alpine_jim

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[–] alpine_jim@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

all commercial hovercraft are watertight and buoyant even when the engines are off.

[–] alpine_jim@piefed.social 40 points 4 days ago (10 children)

Iceland shouldn't be on this, it didn't exist until ~20 million years ago. Pangaea broke up ~200 million years ago.

Probably lots of others, like most of Japan shouldn't be labelled either.

[–] alpine_jim@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

a line of Soar
a bump of Elevate
a pinch of Transcend

[–] alpine_jim@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

better keep the fire away from the naquadria deposits.

[–] alpine_jim@piefed.social 55 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)
[–] alpine_jim@piefed.social 7 points 2 weeks ago

this tub is very much not hot.

[–] alpine_jim@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

yeah the main reason AMD isn't quite as price-gouged is that ROCm isn't quite as in demand as CUDA for non-gaming uses for GPUs.

[–] alpine_jim@piefed.social 0 points 3 weeks ago

the "Inglorious Treksperts" podcast just reviewed this episode last week.

one of them recited the whole "these words" monologue from memory - it is the highlight of a patchy episode.

[–] alpine_jim@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

that's reasonable.

bonus fun fact - the etymology is connected - "axle" comes from older words for "shoulder", or "armpit", which survives in some regional Englishes as "oxter" - the connection is apparently that you'd carry a person by putting their arms up and linking at the shoulders, much like an axle is how wheels carry a cart.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/axle

[–] alpine_jim@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

No, that's what I meant by not an axle.

But, come to think of it, we can swing our arms round and round, more than 360°.

[–] alpine_jim@piefed.social 7 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

How about this insect with a pair toothed gears? Not an axle, but still amazing!

"The juvenile Issus - a plant-hopping insect found in gardens across Europe - has hind-leg joints with curved cog-like strips of opposing ‘teeth’ that intermesh, rotating like mechanical gears to synchronise the animal’s legs when it launches into a jump."

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