysics, biophysics, engineering physics (yes, that’s a thing…)

troyunrau,

Word will be your biggest problem.

On rare occasion, you might get some sort of advanced PDF feature that will trip you up (embedded 3D objects or some weird encryption or something), but 99% will work as expected.

Linux is literally the home turf for major video player development. VLC works like a charm for literally everything.

troyunrau,

Don’t forget the centipede crawling around in the sewer pipes named Fortran. We’ve all been trying to kill it for years and yet, somehow, it keeps going.

troyunrau,

Jokes aside, I encounter Fortran in the applied physics community still fairly often. And have never encountered M in a professional context.

troyunrau,

So embrace it ironically then ;)

troyunrau,

All these air fryer, broiler, sautéing, and other methods…

Y’all forgot about microwaves. Microwaves and veggies are amazing. Broccoli, carrots, etc. Microwave until a fork still has a little resistance. Add a spot of sour cream or honey and dill… Or something. Tada. So fast. So yummy.

troyunrau,

This is me. I still go there for two or three subs that don’t have critical mass here (thus no conversation). The upcoming weighted sort algo should help a little, drawing people to smaller community content.

But I also moderate a reasonably large sub there, and have stopped attempting to grow anything there – just spam removal, manually.

But I don’t post new content there. Sometimes I’ll reply on a comment chain. Here I post new content and interact a lot more.

I’m using Lemmy Connect as my app (like 98% of it). What’s interesting is, when I use Reddit I refuse to use their app, so I’m using old Reddit, in a browser. But I catch myself attempting to swipe on comments using the Lemmy Connect gestures.

So I’ve definitely flipped to Lemmy first.

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