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really recommend getting a partner with a different religion than you and very little knowledge of your religion because the opportunities for explaining things to each other are just exquisite

#me (catholic) at my husband (methodist) #neither of us practice anymore #but that catholic vs protestant shit gets funny really fast

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I never add to people's posts, but this is blowing up at my workplace (I work with lots of astronomers). They didn't just move the code. They split it out between different places because there wasn't a single chip on board that was big enough to hold the entire thing.

And in splitting it out, they had to make sure all these pieces of broken out code could still talk to each other.

And this all happened where it takes 22.5 hours to send a message, and another 22.5 hours to get one back. This shit is amazing. Be amazed.

Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

#voyager #astronomers do some wild shit

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Comic strip artists from the 40’s draw their characters while blindfolded

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hmmm why does my uterus hurt and why do i feel kinda off. weird. surely these are not the warning symptoms of a predictable biological process that occurs on a regular schedule. anyway. im going to wear white pants today.

#this is me #my excuse is that i didnt have pne for like six years and then the last covid booster fuckin brought it back

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this Conversation pit is ruining my life

#a conversation pit for your efficiency apartment

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In honour of its 10 year anniversary I want to show you guys my favourite Twilight shitpost image that my laptop says I saved to my hard drive in January of 2010

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Nihonbashi - Tokyo, Japan

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cd has a hole. record has a hole. casette has 2 holes. streaming? zero holes. i think i’ve made my point

#matt #mail jeevas #he says shit like this with a straight face

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sunrise before the expedition

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Attack on titan Final Season Settei

#eremin #<3

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I’m just gonna…. leave this here….

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Blade Runner (1982)

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for every butch lesbian running a mcdonald’s like it’s the navy there’s ten 19th century sea captains exploring the arctic running the navy like it’s mcdonald’s

#*snort*

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the best trope in media is: “characters turn on the lights, see the monster, and immediately turn the lights back off”

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Imperial passport of Kublai Khan “I am the emissary of the Khan. If you defy me, you die.” 1240 A.D. [886x960]

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Horniness is not intrinsically less pure than any other human motivation

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#always reblog