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Anyone else got half a #Pratchett book unread because they can't bring themselves to have read all of his stuff?

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@nprofile1q... What's the equivalent of "optically perfect" in terms of damage on that surface? A centimetre or so?

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Want to lose a sale? Cos this is how you lose a sale.
12" sheet of thin film weighing a few grams: £26.99
Posting it to the Highlands: £27.00

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Just finished re-reading #ProjectHailMary, which I last read a few years ago, then saw the film, which I loved, earlier this year.

Firstly, I remember there being a lot more detail in the book, but it's a LOT more. The film does a good job of condensing it down into a reasonable time.

Secondly, this film of musicians in an anechoic chamber: they complain they lose directional audio sense, a faint echo of how Rocky "sees" the world. See also human echo-location.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnYBaGpIuYU

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Just play it cool, nobody's noticed so far, blending right in, you've got this...

David Penfold :verified: · 4w

A fortune teller told me I'd suffer devastating heartbreak in 15 years' time so I got a puppy to cheer myself up.

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@nprofile1q... I think that beats "For sale: Baby shoes, never worn"

David Penfold :verified: · 4w

You meet a man on Oregon Trail. He tells you his name is Terry. You laugh & say its a girls name. He shoots you. You have died of dissin Terry.

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@nprofile1q... Incredibly laboured, overly niche, 11/10, well played.

Nick · 5w

Thousand island dressing is ketchup and mayonnaise. Marie Rose sauce is ketchup and mayonnaise. Fry sauce is ketchup and mayonnaise. Burger sauce (including Big Mac sauce) is ketchup and mayonnaise...

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@nprofile1q... There's an apocryphal(?) story of a diner who got a bit mixed up and asked for "Three Mile Island Dressing". They were brought a bottle of Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of Tabasco.

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Northern Highland #Scotland folk: if you live near a beach it could be worth looking for fulgerite tomorrow, patches of sand that have been hit by lightning. If you (very gently, they're fragile!) dig down you may find a branch-like structure where the lightning fused the sand into a kind of glass. Rare, special thing to find.

食 Shoku the Umbreon · 7w

The sky is the place where bricks don't stay.

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@nprofile1q...
The sky is blue, that's why they make bricks grey.

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) · 8w

Yesterday I went to a museum that contained, in its displays about ‘the 1900s’: The computer I learned to program on. The first PC I owned. The washing machine that was in the house I rented as a...

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@nprofile1q... Chatting to a 6th year (~17yo) today, mentioned that the first computer I used (ZX Spectrum) had 16kB of RAM. Forget comparisons with their phone, it was probably less powerful than their phone *charger*.

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) · 7w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq6xfszzj2gv9cr3ph29atpjl8jm56k7308z4ausq2uelmz8pectysfp00ee A few years ago I was teaching a course to MPhil students and mentioned some details of the NetBurst microarchitecture as an example of when branch prediction became really important. ...

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Chekhov's Cup Of Coffee By The Computer Terminal

Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD) · 8w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq6xfszzj2gv9cr3ph29atpjl8jm56k7308z4ausq2uelmz8pectysfp00ee I banned myself from setting any drinks on the same work surfaces as computers and papers after a particular event where I spilled coffee on my desk, cleaned it up, and then immediately ...