As with most sci-fi the author gets loopier in the later books. That being said:

• Dune: masterpiece of philosophy, one of the best books ever put to print
• Dune Messiah: a worthy sequel and must read after the first book; completes Paul’s arc
• Children of Dune: more plot driven than the first, but still thematically rich and entertaining.
• God Emperor of Dune: the most divisive of the books: you love it or you hate it. I am in the love it camp, the book is unhinged and the themes are marvelous. This is where I’d stop a read of the series.
• Chapterhouse and the other (Heretics?): forgettable in my opinion, simply because I’ve forgotten them. Later book fan opinions welcome.
• anything Brian Herbert: not terrible but not awfully good either. Makes for decent light reading I guess, and there’s good lore building in some of the books despite some unforgivable retcons (Agemmemnon, sigh)

Yeah that topology is probably better described as burrito

Saying maths is absolutely out of place here. Also taxes here aren’t nearly as complicated as the US and there are a number of free tools available to file by yourself.

What they’ve done is reprehensible but this is simply misinformation, that livestream has been up for weeks.

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I’ve never met an engineer who wanted to intentionally design products to break.

The beancounters on the other hand…

And this is the second biggest shopping season of the year, only beat by Christmas.

Einstein’s most famous equation relates mass and energy: E=mc^2 . So, if you’re not matter (mass), you’re energy. Which, by the way, is how we make energy in fusion reactions, converting mass to energy.

That’s the main joke, yes. There’s also a subjoke that’s a (relatively) obscure internet meme: Loss

Uhh, something tells me hair clippers are not pulling 160+W. It’s a small DC motor that vibrates some clippers, not an electric scooter.

Sounds like you might benefit from some white noise sleeping at home. Can play it through your phone or even an old radio set to some quiet static.

Yup, tried and tested on the most recent alpha. I can confirm it works.

Jerboa had both in its latest alpha release on github, you should check it out.

What exactly did you not like? Using it now and it’s come a huge way in just a few weeks. Of all the apps I’ve tried it had the most compact and quick interface.

I feel people had a lot of loading issues when instances were going down left and right which gave Jerboa an unfair reputation through no fault of its own.

Or because they liked the colours for aesthetic reasons haha.

Also choosing a cloth colour has nothing to do with thermal mass and everything to do with absorbtivity/emissivity/reflectivity aka material properties affecting radiative heat transfer.

In any case, shirt colour has a small effect on temperature, maybe a 5°C (at most) difference between white and black, according to some studies. So unless you’re really chasing the most optimal clothing, it’s best to just wear what makes you happy.

Paywall :(

A good suggestion for a registration question: “Explain the meaning behind your username”, which I’ve already seen on a few instances. Not only is this one tough for a botter to program a response too, but it’ll do a good job of filtering the name_1234 style of botting that we saw a lot on the old site. Any human should be able to answer easily, bots not so much.

You’ll see content from any community that a member of your instance is subscribed to. So on very small instances that haven’t yet “discovered” other communities, the All page will be sparse.