[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 11 points 21 hours ago

Yep. The best people will leave first because they have options. It’s called the dead sea effect

[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 1 points 4 days ago

Lights using a 18650 seem to be the rage these days, at crazy cheap prices, but they all use some UI with clicks, holds, etc.

I have an Olight Seeker Pro 4 and it’s pretty simple to use. The on/off button rotates and controls the intensity. You do have to either hold it for a few seconds to turn it on or rotate the button 90º and then click but that’s unavoidable with these kinds of flashlights.

These lights are very small and yet very powerful. That means you can easily pocket them, but because they are so powerful they also get very hot. You don’t want a flashlight like this to accidentally turn on while in your pocket. If you look at these lights, the head is almost always ribbed, it’s basically a heatsink. Even then when you run them at full strength they usually throttle themselves down after a few minutes to prevent overheating.

[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 10 points 5 days ago

They are also very different organizations with very different goals.

NASA is focussed on science, they are trying to learn as much as possible about our solar system and the universe.

SpaceX by contrast is focussed on engineering. They aren’t trying to find life on Mars, they are trying to build the ferry service to it.

When NASA built rockets back in the 60’s, space flight was a science problem. We needed to figure out if it was even possible to do so. Can we even get a capsule into space? Can humans survive in zero gravity? Nowadays space flight is an engineering problem. We know it’s possible, we know the math, but can we actually build those things?

[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 3 points 5 days ago

Or just install a door on your bathroom and hang the toilet roll over.

[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 208 points 2 weeks ago

Showing it’s unsustainable is kind of the point of the original game Monopoly is based on: The landlord’s game.

[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 81 points 3 weeks ago

Wow, it looks so much prettier today. All thanks to climate improvement.

[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 68 points 1 month ago

And the dead. Remember when he buried his ex wife at his golf club so it would qualify as a cemetery and get tax exempt status.

[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 159 points 11 months ago

I live near a university that attracts quite a few international students/lecturers and I’ve often witnessed the exact opposite of this. You’re outside in the middle of summer, trying not to die of a heat stroke, when a obviously non-native person walks by wearing a winter coat and a hat.

[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 79 points 11 months ago

Microsoft is really trying hard not to lose their last place in the console market lately

[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 204 points 1 year ago

Lightning is/was actually pretty great. Also remember that it was introduced before USB-C even existed.

[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 140 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Triangeljosti.

The Jostiband is a Dutch orchestra for people with a developmental disability, mainly people with down syndrome.

A [triangle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_(musical_instrument)) , or triangel in Dutch, is possibly the simplest instrument you can think of.

So calling someone a ‘triangeljosti’ is basically comparing them to someone who plays the simplest possible instrument in a band for developmentally disabled people.

[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 116 points 1 year ago

Also, cancer isn’t one disease but a whole class of diseases. And we actually do have vaccines that prevent certain forms of cancer, like the HPV vaccine.

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If you go to https://join-lemmy.org and click on 'run a server', this results in a 404. This is a shame as it puts up a roadblock for those wanting to create their own Lemmy instances.

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