Posts by CliftonR@wandering.shop
(DIR) Post #ArDtAj9lbB8RiVGJSy by CliftonR@wandering.shop
2025-02-17T22:12:56Z
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@foone My brain went into an infinite loop at the measurement 5'12" and it took some effort to reboot it.It just did it again, typing the above.I suppose one could perfectly well go with 4'24", 7'(-12)" or various equivalences as well.
(DIR) Post #AsEqeomY9bmKf3L6Z6 by CliftonR@wandering.shop
2025-03-16T08:04:17Z
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"Over 50 years ago, NASA was able to get its Saturn V, a rocket nearly as large as Starship, to fly without ever having a failed launch over its 13-launch, six-year operational lifespan. This was a rocket designed with computers less powerful than a Casio watch, built with far less accurate techniques and materials, with check systems and procedures infinitely less sophisticated than anything today. Yet, engineers were able to ensure it never had a launch failure [...]"https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/spacex-has-finally-figured-out-why
(DIR) Post #AsKDNJ7TtFjoH7Y5B2 by CliftonR@wandering.shop
2025-03-22T21:20:06Z
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@futurebird @wdlindsy "It's one banana, Michael, how much could it cost?
(DIR) Post #Axwq9DPUueNDXWbsNU by CliftonR@wandering.shop
2025-09-07T01:38:20Z
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@stevegis_ssg @futurebird @claralistensprechen5th It never made it here, so good on our admins for aggressively blocking!But also, @futurebird you are a total treasure and a gift to the world and I admire you immensely for your creativity, intelligence, and generosity with your time and attention.I hope that pushes the balance a little more to the positive side.
(DIR) Post #Ay72PYnoHqRtYB8pma by CliftonR@wandering.shop
2025-09-11T23:57:06Z
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@futurebird This makes me very happy. You are holding the world together, one class of fifth graders at a time.
(DIR) Post #Ay73OuZTxtG4jJh6Zs by CliftonR@wandering.shop
2025-09-12T00:09:25Z
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@foone 2x10 pin male header for (probably) ribbon cable? Might that be a JTAG header?It’s what I commonly see for JTAG, and the first example shown here:https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/technical-articles/jtag-connectors-and-interfaces/
(DIR) Post #AyFyOoZkFwcsfjE3c0 by CliftonR@wandering.shop
2025-09-16T07:26:13Z
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@ricci Yep, I created one, for the fictional 'X Industries'.
(DIR) Post #Aye8rhwXr85jazBsA4 by CliftonR@wandering.shop
2025-09-27T23:05:34Z
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A photo from the frontlines in Christmas’s brutal flanking invasion of Halloween. This year it’s a surprise attack on Halloween’s furthest territorial border.(It’s still September for a few more days; we haven’t even reached October yet.) #WarOnChristmas
(DIR) Post #Ayij4DcSHjlaIHtkye by CliftonR@wandering.shop
2025-09-30T04:21:03Z
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@ricci Therefore by induction there are at least Aleph-null websites.That's just basic math.
(DIR) Post #Ayr0urzUgMrT322tNY by CliftonR@wandering.shop
2025-10-04T04:18:09Z
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@foone They should bring back defragmenters. They were so soothing, when they weren't maddening.
(DIR) Post #AzbytqmCjxzgdxUDGC by CliftonR@wandering.shop
2025-10-26T20:07:31Z
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@futurebird A long time ago, a friendly online acquaintance was browbeating himself about not having a lover or enough friends. I replied among other things, "Alone is not the same as lonely" and then largely forgot about the conversation.Around 5 years later, he messaged me to say that sentence had completely changed his life for the better. I was astounded. I'd just happened to tell him that at the right time for him.I hope yours also reaches someone who is at the right time to hear it.
(DIR) Post #B05PZLnosfEWsu6fFg by CliftonR@wandering.shop
2025-11-09T23:58:59Z
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@ricci WOW!
(DIR) Post #B05es8Dx5WKPaOk8no by CliftonR@wandering.shop
2025-11-09T19:10:05Z
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@futurebird Truly a dreadful punishment!But no more than she deserves.Pica is thinking "No, not a baby! I'm a big evil killing machine! How can she do this to me?"
(DIR) Post #B05vTEtAryWSEojzGq by CliftonR@wandering.shop
2025-11-09T09:03:06Z
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@futurebird Cue the Tom Petty,"She's a good cat, loves being petted,Loves kibble, and scritches too.She's a good cat, crazy 'bout catnip,Now she's sad cat, 'cause she's never been petted, She's hungry, 'cause they're starving her too.Now she's cat... caterwaulin'![She's a cat, she's caterwauling.]Now she's caaatt... caterwaulin'![She's a cat, she's caterwauling.]"(to be continued sometime maybe.)
(DIR) Post #B0QuHEgUDAHzPIppfU by CliftonR@wandering.shop
2025-11-20T09:15:09Z
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@0xabad1dea I've observed in recent years that most cashiers in the US nowadays can not make change for a cash payment without the register telling them how much it is. They're completely lost.As all cashiers were formerly expected to do this in their heads, almost immediately, and I used to work a register sometimes in my teens, this drives me bonkers.
(DIR) Post #B0WKbfv8E6RcGjtLhg by CliftonR@wandering.shop
2025-11-23T00:34:36Z
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@futurebird I'd never really thought about it, but considering all the bookshelves and the improvised desk, and DIY stuff we assembled, it's probably about 1/4 "made ourselves." (My wife made more of it than I did, so she should have the bragging rights.)For the rest, it's more bought new, but probably a good 1/3 used.
(DIR) Post #B1codmzqecNWj9vi2i by CliftonR@wandering.shop
2025-12-26T00:26:42Z
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Question for my Linuxheads (1 of N):For VMs on Linux, if I want to use an existing physical drive with OS installed and run it as a guest VM, like I used to be able to do in VMWare years ago, how do I go about doing this?When I look at virtmanager, for example, it seems to assume that I'm creating all VM drive images as files within an existing efs partition. At least currently, on the way towards fully switching over, I want to try booting my existing Windows drive as the guest OS. +
(DIR) Post #B1codpiaXFM3AUsT3Y by CliftonR@wandering.shop
2025-12-26T00:52:26Z
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@grumpybozo Thank you! That gives me a much better idea what magic phrase to look for.And yes, KVM/libvirt and qemu are definitely what's behind virtmanager or it seems nearly anything VM-ish on Linux.
(DIR) Post #B1cods4zkuSyUZNOG8 by CliftonR@wandering.shop
2025-12-26T00:31:00Z
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At this stage, I don't know enough to know whether* I'm using the right tool but not finding the right options, or* I'm using the wrong tool for the job, or * there are specific technical reasons I'm taking the wrong approach, or* I'm asking the wrong questions, or* whether the Linux answer is "you shouldn't be doing that entirely because it's Bad and Icky."(Hopefully the community has grown beyond the last answer but you never know.)
(DIR) Post #B2MbeaoXkaAs9dARjk by CliftonR@wandering.shop
2026-01-17T03:42:42Z
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@futurebird For time travelers who were alive in the 1950s-1960s:Traces of zirconium-90 in the teeth and bones - looks like that would be the end of the strontium-90 decay products.There are plenty of other radioactive isotopes, of course, but strontium is special because biological processes react with it like calcium, meaning it rapidly gets incorporated into bones and teeth.