alpine_jim

I’m not random enough? But I was holding up a spork! From my Invader Zim bag!

“taking advantage of” something doesn’t necessarily have a negative connotation.

it often does when applied to people, but not things.

https://mcnostril.com/sexy-hero-homicidal-pervert/

words have meanings, and it sounds like you don’t know the meaning of that one.

huh? Your eyes absolutely do have limited depth of field just like any camera, and need to focus at a particular distance. Anything as close as your nose will be out of focus, and if you’re reading something close, your distant vision will be blurry.

You usually don’t notice it because the focus immediately follows your active attention.

It looks wrong in games when the game wrongly assumes which item on screen you actually want to be looking at.

Fabulous news. Zahn was the main pillar of the best of the Star Wars EU, and I liked what I read of his non-SW sci-fi too (Conquerors trilogy). His new Thrawn novels are much more mature, tense, and psychological than his 90s Thrawn novels. Bodes well for DS9.

being so far south that a Halloween evening is still light, but still doing Halloween activities anyway, is a wild new idea for me.

it’s like Aussies wearing Santa hats in midsummer.

pastel beans gang rise up

9.76N to 9.83N depending where you are, if you want to be super pedantic.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/1987831-gravity-map-reveals-earths-extremes/

“Mount Nevado Huascarán in Peru has the lowest gravitational acceleration, at 9.7639 m/s2, while the highest is at the surface of the Arctic Ocean, at 9.8337 m/s2.”

I’ve only ever encountered decaliters in Dune, where there’s the awkward phrase “38 million decaliters” instead of “380 million liters”. It’s probably because Frank Herbert was initially thinking in gallons, and it got changed later.

Pints are also much bigger on the east side of the Atlantic than the west.

oh you’re why Matchett’s hired a bouncer.

mpv users know.

go on and watch Balance of Terror, even if it’s the only TOS episode you ever watch.

i was disappointed in the Strange New Worlds remake of that episode (the S1 finale, Quality of Mercy) because it a) wrongly assumed that most of the audience had seen Balance of Terror, so it didn’t properly land with my non-Trekkie friend watching together and b) wasn’t as good as the original, and i am generally a big SNW fan.

Mark Lenard’s performance is incredible.

edit : i’m going to watch it again right now, so thanks for the prompt to do so!

edit 2: in the midst of it, it’s so good.

when I was a child, I was sure all American cars had entirely different kinds of engines than ours, because they ran on gas, while ours used liquid fuel.

“ball knowledge”? is it a urology class?

absolutely, the uniform looks way more Systems Alliance than Starfleet.

ok? I don’t think anyone said they do.

the point was, someone claimed that only Macs have unified memory, so I gave some counterexamples, not an exhaustive list of all counterexamples.

I think they’re ARM-based, so yes.

which is not unique to Macs. all ARM PCs have unified memory. AMD is doing it in some of their x86 now too (Strix Halo) and Intel also have it with their Core / Arc integrated graphics boards - https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpu-drivers/intels-new-graphics-driver-lets-you-dedicate-up-to-87-percent-of-laptop-memory-capacity-to-the-igpu-for-vram-core-ultra-cpus-get-shared-gpu-memory-override-feature