It only happens every 400 years or so.

It’s pretty crazy to think about. The Voyager mission isn’t just a big thing for the current generations, but also for many future generations, who will not have as good an opportunity.

Although it doesn’t compare to modern systems, the computer systems on Voyager is a computer by all means. It’s even the longest running computer that ever existed, having never been shut off. It runs Fortran code.

The image data that the camera made didnn’t have to fit in the computers memory. It was written directly to tape, which was then transmitted by the computer. The resolution is 800x800 pixels with only one colour at a time. The colour images or in larger resolutions were combinations of several images. The camera has been shut off by now.

Speaking of not wanting to touch the code, it did have an issue last year, where the code seemed to have stopped or gone into a loop for unknown reasons making it inaccessible for the operators on Earth. Thankfully another part of the computer was instructed to periodically overwrite the main code, so it managed to correct the error by itself. At least that’s what I remember reading.

Det er da logisk nok. Han er så bange for at falde ud af vinduet at han ikke tør afsløre sine forbindelser til den russiske mafia. Han er jo ikke i sikkerhed bare fordi han er blevet fanget.

Well it isn’t 6.

From Wikipedia:

In 2002, lecturers and students from the University of Plymouth MediaLab Arts course used a £2,000 grant from the Arts Council to study the literary output of real monkeys. They left a computer keyboard in the enclosure of six Celebes crested macaques in Paignton Zoo in Devon, England from May 1 to June 22, with a radio link to broadcast the results on a website. Not only did the monkeys produce nothing but five total pages largely consisting of the letter “S”,the lead male began striking the keyboard with a stone, and other monkeys followed by urinating and defecating on the machine

Mike Phillips, director of the university’s Institute of Digital Arts and Technology (i-DAT), said that the artist-funded project was primarily performance art, and they had learned “an awful lot” from it. He concluded that monkeys "are not random generators. They’re more complex than that

I don’t think there are any" rant" communities?

Lemmy needs that kind of large general topic community to redirect users to smaller niches communities.

I too also wouldn’t want to mod it, but I think it’d be great for herding up angry lemmy users sharing the same frustrations, so they could be redirected or start new communities for the particular topic.

The reason is that everyone enjoy reading and writing rants about something, so the rant community will automatically grow many subscribers coming in from all kinds of searches.

For example, a user ranting about “womens pants without pockets” would get much more engagement than someone just creating and posting about a community for womens pants. The rant comment section would also already often include the potential users for a new community.

The general discussion doesn’t really cut it, because it’s too nice and polite and weird angry rants don’t really fit in there.

The thing is that (also in real life) when someone needs something bad enough, they’ll get angry, and that anger can be channeled into something useful, because they’re willing to collaborate with others who can help them or who at least supports them.

Ooh, it’s a wedge table.

Ok, then I’m doing “King of the Hola Hoop”

Also the doors. The drivers door is a “suicide door” while the passenger door is normal.

Is this their Vietnam?

There’s no exact number. The law (færdselsloven §10.5) says “nearby”.

forced into an echo chamber.

Yes, it does that.

Using YouTube on a new account or through one of the alternatives will result in a wildly different feed. I was recently shocked by seeing the default non-curated feed on YouTube.

Absolutely none of the content was interesting to me; most of it was directly anger inducing political crap or just plain brainrot. I would definitely not visit that shit page ever again if the default feed was my first impression. I don’t know if it’s supposed to be a right wing breeding ground by now, but it sure isn’t as balanced as I would have expected.

My regular YT feed is obviously much more interesting to me, and I can use it to find new content, but since I don’t want to wait for the ads, I now only watch my own subscriptions on a different frontend, which of course will create an even smaller echo chamber.

I get how a curated feed can benefit the user, but YouTube is just not making it possible. It will only show (rage) engaging content and without the dislike function, you can only decide not to watch the crap or get shown more crap until you do like it.

putting it within the context of a particular life choice adds a layer of focus to the conversation.

It won’t create a very interesting debate though, because OP already excluded most people who followed through on the opposing view in the question itself.

This extra layer of focus really functions as a filter, which can only result in a hall of mirrors.

It’s perfectly fine if OP just wanted to confirm an existing bias and need arguments for that, but it’s absolutely not a very interesting conversation.

I am going to judge people by their actions.

It should be highlighted that the tough competition from Chinese manufacturers is on the Chinese market. The increased tariffs won’t help on that. VW simply got outcompeted in China.

VW is still the most sold brand in Europe. Every time BYD sells one car in Europe, VW sells 74 cars Europe. That’s not the problem. It’s that the Chinese market used to be the largest market for VW, but now the party is over after 40 years.

Exports are risky like that. It’s difficult to blame the China for this when they have cheaper and more technology advanced vehicles available domestically. I hope VW can see the writing on the wall and up their game, but I fear that this market won’t ever come back. In my opinion they should focus on going back to the core idea of making smaller and cheaper cars available to the people, instead of making luxury car exports.

You could pay someone else who wants to create them?

He claims he’d never mock a Prius while in the same sentence posting about how much he hates the Prius, and then doesn’t think it’s fair to be mocked for driving a certain vehicle.

To break this Möbius strip logic: Blame someone else.

The whole thing is an abstraction. The nucleus isn’t actually tiny ball shaped things mashed together, but rather cloudy stuff which would probably not be identical if we could actually see them. The quarks that make up protons and neutrons are considered elementary particles and identical, but they don’t move around much unless energy is used to split them.

The electron however is an elementary particle that moves outside of the nucleus and can move from one atom to another. So the hypothesis is that if we could follow one electron from the big bang to the end of the universe, and this electron could move both forwards and backwards in time, it would potentially be enough with just one.

It probably doesn’t hold up very well, but it’s an interesting thought experiment.

I know plenty of assholes who aren’t rich, so I don’t think there’s any correlation.

This is clearly a “why not both” situation.

Emissions must be cut and new technologies for reversing existing damage must be developed. There’s a whole bunch of different things that needs doing, because there is simply no single solution, but using one approach to argue against another is certainly not helping anyone.

I agree. The Renault dealerships near me are combined and absolutely prioritize the more expensive brands.

MG doesn’t seem much better here. They just have showrooms similar to the Chinese brands and all servicing is outsourced to other garages with a MG logo.