It's true that we are tiny. One look at the sheer number of star systems in the universe should be enough to break our sense of scale.
But it's also true that we're massive. Tens of trillions of individual cells working in concert in a way that's kind of insane to think of, and a chain of life that's lasted billions of years through multiple mass extinction events.
The universe is so massive, but at the same time it's so tiny, and in that context we're like a massive megastructure, like seeing a supernova from billions of light years away. There's forms of life so small you can't even see it with light, but we're so large that each microstructure looks like one giant individual instead of trillions of individuals.
And we carry entire ecosystems we don't even know or care about. There's an entire galactic empire in our digestive tract, and global civilizations in our mouth, our ears, our nose, and around our skin.
Some of our cells only purpose is to be born, grow, and die, and the corpses become national walls to protect against others.
Imagine that people think that a 4 billion year old micro-civilization of tens of trillions of lives working in a unison so powerful that it can produce the phrase "Cogito ergo sum" and mean it is small and meaningless. Imagine people that think such a micro-civilization ought to stop that 4 billion year fire.
And the stuff we're made of, it's a miracle by itself. Energy so immense that it structured itself into something we call matter, something so intense it literally warps the universe around it in what we call gravity. Then everything that wasn't hydrogen in our bodies was born in the heart of a star, fused together into a new thing, and that star died of old age and scattered the corpse throughout the universe, slowly aggregating into the complex structures capable of supporting this micro-civiization. A single atom is a thing of wonder, and we're made of so many of them that the human mind can't imagine the number properly.
But it's also true that we're massive. Tens of trillions of individual cells working in concert in a way that's kind of insane to think of, and a chain of life that's lasted billions of years through multiple mass extinction events.
The universe is so massive, but at the same time it's so tiny, and in that context we're like a massive megastructure, like seeing a supernova from billions of light years away. There's forms of life so small you can't even see it with light, but we're so large that each microstructure looks like one giant individual instead of trillions of individuals.
And we carry entire ecosystems we don't even know or care about. There's an entire galactic empire in our digestive tract, and global civilizations in our mouth, our ears, our nose, and around our skin.
Some of our cells only purpose is to be born, grow, and die, and the corpses become national walls to protect against others.
Imagine that people think that a 4 billion year old micro-civilization of tens of trillions of lives working in a unison so powerful that it can produce the phrase "Cogito ergo sum" and mean it is small and meaningless. Imagine people that think such a micro-civilization ought to stop that 4 billion year fire.
And the stuff we're made of, it's a miracle by itself. Energy so immense that it structured itself into something we call matter, something so intense it literally warps the universe around it in what we call gravity. Then everything that wasn't hydrogen in our bodies was born in the heart of a star, fused together into a new thing, and that star died of old age and scattered the corpse throughout the universe, slowly aggregating into the complex structures capable of supporting this micro-civiization. A single atom is a thing of wonder, and we're made of so many of them that the human mind can't imagine the number properly.
Latest upgrade to this dollar store toy. The original car didn't have any kind of antenna on the car, and so the remote range was basically within arm distance.
I bought an antenna and replaced the one on the remote, then drilled a hole through the body and welded the antenna in the body (Those plastic welders with the metal reinforcements are both very interesting and useful and totally useless depending on what you expect out of it), then connected the antenna to the internal connection which was basically just taped to the roof.
Preliminary test showed that now I can use the remote way past the old range, which is all I'd hoped to accomplish. While I was down there I found that the body already had some cracks because it's 1/64" plastic and you'd get more material out of a coke bottle, so I welded them shut and reinforced the opposing side similarly.
This should've been a Honda Civic, because the upgrades do nothing to improve the value of the thing but cost several times the car's actual worth.
I bought an antenna and replaced the one on the remote, then drilled a hole through the body and welded the antenna in the body (Those plastic welders with the metal reinforcements are both very interesting and useful and totally useless depending on what you expect out of it), then connected the antenna to the internal connection which was basically just taped to the roof.
Preliminary test showed that now I can use the remote way past the old range, which is all I'd hoped to accomplish. While I was down there I found that the body already had some cracks because it's 1/64" plastic and you'd get more material out of a coke bottle, so I welded them shut and reinforced the opposing side similarly.
This should've been a Honda Civic, because the upgrades do nothing to improve the value of the thing but cost several times the car's actual worth.
Just because you redefine "a cold" as only diseases caused by rhinovirus doesn't mean cold weather doesn't have a direct effect on the body that might look exactly like a cold, meaning it is for all intents and purposes a cold regardless of the cause. It's an etymological sleight of hand where you redefine a common disease by the vector you want it to be caused by and ignore counterfactuals.
I spent some time creating a server library and updating my client library for a certain protocol in FreeBASIC.
I really wanted to set it up so it's very simple and straightforward, but you could also use it for more if you wanted to.
One thing i did which is probably normal process for software developers but I'm just a retard from the sticks is I created a validation file that starts a server and a client and tests both end to end by testing each routine against itself and then also testing failure scenarios to prove it fails successfully.
Sped up development a lot, since I could use the client to prove the server and the server to prove the client and I could develop both at once to meet in the middle in the validation program.
Obviously I had to test against a reference implementation (and did), but it's like going through your own books before an audit -- It was easy to find problems before they became an issue I had to troubleshoot against a server or client I didn't write.
I really wanted to set it up so it's very simple and straightforward, but you could also use it for more if you wanted to.
One thing i did which is probably normal process for software developers but I'm just a retard from the sticks is I created a validation file that starts a server and a client and tests both end to end by testing each routine against itself and then also testing failure scenarios to prove it fails successfully.
Sped up development a lot, since I could use the client to prove the server and the server to prove the client and I could develop both at once to meet in the middle in the validation program.
Obviously I had to test against a reference implementation (and did), but it's like going through your own books before an audit -- It was easy to find problems before they became an issue I had to troubleshoot against a server or client I didn't write.
I bought it knowing someday it would be a hit, and dinosaurs in cool vehicles hit like a nuclear bomb a couple weeks ago. Hope you saw tons of real success from it.
The "aha" moment for me was running nextcloud.
Under Google, they've always been chill, but you know in your heart of hearts that if they wanted to they could get pissy if you had something copyrighted or something they politically disagree with or something inconvenient for them on your google drive.
But I was sitting there, and it's like 'Wait, I can just keep all my stuff on here, and literally nobody cares because I'm copying my files from my hard drive to my hard drive'
It feels like moving from a rental to a house you own.
Under Google, they've always been chill, but you know in your heart of hearts that if they wanted to they could get pissy if you had something copyrighted or something they politically disagree with or something inconvenient for them on your google drive.
But I was sitting there, and it's like 'Wait, I can just keep all my stuff on here, and literally nobody cares because I'm copying my files from my hard drive to my hard drive'
It feels like moving from a rental to a house you own.
To be fair, all of the white nationalists that they hire to do Twitter campaigns look exactly like that.
Saved a cheap dollar store toy from the trash bin for at least another day.
3d printed wheels aren't the best wheels out there or anything, but this isn't the first time I spent 30 seconds with a micrometer building a part for a toy that would have just gone in the trash without it. I like what it tells the little guy about our things, that even a dollar store remote control car is worth trying to maintain and nothing is just disposable.
3d printed wheels aren't the best wheels out there or anything, but this isn't the first time I spent 30 seconds with a micrometer building a part for a toy that would have just gone in the trash without it. I like what it tells the little guy about our things, that even a dollar store remote control car is worth trying to maintain and nothing is just disposable.
@Mepplo welcome to the instance but be advised this is a no woodchipper enthusiast zone.
The easiest way to not have to worry about threads is to not be highly moderated HR approved drivel.
None of us are allowed to see threads posts. As God intended.
All these lefties who are terrified of threads ought to think a bit harder as to why the corpos want to take over their fediverse and not ours.
None of us are allowed to see threads posts. As God intended.
All these lefties who are terrified of threads ought to think a bit harder as to why the corpos want to take over their fediverse and not ours.
"I will do anything to win!"
Will you inject acid into your penis?
"I will do almost anything to win!"
Will you inject acid into your penis?
"I will do almost anything to win!"
"As long as I walk in righteousness and have God at my side I will be fine."
Well that's the rub though, aint' it? They're saying you didn't walk in righteousness.
Well that's the rub though, aint' it? They're saying you didn't walk in righteousness.
some of the books I've picked up from freeside folks, I wanted to give a shout-out.
The Most Extreme Dinosaur coloring book is a really cool coloring book with dinosaurs doing cool things by @Wormwood
A world with no saddness, baby is a physical copy I bought that was apparently written by @vriska
Literally is the one physical book I bought, but there were a few ebooks as well, associated with @thomasroiloup
The blade of the betrayer series was written by @Tactical and I wrote a significant review of it here on fedi a while back.
I've picked up a few podcasts and rss feeds as well, but that's what I've found of physical books and ebooks. If anyone else has any interesting they've made, shoot it in the replies and I'll take a look.
The Most Extreme Dinosaur coloring book is a really cool coloring book with dinosaurs doing cool things by @Wormwood
A world with no saddness, baby is a physical copy I bought that was apparently written by @vriska
Literally is the one physical book I bought, but there were a few ebooks as well, associated with @thomasroiloup
The blade of the betrayer series was written by @Tactical and I wrote a significant review of it here on fedi a while back.
I've picked up a few podcasts and rss feeds as well, but that's what I've found of physical books and ebooks. If anyone else has any interesting they've made, shoot it in the replies and I'll take a look.
