[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 hour ago

The CW folks would presumably be sending QTH instead


I wonder if this graph captures that/if it would make an appreciable difference?

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 4 hours ago

I just wish they made toddler clothes in my size.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 22 hours ago

Grass is ugly no matter the state it is in

I think bamboo can be pretty though 🤷

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 9 points 2 days ago

Do you still start in 1st? Do you skip gears?

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 2 days ago

Left pedal looks more like a dead pedal to me.

And as others have said, change in direction is still acceleration. That's part of Newton's (apocryphal?) apple story


he witnessed an apple falling, and wondered why the moon doesn't also fall. His amazing insight is that it does fall (accelerate), it's just that it falls in such a way that it orbits, rather than hits, the Earth (for timescales relevant to a human).

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 3 days ago

"Political choice is between a turd sandwich and a giant douche" being my favorite example.

Neither candidate is/was ideal, but good lord to say that what's happening now is no different than when the other side was in power is beyond asinine, it's an incredibly disingenuous and offensive take on reality. (I know the SP episode wasn't about the current US political situation, but the current US political situation absolutely has its roots going back to those SP episodes.)

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 4 days ago

Most of the time that leads to them dying.

Well, squishing has a 100% chance of them dying. With a toddler and a baby, having them run loose sadly isn't an option.

We live in a very mild climate, and there's under-deck and fence space around our house, in addition to bushes, trees, and underbrush


fairly suitable for a variety of arachnids. It's not the same as indoors, and survival rate certainly isn't 100%, but it's not the death sentence of going from a climate controlled house to below-freezing outdoors.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 5 days ago

Because I can trap mine in a jar and take it outside instead.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 31 points 5 days ago

I think large planes "look" like they can't work because their "relative speed" is really low


that is, their speed relative to their length. We're used to seeing birds cover tens of lengths per second, whereas a large airliner covers ~1ish per second at takeoff.

Or not, but this always seemed like a plausible explanation as to why planes look impossible. (Though given that hovering birds don't look funny, maybe this is a silly observation...).

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 5 days ago

I'd say it gets a little different with command line utilities


maybe "utility" is the appropriate term here, but I'd call something like grep a program, not an application (again


"utility" also works).

To be sure, grep is extremely powerful, but its scope is limited.

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People often complain about San Francisco's public transit


and to be sure, it's not perfect by any means (multiple separate agencies doesn't help). But the historic streetcars are pretty neat!

They're painted with the livery of various historic streetcars from all over the country (and a few international, I think). Best of all, they run alongside the modern fleet


same route, same fare.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 127 points 1 year ago

I just tried that and got the same result. It's from a site that just quotes a snippet of an Onion article 🤦

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 260 points 1 year ago

Similar with Y2K


it was only a nothingburger because it was taken seriously, and funded well. But the narrative is sometimes, "yeah lol it was a dud."

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