beautiful_boater

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Wow, 14/24 that was more difficult than I thought. TBF I haven't fully reread the Silmarillion since Middle School, but I didn't expect it to be quite this hard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

sci-hub has already been mentioned, but I will say that though it is not piracy, depending on the field, you can find free version "pre-prints" of papers on arxiv.org and socarxiv.org

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know, there is an obvious solution...JUST MAKE CLEAN ENERGY AND GREEN SOLUTIONS IN YOUR COUNTRY TOO!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sorry to nerd out, but this reminds me of a senior grad student when I was a first year physics grad student. He was talking about the "order of magnitude" class that some professor was able to set up as a fun class for fulfilling his teaching requirements. It involved calculating or estimating order of magnitude values and putting them in units of something you can relate to (e.g. distance in terms of football fields, or your height, energy in an hour of air conditioning, etc.). In the spirit of this class, this guy used his dick for length and then came up with some other size unit to convert to for homework he had to hand in. The diameter of the Milky Way galaxy is 5 * 10^19 of this guy's "dick units", apparently.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is there something I am missing? I am using uBlock Origin on Firefox and Youtube works the same as always.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I should have been more specific. Yes, it is a wrapper around a closed source blob.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Well, TBF there is a lot of avenues to get locked into legacy software in python. I am still modifying and using Python2 code because the drivers and libraries for hardware are only available in python2 and the hardware developers wont spend the money and time to create Python3 libraries. So I am stuck using an airbridged, un-updated python2 environment until it gets to the point of updating/backwards engineering python3 drivers and libraries for all our hardware ourselves.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Gotta show off that calf striation.