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Any url that ends in .io is pronounced as if it was Italian.

I recently played Curse of Strahd and that dude had food that had been sitting out since before he was a vampire and entire rooms full of cobwebs.

I just assumed that if a motherboard had an RGB header you could control it from the BIOS, because that's how it worked ten years ago. But no, these days you need their software, which crashes on install under windows and doesn't support anything else.

If you are lucky OpenRGB might work.

One common misconception about meditation is that meditation is and end goal, not a practice. That to meditate is to sit down and have your brain be quiet, and if you can't do that, your session was a failure.

But that's like saying weight lifting is about deadlifting your body weight, and any session you don't manage do that was a failure. That is something you might be able to do after years of training. But you start with the smaller weights, learning form and technique, setting reasonable goals, and find a practice that you can make a habit out of. Because a five minute walk every day beats a day at the gym/retreat once a year.

You are stuck with yourself for the rest of your life. So just like when you have a coworker or classmate that you don't like but must work with, you just have to get a working relationship going where you can get stuff done and not fight.

Try to not get annoyed at yourself, reward good behavior, be kind even when you don't deserve it, be the bigger person etc.

More generally, feelings do not care about facts. We must accept how we feel, even if those feelings don't "make sense". Trying to reason with feelings is a fools errand.

That doesn't mean we can't change how we feel. It just doesn't happen by denying reality.

A simple experiment to get an intuitive understanding of pulleys:

Take a piece of string and hold one end in your right hand, then hold your left hand higher and let the string run over it and hang down.

Now as you move your right hand up or down, the free end will move the same distance. But if you move your left hand up or down, the free end must move twice the distance, because you have string on either side of the hand that must both move that distance. So you are amplifying the movement, getting twice the movement at half the force.

If instead you wanted to amplify the force, as in a pulley, then stand on the free end of the string (so it's no longer free) and pull down with your right hand. You are now amplifying the force exerted on your left hand, because it moves only half the distance of the right, so you get double the force. And this is exactly how a pulley works. Add more loops to get even more force at the cost of even more movement.

I figured this out while playing with the cats, and it made pulleys just make sense. Hopefully it can do the same for someone else :)

Or it measured how rare it was for them to get candy. The most interesting thing about the experiment is honestly the many ways in which it was flawed.

Where would you expect the ingredient information to exist if not on the ingredient label?

There aren't even any nuts in it! It's all a lie!

The French trade union Solidaires Informatique has pursued both criminal and civil charges. Not sure how much that accomplished, but at the very least a bunch of assholes were fired or resigned, so they weren't completely ineffective.

Then change the keyboard shortcuts of your terminal so that it does that. If you can't, then switch to a terminal that lets you change the keyboard shortcuts.