the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

if your electrician is a robot, does that make them megger man

okay there's a post going around about sped up moon landing footage and something is weird with it because it just straight-up crashes this browser whenever it comes onto my home column (and before it crashes, the gif in it flickers like hell in a way that would *probably* set off photosensitive epilepsy....)

I have no idea what's wrong with it but something is and oof

like what is the physical difference between the discs that makes the drive (or driver?) limit the speed to 3x for some and not others

I'm using Nero DiscSpeed to check a bunch of DVDs from a box set (one was broken and the seller offered to replace it and any other broken ones) and

What is it about DVDs that some of them can be read at up to 8x speed and others no more than 1.5x on early sectors and 3x on late ones?

today's mood: <television static>

not that any drives exist that would fit it

i wonder just how much data you could store on a quad-layer bluray disk the size of a laserdisc

​ would make a really cute taur i think

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cubular
tubical

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occasional reminder that Gladion's theme from gen 7 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDLj143lxVk) has sections of the melody based on the track Run Away, Fugitives from PMD Red/Blue (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBXBDqaIL28)

I just think this is *extremely* good because in gen 7, gladion is in pretty much the same situation as the player is at the point in PMD where Run Away, Fugitives plays

what does "vibe check" mean

coordinated cookies: oreography

"unanswered questions in mathematics" is like this too

and "unanswered questions in biology" has a few easy-for-laypeople-to-understand questions like "why do most animals need sleep" but is mostly full of questions you need a background in biology to understand

I love that "unanswered questions in physics" is a category that contains both questions that are really easy to state to a layperson (including ones that seem very simple and easy and are very much not) and questions that require a background in physics to even know what they're asking

ah yes, the deepest questions in physics:

- what exactly is stuff
- what exactly is time
- how do you reconcile general relativity and quantum field theory into a theory of everything
- why is there so little anti-stuff
- why is stuff three-dimensional
- why is time one-dimensional
- how do you accurately model fluid flow in turbulent conditions
- how the fuck do ice skates work

that handshake meme, with one hand labelled "people with dissociative disorders" and the other labelled "theoretical physicists", with the middle saying "time is weird"