Mastodawn

Lucas Hauswald Sep 17, 2024

Pipford Sep 11, 2024

"Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars"

It's great to see someone FINALLY mention the magnetosphere issue, in the very first sentence no less, but this article rips into the idea so much more thoroughly than that, and with admirable gusto.

#skeptic #musk #mars

https://defector.com/neither-elon-musk-nor-anybody-else-will-ever-colonize-mars

Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector

Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars’s dead core? No? Well. It’s fine. I’m sure you have some other workable, sustainable plan…

Lucas Hauswald Jul 18, 2024

Technology Connections Jul 16, 2024

Confidence is not "I know what I'm doing."

Confidence is "I know how to find that out" and "I know how to learn new things" and most importantly "I know when I don't know what I'm doing, so I stop and find someone who does"

Obnoxious blowhards rely on people not understanding this distinction. And they amplify it by framing actual confidence as weakness.

This may be a useful thing to talk about with certain people in your life who are being fooled by fascists.

Lucas Hauswald Jan 29, 2024

Koen van Gilst 🇺🇦🇪🇺Jan 27, 2024

I saw this online somewhere and I just had to recreate it. This is my coding happy place.

Lucas Hauswald Aug 28, 2023

@marcel That’s it, I’m enabling notifications for you now

Lucas Hauswald Aug 26, 2023

allison Aug 26, 2023

this table of C escape characters is making the same noises as I do when I have to wake up early

Lucas Hauswald Jul 13, 2023

Mario Sixtus 🇭🇰馬六 Jul 12, 2023

Fernsehen: Werbung fur 600-PS-PKW;
Zeitungen: Freibad-Tipps;
CDU & CSU: Stimmen in der EU zusammen mit der AfD und mit europäischen Rechtsextremisten gegen Renaturierungsgesetz;
Anzahl der 2023 gebauten Windräder in Bayern: 2, Sachsen: -3 (Rückbau);
Berlin: CDU & SPD stoppen Radwege, lassen den Bund für 700 Mio. Euro 3,2 km neue Stadtautobahn bauen;
Klimaleugner AfD: Zweitstärkste Partei in Deutschland.
#DontLookUp

Lucas Hauswald Jul 9, 2023

Chris Espinosa Jul 8, 2023

The interior angle of the pizza slice emoji in the Apple emoji set 🍕is 48.5556º, implying that the pizza was cut into a very awkward 7.4 slices. (Or that somewhere there exists another 48º slice and two corresponding 41.4444º slices)

Lucas Hauswald Jun 26, 2023

Tim Bray Jun 25, 2023

This is actually not about XML, despite the title, it's about us geeks being fashion victims, and I really enjoyed reading it. https://www.bitecode.dev/p/hype-cycles

XML is the future

Okay, campers, rise and shine...

Bite code!

Lucas Hauswald Jun 23, 2023

Justin ⏚Jun 23, 2023

"Reddit is a Dying Mall" (by me!)

I predict that what will happen to #Reddit is the same thing that is happening to Twitter and has already happened to Facebook and frankly, actual shopping malls. The business side of things will churn along divorced from the content which will become ever more generic and culturally irrelevant.

https://www.staygrounded.online/p/reddit-is-a-dying-mall

#lemmy #kbin #RedditMigration