I remember explaining something regarding special relativity to my colleagues once, and they replied that I must be wrong because “That doesn’t make sense at all”. Of course it doesn’t make sense, that’s how you know I’m right!

My junior’s commit messages look like this image. There’s always a way.

A vibe programmer that built a palm-sized fusion reactor in a cave over the course of 3 months with a single companion

With a box o scraps!

You mean you don’t cut it open and scoop?

Error message: “you must manually run ‘sudo dpkg --configure -a’ to fix this”

Junior dev: 😵

It’s a weird one, they’re usually acknowledging that the “boffin” in question is an expert or knowledgeable. Yet it’s definitely a negative connotation imo, in a kind of anti-intellectual way. Here’s a shitrag making the case for it being positive, if you’re interested.

I definitely have a negative connotation of anyone that uses the word unironically.

This is a perfect example of why science is always useful. Without the knowledge of the results, it would be easy to point and laugh at the start of this. You can almost see the anti science headlines. “Boffins spend TWO MILLION of YOUR TAX to make petunias PURPLE”.

Yeah we don’t have enough American news, we should start reframing other countries’ news into how it affects America

It’s sometimes called an overbalanced wheel, an early perpetual motion device. The idea is that there’s more weights on the right side than the left side, so the wheel will turn clockwise. The weights are on rods that fall to the right as the wheel turns, so there’s always going to be more weights on the right. So the wheel turns forever. Free power woohoo!

The reality is that the balls on the left are further away from the axle. Futher from the axle = greater torque. Surprise surprise it all cancels out and the wheel eventually comes to rest.

Bananas are proof of god

I remember thinking they probably just found actors who wanted to die anyway

New Balance do wide fit, but they’re expensive to buy from their website and hard to find elsewhere. I usually keep an eye on Amazon and pick up a pair whenever they’re cheap

I get it a lot, I’m guessing from randomly trying usernames

I hope you used archival ink so it will last for generations

I know, who gets phone numbers these days?

Eh it’s better than making plastic shite to deliberately throw away

You’re definitely going to want a second hand laptop if you’re spending 300 quid. Best bet is to look on eBay. Pick a GPU (off the top of my head, maybe a 970 or 1050) and search for those. Then check each result and start comparing. It’s a nightmare trying to see if the CPU is any good. I usually check it on passmark every time

You can also set the solver to use libmamba if you’ve already installed miniconda

Sweet!

Whoa what happened on the 9th?