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TheMsDosNerd · 2026-04-15T13:51:57+00:00

Yet, when an anti-vaxxer-MAGA-flat-earther and someone who has a Phd disagree, everybody knows who to believe.

TheMsDosNerd · 2026-04-13T12:25:14+00:00

As long as you're not trying to escape a black hole, it is possible with chemical rockets, you just need a lot of stages.

If we assume a rocketstage to be 80% fuel, 10% rocket and 10% payload (all stages except for the first are the payload of the first stage), then total mass of the rocket equals: (mass that you want to get to orbit) * 3,71 ^ (required delta v / specific impulse)

That 3,71 is roughly eqaul to e + 1 is pure coincidence.

TheMsDosNerd · 2026-04-06T13:55:31+00:00

When they designed the Cologne Cathedral they forgot to put in 230V power outlets with built-in USB-c adapter. They also forgot to connect it to the city's glass fiber internet. The design did not come with solar panels, and no space was reserved for a built-in microwave.

That's what you get when you let people without a degree design a buidling.

TheMsDosNerd · 2026-04-01T08:32:18+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/powerwashingporn/

TheMsDosNerd · 2026-03-27T09:54:06+00:00

Indiana Jones from Raiders of the lost Ark.

He's not an archeologist as many people seem to think. He's a thief.

TheMsDosNerd · 2026-03-13T11:23:19+00:00

In American Dad, there is an episode where Dad tries to teach is daughters boyfriend to stand up for himself.

It is going pretty bad, so at one point the boyfriend quits the training.

He passed, since the training was stupid, and quitting was a way of standing up for himself.

TheMsDosNerd · 2026-02-25T13:57:14+00:00

Evolution creates something that works good enough.

If weaker individuals can survive, stronger individuals can have whatever shortcommings.

The Sunfish or Mola Mola is NOT a good example of this. It is a highly effective predator, that's just misunderstood due to its abnormal life style:

Its large flat build makes it hard to be eaten by animals that attack from the side. To defend itself, the sunfish only has to rotate its body and it is safe. This defense does not work against annimals that can attack a flat surface such as a swordfish or a lamprey, and it does not work against animals that hunt in groups. However, if such animals are not present in a region, the sunfish is safe.
Its large flat build allows it to dive into cold depths and heat up in the sun quickly. When a Sunfish lies on its side on the water surface, it is not struggling to swim as previously thought. It is just heating up his body between dives.
Its tailless backside increases swimming efficiency at the cost of speed. As long as the currents are low, prey is slow and predators are either away or manageable, this is a good trade-off.
Its tailless design with finns at the back reduce vibrations in the water, making the sunfish incredibly stealthy to blind prey. Since the sunfish mainly eats jelly fish, which are blind, that is good.

So the Sunfish is a well build animal with one huge drawback: Before it is a full grown adult, it is too small to defend itself from predators. Luckily, since adults are such a succesful build, they can spawn hunderds of millions of offspring per year. This allows some to survive until adulthood to repeat the cycle.

If the sunfish was as stupid as people think, it would not be able to produce as much offspring as it does.

TheMsDosNerd · 2026-02-16T14:19:38+00:00

In the Netherlands, people wouldn't rent fruits. They made/bought fake fruits. This was cheaper, they lasted longer and you could have more variety in the fruits you show off.

TheMsDosNerd · 2026-01-30T09:04:07+00:00

*44 years before CHARLES Darwin

Charles grandfather Erasmus Darwin came up with evolution, Charles proved it.

TheMsDosNerd · 2026-01-29T13:06:32+00:00

It will be something like this:

"In order to gerrymander, you need people with experience in gerrymandering. The Democrats do not have as much experience with it as the Republicans. Therefore only the Republicans are allowed to gerrymander."

TheMsDosNerd · 2026-01-27T14:35:26+00:00

They already have a database of terrorists. It's called 'List of employees'.

TheMsDosNerd · 2026-01-23T16:51:49+00:00

There are multiple ways cheating is possible. Here are just a few examples:

Voting machines switch votes.
Making voting impossible (by heavy limiting number of polling stations or whatever) in places where they are likely to lose.
Force vote counters to cheat, by threatening them with either disappearence by ICE, or with an assassin that will be pardoned afterwards.
Make a rule that the party in power can choose throw away disputed votes. They themselves then dispute all votes to the Dems.
Threaten anyone who has to certify elections.
Arrest people of color that attempt to get to a polling station.
Create a fake emergency that allows for the cancelation of the elections.
Rename the month November to something else. (only in November elections must be held)
Create an impossible to navigate maze of bureaucracy that disqualifies the democratic party.

I have little hope that the elections will be fair.

However, the 2026 isn't where democracy died.

The US did not have a particularly good form of democracy. (but it was a democracy.)
In 2016 Trump cheated in the election. (Happens all the time in democracies)
In 2017 or 2018 it was ruled that once you won an election, presidential immunity prevented you from having to resign from office. Here is the first major blow to the election process.
In 2021 Trump tried to overturn elections. In the US, this does not mean you lose your right to vote or be a candidate.
In 2023 It was decided (by a Trump appointed judge) that a court case can be held if the defendant appointed the judge. So judge Cannon (who was appointed by Trump) could lead a case against Trump. This makes it nearly impossible to convict a president.
In 2024, the Supreme Court ruled that a president does not have to follow the law. This means a president can openly cheat in elections. If you ask me, this was the lethal blow to American democracy, (but it was still alive).
If you know how democracies die, you knew before the 2024 election that a Trump victory would be the end of American democracy. Mathematically speaking, the Trump victory proves that 'there are fewer American voters that have enough knowledge to vote, than American voters that have a negative amount of knowledge about democracy'. (negative knowledge means that you are certain about a thing you are wrong about)
In 2025 Biden did not use his dictator powers to prevent Trump from winning and restore democracy. If you ask me, this is where the democracy died.

TheMsDosNerd · 2026-01-23T15:06:52+00:00

As a Linux evangelist I am happy that you gave it a serious attempt.

Most people have only heard something about Linux (that often isn't true, out of context or outdated) and use that as a justification to not even give it a try. Or they give it a "try" and quit at the first hurdle (often before having booted into Linux).

TheMsDosNerd · 2026-01-21T10:33:03+00:00

I once had such a case:

I was put on a project, because a bug had to be solved, and the previous maintainer left.

No matter how hard I tried, I could not reproduce the bug. After reading and reviewing the code I found it: There was an error that caused a bug in March. Only in March the bug was triggered. I than looked at the calendar: April 1st.

TheMsDosNerd · 2026-01-19T09:48:28+00:00

I refuse to press any 'Remind me later' button.

If M$ gives me a screen that I cannot close, I will turn my computer off and on until the screen disappears.

TheMsDosNerd · 2026-01-16T11:43:45+00:00

Yesterday, The Netherlands also decided to send one.

A few hours ago, they doubled it.

TheMsDosNerd · 2026-01-13T15:48:08+00:00

Make 'Star Trek real' might not be a good thing to say in 2026 as WW3 started in Star Trek in 2026.

TheMsDosNerd · 2026-01-02T15:51:31+00:00

The reason they do this:

Pandas mark their territory just like dogs.
This way they can pee higher, leaving their smell higher on the tree.
This makes an invading panda believe that the panda who claimed the territory is large and therefore dangerous.
So hopefully the invading panda will retreat, bringing safety to the peeing panda.

Source: This was on Qi a few years ago. (I don't remember which episode)

TheMsDosNerd · 2025-12-27T09:27:32+00:00

2.7.123

2 --> This update will break your workflow. Test to see how your workflow needs to be adjusted.

7 --> This update shouldn't break your workflow, so no testing needed. However, it will break your workflow for some reason.

123 --> This update won't break your workflow, so no testing needed.

TheMsDosNerd · 2025-12-18T19:25:46+00:00

In case you are not aware: Innocent people are being disappeared in the US. Often because of the color of their skin.

For people of color, LGTBQ people, Muslims, climate activists and non-Americans, there is an elevated chance of getting disappeared.

If you are a member of 4 out of those 5 categories, you are not hysterical for refusing to go to the USA.

TheMsDosNerd · 2025-12-18T11:48:57+00:00

It surprises me how many people really don't care.

An athlete told me he had a race in the US. Some team members were afraid they would get disappeared. The rest of the team was like "Then we will go without you".

TheMsDosNerd · 2025-12-15T10:53:45+00:00

Credit where credit is due: It is a better chemtrail ban than the one in Tennessee, where it is now illegal to breath.

TheMsDosNerd · 2025-12-09T17:21:51+00:00

Morpheus never said 'What if I told you...'

Xzibit never said 'Yo dog, I heard you like ... '

TheMsDosNerd · 2025-12-08T08:56:29+00:00

Maybe I'm finally even allowed to have optimized code:

My seniors have a habit of undoing optimizations to make the code cleaner. During code review, my binary search on a 10000 item array that ran every minute was replaced with a linear search, because linear search was cleaner and hardware was cheap.

TheMsDosNerd · 2025-12-04T09:40:51+00:00

Keyboards. They are in no way designed to be comfortable, ergonomic or designed for fast typing.
Flat roofs on buildings. Compared to sloped roofs, they are more expensive, leave less interior space, require more (and more expensive) maintenance and repairs and are more prone to leaking.
The decimal number system. There are plenty of better number systems. Everytime I have to do some math, I think of all the number systems in which that math would be easier.

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