Notices by Stephen Brooks 🦆 (sjb@mstdn.io)

@Inginsub 🔫🐵

Growing lettuce on the ISS.
#space #NASA
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/iss-research/space-gardens/

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-says-intels-horrible-product-is-causing-ryzen-9-9800x3d-shortages

Noticing articles that are 90% introduction and then end with "So what do we know about <article title>? Well, it's still a mystery."

@splitshockvirus Do you only have one IP address to choose from?

@splitshockvirus Ah! I can see how that would be annoying, not sure how they expect people to work around that (other than having the ISP's technician install the router).

Cause for Orion heatshield cracks found.
#NASA #Moon #space
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis/nasa-identifies-cause-of-artemis-i-orion-heat-shield-char-loss/

@splitshockvirus

Analysis of inflation in the US over the last 4 decades. #economics
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-ELECTION/INFLATION/jnpwjxkdavw/

To protect against hurricanes, build DOMED houses. #domed
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241010-these-domed-homes-in-florida-survived-hurricanes

@eric @kaia PowerShell is such a weird half-breed.

Went to see the TJ-II stellarator at CIEMAT. #physics #fusion

A social network where pixels of vertical space is limited rather than character count.

In my local supermarket there's a "clock" on the wall that seems entirely decorative. I think it's just a cardboard picture of a clock that always reads 4:45pm.

That got me thinking that non-functional clocks are a sign of civilisational decay. The object without its purpose.

Had a nightmare last night where I saw the blue criticality glow around something but couldn't find the emergency off button or open the shielding door. Then when it did open, the huge concrete rotating door nearly crushed me and a colleague.

As we left the turbopump going for a couple of weeks, the #vacuum chamber pressure is now 8.1e-10 torr.
There also appears to be a t^(-2/3) power law.
#physics #accelerators

The stars are out and the humidity haze has cleared. Still all the leaves on the trees but at least I can see Cassiopeia now. #astronomy

@wolf480pl or "because we built it wrong"?

@wolf480pl My angle is amusement at all the blame-shifting. After 2001 it was always "the terrorists did it" and after 2010 "the social media did it".

It's funny how governments offer all sorts of theories on why riots happen, but "government policy" is never one of them.