@sc My kid’s been watching lots of The Backyard Scientist and The King of Random lately.
He later told me that he was showing me the one on the lithium batteries to convince me not to replace my tablet battery myself.
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Interesting: Google proposes to standardize the mix of emoji that have gender options & give …
Interesting: Google proposes to standardize the mix of emoji that have gender options & give each a gender-inclusive default.
Example: Person Shrugging can appear alone 🤷 or with a hidden character indicating a man 🤷♂️ or woman 🤷♀️.
Depending on character & platform, the plain version is sometimes a man & sometimes a woman. Future Android will show an inclusive version when gender isn’t specified & offer all 3 on the keyboard.
https://blog.emojipedia.org/googles-three-gender-emoji-future/
The UI below is not finalized.
Not spam, but part of a science museum’s newsletter:”Learn the real science of SpongeBob with …
Not spam, but part of a science museum’s newsletter:
“Learn the real science of SpongeBob with the Marine Biodiversity Center’s DISCO program.”
Okaaay…
I find it interesting that YouTube backyard/garage science videos span the full range of- here’s …
I find it interesting that YouTube backyard/garage science videos span the full range of
– here’s a cool experiment you wish you could do if you had the equipment/resources/training
– here’s a cool experiment you CAN do
– here’s an experiment you REALLY shouldn’t do, let me show you exactly why we have this safety rule/warning label (ex. here’s what happens if you unwrap a lithium battery!)
…often within the same channel.
And I really want a specific term for that last subcategory.
Impressive photos of lightning above Southern California during the latest thunderstorm.
Impressive photos of lightning above Southern California during the latest thunderstorm. https://www.kqed.org/science/1938853/photos-latest-winter-storm-lights-up-southern-california-sky
Which site was first to publish your likes/favorites in your followers’ timelines?
Hyperactive Parrots and Stoned Wallabies
Apparently opium affects parrots the way caffeine affects humans, and hyperactive parrots in India are trashing the poppy fields trying to get their fix.
@Satsuma replies:
cant decide if this is more or less funny than the high on opium wallabies making crop circles on Australian poppy farms
Wow!
I think wallabies and crop circles win! 😂
Every time I see “Android Pie” written out, it looks wrong. My brain wants it …
Every time I see “Android Pie” written out, it looks wrong. My brain wants it to be “Android Pi.”
According to “Reading in the Brain,” we assemble words in alphabetic writing systems by …
According to “Reading in the Brain,” we assemble words in alphabetic writing systems by grouping sets of 3 letters in each 5 (IIRC). To read the word BRAIN, we assemble BRA, RAI, AIN, BRI, RAN, RIN etc., and map to which words best match those triplets. That’s why it’s so easy to mix up BRAIN and BRIAN – they’re not just the same letters in almost the same order, they’re almost the same triplets.
I imagine that’s also why I consistently misread “NSW” as “NSFW” instead of “New South Wales.”
Is this like the final punch card full of closing parentheses I heard about from old LISP programmers who wanted to make sure everything was closed?
@OldBrushNewPaper @Satsuma Is this like the final punch card full of closing parentheses I heard about from old LISP programmers who wanted to make sure everything was closed?
Found a place called “Moana Sushi” on Yelp. My mind immediately started in on this:”I’ve …
Found a place called “Moana Sushi” on Yelp. My mind immediately started in on this:
“I’ve been staring at the menu in the window
Long as I can remember,
Never knowing what to try….”
@FiXato Sometimes I wonder how Chekhov manages to stay positive.
@FiXato Sometimes I wonder how Chekhov manages to stay positive.
TFW you start writing a change to the program logic, then realize that because of …
TFW you start writing a change to the program logic, then realize that because of the way you’d written it in the first place, you don’t actually need to rewrite any code, just run a single SQL update.
@brion replies: DELETE FROM `bugs` WHERE severity > 0
IF ONLY!!!!!
Also trying to figure out what checkions are… Maybe they’re a particle produced when a …
Also trying to figure out what checkions are… Maybe they’re a particle produced when a warp field mode collapse triggers an exploding gradient?
@janellecshane What? No creme de cacao? 😂
@janellecshane What? No creme de cacao? 😂
@quantumcowboy Yeah. Living in California, I’ve often wondered the same thing about low-flow faucets and …
@quantumcowboy Yeah. Living in California, I’ve often wondered the same thing about low-flow faucets and shower heads: at some point the flow becomes *so* low that people have to spend more time using them just to rinse off the soap.
I’m sure someone’s done the math to optimize water use in real-world scenarios, but judging by a lot of restroom sinks, I don’t think the market has taken it into account.
The promise of LED outdoor lighting: We can produce the same amount of light for …
The promise of LED outdoor lighting: We can produce the same amount of light for much less energy and maintenance! And maybe aim more of it downward for better efficiency!
The reality: For just a little bit more money, we can make night look like day!
Good to hear that LineageOS is almost ready to jump to version 16, based on …
Good to hear that LineageOS is almost ready to jump to version 16, based on Android Pie.
But I’m disappointed they’re halting official builds of 14 (Nougat) when there are so many devices that can’t run 15.
I’ve got a Samsung Galaxy S4 that’s still working just fine with LineageOS. My 8YO uses it for games, a Pebble Watch & sometimes photos. Now it’ll once again join the ranks of unsupported old hardware.
I mean, it’ll still run, but I like security updates…
Re: Wuthering Heights Narrative Structure
I remember in college doing a comparison of the narrative structure to Frankenstein, which also has several levels of narration from the creature telling his story to Victor who tells it to some guy on a polar expedition who tells it to the reader.
It’s been a while since I read it, but IIRC it adds authenticity. The explorer seems to be meticulously honest, so you trust him, but Frankenstein is raving – yet he feels such revulsion toward his creation that the emotional complexity of the creature’s story is that much more believable, because if Victor were lying, he’d make the creature sound worse. And the explorer still isn’t sure whether to believe the story until he meets the creature himself at the end.
Hmm, this looks interesting:”The City in the Middle of the Night” by Charlie Jane Anders, …
Hmm, this looks interesting:
“The City in the Middle of the Night” by Charlie Jane Anders, set on a tidally-locked planet where humans can only live in the narrow band of twilight between permanent, boiling day on one side, and permanent, freezing night on the other, and they have to find totally different ways to conceptualize time in their…well, we can’t really say “daily” lives, can we?
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