Stephan Zielinski
@szielins.bsky.social
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
English is weird. Adding sodium phosphate conjugates "cheese" to "cheez". This also means that feeding sodium phosphate to geese makes them geez.
July 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
English is weird. Adding sodium phosphate conjugates "cheese" to "cheez". This also means that feeding sodium phosphate to geese makes them geez.
Respirator Bane-purr, "It's all right! I'm just doing my own research!"
July 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Respirator Bane-purr, "It's all right! I'm just doing my own research!"
Ah... have you found a dentist's office, or a "Dentist's office" set for a very specialized filmmaker?
July 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Ah... have you found a dentist's office, or a "Dentist's office" set for a very specialized filmmaker?
I hAvE a sUgGeStIoN
July 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I hAvE a sUgGeStIoN
well except for the sexual revolution
July 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
well except for the sexual revolution
Ain't nothing gonna break my stride
Nobody gonna slow me down
Oh no
I got to keep on moving
-- Matthew Wilder
Nobody gonna slow me down
Oh no
I got to keep on moving
-- Matthew Wilder
July 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Ain't nothing gonna break my stride
Nobody gonna slow me down
Oh no
I got to keep on moving
-- Matthew Wilder
Nobody gonna slow me down
Oh no
I got to keep on moving
-- Matthew Wilder
Hey, I can't always afford a blue bead to take the hit from the Evil Eye.
July 3, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Hey, I can't always afford a blue bead to take the hit from the Evil Eye.
Putting together an Amazon Custom Gift List. White lab coat, head mirror, live chicken eggs, incubator, syringe large enough for one big collection yet still small enough to be hidden behind the back.
July 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Putting together an Amazon Custom Gift List. White lab coat, head mirror, live chicken eggs, incubator, syringe large enough for one big collection yet still small enough to be hidden behind the back.
It's like "Himalayan" salt--definitely from a lumpy bit resulting from the Indian subcontinent bonking into Eurasia, but the actual political jurisdiction is the Punjab in Pakistan. وفادار رہو! مضبوط ہو! ہوشیار رہو!
July 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
It's like "Himalayan" salt--definitely from a lumpy bit resulting from the Indian subcontinent bonking into Eurasia, but the actual political jurisdiction is the Punjab in Pakistan. وفادار رہو! مضبوط ہو! ہوشیار رہو!
γnnυʇ ϱnυɿɈƨ ƨi onɒiq ɈɒʜT
July 1, 2025 at 3:03 AM
γnnυʇ ϱnυɿɈƨ ƨi onɒiq ɈɒʜT
Sounds like someone's never had to serve on a jury for a civil case about ghost ship versus ghost riders collision.
June 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Sounds like someone's never had to serve on a jury for a civil case about ghost ship versus ghost riders collision.
Arrrrr.... SCUTTLED.
June 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Arrrrr.... SCUTTLED.
"Top" shelf is an inherently relative term.
June 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"Top" shelf is an inherently relative term.
Optical illusion. The pot shrinks.
June 29, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Optical illusion. The pot shrinks.
Well, let's see. Say a hundred thousand hairs on a head; each hair might go forwards, back, left, right, or up; the means there are approximately 5^100000 possible hairstyles, or about 10^69897. According to prophecy, once toddlers instance all of them, the universe will end.
June 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Well, let's see. Say a hundred thousand hairs on a head; each hair might go forwards, back, left, right, or up; the means there are approximately 5^100000 possible hairstyles, or about 10^69897. According to prophecy, once toddlers instance all of them, the universe will end.
Octane measures resistance to detonation; cetane measures resistance to ignition delay; rectane measures resistance to acting on intrusive thoughts.
June 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Octane measures resistance to detonation; cetane measures resistance to ignition delay; rectane measures resistance to acting on intrusive thoughts.
That is surprising. I'd have expected them to catch them on the wing.
June 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
That is surprising. I'd have expected them to catch them on the wing.
Water wouldn't be the first choice for a 310 K to 3 K engine; it boils above it and freezes within it. Could use helium, though; at 101 KPa it never freezes, will boil at 4.22 K. I shudder to think what sort of piston could function at those temps, but hey: Just a Simple Matter of Engineering.
June 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Water wouldn't be the first choice for a 310 K to 3 K engine; it boils above it and freezes within it. Could use helium, though; at 101 KPa it never freezes, will boil at 4.22 K. I shudder to think what sort of piston could function at those temps, but hey: Just a Simple Matter of Engineering.
. . . In general, no scheme to recover nontrivial usable energy from humans is going to work any better than using an ox. You can get away with microwatt loads--"self-winding" mechanical watches do this--but that's about it. -Fin-
June 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
. . . In general, no scheme to recover nontrivial usable energy from humans is going to work any better than using an ox. You can get away with microwatt loads--"self-winding" mechanical watches do this--but that's about it. -Fin-
. . . no matter if there are intermediate steps used to keep the sink cold, like concentrating heat into a rock and throwing out the rock. It's a lot easier to put up five square meters of 20% efficient solar panel; that will also get you a kilowatt of usable energy. . . .
June 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
. . . no matter if there are intermediate steps used to keep the sink cold, like concentrating heat into a rock and throwing out the rock. It's a lot easier to put up five square meters of 20% efficient solar panel; that will also get you a kilowatt of usable energy. . . .
I'm afraid the answer is still going to be "You don't get a useful amount of energy out of it." Ten humans metabolizing at 310 Kelvin will produce about a kilowatt of raw heat, which you can recover no more than (1 - 3 / 310) = 99.0% of by using the 3 degree K universe as a cold sink . . .
June 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I'm afraid the answer is still going to be "You don't get a useful amount of energy out of it." Ten humans metabolizing at 310 Kelvin will produce about a kilowatt of raw heat, which you can recover no more than (1 - 3 / 310) = 99.0% of by using the 3 degree K universe as a cold sink . . .