And make the gripping surface (you know, where your hand is) a touch-based scroll wheel

It's almost like there are entire categories of people who are employed to waste our time

Duck

https://www.flickr.com/photos/freddiebrown/7015186123/

Why have a Volkswagen when you could have a

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schl%C3%B6rwagen

First thing they fight in Shazam 2 is a Philadelphia suspension bridge that collapses for no obvious reason. Is crumbling infrastructure the true villain?

Stuff to turn off if you use Microsoft Edge

https://thomask.sdf.org/blog/2023/03/18/the-dark-defaults-of-microsoft-edge.html

Beam focussing game, now with skew quadrupole #physics #accelerators

http://stephenbrooks.org/ap/beam2d/

Twitter will open source its recommendation algorithm on March 31st

RT https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1636835209587949570

Got a bill saying I hadn't paid my state tax return. Turns out I'd filled in my account number but not the line underneath specifying the amount to withdraw... but I can pay online anyway

This Friday's trip to the pub coincided with St. Patrick's Day so I had a couple pints of Guinness

Proposal reviewers are cancelling each other out... some like the Oxford comma and some do not

#Mars rover has rocks in its wheels

RT https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere/status/1636782702061064192

I saw the lightbulb and played with it just now, I guess that's new?

BTW, pressing it while I was composing this reply deleted the reply 😆

Strong concrete made from Martian rock and potato starch #space

https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/scientists-develop-a-cosmic-concrete-that-is-twice-as-strong-as-regular-concrete/

Sticking 21 M.2 drives on a PCIe card

https://www.anandtech.com/show/18769/apex-storage-x21-carries-21-m2-ssds-168-tb-of-nand-at-up-to-31-gbps

#Mars helicopter taking off with dust cloud

#space [video]

RT https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere/status/1636373439123693576

People with neutrons

RT https://twitter.com/Toshihiko2718/status/1636220482528870400

Productivity tip: you need keyboard shortcuts that launch your frequently used applications, folders (and terminal window, which Linux already has)

US govt moves to Microsoft Cloud

Microsoft integrates GPT-4 with their cloud

I feel there have been some sci-fi films about this sort of situation

Sunny this morning as yesterday's snow disappeared