The material largely forms the pit walls. The pits would be underwater otherwise. The actual deposits were found under the water originally.

I’ve been there. The air photo makes it look like something much worse. It’s mostly rock that has been dug up, crushed piled sorted (diamonds removed), and then piled up. The rock is clean. There’s no acid mine drainage or similar. The water next to it is so clean you can see 30m into it on a clear day and drink directly from the lake (it meets drinking water guidelines). When the mine closes, they’ll let the pits flood and the rest will slowly grow over. The worst thing about this mine is the carbon footprint from operating the machinery.

Well, the second worst thing is that diamonds are silly. ;)

I think the background image is Diavik diamond mine in Northwest Territories.

Shit.

Predestination Foundation

We can’t even agree on the definition of life (within the context of the search for life). Largely we’ve settled on: whatever definition helps win grants!

Land whale. My new favourite phrase

It begins. Fascism requires enemies within and without.

A 32 but integer can store a number up to four billion. If measuring RAM size in integer bytes, 32GB would be 0 bytes, because that integer would wrap around four times.

Assuming windows, if you right click on the executable, you may be able to choose to run it in a compatibility mode of some sort (like XP mode or something) in which case it should report smaller memory to the game, probably.

Points for being transparent. But if in the latter stage, it won’t be appreciated yet :)

Nibbler

There’s an old definition of middle class that goes something like: has enough time to participate in politics.

Work in progress

Found the topologist

I presumed KDE Plasma. But there is so many variations among linux desktops and distros :)

I’ve been a Linux user for so long. Clipboard history was a thing almost two decades before Windows got it. I don’t think it is coded to Win+V though – CTRL-ALT-V is what my muscle memory is telling me…

Middle mouse button paste is the bees knees though ;)

Sometimes it’s something simple like CTRL-C, then CTRL-V and the person watching you is like: wait how did you do that?!

I am not a career machinist – but I have a tiny manual 10" lathe and I’m terrified of it.

Oh definitely. However the warning joke appears to imply that even attempting to use it will alter you in some comic supervillain sense or something.

On a lathe? Doesn’t make sense. Maybe on a crucible or dewar or something…