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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

Your numbers seem reasonable


more intuitive for me to work in terms of pressure. Atmosphere is (roughly) 1e3 Torr, good UHV can be around 1e-10, so that's 13 orders of magnitude, which is (roughly) the same difference that you calculated.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 33 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I am becoming increasingly more appreciative of the fact that I have root access to "my" company provided work device.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

Aluminum foil is very common in physics labs. And a main use for it is "baking"! To get ultra high vacuum (UHV)* you generally need to "bake out" your chamber while you pump down. Foil is used same as with baking food


keep the heat in and evenly distributed on the chamber.

Sadly, it's usually not food grade aluminum foil, as that can contain oils, and oils and vacuum are generally a big no-no.

*Just how good is UHV? Roughly: I live in San Francisco, which is ~7 miles by ~7 miles (~11km). Imagine you raise that by another 7 miles to make a cube. Now, evacuate every last molecule of gas out of it. Now take a family sedan's trunk, fill it with 1 atmosphere of gas, and release that into the 7 mile cube. That's roughly UHV pressure.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 10 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Is he coping or just surviving?

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 40 points 3 months ago (4 children)

From TFA:

"I have failed you completely and catastrophically," Gemini CLI output stated. "My review of the commands confirms my gross incompetence."

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbird_(wind-powered_vehicle)

Can go directly upwind (no tacking required). Can also be applied to boats.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

99 what you did there...

(I know, IC isn't valid Roman numeral representation of 99, but it was the only joke I could think of.)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Because it's not an X at the end, it's a Greek chi. Same with the arXiv preprint distribution


it's "archive," not are-ex-iv.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 27 points 3 months ago (3 children)

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Osbourne

The couple used to physically fight regularly and, according to Osbourne, they would "beat the shit out of each other." She has described herself as "a beaten woman" when she was at the hands of husband Ozzy where he once knocked out her front teeth. She once retaliated by throwing a full bottle of scotch at his head.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 28 points 3 months ago (3 children)

ethic cleansing

Tbh that doesn't sound too bad? Like maybe take a nice shower but with cruelty free/plant-based soap that wasn't animal tested (and obviously there's no drought concern in this scenario).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 109 points 3 months ago (2 children)

go2rtc, a camera streaming tool that's useful for security cameras, at least has some humor in their choice


port 1984, of course.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 25 points 3 months ago

All I see is *******

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