Time is a 4th dimension when talking about spacetime, which assumes three dimensions of space and one dimension of progressing time.

In geometry, a 4-dimensional object can be projected as a 3-dimensional shadow.

If you aren’t fighting conservatism, you’re fighting conservationism.

I always wait for vote sales. People preordering upvotes are crazy

North Korea runs out of shells, asks Russia to be rearmed.

You’re thinking of crossover cables, though I’m not sure if those are still necessary.

Airlines don’t care if you make it off the plane in one piece.

It’s the regulatory bodies doing all the safety heavy lifting and ensuring airlines and airframe manufacturers follow the rules.

This is honestly the last thing I expected

Frankly I feel uneasy when I’m driving around at 50km/h on residential streets. It’s just too fast to be able to react to a kid or an animal jumping out from behind a parked car. So not only is 50 more lethal, it also reduces reaction time and increases braking distance. It’s crazy that anybody ever thought this was a good idea to begin with.

I think my mood has been permanently damaged since dealing with my infestation.

Looking at you, Vic Toews

https://youtu.be/2xfwJ2magpw?si=sLeN3FVzSZsUMKuC

The only solace is that millions of years after we manage to annihilate ourselves, the earth will recover and continue as if we were never here.

Meanwhile, the Enterprise uses phasers, which seem to be close to light speed

A phaser beam is made up of nadion particles, which to my eyes seems to move through space at about the same speed as a Star Wars laser bolt.

I think a more fair fight would be a Danube runabout vs. the Falcon, but my money is still on the Starfleet ship.

There’s a tradeoff with CFL bulbs between longevity and instant action. The normal expectation for a light bulb is to have it at full brightness the moment you flip the switch, but the first CFL bulbs to market often took minutes to reach peak output. Longer if they were cold.

So to meet consumer expectations, manufacturers began designing bulbs that would, on ignition, damage themselves in order to reach peak output faster.

It’s no wonder the CFL bulb failed as a product, you would either get a bulb that would never be bright enough when you needed it, or you got a bulb that would burn itself out just as quickly as any incandescent for twice the price.

Smart move, unless you really know what you’re doing and have redundancy. When I first made the switch from Lastpass to Bitwarden I had tried to host the vault myself instead of using the cloud version, which worked fine right up until the moment I had a server outage and lost access to all my passwords.

Relevant XKCD

There was a bug with screen sharing sound on Linux (and maybe macOS as well?) for a LONG time, like years, before it was eventually fixed.

Wait, this was fixed? I haven’t been bothering with screen sharing because I thought this was still an issue.