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[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 13 hours ago

When people say that, they mean they're so much smarter than everyone else they could fix it all in a moment.

Of course, in reality, the cranky old man saying that has just stayed so uninformed about the issues he doesn't know what he doesn't know.

[–] CanadaPlus 3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Don’t eat snow to rehydrate yourself. It will only make you freeze to death faster. Melt the snow outside of your body first.

Wait, how does that work? It seems like it should take the same energy to melt it either way.

Also, do people not know every berry isn't edible? Even here where not a lot grows, there's plenty of decorative ones around that will give you the violent shits.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

I imagine psychologists can do more with it, but in practice the main thing I see formal fallacies used for is as something to shout during a debate, and it never seems to convince anyone.

If you can catch yourself using one, that's good I guess.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Which can be or not be electric, and which move stuff on and off of trucks and ships, generally.

I think what happened here is that you started talking about a different, important but unrelated issue. I get it, I've done that too, but it's not how you conduct a conversation.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 20 hours ago

Pretty much what I do with Lemmy, too.

[–] CanadaPlus 11 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Out of milk: Killed process 8008135

Or, alternately, if step one doesn't internally handle the cap being missing it silently hangs or halts there, and the user is too busy catatonically staring at the spout to enjoy anything.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 21 hours ago

Is this yiff?

[–] CanadaPlus 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Mmmmmm. Don't tease me this way!

Edit: Well, after reading this article, they're not really. This is just something they hypothetically could do.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Except... just not to.

Maybe the golden toilet guy doesn't understand, but you can endure unpleasant things. I pretty much believe the people of Gaza will never leave their home alive - many wouldn't given the chance, and the other Arab countries don't need more reason than that not to collaborate in taking them in.

[–] CanadaPlus 5 points 21 hours ago

Oh no, bun alert is leaking.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

I mean, it dovetails into nihilism too. God and cosmic justice is dead, we have to figure out how to work with what we have.

Unfortunately both nihilism and stoicism have a different meaning to the average reader than the original one.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Exactly. I feel like just listing them out is of limited use because of that.

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I just found out DivestOS is dead and could use it.

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Refactoring gets really bad reviews, but from where I'm sitting as a hobby programmer in relative ignorance it seems like it should be easier, because you could potentially reuse a lot of code. Can someone break it down for me?

I'm thinking of a situation where the code is ugly but still legible here. I completely understand that actual reverse engineering is harder than coding on a blank slate.

 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/20865153

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22774281

Usually i don't suggest prime gaming but this game is totally worth the hassle to make a free trial subscription. The free key is for the GoG site.

DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.

 
 

This is one of those takes that's so controversial I'm afraid to post it, which is exactly why I have to.

I neither endorse nor disavow this, and no, I'm not in the picture.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/33597552

Summary from the 404 media newsletter

Heart cockles, a group of marine molluscs, contain little communities of algae in their shells as part of a symbiotic relationship; the algae get shelter and protection, and the cockles get algae-processed nutrients.

Now, scientists have discovered that cockle shells have a host of mind-boggling adaptations to keep these algae happy, including windows that offer “the first example of fiber optic cable bundles in a living creature.”

“We show that the fibrous prismatic crystals act like parallel bundles of fiber optic cables in the shell windows, not just transmitting light but projecting high-resolution images through the window,” that have “a resolution of >100 lines/mm,” said researchers led by Dakota McCoy of the University of Chicago.

From the article in the link above:

Fig. 1: Heart cockles (Corculum cardissa and Corculum spp.) are asymmetrical, photosymbiotic bivalves.

Fig. 2: Transparent windows allow heart cockle shells to transmit 11–62% of photosynthetically active radiation (mean = 31%) and significantly screen out UV radiation (mean = 14%, range = 5–28%).

New plant evolution possibility just dropped?

 

I considered posting this elsewhere, but only Canadians are really going to get why it's funny. Regina being totally self aware about it's (lack of) reputation made it for me.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/21879517

A link to the preprint. I'll do the actual math on how many transitions/second it works out to later and edit.

I've had an eye on this for like a decade, so I'm hyped.

Edit:

So, because of the structure of the crystal the atoms are in, it actually has 5 resonances. These were expected, although a couple other weak ones showed up as well. They give a what I understand to be a projected undisturbed value of 2,020,407,384,335.(2) KHz.

Then a possible redefinition of the second could be "The time taken for 2,020,407,384,335,200 peaks of the radiation produced by the first nuclear isomerism of an unperturbed ^229^Th nucleus to pass a fixed point in space."

 

A link to the preprint. I'll do the actual math on how many transitions/second it works out to later and edit.

I've had an eye on this for like a decade, so I'm hyped.

Edit:

So, because of the structure of the crystal the atoms are in, it actually has 5 resonances. These were expected, although a couple other weak ones showed up as well. They give a what I understand to be a projected undisturbed value of 2,020,407,384,335.(2) KHz.

Then a possible redefinition of the second could be "The time taken for 2,020,407,384,335,200 peaks of the radiation produced by the first nuclear isomerism of an unperturbed ^229^Th nucleus to pass a fixed point in space."

 

Per the rules, this is the original headline. However, the interesting part is that he's preparing a Gaza offer that he says will be "final".

They've hewn very close to the whole "unconditional support" thing, so I'm curious what that means exactly.

 
 

The Wikipedia article on Steiner constructions mentions it, but doesn't explain it, and the source linked is a book I don't have. This has come up in a practical project.

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