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I use Reddit through Relay and it's gone now. Even if I want to use Reddit, I have to jump through hoops to use it.

To me, it's a way to quantify how other people feel about my own positions. It's neither good nor bad to be upvoted or downvoted. People have unpopular takes sometimes and you shouldn't stake your identity on the amount of upvotes or downvotes you have.

Instead, upvotes and downvotes are most useful for other people to guage comments. Generally speaking, if a comment is universally downvoted, that likely means the position is unpopular enough that it adds no value to a discussion, and is therefore not worth engaging with.

I consider it to be a system built upon mutual understanding - that you don't have to seriously engage with everyone's viewpoints, and conversely, that nobody has to seriously engage with yours.

It becomes a problem when upvotes and downvotes are gamified like on Reddit, because Goodhart's Law demands that it stops serving its purpose when people are only attempting to optimize their upvote/downvote ratio.

It doesn't get crispy, but on the other hand, less microplastics on your food, so that's a fine trade anyways.

Pro tip: microwave for half the microwave time, then bake for half the baking time. That reproduces the original crispiness without the sleeve

If parasites weren't an effective life strategy, there wouldn't be parasites in the world

Funny you bring up eel reproduction. Had to share. https://youtu.be/TzN148WQ2OQ

Have you never seen a bottle brush? If not, get one. It'll change your life

Probably not a good idea to go for SteamOS. I get the appeal, but I've since come to realize that SteamOS isn't going to work for what we want. It's designed for handhelds, so it's never going to be seamless for desktops.

Valve's work on SteamOS is open so their work is utilized by a bunch of other distros. So you can actually get the best of both worlds if you expand your options a bit. Pick a popular distro and you'll be fine

For windows-only software, you can keep a copy of windows as a dual boot. Not the most ideal solution, but minimizing windows usage by any little bit decreases the chances of you getting annoyed at Windows.

Alternatively, if it's a lightweight software, you could run it in a virtual machine and use something like WinApps to blend it into Linux

My personal opinion - tower coolers are frankly overkill for the vast majority of what you need to do. Most of the time you'll be GPU-bound, so it's not that essential to have top notch cooling on your CPU, and especially since the CPU that you have isn't particularly power hungry (compared to the competition). Having 1 fan is probably going to be sufficient.

I would try it out and see what the temps are at idle and at load and see if you're comfortable with those results

This is a map of signaling pathways in a cell. Essentially, how does a cell detect a stimulus and how does the cell respond to it. Signaling networks are notoriously difficult to parse, in major part because many of the proteins that make up the network are promiscuous (meaning that they target many types of proteins instead of just 1). Think of network as less of a series of defined steps and more of a chaotic mess. It's so chaotic that most maps will select a theme (ie, hormone detection, stress signaling, infection, etc.) and only show the interactions that are relevant to that theme. Unfortunately, that also means that each map will show a network that's completely different from the others, even though the proteins are the same.

The joke here is that it's very tempting to make another map. This map is finally going to solve cell biology, I promise, we just have to make another map. Ignore the fact that we already have so many maps, just one more map is all we need

First, make sure you're never alone with her. It's important to have someone be able to vouch for you that nothing bad happened. Even if it's not her intention, rumors spread and mutate in the most unexpected ways, and you'll want to make sure you're in the clear if it ever comes to pass that people start to suspect that you are having a relationship with her.

Second, you'll want to speak with her. Make it clear that you are serious and that this is a serious talk. Whenever you see her next, just say something like "we need to have a talk." Might be cliche, but the cliche aspect of it reinforces the serious nature of it IMO, since most people already associate that phrase with something serious.

You don't need to be rude, but you need to be very clear where you stand on the matter. Make it clear that 1) you are not in a relationship with her, 2) you do not wish to be in a relationship with her, 3) you don't appreciate her saying that you're in a relationship with her. With talks of this nature, there's no point beating around the bush. She may be temporarily hurt, but there is a difference between being hurt due to rejection and hurt due to injustice. She will come to appreciate the honesty in time.