ulterno

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried visualising 4 dimensions once or twice, but it doesn’t really work out for me.
  So I have no way to get that 4th axis for the 4th ring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawyers representing Google and Meta are suing Virginia lawmakers to stop a new social media age verification law⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ll probably end up going the route of age and identity verification being mandatory, but kids still being allowed to use social media.
  That way they get more personal videos for their AI and this time, legally non-deletable.

  What we are seeing now, is just a choreographed prelude to reduce public backlash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British plugs⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t know you people had only one of them.

  I have:

  1. A switch on my appliance
  2. A switch on each socket of my extension board
  3. A switch on the wall
  4. An MCB connected to groups of sockets
  5. An MCB for the whole house
  6. A circuit breaker on the nearby distribution station
  7. A circuit breaker in the power plant
  8. A generator start/stop system in the power plant
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British plugs⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No proprietary stuff inside my foot, please.
  Give me an Open Source RISC V chip and I’ll step on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not on this scale.

  How to draw an apple in the mind?

  • Start with the seed. It’s full of some stuff and feels solid.
  • Cover the seed with a rigid, plasticky smooth membrane. It has not particular taste.
  • Stick a lot of mushy watery stuff to the membrane and go outwards.
  • At some point, there’s a twig starting to form and goes outward
  • Shape the mush
  • Cover it with another membrane that’s now, a little less rigid and feels different.

  Colour? What colour?
  That’s extra charge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spongebob big guy pants okay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  And that’s why we have a lot of shredded stuff recipes.
  After they realised that the subject didn’t reassemble, they then went ahead to do other tests with the shredded matter, one of which was cooking and eating them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we have a healthy life only with fruits or fruits and plants combined alone, and if not why?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are adding the plethora of generally available dried fruits to the mix, it should be manageable.

  Though you might need to do some research if you intend on committing on fruit-only.

  If I were to try something like that, I would have in mind that if things start going wrong I could just get some eggs for emergency.

  Don’t forget lemons and tomatoes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wearing a helmet and a hat while biking⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Tigger would be better. no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evolution at its finest!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw it in multiple cartoons, hundreds of times.
  Must be legit, that’s peer reviewed and perfectly reproduced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨challenge⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I didn’t understand why people were going around talking about toothpicks when there is a thingy specifically made for the job.
  To use a toothpick, I would need to go out and buy a pack, while I already have a dozen of them plugs lying around in my house. In fact I got 2 more pieces, complementary with the a handheld mixer, because it had a wall-mount fitment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨challenge⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps you could look for an alternate solution?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely how it went for me⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t always have to charge the machine spirit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely how it went for me⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am doing the exact opposite.
  Keeping my ear right next to the case when turning it on, to make sure there is no out-of-the-ordinary noise I need to check for.

  Mostly it just ends up being a badly routed wire coming in the way of a fan blade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon travels overseas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope you’re not seriously telling me that they would be significantly more satiating if they were made with butter instead of vegetable oil

  You’d be in for a surprise…

  There is this thing called clarified butter (Ghee) and you can actually cook in it (not affordably though, as any good quality one would be in Olive oil like category).
  I tend to try it out a few times (because it is still way cheaper than eating out, where they would still use palmoline despite their markup) when I am free and although heat control can be tricky depending upon the Ghee source and target recipe, it can make a great difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon travels overseas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It probably has to do with margarine being the base ingredient for butter.
  <insert that weird 90s auntie video of margarine butter recipe>

  Oh and also, the choice to inhale tobacco smoke(and make others do so) in your free time, rather than exercise the muscles near fatty regions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  War is the game played by politician leaders using their populations as fuel.
  Know what kind of a world you want to live in and find out which one will make the resultant world closet to what you want.

  Either will use (and throw) you for their game.
  Neither really cares about where you were born.

  If you do join a service, prove your worth as a living pawn to be greater than a dead one and hope (only hope, do not expect) to not be cut-off for strategic benefit, before their game ends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon travels overseas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Another anecdote telling - real butter doesn’t make you fat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adding stickers to my fruit so it's harder to recycle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  💀 ×1000000 ⇒ 👽

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adding stickers to my fruit so it's harder to recycle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are those stickers fully paper and no plastic?
  Usually there tends to be a thin plastic film.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨green salad fingers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We are also censoring the name of the material it is made of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's OK to just like lemon water.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because having salt of an acid out of a citric fruit in water, makes it tasty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chaotic Evil⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I know, you should be able to use those with normal SATA devices (internal HDDs) using a passive adapter and a power adapter (which could be connected to a USB port).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chaotic Evil⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because engraving the symbols is just too expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chaotic Evil⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I want one of those laptops with eSATA.
  Would greatly help with testing HDDs right in the store.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty realistic lid in that case.
  I can even feel the meniscus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CNC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you touched a CNC tool tip right after a non-watercooled job?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon uses GOG⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you still have 4GB RAM? If so, you’ll have problems running most games.

  Well, yeah. The computer having 4GB RAM also didn’t have a Vulkan capable GPU, so I was unable to go Linux+Proton.
  It was a bummer that I could only use it with Windows 7.

  OS update

  I’m talking about Windows 7 here. OS updates didn’t make stuff worse back then.
  And 4GB was the maximum limit for that motherboard, barring double sided memory, which I failed to find over the years.

  OS should offload unused memory

  Except that it was not happening in case of EGS. It was most probably doing something in the background, preventing suspension.

  something like the Rockstar or Paradox launcher …

  The paradox launcher is actually pretty fine. It checks for updates pretty quickly and lets me play the game regardless of version. Rockstar, no idea. And I was referring to my experience with Steam. At least when it is on HDD, it takes 30+ seconds to get ready, after I click the direct link to the game (which then starts Steam and the proceeds to not start the game, so I’m better of just clicking the Steam button first). And even with an SSD, it’s more than just a couple of extra seconds.
  I haven’t tried Heroic yet, but considering my experience with Lutris, its is probably also going to be much better than any of the vendor’s solutions, meaning, if you get a GoG launcher, expect it to be worse than Heroic.

  Yes, Proton is the main reason for Steam being worth it for me. Not that it couldn’t have been done is a much lighter package (but I am not taking up that project, so just make do with what’s there).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon uses GOG⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t used Heroic, so can’t say much about whether I’d prefer it.
  But from what I remember of my experience with Epic Games Store back when I was on a Windows 7 PC, it took quite a bit out of my 4GB RAM and made it very difficult to play my game for a long time.

  Honestly, I am fine with a launcher as long as it gets out of the memory when the game starts.
  But also, I don’t want the restrictions that come with it, so not really a launcher, but a download/update manager at most, would be fine in this case.

  The reason I don’t like the word “launcher” in this case, is because it is implying that it will be required to start the game, which might be fine for games that need to be up to date, just to function but for all the others, it’s just an unnecessary extra 30+ seconds after I click the game icon.

  I mean, look how fast and light, the update checking scripts are on Linux ^[except Ubuntu. Well, I only properly remember the EndeavourOS one and that the Ubuntu one was a massive slowdown. There may be others that are not as good.]
  You don’t need to start up a whole web-browser (full, with a JS engine) and connect to 10 other things before checking for updates. Just get something lightweight like RSS on the server, that tells the current version by query and let the client check that against the version no. file on the system, with 0 GUI until it actually requires a download and even then, it can simply use the system’s “Notifications” system to tell you that there is an update available.
  The blocking checker is only required for games that won’t work unless updated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inspirational⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s why try multiple times and aim higher every time until 45°
  Once you reach that, if you are still falling short, you know you have no chance, unless you increase the launch speed.

  Of course, you can try to properly calculate drag for each projectile and set that as the maximum, but it’s fine for a one-off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inspirational⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Go with a fantasy arrow made of light, for the last one.