It’s a short story and you can find it online.

Star Maker, by Olaf Stapledon

Star, Bright, by Mark Clifton

The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester

Stark Raving Dad (Simpsons episode)

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For tech jobs, news.ycombinator.com still has its monthly “who is hiring” thread, though it’s mostly AI jobs now.

I heard about a new anagram for “Banach-Tarski”. It’s “Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski”.

Alessandro Volta, André-Marie Ampère, and Georg Ohm are in a car…

Why are singers at the Sydney Opera House so good at calculus? All that practise at arias under the curve!

Main alternative to Amazon that I’ve found is Ebay. Physical retail is fine for regular household stuff but if you need a weird or specialized item, you can’t buy it in person any more. You’re stuck with online. Like I needed some clear heat-shrink tubing recently, and it’s impossible to find retail as far as I can tell. I guess digi-key has it but I was able to find it way more affordably on ebay when shipping is considered. I need an inner tube for my bike in an apparently unusual size and it’s the same thing, have to order it. Bah.

They’re good for your heart.

What happened to Canada?

Leonard Susskind, on seeing yet another one of Einstein’s predictions confirmed in an astronomy experiment: “They didn’t call him Einstein for nothing!”.

Wonder if they can trigger cosmic inflation in their lab.

Best tech gadget ever made:

https://superdanny.net/collections/power-strip/products/superdanny-power-strip-surge-protector

22 outlet power strip so you can finally stop running out of outlets. $30 but there’s a discount code, check Newegg etc.

Ohhh thanks I know what fan they came from. Also thanks above for the answers about the printer cartridge covers.

YouTube is about the video library, not the software. Tons of music industry licenses, copyright and abuse takedown system, etc. It needs tons of people and money, not just software and servers. I’d call it a bad example even. We do need open frontier level AI models. Ok, maybe we need them like a hole in the head, but that’s still a need lol.

1950s were before my time but later in the same century, FM radio was what we had instead of internet music and streaming. You could call radio stations and request particular songs, or sometimes they would announce that they would play some new album nonstop starting at 7pm, so you would be ready with your cassette deck. Or in general, they’d just play music all day, so you’d always have something to listen to. That’s sort of what people do now anyway, except it’s whatever the youtube algorithm is promoting instead of what the record labels were paying the radio stations to play. TV was never a 24/7 music medium like that. I guess MTV was a thing for a while but that was still different.

AM radio on the other hand was mostly for news and sports updates, particularly in cars. So the most valuable advertising slots were during “drive time”, i.e. commute hours.

The glue gun is fairly low powered, unlike a heat gun, so it sounded like a good idea at first. I did want to use it portably like to fix something in my car. I realized afterwards that a corded one can easily be powered by an inverter. You can even get small inverters powered by tool batteries.

General rule is if something in your house breaks and it’s cheaper to buy the tool to fix it than to call a repair person, then buy the tool and fix it yourself. So you do some work but get a tool out of the deal. After a while you have enough tools to fix typical problems.

My other big epiphany is avoid cordless tools except for a few that get used a lot, like a cordless drill/driver. I use a corded handheld vacuum instead of a cordless one and it’s cheaper, way more powerful, doesn’t need constant recharging, just better all around. Obviously this isn’t a hard rule but consider corded when you can. Remember you can use a portable inverter or similar for lots of this stuff. Like I bought a cordless glue gun early on, a popular tool, but it was a dumb purchase in retrospect. Corded would have been fine.

That’s called a refactoring tool and they exist but tend to be language specific. You should probably ask on a programming community rather than the general purpose asklemmy.

Star Trek II, Spock dies at the end. Oh oops they resurrect him in Star Trek III. Hmm.

How about Thelma and Louise? IDK if there is a sequel.

Dr. Strangelove, the Slim Pickens scene at the end? No idea whether he got brought back either.

Quite a lot of EU and UK politicans expect the Russia-Ukraine military confict to spread into Europe, and many even seem to want that. So they want people to prepare for disruption from stuff like drone attacks. Why is this happening? IDK, you’ll have to use your own wisdom to figure out what is going on.