Nobody Cares! (Science & Tech Edition)

[Noodles]

I pretty much never use exact phrases and questions. I usually just to keywords. At best sentence fragments. Like "Population of Houston"

 

[Ashiri]

Sometimes I write something close to a sentence in those cases where just using keywords throws up irrelevant results.

off topic: Why does a comic book character have the exact name (first, middle & last) as one of my ancestors? Makes genealogy a bit trickier.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I had to check to make sure this wasn't a joke because it's hilarious

 

[Free]

Supposedly there's a developer setting in the 3XL that, among other notch tweaks, puts a notch at the bottom as well as top of the phone. (Why? Not a clue) I wonder if the bug is related to it.

 

[Ava Glasgow]

I am SO hot for all the new stuff Apple announced today!

I think I've let things go for too long, as all my stuff (phone, ipad, laptop, and desktop) are all 5-10 years out of date. The models I want all updated in the last month and of course I want at least some of the bells and whistles (better processor, more RAM, bigger drive). Plus I need to upgrade my mom's desktop and ipad too.

BRB, gotta rob a bank...

 

[danielravennest]

Osiris-REX mission now about 230 km from the 500 meter asteroid Bennu. This picture was taken a couple of days ago when it was a bit further away. Apparently trapezoidal asteroids are the in thing this season:

 

[Essence Lumin]

Oddly, a few hours later -

 

[Noodles]

> Ask a question on StackOverflow
> Get unsolicited advice unrelated to your question

Why is this a thing? I ask for suggestions on why some function or whatever isn't working right, and people all chime in like "You shouldn't be doing this other bit of code a different way".

Great, I don't care right now, or I don't care in general. I'm not building Amazon or Google here, this is some minimal use deal for a handful of people or possibly just me, and no one cares about having perfect security or perfect code efficiency in this use case. That or, I already plan to do that later, but for the sake of simplicity, I'm working with THIS code now, to eliminate possible causes of error and/or because I just have not gotten around to adding that other method yet or gotten around to trying to secure broken code.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I know when you start watching this thing, you'll have no idea what's actually going on. That's okay - just keep watching it.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Did Mythbusters get this one wrong?

Science Proves Luke Skywalker Should Have Died In The Tauntaun's Belly | io9

Brief recap: Mythbusters concluded, after testing with simulated recently-deceased tauntaun and Hoth environment, that Luke Skywalker could have survived, if just barely. Gizmodo says, not so fast.

 

[Free]

Science Proves Luke Skywalker Should Have Died In The Tauntaun's Belly | io9

Science might be true here, if the Tauntaun had actually been dead when Han sliced it open! Instead, it was in a state of abbreviated hibernation, to survive through the night. And it would have - if Han hadn't sliced it open!

(It's so easy to defeat science nerds working in regular nerd territory.)

 

[Fauve Aeon]

A Masterclass on space exploration given by Chris hadfield

''In 28+ lessons, the former commander of the International Space Station teaches you the science of space exploration and what the future holds. ''

I hate to say it but I have a subscription there and my mind immediately placed this just below Helen Mirren but just above Gordon Ramsey in my interest profile...

 

[Free]

 

[Free]

 

[Noodles]

Coding is tech right.

I just want to say I am so damn proud of myself right now.

I am working to rebuild an internal website for work from Cold Fusion to PHP.

There are a lot of aspects to this and I am not a "pro coder" by any means. But I am.basically the only person working on the thing.

Anyway, I started work on this module that manages side bar widgets because it incorporates basically every piece that will eventually be needed for every other module and damn if I didn't make it all work.

Upload and delete images.

Add new promos and delete them.

Update existing promos.

Toggle them on and off.

And it all works so nicely.

Nice slick simple menu interface to do it all.

I even properly reused some code with PHP includes.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Free]

Hey, NASA's head administrator has never been to space, so...

 

[danielravennest]

Hey, NASA's head administrator has never been to space, so...

He used to run an air and space museum, and was a Navy pilot, so he's not totally unqualified. The first "A" in NASA is "Aeronautics". But more pertinent to his job, he's a former congressman, and the main job of a NASA Administrator is to get funding from Congress.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Most importantly, the new head of Japan's cybersecurity agency has NEVER ONCE HAD A COMPUTER VIRUS OR SECURITY PROBLEM. How many people in the world can say that?

Japan's new cybersecurity motto: Just say "No" to computers.