wait are you telling me you've made it all these years without making a time crystal? i am very surprised and impressed, it's not easy out there without one.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link
You get 10 seconds in the dome for every one you collect iirc
― Pengest & Corsa (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 17:14 (seven years ago) link
There's a reason caek gets a corner and youse clowns get a ring
― brat_stuntin (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 17:18 (seven years ago) link
dmac - check 25 seconds into this for detailed instructions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BuSUH4vt_I
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 17:21 (seven years ago) link
This useless banter is just another twenty wasted time crystals I'm never gonna get back
― brat_stuntin (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 17:21 (seven years ago) link
― Pengest & Corsa (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, March 15, 2017 5:14 PM (thirty minutes ago)
strong lol @ this
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 17:45 (seven years ago) link
'useless banter' = posts very much out of character
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 17:47 (seven years ago) link
this is the most useful thing i've seen
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/researchers-present-time-crystals-made-of-quantum-mechanical-oscillations/
my intuition is (1) crystalline structure is an extremely weird concept mathematically and i got my second lowest finals great on the relevant course (2) treating time like a spatial dimension is guaranteed to make your intuition useless. i got my lowest finals grade on the relevant course.
that's all i got!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 17:53 (seven years ago) link
That's it, into the ring with the rest of em
― brat_stuntin (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 18:02 (seven years ago) link
super-potatoes for Mars!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bridaineparnell/2017/03/30/scientists-grow-super-potatoes-in-mars-like-conditions/#4303e3cc694f
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:05 (seven years ago) link
Researchers from the International Potato Center (CIP) in PeruResearchers from the International Potato Center (CIP) in PeruResearchers from the International Potato Center (CIP) in Peru
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:10 (seven years ago) link
did you see the martian morbs?
i did not. were there potatoes?
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:11 (seven years ago) link
i saw the NY1 tease "Potatoes on Mars" and thought they'd found a Bowie alt take.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:12 (seven years ago) link
yes it was an extremely potato-centric movie
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:12 (seven years ago) link
you might enjoy it given your irish heritage
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:13 (seven years ago) link
i do my best to ignore it except for Irish Night at the ballpark
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:15 (seven years ago) link
ah the auld midget cabbage bowling
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:19 (seven years ago) link
this is good content, fellows
― a landlocked exclave (mh 😏), Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:23 (seven years ago) link
now is the spudder of our goodcontent...
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:24 (seven years ago) link
#ROSETTA 😍 OSIRIS #67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO new albums 😍--ROSETTA EXTENSION 2 MTP030-- Miércoles 1 Junio 2016 all filters stacked pic.twitter.com/Bf173Z5g79— landru79 (@landru79) April 23, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 23 April 2018 23:00 (six years ago) link
wow!
i'm really enjoying this entire page, actually
https://imagearchives.esac.esa.int/index.php?/category/410/
― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 April 2018 23:15 (six years ago) link
are the bright streaks ice, i guess?
― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 April 2018 23:16 (six years ago) link
<3 ♪♫ caek's corner ♪♫
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 01:46 (six years ago) link
the foreground things are cosmic rays, which you get on CCDs when the exposures are long. the weird downwards snow/motion effect in the background is from background stars.
here's an individual frame https://imagearchives.esac.esa.int/picture.php?/172648/category/410
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 03:10 (six years ago) link
so you're telling me
i can see cosmic rays
― gbx, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 03:12 (six years ago) link
space is out of control
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 03:13 (six years ago) link
yeah somebody oughta tell space to just chill the heck out
― gbx, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 03:15 (six years ago) link
caek plz tell space to take it down a notch
― valorous wokelord (silby), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 03:15 (six years ago) link
hey space: leave it m8
― gbx, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 03:17 (six years ago) link
counterpoint: space should amp it up a little, maybe put a donk on it
― you bet, nancy (map), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 04:06 (six years ago) link
it seems impossible to amp it up any more than it already is, but if anything has another level, it's space
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 05:02 (six years ago) link
black is the donk of space
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 05:08 (six years ago) link
🔊🇦🇶 Antarctic ice drop sound, TL;DR version 🇦🇶🔊1) As ice scrapes down hole, Doppler effect decreases sound frequency2) "Ricochet" is sound of ice hitting bottom coming up at varying speed3) "Heartbeat" is set by 320 m/sec speed of sound reverberating up/down hole@UofR pic.twitter.com/OZaUQERX54— Peter Neff (@peter_neff) April 27, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
this is beautiful, ty
― gbx, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link
just bought one of these https://www.ambientweather.com/amws2902.html
i love the unboxing videos for weather stations! such incredible nerds! people are really angry about low accuracy sensors on wunderground.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 17 March 2019 22:17 (five years ago) link
bought one of those for my parents a few years ago but they didn't want to plug the internet part in : /
― mookieproof, Sunday, 17 March 2019 22:47 (five years ago) link
weather stations are cool as heck. my dad has one and I should see about upgrading it
the data issue is tricky because I think the more location-specific data we can have out there, the better! but threre’s a lot of money in it. it might be one of the few data privacy/monetizarion things where I’d be completely cool with a company giving the value proposition up front that they subsidize your station as long as you allow them to use the data. and if you were in a low-data area you’d maybe even get a bounty?
― mh, Monday, 18 March 2019 02:12 (five years ago) link
i am told that i should use a password manager. do you recommend any in particular? (didn't lastpass get hacked a little while back?)
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 October 2019 23:17 (four years ago) link
1password
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 10 October 2019 23:18 (four years ago) link
(And yes you should. It feels risky but the alternatives are worse. Turn on 2FA everywhere you can.)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 10 October 2019 23:19 (four years ago) link
tyvm!
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 October 2019 23:20 (four years ago) link
cosining caek's advice!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 10 October 2019 23:30 (four years ago) link
yeah my 1password rec is now slightly qualified b/c they'll coax you into paying monthly these days but I honestly don't care
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Thursday, 10 October 2019 23:36 (four years ago) link
LastPass is substantially worse of a user experience
i sync to dropbox, no subscription. but yes they do try really hard to funnel you into a subscription thing.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 10 October 2019 23:38 (four years ago) link
(1password i mean)
I sync over WiFi for all my own stuff but we have a family subscription for all the shared stuff
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 10 October 2019 23:39 (four years ago) link
1Password user here since about 2010. I'm counting the days until I migrate to something, anything else. I just don't feel that 1Password is deserving of my subscription funds, even though it's not much. The company has gotten increasingly asinine since I signed up, and their support ranges from don't-care to shitty-snarkiness.
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Friday, 11 October 2019 23:46 (four years ago) link
Hmm, here's the same supernova remnant from Hubble in narrowband with a 10 year gap between frames. A few stars zooming around too, though I think only the one bright one will be obvious in the gif. pic.twitter.com/lIJ4tjstUa— Judy Schmidt (@SpaceGeck) September 12, 2019
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 27 December 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link