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

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

Nick · 2w

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 · 3w

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!*) · 4w

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!*) · 4w

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) · 5w

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 ...

David Njoku · 5w

I live in a midsize English town. I like it here and feel nothing but safe. It's crazy to think that all it'll take for that to change is for some other brown skinned person here to do something c...

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@nprofile1q... Amazing amount of bullshit importation, isn't it?

David Njoku · 5w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq6xfszzj2gv9cr3ph29atpjl8jm56k7308z4ausq2uelmz8pectysfp00ee we should put a tariff on bullshit

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Just caught myself searching how long the North Coast 500 is *facepalm*

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Had a skim through the Nat5, Higher, and Advanced Higher physics exam papers today (roughly age 15, 16, 17 respectively). Each had at least one "being a dick" question where needless distractions were introduced. No marks available for spotting the irrelevant stuff, purely there to trip students up. Not sure that's fair. It's not a pub quiz.

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It's probably time to retire the verb "google" like they asked us to in 2006.

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Astro types: I assume the #Artemis crew aren't actually "out of range of the Deep Space Network", given the point of the DSN, they'll just be back in signal before we get a relay signal from the DSN?

AkaSci 🛰️ · 14w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq6xfszzj2gv9cr3ph29atpjl8jm56k7308z4ausq2uelmz8pectysfp00ee The moon is blocking signals as Orion is traveling behind it. DSN can receive signals from Voyager 1 which is over 25 billion km away! Orion is just 413,000 km away.