I mean, a lot of the early astronauts were muscle-bound nerds. They were in the military and mostly working as test pilots; physical fitness was paramount!
They made the FART lady get a new plate after someone complained, although they let her keep the actual plate. I would bet the same thing happened to the SHART lady after this got more publicity.
And some attitudes are changing. A few years ago my state passed a law allowing local jurisdictions to designate a “social district” where public drinking is permitted. This is usually in a downtown area where there might be multiple restaurants/bars/music venues and maybe stores that are open at times that cater to when people are drinking. The areas are clearly marked with signs and if you pass them the alcohol becomes illegal, and I think the alcohol needs to have been purchased inside the social district; you can’t just show up with your own (cheaper) alcohol from home.
Where consider that down in parts of Florida where college students used to go party a lot for times like Spring Break, there used to be a lot of public drinking but the mass crowds of intoxicated young people, often vomiting and urinating all over in public, became obnoxious enough that local residents stopped caring about the tourism revenue and passed laws to crack down on this behavior.
You would probably be able to get away with the opaque water bottle as long as you aren’t trying to take it someplace where those water bottles are forbidden. For instance, a sporting or concert venue might only allow you to bring such a bottle in if it is demonstrably empty, since that is such an obvious way to bring in a beverage that the venue would prefer to sell to you at 3-5x the normal price. And again, if you’re obviously intoxicated or otherwise causing problems police might take a closer look anyways.
Apart from the public drinking being a possible issue with what you describe about the public space parties, many jurisdictions have noise ordinances that would prohibit the loud music after a certain hour, often 10 PM. Usually only specially designated areas, like outdoor concert venues, would be allowed to make a lot of noise later than that. But again, for that to be enforced you’d have to be making a nuisance of yourself enough that someone would call the police. That’s the case with a lot of the laws: you have to be so egregious with it that you attract police attention or aggravate someone enough that they call the police.
Yes, but you said you were using Resolve for color grading. My understanding is you should still be able to use that on Linux, but I haven’t tried it yet myself.
This was always one of my favorite songs on what to me remains one of his best albums. I’d love to see this used in a modern western
If you’re willing to consider something not Wear OS, Garmin watches offer many of the same features and typically multiple days of battery life.
It’s not FOSS (IIRC) but I think Resolve is fully available on Linux?
This link requires either a subscription or to allow them to do personalized advertising. I thought that wasn’t legal under EU laws?
People used to post Piped/Invidious links all the time, but that eventually became a problem because it meant the link often went to a different proxy than the one that might be a user’s preferred server, and it made it harder to copy the link for use with a preferred server. After some discussion, the consensus became that people should just post the YouTube URL as the main link so users could utilize the preferred proxy they likely already have configured, and then (optionally) include a Piped/Invidious link in the body text for those who don’t currently use a proxy but would like to try it.
I love when these things come back to life randomly
But people won’t invest trillions of dollars into Simulated Intelligence!
Having not watched the video, was the leak a real accident or one of those times where governments decide to experiment on their own soldiers without telling them they’re in an experiment?
I’ve sometimes wondered what life looks like for people after they get out of the industry and get older. Did your past career affect your future jobs? Was it something you told romantic partners? Did you ever tell family members, at the time or later? Were you ever worried about people finding out about your career? Sometimes you hear about all these people doing online work like Only Fans or similar, and while some are making lots of money, many presumably aren’t, and it leaves me wondering if in the future the ones who didn’t make it will feel like it was worth the effort.
Remember how many runtimes like Java and others specifically called out in their TOU that they were not to be used in critical applications that could threaten public safety like air traffic control or nuclear energy?
A woman in the U.K. has been sentenced to 28 months in prison for stealing hundreds of expensive accessories from a jewelry store that she previously managed.
Lucy Roberts managed a jewelry store for a year and would bring jewelry home with her, falsifying inventory records. She left the job and later went on a cruise, sending selfies to her former coworkers and telling them how much fun she was having. Police arrested her at the airport when she returned to the UK.
I never understood how transactions were supposed to be anonymous if every single one ever made was recorded on the blockchain. The argument a long time ago seemed to be that the sheer volume of transactions would make it impossible to reasonably handle, but in the past couple years I’ve seen more and more stories where the FBI has tools that let them trace transactions and use them in arrests of people engaged in crimes that have netted millions of dollars. Maybe right now it’s still only worth doing on major crimes, but I assume it will only get easier and more available with time.
Crossposted from https://mander.xyz/post/31996365
Have your fingers ready for scrolling! Or you can click the little icon in the bottom right to have it move automatically at the (scaled) speed of light, but at this scale it’s slow. Or you can click the symbols at the top to jump directly from planet to planet.
Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/30928435 ----- In middle school I read The Three Musketeers and enjoyed it overall. Later in high school a movie adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo was released and I enjoyed it enough to read the book. I feel like I lucked out in picking up the Robin Buss translation. It was a recent translation based on the most complete original texts he could find. He explained how the first anonymous English translations would sometimes edit the story to fit English sensibilities of the era or simply not be very good at translation. The book is full of endnotes explaining things, like references that would’ve been obvious to contemporary readers but are largely lost to anglophones over a century later, or things that simply don’t translate well, like an important scene where a character uses the formal vous tense instead of the informal/familiar tu tense but this distinction doesn’t exist in modern English. It made me want to re-read The Three Musketeers in a translation by Buss, but the only other Dumas work he translated before his death at the age of 67 in 2006 was The Black Tulip.
Have you read Buss’s translation of The Count of Monte Cristo? Have you found a similar translation you liked for The Three Musketeers? Searching online the most helpful listings I’ve found are a couple old Reddit threads where it seems like the two recommendations are those by Richard Pevear or Lawrence Ellsworth.
Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/30928435 ----- In middle school I read The Three Musketeers and enjoyed it overall. Later in high school a movie adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo was released and I enjoyed it enough to read the book. I feel like I lucked out in picking up the Robin Buss translation. It was a recent translation based on the most complete original texts he could find. He explained how the first anonymous English translations would sometimes edit the story to fit English sensibilities of the era or simply not be very good at translation. The book is full of endnotes explaining things, like references that would’ve been obvious to contemporary readers but are largely lost to anglophones over a century later, or things that simply don’t translate well, like an important scene where a character uses the formal vous tense instead of the informal/familiar tu tense but this distinction doesn’t exist in modern English. It made me want to re-read The Three Musketeers in a translation by Buss, but the only other Dumas work he translated before his death at the age of 67 in 2006 was The Black Tulip.
Have you read Buss’s translation of The Count of Monte Cristo? Have you found a similar translation you liked for The Three Musketeers? Searching online the most helpful listings I’ve found are a couple old Reddit threads where it seems like the two recommendations are those by Richard Pevear or Lawrence Ellsworth.
In middle school I read The Three Musketeers and enjoyed it overall. Later in high school a movie adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo was released and I enjoyed it enough to read the book. I feel like I lucked out in picking up the Robin Buss translation. It was a recent translation based on the most complete original texts he could find. He explained how the first anonymous English translations would sometimes edit the story to fit English sensibilities of the era or simply not be very good at translation. The book is full of endnotes explaining things, like references that would’ve been obvious to contemporary readers but are largely lost to anglophones over a century later, or things that simply don’t translate well, like an important scene where a character uses the formal vous tense instead of the informal/familiar tu tense but this distinction doesn’t exist in modern English. It made me want to re-read The Three Musketeers in a translation by Buss, but the only other Dumas work he translated before his death at the age of 67 in 2006 was The Black Tulip.
Have you read Buss’s translation of The Count of Monte Cristo? Have you found a similar translation you liked for The Three Musketeers? Searching online the most helpful listings I’ve found are a couple old Reddit threads where it seems like the two recommendations are those by Richard Pevear or Lawrence Ellsworth.
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@manxu@piefed.social previously worked on a dating app for a large Internet corporation and got some interesting insights as they examined the data from their service
It began as an innocuous inquiry on Facebook. Nelson Felix, a resident of New York State, posted in the group ‘What’s My Typewriter Worth?’ about a curious find he made while clearing out the basement of his wife’s grandfather. He shared a few photos. The keys on the typewriter are all in Chinese, F...
Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/30443525
A fascinating history of a unique prototype for typing the Chinese language long thought lost
It began as an innocuous inquiry on Facebook. Nelson Felix, a resident of New York State, posted in the group ‘What’s My Typewriter Worth?’ about a curious find he made while clearing out the basement of his wife’s grandfather. He shared a few photos. The keys on the typewriter are all in Chinese, F...
Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/30443525
An interesting history of a brilliant machine thought lost and the man who created it, and the mundane forces of history that kept it from the world.
@admiralwonderboat@mastodon.social among other places
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Editor, while reading a viewer email: “Huh. A guy with an AOL email address doesn’t like the new graphics. Imagine that.”
And another bad driver will not be looking at the road and plow into multiple people.
Here’s a source from People magazine.
> Drivers involved in the crash suffered bumps and bruises but no life-threatening injuries, [Fox 8] reported. Their vehicles were extensively damaged.
Need for Madness is a high-octane driving car game where victory comes from either crossing the finish line first or wrecking every rival in sight. Launch into the air, pull off wild stunts, and smash your way through chaotic tracks. Unlock new cars every two stages and push your skills to the absol...
Need for Madness was a series of ridiculous and fun games that originally ran on Java in a browser. Now the devs are back with a new game that isn’t what they originally planned as Need for Madness 3 but they’re saying it can be considered as that. Need for Madness - Re-Lit is written in HTML 5/WebGL and can run not only on desktop computers but also mobile devices. They devs have also licensed some music from RetroWave bands including LazerHawk, Wice, Jeremiah Kane, and Dreamhour.
If this works as well as they hope then they want to work on creating NFM 4 and 5 in the same system.
Onboard camera in rear-facing engine recorded the event. No one was in that engine, apparently the last of 4 hauling the train. No one was hurt on the train.
The infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
It’s kind of worse when you see it on the map, because it appears to be running parallel to an existing developed area, like they built a bypass through the rainforest for the climate summit, not a road for someplace previously unconnected.
This track popped up in my Facebook memories today. The note I had with it said I was listening to a station on Pandora spawned from Vince Guaraldi when this played. I said I wanted to listen to the rest of his album, but I don’t think I have. Maybe being reminded of it this time will get it back on my radar.
I have an Xbox One X. Tonight I noticed a banner on the main screen saying I could get up to $150 trading in my console for an Xbox Series X. I scanned the QR code for the trade-in calculator and it told me my promotional value was actually $100, not $150. There hasn’t been a lot on the Series S/X that interests me that I can’t play on my One X other than Flight Simulator. I do also use it as my media player for that TV, so the one advantage it has is if I subscribed to YouTube TV’s 4K package I could watch it on that TV (the One X is not listed as supported but can apparently show some, though not all, YouTube TV 4K content). I don’t even actually play that much so I’m not sure it’s worth spending the money, but I am curious about doing the upgrade. It looks like all my games should still play and my controllers still work? I don’t have anything that uses the Kinect and don’t have a Kinect, so no worries there. So if I did the trade-in I wouldn’t lose anything and would gain a current-gen system? I think I would get a Series X, but not the 2TB Galaxy edition.
Amtrak said the train was traveling from San Jose to Sacramento when it came into contact with the motorcycle.
The motorcycle passenger was pronounced dead at the scene and the motorcycle driver went to the hospital with critical injuries.
Hayes Barton, Woodbury Common, East Devon, South-West England, U.K.
Hayes Barton is an older, prominent neighborhood in Raleigh, North Carolina, the state capital. It has many large houses, lots of old money families, and I had always assumed it was named for a prominent older family or families, perhaps the owners of the land before it became a neighborhood. Today, though, I learned that it was named for the house where Sir Walter Raleigh was born, Sir Walter Raleigh of course being the city’s namesake. The house still stands today but is a private residence, not open for tours. I read that Sir Walter wanted to buy the house but Queen Elizabeth I would not let him, wanting to keep him in London close to her.
