Shlarmle - To lie constantly from a position of power.

Shlarmled - The people who the Shlarmler wants to be believed by.

None. I open what I need and then close it after I’ve used it. I feel like I’m the weird one because so many people seem to live with countless tabs open all the time. I think people who keep tabs open have no sympathy for power, cpu, and ram usage. Nutters.

The “Mostly” thing is the most famous quote from Aliens.

The movie quote for “its a dry heat” is from Aliens but I think it is a common phrase used in places like Arizona.

I probably didn’t pick the most well known ones, but watch the film (which is always worth doing) and you’ll see.

“Get away from her you bi tch”

Fuckin’ aye

Aliens

There is literally no competition. Every scene has at least 1 classic line. Aliens is also the gold standard reference used by all action movies since.

It’s a dry heat

Nuke it from orbit

There goes our salvage guys

You got the duty, open that bag

Mostly

I just described a cog as a circle with teeth and my son thought it was funny to call the sticky out bits as teeth.

I’m just hoping he doesn’t ask about crenellations next.

For me the EU should make all hardware manufacturers provide open source drivers with the full range of configuration options available. This is one of the biggest hurdles to moving away from Windows.

I’m waiting for the day when these enhanced terminals go full GUI and mouse driven.

Watching the trailer video 10 times in a row is also slightly insane, but is free at least.

Another version I’ve heard is “When you suspect a conspiracy you often only find incompetence”

We call those Clag nuts or Dangle berries.

Only boring people get bored.

Utter nonsense but it was said to my boy by a junior school teacher. Was an interesting conversation when I talked to her at parent teacher day.

There is a Segway between boomer and Gen X but every generation has an overlap. I’m a Gen X. It is a small generation that lived through the creation of the internet society. We were also responsible for 90s independent music labels and the production of the greatest music since the 60s (you are welcome btw). Boomers are post war nationalists that stopped learning anything new after their 18th birthday.

My point is, the zero point has to be so small it becomes subject to the uncertainty principle, which is not a Newtonian law. So while the maths might resolve to the unexpected excitation event it doesn’t make sense in reality because we don’t apply Newton’s laws at the tiny point sizes needed here?

When you plug crazy small numbers into Newton’s laws don’t the answers stop making sense, so you have to use Einstein rather than Newton’s physics?

So frequently, philosophy forces us to think about wonderful ideas that lead us to amazing realisations, but so often those same ideas breakdown when applied to reality. This is where physics steps in.

As a total amateur my instinctive response to the “unexpected” result is to validate that apply Newtonian physic is appropriate, and if not, we should look for an explanation at a level where the unexpected phenomenon becomes possible, aka non-Newtonian physics. We know that Newtonian physics works fine until we try to explain things at the atomic or subatomic level, or under extreme gravity, or close to the speed of light. Why not the same at extremely small points on a dome?

The dome used is the same shape as the graph she showed. The closer to zero you get on the graph the more vertical the line “looks”, but with enough resolution in the data it becomes clear line is never vertical except at the starting position of zero. When you make a dome based on the same curve the zero point is so small that it falls into the realm of non-Newtonian physics where you run into uncertainty. I can’t do the maths myself but I’m going to guess the zero point needs to be subatomic in size for the “unexpected” excitation event to have an impact. If true, and the zero point is too large, the ball is going to remain stationary until an explainable force acts on it.

I’m guessing the ball needs to be a perfect sphere. Does the maths incorrectly neglect the ball?

Edit - I feel like I used non-Newtonian wrong when I should have used quantum or something instead. But hopefully it made sense enough to see my point.

Our inability to trust anyone foreign or unfamiliar. This legacy of our evolution used to be the safest way to live. No it just holds us all back.

Yip, or at least be heavily discounted.

I think the desktop is evolving, and may one day become effectively irrelevant, But there is still a long way to go before local compute goes away, which means a local OS is still needed.

In the server world, yes. The desktop is the place that needs to be won over.

Large office buildings have been cringe to me for a few years. And wearing suits to the office, which just look like personalised school uniforms to me.