I recommend Paul Fellows, who has a large catalog of brief astronomy lectures under his “Once Around” series.

Found the microbrain.

The dreaded Wii U Fit.

In aviation circles they always called it “standing water” here meaning “the surface is liquid not a wet solid” Airplane tires also have very simple or no tread at all, so that isn’t a factor. There’s also the fact that during the landing roll, the airplane is partially or even mostly supporting its weight on its wings still; so at any significant airspeed you don’t have 100% of the ship’s weight on the wheels.

An airplane tire will hydroplane at a speed in knots equal to nine times the square root of the tire pressure in PSI. The real trick is undoing the little cap on the tire valve and reading the tire gauge while turning left base.

It’s kind of funny looking back on albums like that, and the bonus content they would add. It was common early on to write the ToC in such a way that it skipped over a track, so Track 1 would be some ways into the disc, but there was data before “track 1” you could get to by rewinding past 0:00. Later, smarter CD players and especially computer CD-ROM drives wouldn’t do that, so that practice started decreasing. But with computers, it was already commonplace for a video game to take up a small fraction of a CD, and then fill the rest with the soundtrack as red book audio, and CD players could still play the music. So they did that for awhile.

There was a brief moment in the mid-2000s where the record labels were feeling the threat of iTunes, so they tried adding value. I have a 2005 copy of Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet which doesn’t have the Compact Disc Digital Audio mark anywhere on it, because it’s a DualDisc. It’s a CD with half a DVD on its back; so it’s slightly thicker than a standard CD and thus non-conforming to the red book standard, and . The CD side is an otherwise conforming red book audio copy of the album, but the DVD side features a very high quality stereo recording, a “made 20 years after the album was mastered so it’s slightly janky” Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound version with added length, and the four music videos they recorded for the album in glorious “80’s BetaCAM transferred to DVD” 480whatever.

Remember when companies tried to compete on benefits and features?

It is my understanding that iOS does not support Syncthing.

I installed an optical drive in my computer recently, and I was playing with my old CDs, and found that Poodle Hat has a data partition, or whatever the hell you call them on CDs. On which is a 6 minute .mov file that takes up about an 8th of the disc’s space, in which Al thanks the owner of the disc for buying the album “instead of downloading it like some HOOLIGAN!” And then proceeds to joke over some of his own home movies.

This statement is technically correct, the best kind of correct.

Largely fits stereotypes from about 15 years ago. Not the most ignorant I’ve seen.

Well like, the actual smart dimension tool was nice, thanks for finally joining us in the 21st century. An actual assembly workbench, even if it is a bit jank, we finally got that out the door. My understanding is a big reason that was able to go through was some old blood departed. And I think that’s a story that FOSS can tell over and over again, someone likes the code they wrote the way they wrote it for sentimental reasons even if it has the UX of a yeast infection.

It has been my experience that major improvements to the UX of open source projects comes when someone who has been there the whole time leaves and new blood replaces them, often someone with commercial interest. FreeCAD got a major bump when Ondsel came in, for example. Ondsel didn’t have a viable business model, “We’ll take the crappy FOSS joke CAD app and sell cloud services for it” which I really hope didn’t get them a single customer, and I’m really happy some of their money was deprived of them improving FreeCAD.

It’s open source, so the name has to be a diaper fire. It’s an acronym, it stands for Kool Desktop Environment Non LInear Video Editor.

Everyone I’ve heard pronounce it out loud says “kayden lyve.”

Yes, that’s a built-in feature called proxy video. It makes lower resolution copies of the video files, you edit with them, it’s a big load off your machine (and easier on RAM), you can render a low quality version from the proxy files for you or someone else on your team to preview for any last minute changes, then you can render out the entire thing from the original high res files.

Well we’ll sick Tantacrul on it once he’s done with Audacity, MuseScore, GIMP and FreeCAD.

Entice? I thought it was fascinate.

It’s more like the RC Cola version of iPadOS but your main idea holds up.

Can’t; I dumped Windows 8 for Linux.

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