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by grues-dinner 1y ago
You have to have at least two kids for that, and with a big enough age difference for it to work. And if it goes wrong you can get prosecuted for that and/or dragged through public infamy. In fact even if it doesn't go wrong you c
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
Additionally, children are expected and virtually required to be supervised 24/7 for the first 14-ish years. Kicking kids out to play like Just William while Mrs Brown goes to the Women's Institute all afternoon is now called negl
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
I guess the biggest one is "church". But to get into that requires accepting (or pretending to accept, I suppose) the horizontal memetic transfer of the specific denomination.
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
Gitlab has killed this with their slide in issues. If you have an issue open, and you copy the address, it's just a huge unique ID context thing. So you have to scroll to the top and use the little copy link button at the top of the pa
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
Being unable to select text out of a link is absolutely infuriating when you want to just copy a piece of it, either because it's a reference number or something, or you want to translate it. Mobile is nearly impossible, and desktop is
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
> Scammers hijack the call How do you do this bit? Is the caller deliberately cooperating, or they think they're using a real service? I remember calling transcontinentally in the noughties - I would top up an international calls ac
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
Very https://xkcd.com/1028/
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
I would think so, but perhaps for the people who are self-defined by the magnitude of their wealth they become more and more obsessed by it as their expenditures on "real" things dwindles in comparison.
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
> The fine appears to be the largest issued over AI fabrications by a California court This is a bit like all the stats like "this is appears to be an unprecedented majority in the last 10 years in a Vermont county starting with G
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
If a video game company can fund building a fusion reactor, maybe a stealth breakthrough in energy densities coming from a sweet company is just how things roll these days!
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
Yeah they work fine too. The point is not that you need stones to sharpen knives at all, but you don't need insanely expensive glass or diamond stones like the YouTubers tend to tell you to get to shaving-sharp if you want to. Just don
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
In particular, you don't need expensive stones, guides or lapping systems to do it. An aliexpress-grade 3000/8000 waterstone, a flattening stone and a strop will get most knives shaving the hairs off your arm for under £20 all-in.
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
"Sorry the power is out - the concrete got sick". And ensuring electrode integrity is probably quite fiddly during construction and maintenance is presumably also fiddly.
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
If interrupting a video to remind me that I watched a film (that I didn't even especially like) two weeks ago is the best modern big-data AI-leveraging advertising tech can do maybe adtech isn't worth all the data centres full of
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
This is just God's way of telling you that a screen on a fridge is still a stupid idea. If you really, really need to have your fridge manage your sell by dates somehow or give you recipes based on what it thinks it has in it (and hope
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
Pretty much every day Amazon advertises a film to me that I watched on the same platform's account a couple of weeks ago. Presumably it also knows enough to determine that the account isn't shared so it's not advertising to
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
I think in this case the concept of North came first and which end of a magnet points that way came second. Compasses are old, but not as old as the sunrise/set, which are (presumably) the original vaguely universal directions and defi
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
The Zulip app is just fine, at least on Android.
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
Even in China, flying is usually cheaper than HSR, and over twice as fast once airborne (300km/hr train vs 800km/hr plane). But getting and through airports is still more of a hassle than the trains. Even when taxis are fairly ch
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
BMW also bravely took the PR hit of going first for renting bits of the car to you (like the heated seats).
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
Assuming Chinese competitors get cut off as a "threat to national security", I'm sure Waymo would behave responsibility as a monopoly and won't be driving for a system that "accidentally" end with private car o
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
> Maybe that setup works in China It doesn't, really. China sells absolutely fucktons of cars domestically. There are also dozens of brands that most people have never even heard of and don't even get exported because domestic
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
Probably not ideal if one company controls the whole shebang though.
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
I'm getting videos with under 10 views in my recommendations now. They're AI generated "educational" videos, but sound like interesting documentaries. Considering how many users YouTube had the chances that I could be i
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
I used to use i3. Even now I've mostly moved to Cinnamon via KDE (which I abandoned as Plasma made my laptop fans spin too much, maybe user error? I never solved it) I haven't "settled" on anywhere and never really felt
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
To be honest I sometimes feel that my aversion to getting looked into an ecosystem is actually a detriment in some ways. I have a horrible mishmash of apps and programs and nothing integrates really well long term (story of life on a Linux
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
> The current data provided by the main retailers for the reporting year 2024 to 2025 shows a reduction of almost 98% on the annual number of single-use carrier bags sold since the charge was introduced. https://www.gov.uk&#x2
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
There's more silicon in the battery charge controller probably (bigger transistors). The MCU is just a speck. Ironically making these disposable vapes "reusable" causes more e-waste as now they need a connector and charge con
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
The micro in this thing is a WQFN-16 (W = very very thin, thinner than V for very) with 3x3x0.75mm body. That's around a fiftieth of a gram of plastic. I think the bigger SOIC chip is probably the battery charge IC. And then maybe a gr
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by grues-dinner 1y ago
Apparently they're cheap because they're a flash memory company that bolts a little CPU onto their own flash, rather than a CPU company having to then buy the more expensive flash with a markup.

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