Grab a few usb sticks and put different images on them to try some different OS’s. Get a feel for how easy they are to install / config / use.

Then put your favorite on your internal drive, and maybe keep a couple of specialized sticks for whatever: troubleshooting, browsing, streaming, gaming, office…

😂🤣Absolute madlads.

This is my recurring joke at work, “Ran out of tokens? Just hit up a support agent on some web page.”

And these artists packaged it up.

Everyone on the construction yard was intimately familiar with this.

Randall needs more outdoors time.

Then we invented a bot that just puts the most popular 10 year old answer into our code directly

UI’s peaked with the CLI. It’s all been downhill from there

Being a particularly dumb fellow layman but seeing no other comments after 18h…

I’m picturing a ruler thrown into gravity waves and another ruler somehow measuring the parts of the first one where millimeter markers stop being one millimeter apart.

Now for Gemini’s summary:

Space-based gravitational wave detection is the study of ripples in spacetime using observatories positioned in orbit rather than on Earth. While ground-based detectors like LIGO and Virgo have already proven these waves exist, they are limited by their size and Earth’s seismic “noise.”

How It Works

Space-based detection uses laser interferometry across millions of kilometers of vacuum.

• The Formation: LISA will consist of three spacecraft flying in a triangular formation, roughly 2.5 million kilometers apart, orbiting the Sun behind the Earth.

• The “Arms”: Each spacecraft contains “test masses” (gold-platinum cubes) that float freely in a vacuum, shielded from solar wind and radiation.

• The Measurement: Lasers are fired between the spacecraft to monitor the distance between these cubes. When a gravitational wave passes through the formation, it causes the fabric of space to stretch and squeeze, changing the distance between the cubes by a fraction of an atom’s width.

… Honestly I’m feeling reasonably good about my dummy understanding. The “rulers” are lasers being shot between satellites all around the Earth, but I think it sounds roughly right?

Vim sorely underrated. Great tools/hotkeys. Felt like a master pianist clacking away while the terminal went berserk until suddenly the 2 hour job was done in 20 minutes.