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It's on https://www.thefarside.com/ today as one of the "Selections of classic The Far Side comics." Comic says ©1984, but doesn't give a specific date (an image on reddit suggests 4/6/84).
I mean, I don't think "reflexively opposing" is really a good thing, ever --- in this case though "reflexively opposing" and "opposing on merit" would (as far as I know) yield the same outcome, so it's functionally the same thing.
I don't hate Trump's nominee's because I hate Trump, I hate them because they're antithetical to a working government.
Sounds like it was a 2 petawatt pulsed laser, with picosecond pulses, so 2kJ/pulse. Staggering amount of power and energy for a pulsed laser!
Note that it's not CW, so the average power will be much, much, much less than the pulsed power. Too lazy to find the rep rate to see average power.
man rot13 ;)
Great shot! I live in SF so I've ridden them --- they're fun, but also...they just work. Not as smooth as the new Siemens units that run on the other lines, but they get the job done.
I also really appreciate that they're not a tourist gimmick --- they run a real route, and they take the same payment & cost the same as other Muni bus and rail lines.
TIL, thanks! Edited my earlier comment.
I recently started using voice (SSB) on the HF ham bands, and have made contacts on 15, 17, 20, and 40m. No real DX, but made one foreign contact ~1000mi away and another domestic ~2000mi away.
I live in a city and it's challenging to get a good antenna setup, so it's always a compromise where I am.
Nothing very impressive by ham standards, but it's fun.
Momentum could still be conserved if the velocity is unchanged, but it would mean there's now a lot of kickback once it gets big...
Yeah, the only thing I could imagine would be that image loading/processing uses an optimized library, but a single color is (unlikely but possibly) implemented poorly as a loop over every pixel, with some egregious overhead.
Most likely shit post though... See reply, apparently real!
Oh I wasn't complaining, I was making a bad joke (the cartoon is a stalemate).
One of the coolest parts of The Expanse IMHO was that The Mormons commissioned a giant space ship, and it didn't feel forced or far-fetched.
Ugh, Lemmy is full of stale content.
(Edit: it's a joke. Stalemate/stale content...I chuckled at, and upvoted, the post.)
I've been super happy with it. Knock on wood it's been super reliable. I have a single ZFS drive, take snapshots with various retention policies, nothing fancy.
Another fun thing is to set up a reverse proxy on it as an endpoint for services on your local (home) network which can only be accessed by VPN. For example, my Jellyfin service isn't public facing, but I didn't want e.g. my parents to need to set up WireGuard. So instead they can point their TV to a raspberry pi on their network to access the service --- even a first gen RPI can handle Jellyfin reverse proxy over WireGuard for moderate bitrates!
In my experience, the blue (405nm) lasers pointers can far, far exceed the nominal (5mW?) power.
"Necessary, but not sufficient" sums up the role of a degree for a lot of jobs.
Lenna had her time; Fabio will likewise be replaced. But Lorem Ipsum is immortal.
Remind me again, what color was Obama's scandalous suit?
Ah, right, that's why it looked familiar --- pretty sure I've seen articles from there posted in one of The Onion communities in lemmy.
I'm not mad at the huge amount I pay in taxes. I'm mad about what I get in return.
Only disagreement from me (in California, USA) is that I wouldn't diminish the actions of our neighbors to the north by calling them "petty" in this instance. Nothing petty about standing up to a bully in whatever capacity you can. 🫡