Convenient microwave nachos aren’t a good enough reward?
I bet none of those people debugging wi-fi problems spent any time cleaning pigeon shit out of their antennas.
Oh, and on thinking about it, I’d really kind of like to see how cosmic inflation could intersect with sexy.
C’mon, Rule 10^-34, don’t let us down!
You’ve not maintained outdoor Wifi infrastructure, have you? Nor that in gigantic sorta open-air interior spaces like stadiums or hangars?
Pigeon shit, dead squirrels, owl vomit = partly-digested mouse skeletons? All part of the fun.
“We’re working to make sure the images are as up-to-date and accurate as possible, with a minimum number of sponsored galaxies.”
Reminds me of the Fredric Brown story, “Pi in the Sky.”
Someone has been paying too much attention to current events.
The Technology Connections guy recently had a rant about, “digging up shit and setting it on fire to generate electricity.”
Really, the human obsession with heat engines in general is kind of crazy.
“Carbon onsets” - that’s funny.
Well, you need a heat differential to get any work done – ask any physicist. It’s that we have different ways of doing it now.
Thanks for that. I totally missed that it didn’t say “offsets”.
“Offsets” there would still make sense. Offsetting the carbon saved by his solar panels by gratuitously burning some more in the backyard.
But onsets is a much better word.
I mean, technically, you can attach a “temperature” label to any physical process, in such a way that you still can’t exceed the “heat engine” limits… but there are a lot of processes with an “effective temperature” far higher than any you’ll find under the usual intepratation of that word, and hence far higher efficiencies.
You’ll just have to follow the link this time.
Grayscale mode: romance, sarcasm, math, and language
Greyscale mode: romance, sarcasm, maths, and language
And follow it today, it might not be around tomorrow. (Note - it works on all old comics too.)
Seems like they also have a formatting error. Or at least a formatting decision error. Almost any time a floating point number appears in a UI it’s a leak, not a deliberate design decision.
I count 18 digits in that display; might’ve missed one. Since “days since” are almost certainly supposed to be an integer, that suggests the display should display integers from 0 to 1E18. Now 1E18 days is ~1E15 years. The universe is now reckoned to be ~1E10 years old. Which suggests they’re planning to display numbers up to ~10,000 universe-to-date lifetimes.
Now that’s optimism about their FP reliability. And as we can see, it’s badly misplaced optimism too. 
And those Clock of the Long Now people are so proud of themselves.