what the fuck?

that’s what “some thought” means my guy

oh thank you for the correction I misread that bit it would seem

NASA’s idea was an inflatable dipole, i linked the article about it up higher

as masterspace noted NASA has actually given it some thought.

“This new research is coming about due to the application of full plasma physics codes and laboratory experiments. In the future it is quite possible that an inflatable structure(s) can generate a magnetic dipole field at a level of perhaps 1 or 2 Tesla (or 10,000 to 20,000 Gauss) as an active shield against the solar wind.”

source: https://phys.org/news/2017-03-nasa-magnetic-shield-mars-atmosphere.amp

It also doesn’t completely protect the entire planet just two critical points on the surface.

me proudly showing off to my dad that I had spent hours teaching the Timex Sinclair to… balance a checkbook!

dad: my checkbook is already balanced.

me: ahhh, yes well, just imagine though if things had lined up huh??

yeah also the AI shit in Messenger is annoying af. If you tap wrong suddenly you’re in ‘ai helper mode’ and have to exit out to finish your message.

sorry too late they already decided!

10 types of wild!!

Nice! My first big Perl program was an IRC bot named GoatNuts back in '96/'97.

I learned a lot of Perl from Randall Schwarz (Programming Perl, O’Reilly) himself (who was doing community service for ‘hacking’ intel) in the #perl chanel on EfNet! Later hung out with him at a mutual friends party and he was an absolute asshat. Best lessons from Randall were to use strict; and always run with the -w flag and then heed and fix the warnings. When you can write beautiful strict perl with no warnings the code is much easier to maintain.

Met Larry Wall (author of Perl) at The Perl Conference 1.0 and he was a gem.

If you find you’re doing any web scraping look into the obscure spaceship operator. It makes parsing a small piece of larger text so much easier if you have good stop and start points.

Cheers on your journey! Not too many proud perl hackers out there but I made a good chunk of coin off that language and it was my first ‘real’ language so it has a dear place in my heart!

you can make tea by just putting a tea bag in cold water and letting it sit for a few hours.

We make iced tea all the time without any hot water it tastes the same as if you boil the water. Just takes longer and of course isn’t warm.

aroooooooo

i get a job at temptation mart, ez commute and discounts and maybe i can wear cute little horns at work!?

here and now it’s the hottest summer of my life and they say it’s only going to get hotter, but nobody talks about the causes or solutions they just are happy they get a few extra days of sunshine, or complain about the damn power companies outages without talking about the ever increasing power demands caused by the same issue.

I don’t want to be ‘that girl’ bringing everyone down so I keep the discussions online where others seem interested in discussing the issue

look at that smile!

egg_irl did in fact begin the process for me, like 8 years ago. Have the appt to get estrogen this week!

It was quite a surprise to learn that everybody doesn’t fantasize about being a girl at least a little!

most places (in the states) have zoning laws and specific laws about requirements that make a house livable. The combination usually precludes legally living in an office space even if the lease doesn’t specify.

It’s one of those things where if you just keep your head down you can get away with it but if you have parties and treat it like an actual residence and get complaints you’re likely to lose your lease.

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i dunno how to make it any clearer sorry

not true (in the us i dunno how other countries go), the license is printed for you after you are granted the privilege so you can show it has been granted. The license itself possesses no power it’s what the DMV database says that’s important.

That’s why cops take your license back to their car to ‘run your license’ that means look up your status in the database to see if you’re actually licensed currently and if there are any warrants out for you!