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[–] [email protected] 2 points 26 minutes ago

The answer is always the egg.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago

Me with Bionicle: The Game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yes, and that would've been a far more reasonable answer than what he gave. If he had just said "I think spaceships are cool and would like to hang out with the crew of a cool spaceship", Kirk wouldn't have been able to really make an argument. It's an illogical answer, sure... But not a wrong one.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If the last season of Picard is terrific, then Star Trek Nemesis is peak cinema.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

True, but I was thinking there might be a smaller, incremental improvement in lithium ion batteries each year. Am I wrong about that? Are we going nowhere with lithium anymore?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Interesting. Something to look forward to in the future.

Now I'm also hoping for a more power dense battery.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, but on Dutch that's pronounced exactly like elephant:

"Olifant", which I just learned is also the name of a certain kind of instrument.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

No, let's not degrade language like that.

And "eliminated at all costs"? Sounds exactly the kind of thinking that leads to getting shut out and cut ties. Good riddance.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (6 children)

"Russian" is not a race. And Finland has a history with Russia that isn't easily forgotten. That is to say, every Finn I've spoken to hates Russia for invading Finland... Twice...

Finland isn't even the only neighbour that hates Russia. At some point one has to wonder why so many of Russia's neighbours hate, or at the very least don't feel comfortable with, Russia.

Maybe, just maybe, the reason why everyone is having issues with Russia is Russia's own damn fault.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

But we don't have the technology yet where a humanoid robot can do humanoid things better than a human.

What you see isn't an end product. It's a research prototype, one of many in a long line of future models that are on the path to making a humanoid robot possible.

[–] [email protected] 103 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The Catholic Church has a new mascot.

It's a small child.

 

First a definition for this question, because there are many kinds of sci-fi out there and they sometimes liberally use cool sounding words without explaining them:

A disruptor is a kind of weapon that weakens, or "disrupts", either material bonds (breaking a material into molecules), molecular bonds (breaking a molecule into atoms), or atomic bonds (breaking an atomic nucleus into protons, netrons, and free electrons. Almost like instantly turning into plasma).

Temperature can do these things, but the idea behind a disruptor, specifically, is that it happens through some kind of catalyst, rather than brute-forcing with insane amounts of heat.

Would such a weapon physically be possible (even if we don't know how to make them just yet)?

How would a target realistically behave when hit by a disruptor?

 

So, I have a Steelseries M800 keyboard and a Corsair mouse. Unfortunately neither of them are supported by Open RGB, and so I'm stuck with my RGB making rainbows.

Well, sort of. My keyboard still has the configuration it had from when I still used Windows over 2 years ago. But my mouse does not.

I use an XP Pen tablet for making art, and the official driver from XP Pen doesn't come with any options to adjust and calibrate the screen's colours, but I managed to figure out how to access these hardware settings through command line. Now this has me wondering if it's possible to do the same for my keyboard and mouse.

 

I have a 2nd generation XP Pen Artist 13. It's a great tablet and I've managed to make it work with my Steam Deck too.

But...

It's basically an external monitor with pressure sensitive surface, so still less portable than an actual stand alone table. So I'm wondering if there is a tablet with a pressure sensitive screen and battery free pen that either comes with Linux or can install Linux on.

The programs I use for making art are Krita, Gimp, and Blender 3D.

 

There are many other bee species that can sting Humans and survive, but the European honeybee has a barbed stinger, so it cannot remove the stinger once it's stung. In attempting to remove the stinger the bee will rupture its lower abdomen and then die.

Why? What is the evolutionary advantage to that?

 

I apologize if this video has already been posted here. I did a rudimentary look through the posts of the past few days and couldn't see it.

 

Recently discovered The Art of Noise by looking up Max Headroom. Found a bunch of tracks I like that fit well with my already existing Spotify playlists.

However, I want to find more music like three of the dance tracks on the album Dreaming. specifically like the tracks "Colour Red", "Colour Maroon", and "Colour White".

Any recommended tracks/albums/artists?

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I want to get back into reading, so I'm thinking of getting a Paperwhite. But I have no idea if it's possible to transfer files to it from a computer, and I have no experience with pirating books.

Do I go to the same places I torrent movies and games or are there special places dedicated to E-Books?

EDIT: So many awesome answers on here! You guys have been very helpful. Thanks a lot!

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