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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Dec-2021 01:53:22 EST 
Bob Jonkman
Don't get me wrong, I think Foundation is one of the greatest SF stories ever written. And I hadn't heard there was a series, must find out when and where it airs... !SciFi @clacke -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Dec-2021 01:49:57 EST
Bob Jonkman
So you're telling me the series closely follows the 9? 12? books of the Foundation Trilogy... -
Aral Balkan (aral)'s status on Monday, 06-Dec-2021 05:33:38 EST 
Aral Balkan
Folks making alternatives: don’t recreate the systems of closed, centralised silos. They’re designed with the needs and success criteria of closed, centralised organisations. You cannot compete with them on their own terms. They have the resources to create centralised workflows, you do not. And your success criteria are the opposite of theirs. You do not want to c… -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Monday, 08-Nov-2021 16:18:11 EST
Bob Jonkman
Some of us still do that - make the content the most important thing on the page, rather than the chrome and the flash and the bling... -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo)'s status on Monday, 08-Nov-2021 15:35:27 EST 
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
remember when web site designers worked really hard to cut down the amount of nonsense on the web page so it would spend fewer server, network and client resources, and would load faster? those were the days. that was before surveillance capitalism took hold, I suppose. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 01-Nov-2021 11:35:54 EDT 
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
"htyps" is the secure typos protocol. This should have been "https" instead. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Oct-2021 21:43:11 EDT
Bob Jonkman
Me too! I've been reading things for radio broadcast, but I have no idea what I'm saying... Concentrating too hard on reading ahead of what I'm speaking so I can do the intonation right... -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Oct-2021 22:43:35 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
funny thing, when I read stuff aloud, it's like DMA, it doesn't go through the CPU, and I can't recall what I've heard. I only retain what I read if I read it quietly -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Oct-2021 00:47:50 EDT
Bob Jonkman
Even with mass-energy equivalency, it is much easier to change mass into energy than the other way around. But as far as changing an object's *weight* by pressing a button, that should be possible. Weight is dependent on both on the mass and distance separating two (or more) objects, or the acceleration of an object. If pressing the button initiates something to accelerate that o… -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo)'s status on Monday, 25-Oct-2021 18:50:16 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
nah, it was entirely fictional AFAIK. Eureka was the fictional city of genius inventors in the series. no amount of internal motors could enable a ball to dynamically change its weight. though mass is energy, in day-to-day life you can most often assume it's conserved, which is why I found it so creative and amusing -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Oct-2021 23:46:51 EDT
Bob Jonkman
But this year it'll be different! -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Oct-2021 23:46:32 EDT
Bob Jonkman
15 years?!? The Toronto Maple Leafs haven't won a Stanley Cup since 1967! -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Saturday, 25-Sep-2021 16:41:16 EDT
Bob Jonkman
Maybe they don't have to quarantine, but they're *very very* close! -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Friday, 24-Sep-2021 21:40:50 EDT 
Stephen Sekula
Paging Dr. Editor. Dr. Editor, please report to the headline ward. https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1441577851317325826/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/72860 -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo)'s status on Sunday, 19-Sep-2021 13:11:32 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
I'm not superstitious, but this works even if you don't believe it :-) -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Saturday, 18-Sep-2021 21:23:36 EDT
Bob Jonkman
Reminds me of a riddle I heard in high school (around the time Canada switched to metric): If it's 0 Celsius here, and twice as cold in Ottawa, what's the temperature there?
Conflating both the #ZeroIsNotMinimum problem and a negatively worded question about positive values.
Think of "If it's 273 Kelvin here, and twice as cold in Ottawa"... would that be 546 Kelvin in Ottawa, or 136.5 Kelvin? -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo)'s status on Saturday, 18-Sep-2021 01:58:45 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
.oO it's software freedom day!
it feels a little ahead of the right date, but I'm not one to pass a free software celebration
let's make it a fortnight-ish freedom fest, from today through to Sept 27 (GNU launched, FS coined), and on to Oct 4 (FSF founded) -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Sep-2021 17:54:45 EDT
Stephen Sekula
@bobjonkman I really appreciate it, Bob! -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Sunday, 12-Sep-2021 15:28:49 EDT
Bob Jonkman
#Stroopwafels FTW! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroopwafel -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman)'s status on Sunday, 12-Sep-2021 15:21:09 EDT
Bob Jonkman
Hang in there, Dr. Sekula. Your summer somewhat mirrors mine: Conflicted about working in a Covid environment; trying to stay engaged in politics (not physics research); the loss of my father and admitting my mom to a long-term care facility where Covid mortality is high. We'll pull through, and if the future looks different from the past that's probably a good thing.
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