astronomy Astronomy Astronomers discover biggest ever seen black hole jets, which blast hot plasma well beyond their own host galaxy
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    foofiepie
    6 hours ago 100%

    Ok. Permission to ask a mad question. Apologies in advance.

    If black holes ‘suck’ everything in… could there be the equivalent of the ‘other side’ of one, that’s mysteriously ejecting a tonne of plasma?

    Not saying that’s what this is, just prompted the thought.

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  • technology Technology Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years
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    foofiepie
    6 hours ago 100%

    He would force everybody to be kind to animals and each other, eat raw vegetables, spend more time in the play park and participate in bushcraft activities. He would also ban chromebooks if his opinion of the school computers is anything to go by.

    Yes I said raw vegetables. He’s a loveable anomaly.

    Edit: almost forgot. We would have to spend slightly longer than is healthy, playing Minecraft.

    How bizarre. When you edit a comment (in Voyager) it appears as a reply. Sorry for the spam.

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  • technology Technology Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years
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    foofiepie
    6 hours ago 100%

    He would force everybody to be kind to animals and each other, eat raw vegetables, spend more time in the play park and participate in bushcraft activities. He would also ban chromebooks if his opinion of the school computers is anything to go by.

    Yes I said raw vegetables. He’s a loveable anomaly.

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  • technology Technology Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years
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    foofiepie
    7 hours ago 98%

    These marketing types shouldn’t be allowed to call anything ‘indestructible’ until they’ve given it to my kid to play with for a week.

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  • artshare Art Share🎨 "Radiant" - Linocut Print that i made inspired by Astrophysics & Sci-Fi - 70x100cm
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    mathmemes Math Memes if this post gets 81 upvotes i will post again with 3 times as many triangles
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    mathmemes Math Memes if this post gets 27 upvotes i will post again with 3 times as many triangles
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    politicalmemes Political Memes The dude recently got shot at. But the most savage memory of this campaign will be the time when Kamala went mama bear and had this orange salmon for dinner.
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    foofiepie
    1 week ago 100%

    Out of all the memery, I missed this until I read the transcript and it’s my absolute favourite.

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  • politics politics Young women are more liberal than they’ve been in decades, a Gallup analysis finds
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    asklemmy Ask Lemmy If you had to divide your life by one event, before and after, what would that event be and why?
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    foofiepie
    1 week ago 100%

    Pre brain injury, and post brain Ingush.

    But seriously. Wear a crash helmet folks. Saved my life.

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  • asklemmy Ask Lemmy What's your least favourite thing about your smartphone
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    adhd ADHD A bit fucked up, isn't it?
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    asklemmy Ask Lemmy without saying how old you are, how old are you?
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    asklemmy Ask Lemmy without saying how old you are, how old are you?
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    foofiepie
    2 weeks ago 100%

    I was going to say this.

    Instead I’ll say: 48k ZX tape noises and Ace of Aces. Betamax. Not answering the phone as we’re having dinner.

    And manic miner! Damn that game was brutal.

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  • adhd ADHD A bit fucked up, isn't it?
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    foofiepie
    2 weeks ago 100%

    I heard (but haven’t actually checked because squirrel) GCHQ in the UK were actively recruiting ND people.

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    foofiepie
    2 weeks ago 100%

    Is that a quote or did you think of that. If it was you, then if you’re not already writing prose, you bloody well should be.

    He might also like some peanuts. Ours do.

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  • technology Technology How Russia is Influencing US Citizens on Social Media. Russian Intelligence Document "Guerrilla Media Campaign in the US" [Translated] Page 3
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    bertstrips bertstrips It's finally time for Bert
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    foofiepie
    2 weeks ago 100%

    It’s a big building where they treat sick people - but that’s not important right now.

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  • world World News Taliban bans the sound of women’s voices singing or reading in public
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    technology Technology Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10
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    foofiepie
    4 weeks ago 83%

    Thoroughly enjoyed this post thanks. I have long wished for a FOSS OS that can truly become popular by considering these users and carving a mainstream path for them. Even - for people who don’t even know what terminal/shell is and don’t care.

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  • memes Memes Anti-Hero
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    foofiepie
    4 weeks ago 100%

    She cancelled some concerts in Vienna recently following arrests and intel about ‘ISIS inspired’ threats.

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  • world World News Poorly trained recruits contribute to loss of Ukrainian territory on eastern front, commanders say
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    foofiepie
    4 weeks ago 100%

    I agree with you but UKR may not have the luxury of triaging a bunch of people into non combat roles, and with regard to reaction under fire, I don’t think anyone really knows how they’re going to react in that situation until they’re in it. Even volunteers.

    I’m not and never have been military, just my £0.02.

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  • askmeanything Ask Me Anything I (16F) am a Russian refugee, ask me anything
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    foofiepie
    1 month ago 100%

    What (just from your own opinion) percentage split of regular Russian people are for/neutral/against the war? Do you even speak about it privately or is it too dangerous.

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  • funny Funny: Home of the Haha Rainbolt is unbeatable
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    foofiepie
    1 month ago 100%

    Worse if it’s the St George Cross imo. I’ve never understood the “away with immigrants” argument from a nation of immigrants. Do they think life evolved in the UK?

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  • dailygames dailygames Connections #428 2024-08-12
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    foofiepie
    1 month ago 100%

    Connections Puzzle #428 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩

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  • technology Technology Parody site ClownStrike refused to bow to CrowdStrike’s bogus DMCA takedown
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    greentext > Greentext Anon prefers Frameworks over Thinkpads
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    foofiepie
    2 months ago 100%

    Futureproofing it for the next N years? Playing some mad games? Honestly no idea I just thought to take the current top tier benchmark and one-up it.

    Edit: on reflection I generally max out my MBPs out of habit to get the longest shelf life possible. Perhaps it’s just habit.

    Edit2: if it helps I tend to get a new laptop every 5/6 years. The aim here would be to happily bespoke the hell out of a system and get more than 6 years out of it.

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    foofiepie
    2 months ago 96%

    Ok fuck it.

    Tell me why i shouldn’t go for this as my next daily driver after one MBP after another for over 15 yrs. I’m serious.

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  • technology Technology Intel's stock drops 30% overnight —company sheds $39 billion in market cap | As of now, Intel's market value is a fraction of Nvidia's worth and less than half of AMD's
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    world World News A Two-Pound Ukrainian Drone Just Shot Down A 12-Ton Russian Helicopter
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    foofiepie
    2 months ago 100%

    I have my client (voyager) set to default to reader mode, so I didn’t even see any cookie options. Does this mean I accepted them all or none or what?!

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    Books foofiepie 6 months ago 98%
    Can you recommend a book for me please?

    I’ve basically been ordered to pick up any fiction book and read, after a friend discovered I’ve not read anything but non-fiction for a decade. The ones I’ve enjoyed in the past have been short, fantastical or sci-fi (think Aldous Huxley, Ian McEwan), but crucially with amazing first person descriptive prose - the kind where you’re immersed in the writing so much you’re almost there with the character. I liked sci-fi as the world’s constraints weren’t always predictable. Hope that makes sense. Any recommendations? Edit: I’m going to up the ante and, as a way of motivating myself to get off my arse and actually read a proper story, promise to choose a book from the top comment, after, let’s say arbitrarily, Friday 2200 GMT. Edit deux: Wow ok I don’t think I’ve ever had this many responses to anything I’ve posted before. You’ve given me what looks like a whole year of interesting suggestions, and importantly, good commentary around them. I’m honouring my promise to buy the top thing in just under 4 hours.

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    Programming foofiepie 6 months ago 97%
    Update: Advice re son learning to program.

    Hi all, A fair while ago I asked the community here advice as my 8yo lad wanted to experiment with programming: [Old Post](https://lemmy.world/post/6087801). Thanks so much for all the words of wisdom - there’s still stuff we can explore in the replies. Thought I’d just give a little update. So I installed dual boot Linux Mint / OSX on an old intel MacBook Air (dual boot in case his homework/school stuff needs it, but he hasn’t used OSX much!). It was _much_ easier than I thought it’d be. Perhaps it’s just the hardware/OS choice, but I don’t consider myself to be ‘properly’ technical and it was a breeze. Perhaps the only difficult part was creating a bootable OSX restore disk just in case I destroyed the OS… it’s almost like Mac really don’t want you to be doing this. He’s working his way through foundational courses on programming, in codeacademy, and using scratch as usual. So far, so good. Is there an IDE you’d recommend that has some element of a tutorial to it?

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    Today's (UK) EDC

    iPhone 12 Mini; Wallet with Swisscard (probably my most-used thing), Sparrows Door tool, key, cash; Car fob; Olight 1R2 Pro; Compass; 6-in-1 adaptor. Watch not pictured (automatic).

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    Programming foofiepie 12 months ago 98%
    Advice needed, son wants to learn how to program

    Hi all, My 8 year old is asking if he can learn how to program. He has asked specifically if I could set him up with a ‘programming kit with lessons’ for a Christmas present. I’d like to support this, and it seems like it’s not a transient interest as he’s been all over scratch, and using things like minecraft commands for the last year. I have an old (pre 2017) MacBook Air I can set up for this. How do I / what would you advise I set up for him, to a) keep him safe online (he’s 8!) and b) give him the tools he needs in a structured way. I am not a programmer. I know enough bash/shell and basic unix stuff to be dangerous and I was a front end dev a very long time ago, but I wouldn’t call myself a programmer and don’t know what concepts he needs to learn first. Hugely appreciate any advice, thanks. Edit: So I posted this then had a busy family day and came back to so many comments! I will methodically go through these all, thanks so much. A couple of things on resources: he has expressed interest in 3D worlds and I noticed comments on engines, but wonder if that’s too advanced? Totally agree with the short feedback loop rather than projects that take days. He has an iPad 6 and I’m happy to pop a Linux distro on the Air, so certainly open to that. So many links to research. Hugely grateful.

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    Skates foofiepie 1 year ago 100%
    Advice for an old timer please

    Hi! So, I used to play hockey at school/uni, mostly on ‘banana’ rockered freestyle inlines. Now I’m somewhat older - it’s been a while since I’ve been on blades, but I’ve regularly skated on ice, I would say I’m intermediate but more used to ice than tarmac. My son is getting into in-line skating and I’d like to put on some wheels again so we can knock a puck about. What would be a good (but not bank breaking) skate for me? I’d like a hockey stance but I’m thinking I might need something I can rocker (or just buy different wheel sizes I guess?). Any suggestions hugely appreciated.

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    English usage and grammar foofiepie 1 year ago 90%
    Have got vs Have

    Hi folks. Can I ask: Is it better to say “We’ve got to get going” or “ We have to get going”? I hear the former in conversation and it slightly irks me. I think it’s because of the redundancy (?) in the sentence. Which is better, grammatically? The latter feels cleaner. Am I wrong?

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