Nerds of the scientific persuasion.

I have no idea. But they had amazing food haha. Ceviche and Pisco sours… I didn’t taste any asbestos or anything!

The orbital mechanics thing is probably the most important. The delta-v to land isn’t that bad once you’re in orbit, but even getting to orbit is crazy. Also, you’d need a retro rocket for landing that could withstand the temperatures – which would be a super interesting engineering problem. It already is for the orbital probes, but they don’t have to carry enough fuel to land and have different mass budgets.

The show is worth watching, just as a show, even if you disagree with the message. It’s unique in its presentation. The single cut style looks like it might hide some subtle cuts (I don’t think so), but it’s actually quite impressive. The topic is interesting and can spawn interesting conversations.

Admittedly, there’s a parallel universe where Zelensky flees, ukranian opposition is in disarray, and they seized Kiev and Odessa in the first week.

But Zelensky didn’t need a ride…

It’s a blurry car

Well the US doesn’t seem to want to honour trade agreements. Those of US outside the US should be contemplating whether to honour things like the DMCA when we’re not even in their country…

Winner

A couple of notes and unsolicited advice as someone who is almost an old hand already…

(1) Your front-page will be more interesting as you subscribe to more things. You can subscribe to things from other Lemmy servers and they will be pulled into your feed here.

(2) Communities that are hosted on this server will show up under “Local”.

(3) “All” shows all of the local content from (2), but also any content that this server had to fetch from other servers for others. Basically, when you subscribe to stuff, it’ll end up in All for everyone else on this server as well. If no one on the server has subscribed to specific content from another server, it won’t show up in All. As a result, All is sort of a cross section of our users’ interests.

(4) If you were to sign up for another server – say lemm.ee – you would get a different Local and All. But you should be able to subscribe to the same things regardless of the server you chose.

(5) Some servers are not connected to others, for reasons. This is called defederation. It’s basically a means to block an entire server who has a community not behaving in a way that doesn’t jive well on your local server. Lemmygrad.ml is blocked from this server, for example. You probably won’t notice, but on rare occasions you can’t subscribe to a community on a blocked server.

(6) You can help the quieter communities grow by shitposting. Throw your backlog of old saved memes into them. There isn’t as much traffic here as reddit, and the niche communities often don’t exist (or are silent).

(7) Find a larger community to post to for engagement. For example, on Reddit I would subscribe to the WinnipegJets team sub, but on Lemmy it is too quiet. So instead I post my Jets content to the more general Hockey community so we can have some discussion. This will change over time.

(8) A good place to find communities to subscribe to is: https://lemmyverse.net/communities – copy and paste the community name – eg: [email protected] – into the search bar and then subscribe.

(9) Meow

(10) Try different sort options. New or Scales are my favourites.

Wut

Very Trantor

Wind and solar are not magic bullets. Better than fossil fuels, yes. But they come with their own “the ocean is too big to pollute” type quagmires that we overlook when deployed on the small scale. The most basic example: solar panels are dark in colour – deploying a few of them is trivial, but deploying a lot of them over time will cause the average albedo of the earth to change, heating it. This won’t be a problem today, but would be in a century. Etc. Still better than greenhouse gasses though.

Nuclear likewise has issues. You’re just straight up adding heat to the system. And depending on the reactor design, you have waste. But it’s a huge improvement over fossil fuels.

This is the funniest.

So python then. On the first order level, there’s operator overriding and duck typing, which achieves this highly modular syntax. But deeper down, there’s the ast module that lets you rewrite your own interpreter at runtime and other wacky shit.

Meow

Classic joke, something like: if you owe the bank $100, it’s your problem; if you owe them a million, it’s their problem.

Radical optimism. Hell yeah! Basically anti-doomerism.

I think this is largely the same effect: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Engineers_and_woo

Basically, some techy types have this notion that, because they understand one complex thing, then they also understand all complex things. But in reality, they’ve only been trained to understand the one complex thing and are actually just a delusional idiot.

Winnipeg also has multiple exits and a huge rural ring of places to escape to outside town. Yellowknife has one road and one airport. I guess technically you could take a boat too if you have one.

I’m pretty sure we had this joke app in the mid 90s. I vaguely recall the joke would reference coke or similar.