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Knusper

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  • ‘It’s amazing’: scientists analyse 4.6bn-year-old dark dust from Bennu asteroid

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  • Well, yeah, to some degree this was a shit take of "ackshually everything in the universe has existed in some form, at least since the Big Bang, quite possibly longer".

    But to some degree, it also just felt like a weak explanation for the excitement, because even on Earth, you can drill into some rocks and find material which has been left untouched for a similar timespan.

    While Earth also formed 4.6bn years ago, its crust did not cool out right away, so it would be valid, if they're specifically excited about this (comparatively) tiny timeframe.But reading the actual article, it rather sounds like the more obvious excitement is, that it is simply dust from an asteroid and it hasn't been mostly burnt up from the usual way of asteroids entering Earth's atmosphere.

  • Firefox now supports clean URLs with the new "Copy link without site tracking" option

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  • I don't see why they should send the URL somewhere. For Googley reasons, most tracking parameters start with "utm_". You can remove those pretty naïvely, generally without links breaking.

  • ‘It’s amazing’: scientists analyse 4.6bn-year-old dark dust from Bennu asteroid

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  • which at 4.6bn years old dates back to the dawn of the solar system

    ...unlike all the other dust, which popped into existence three days ago.

  • With PieMixin

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  • Type erasure sure does go brr...

  • With PieMixin

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  • In this thread: Trying to guess the programming language based on a single keyword and angle brackets. 🙃

  • He did though.

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  • Interesting. Yeah, it sounds like the only real way to prevent aging, would be to create a clone of yourself, let that clone grow up until their body is fully developed and then organ-harvest them to replace all of your organs one-by-one, until you've eventually ship-of-theseus-ed yourself. Well, and repeat that process every thirty years or so.

    Certainly not quite as sexy of a process as some skincare lotions promise...

  • What am I missing with managing traffic

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  • Yeah, just going to preemptively post this classic depiction:

    Cars are convenient at an individual level, but a nightmare for traffic management, because they're just insanely space-inefficient.

  • He did though.

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  • Hmm, I have no expertise in this field. I recently read that aging happens, because when cells replicate their DNA a gazillion times, then sometimes they introduce slight inaccuracies or mistakes, which I guess, means tons of tiny chunks of our body will have slightly different DNA from what we got born with...?

    From the little I've just read about telomeres, it sounds like they help to prevent some of these mistakes. Is that you mean?

  • Portugal Runs on 100% Renewables Dropping Consumer Electric Bills to Nearly Zero for 6 Days in a Row

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  • Well, in the short-term, yeah. But for the mid- to long-term, it's quite a traditional investment. Pay some money now to build renewables and decommission coal power plants, but eventually break even, because the running cost per kWh produced is quite a bit lower.

  • I've been robbed!

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  • Funnily enough, the meme still works. They wanted 0.2 TB, goddammit, not some hugely oversized 1.8 TB hard drive.

  • I've been robbed!

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  • I've been robbed!

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  • Thing is, there's no rational reason to arbitrarily use groups of 8 bits for transmission over the wire. It's not just ISPs who use bits, the whole networking industry does it that way.

  • Side-effect of flattening a globe

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  • I feel like there's lots of soft mistakes, for example one might underestimate the size of African countries and therefore underestimate just how atrocious the colonization era was.

  • [Question] Are OS X like keybindings possible?

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  • If it helps, the Windows/Linux logic is basically:

    • Ctrl key for triggering actions within an application.
    • Alt key for navigating the UI of an application via the keyboard.
    • Meta/Super/Windows key for triggering actions outside of applications (on the OS level).

    Well, and Ctrl, Alt, Shift also serve for alternative characters when you're typing. And some application or OS shortcuts wildly combine modifiers for more complex keybindings. And of course, some applications just didn't get the note of how this generally works. I won't claim, it really follows rules, but yeah, it's not generally complete chaos either.

  • [Question] Are OS X like keybindings possible?

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  • I think, what you're describing used to be a thing, but there's now a somewhat different, more granular way of rebinding keybindings:

    However, it should be said that these will only apply within KDE applications. If you're using third-party stuff, like Firefox, GIMP, VLC etc., they won't apply.

    If you really want to go hard on rebinding all kinds of keys for any application, you can also do things like these:

    As cool as both of these are, and as much as I would still generally recommend picking KDE for these kind of customization possibilities, I wouldn't recommend overdoing either. You won't be able to use other PCs anymore...

  • Portugal Runs on 100% Renewables Dropping Consumer Electric Bills to Nearly Zero for 6 Days in a Row

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  • As I understand, this happens when renewables 'overproduce' and we need to get rid of the power somehow. People can gladly use as much power as they want in that case. Even if someone fills up batteries for free to later sell back into the grid when production normalizes, that is actually very much what we want. It just adds storage capacity and ensures prices will stay low for longer.

  • Portugal Runs on 100% Renewables Dropping Consumer Electric Bills to Nearly Zero for 6 Days in a Row

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  • I constantly hear about or see data that solar and wind power are quite a bit cheaper than other methods by now.

  • "Earth-like"

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  • And "philosopher" is just Ancient Greek for "lover of wisdom".

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