While I think it's amazing that not only are 95% of Linux users 56 years of age, but they even share the same birth date!

We have nearly all electric buses here in Oslo now, and whenever I wind up on a diesel bus I think I'm going to get hearing damage

Electric buses are far from silent, but WOW the amount of noise and stink we've just been tolerating with fossil fuels is insane. Even absent climate change, that'd be worth switching to electric vehicles.

I've been using fish (with starship for prompt) for like a year I think, after having had a self-built zsh setup for … I don't know how long.

I'm capable of using awk but in a very simple way; I generally prefer being able to use jq. IMO both awk and perl are sort of remnants of the age before JSON became the standard text-based structured data format. We used to have to write a lot of dinky little regex-based parsers in Perl to extract data. These days we likely get JSON and can operate on actual data structures.

I tried nu very briefly but I'm just too used to POSIX-ish shells to bother switching to another model. For scripting I'll use #!/bin/bash with set -eou pipefail but very quickly switch to Python if it looks like it's going to have any sort of serious logic.

My impression is that there's likely more of us that'd like a less wibbly-wobbly, better shell language for scripting purposes, but that efforts into designing such a language very quickly goes in the direction of nu and oil and whatnot.

People with aphantasia: You have no power here!

A wave with an infinitely long period isn't really recognizable as a wave. It'd just be interpreted as a flat line anywhere in the universe. And as mentioned, the energy of light is tied to its frequency: E = hf. (Or with hbar • omega, but that's just multiplied with and divided by 2π, so, the same thing.)

So an infinitely long wave would have f=0 and thus no energy.

The highest frequency you'd get would be 1/planck-time, so the energy would be the Planck constant divided by Planck time, which would be roughly 12.3 GJ. That's a lot of energy for just one photon, but if it's just the one, likely not world-ending.

That's how it starts. Just let it develop for a century or something and you'll probably be decent at it

Ah yes, traditional urban cores, historically entirely without any good food options, either delivered, on the go, or even sit-down at odd hours

Yep. The colour theory stuff in there makes MBTI and horoscopes look detailed and well-documented in comparison

The price stuff can change through taxation that makes new plastic more expensive than recycled plastic.

As we all know, taxation is super popular and has never been controversial, ever.

At the very least flaskepant has worked great for like a century here in Norway. Always kind of surprising when other countries don't have it.

Where's the Orphan Crushing Machine community here anyway

They're stuck in a reboot loop, but not bricked. A factory reset works (but the problem may reappear on update).

Translating a comment by a Norwegian author:

as someone who once put in a lot of effort to excuse the far right etc when they maybe cross the line a little bit but probably don't really mean it so let's all calm down a bit, I've learned one thing:

the only reward you get for doing this is that they the next day bombastically step over that same line to show that they don't feel bound by your wimpy sense of decency

because the fight is against what they perceive as a wimpy, castrated centrist decency is one of the central driving forces in such groups

More people who have tried to explain away the nazi salute could probably stand to learn the same lesson ASAP. The only thing they're really communicating is that the rich & powerful can do what they want and the excusers will stay their loyal lapdogs.