allisvancity
Re:The situation at Twitter isn't as bad as the media hype would suggest
on Saturday October 21, 2023 @09:22PM (#37972040)
woah, elon does post on here
Re:NASA Power Hack Extends 45-Year Voyager 2 Mission Even Longer
on Thursday April 27, 2023 @05:21PM (#35734785)
They evidently used to use radiothermal generators (RTGs) as the power source for some pacemakers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
Plutonium is nasty & expensive stuff, however. That puts some pretty severe limitations on its usefulness for domestic purposes.
Re:Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent
on Thursday July 14, 2022 @02:49PM (#32099993)
In terms of the specific wording, most anglophone churches that use a historic liturgy have some form of this prayer (it comes from Matthew's gospel): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_of_Humble_Access
Re:The day I discovered that Apple Maps is Kind of Good now
on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @02:15PM (#31343754)
oop--yep! sorry. I must not have read either comment carefully
Re:The Sound of Bells – The acoustics, sound, tuning and history of ch...
on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @03:55PM (#31331843)
wow. had no idea bell-ringing was so... pathological
Re:The day I discovered that Apple Maps is Kind of Good now
on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @03:52PM (#31331811)
what map applications work best in your non-anglophone region of interest?
Re:The day I discovered that Apple Maps is Kind of Good now
on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @03:50PM (#31331781)
Apple maps also does this
Re:It took me 10 years to understand entropy
on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @11:32PM (#31188456)
"well, I never!"
—the Grand canonical ensemble