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  1. @joel @pzmyers

    I will probably read the novel some day. Scifi is virtually always better in written form; there's just so much you have to leave out to fit a story into a 2-hour movie. I think that's why many of the best scifi movies are based on short stories or perhaps novellas, rather than full-length novels.

    On the subject of nitpicking: if the spaceship has magical engines to get it to near lightspeed, why would the crew have to travel in suspended animation/induced coma state? Time dilation would mean the trip was subjectively short, maybe just days or even hours, for everyone on board. Obviously I haven't seen it yet, so maybe that's addressed.

    #nit #pick #nitpicking

  2. A quotation from Emerson

    A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
    Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2

    More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ralphwaldoemerson #littleminds #clergy #consistency #details #focus #inconsistency #littlepeople #littlethings #nitpicking #obsession #organization #particular #pedantry #philosopher #politician #trivialities

  3. A quotation from Emerson

    A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
    Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2

    More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ralphwaldoemerson #littleminds #clergy #consistency #details #focus #inconsistency #littlepeople #littlethings #nitpicking #obsession #organization #particular #pedantry #philosopher #politician #trivialities

  4. A quotation from Emerson

    A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
    Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2

    More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ralphwaldoemerson #littleminds #clergy #consistency #details #focus #inconsistency #littlepeople #littlethings #nitpicking #obsession #organization #particular #pedantry #philosopher #politician #trivialities

  5. A quotation from Emerson

    A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
    Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2

    More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ralphwaldoemerson #littleminds #clergy #consistency #details #focus #inconsistency #littlepeople #littlethings #nitpicking #obsession #organization #particular #pedantry #philosopher #politician #trivialities

  6. I can not see the font issue? Don't have X11 installed to compare. As someone who went Wayland years ago this seems a bit silly to complain about

    dedoimedo.com/computers/plasma

    #64

  7. Taking a break to watch The Rings of Power. Watching mithril get melted down in a crucible and am surprised it takes such a low heat to do so. Those are yellow flames, and not all that hot. A propane torch is hotter than that. Must be magic fire.

    (I used to study goldsmithing and silversmithing a couple decades ago.)
    #jewellery #nitpicking #smithing #goldsmithing #metal #TheRingsOfPower

  8. Taking a break to watch The Rings of Power. Watching mithril get melted down in a crucible and am surprised it takes such a low heat to do so. Those are yellow flames, and not all that hot. A propane torch is hotter than that. Must be magic fire.

    (I used to study goldsmithing and silversmithing a couple decades ago.)
    #jewellery #nitpicking #smithing #goldsmithing #metal #TheRingsOfPower

  9. Taking a break to watch The Rings of Power. Watching mithril get melted down in a crucible and am surprised it takes such a low heat to do so. Those are yellow flames, and not all that hot. A propane torch is hotter than that. Must be magic fire.

    (I used to study goldsmithing and silversmithing a couple decades ago.)
    #jewellery #nitpicking #smithing #goldsmithing #metal #TheRingsOfPower

  10. Taking a break to watch The Rings of Power. Watching mithril get melted down in a crucible and am surprised it takes such a low heat to do so. Those are yellow flames, and not all that hot. A propane torch is hotter than that. Must be magic fire.

    (I used to study goldsmithing and silversmithing a couple decades ago.)
    #jewellery #nitpicking #smithing #goldsmithing #metal #TheRingsOfPower

  11. Taking a break to watch The Rings of Power. Watching mithril get melted down in a crucible and am surprised it takes such a low heat to do so. Those are yellow flames, and not all that hot. A propane torch is hotter than that. Must be magic fire.

    (I used to study goldsmithing and silversmithing a couple decades ago.)
    #jewellery #nitpicking #smithing #goldsmithing #metal #TheRingsOfPower

  12. The feeling when 87.5% of the discussion under your contribution is about : unreliable CI and insignificant .

    Congrats, the project has created a barrier to entry for anyone who hasn't been into it for years already.

    Hint: give everyone a freaking that satisfies your needs and let us move on to actual work, without having to redo the same stuff 8 times. Sheesh.

  13. Trying not to be hypercritical, but just watched S27E3-4 of Silent Witness, and Timetabling would burn us as witches if we tried to schedule such a small class in a huge lecture theatre. #Nitpicking #SilentWitness

  14. @aka_pugs P.S. 2000 cards * 80 bytes = 160K
    Only undergrads used all 80 columns for data. Grad students used 72 for data and reserved the last 8 columns for sequence numbers. If you dropped the box or deck, you could run the cards thru the sorter to retrieve the ordered deck. Thus
    2000 * 72 chars = about 140K.
    #nerd #nitpicking #EBCDIC