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Shit, is that being considered?
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Yeah, and the magnet was not to blame for this incident despite how the title of this article reads. Given all the (alleged, I guess) facts of the case, I'm pretty sure sure the cops showed up in a clown car that played Yackety Sax when the horn was pressed.
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At work, I used to use a Mac, and when they switched me to the model with the touch bar (because of a recall around potential battery explosions), I had a terrible issue with hitting that fucking Siri button just barely north of where my backspace key was all the time when I was trying to hit backspace. This would be similar.
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I do this sometimes, and I hate when I catch myself doing it.
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First off, MS Gothic is a monospace font. (Meaning all characters have the same width and move the cursor by the same horizontal distance. Ok, that's a slight oversimplification. Especially when you're dealing with asian characters, there's a possibility of "double-width" characters which are twice the width of "single-width" characters and move the cursor twice as far.) In sites like Lemmy, there are usually ways to tell Lemmy to switch into "monospace" like you did with the first cat art you posted in the body of your post. And that ensures consistency in the output. With non-monospace fonts, it's more of a crapshoot. Arial's "m" might be a different width than Comic Sans', for instance. Typically, sites like Lemmy (or 4chan or Reddit or Facebook or whathaveyou) won't have ways to specify a particular font (different Lemmy clients are also free to use different fonts), so if you composed ASCII art with a non-monospace font and pasted it into a Lemmy post/comment, even if it looks right to you in Lemmy, it may not look right to other viewers of your post. And that's why monospace is popular for these things.
How to make these? I honestly don't know if there are specialized tools for that. Probably just a standard text editor. The examples you posted have some asian characters in them, so a way to input such characters. I'm on a Linux machine and have fcitx set up for Japanese text input. If you're on another OS, I'd expect the way to set up input for asian characters would be different. Alternatively, there are probably unicode character explorers/apps that can be used and don't require quite the learning curve.
As for how to manage these, no idea. I can think roughly about how I might go about writing a program that migth manage these, but I'm not sure if any exist out there currently.
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"Thrice" is a somewhat obscure word that otherwise fits.
"Adventitious" is a good one. It means "non-inherent" or "acquired" (as opposed to inherent.)
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Yeah, but I can see how a 6-year-old living a 90s suburban childhood might think the way Calvin does.
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And Dumbledore dies at the end.
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Oh it's worse than that. Or maybe you're talking about a different one. But the one I remember involved the 4channer absent-mindedly leaving the cum jar with his Rainbow Dash figurine in it on the radiator heating thing and finding said cumjar boiling. He boiled Rainbow Dash in cum.
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ATBGE?
Never have I been so ashamed to cast an upvote. I'm still considering swapping for a downvote.
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Where do you get these questions?
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I use dmenu_run because it's ridiculously minimal, has zero dependencies, is very fast, and fits with the i3 aesthetic well.
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You ok?
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Probably better be careful to proofread it. If you're about to be fired for something you let ChatGPT tell an important client, I wouldn't think "it was ChatGPT's fault" is going to make much difference in your favor.
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I once had an interesting conversation with a nurse at my GP's office. I was scheduling an appointment with my GP. The nurse asked what I wanted to see him about. I mentioned light headedness, dizziness, globus, chest pain, palpi-
She stopped me at "chest pain" and said "I'm going to write down chest pressure, because otherwise, they'll send you to the ER."
At the time, I was scheduled for all the heart tests you can think of and a few neurological tests and had been having chest pain daily for months during which I'd had plenty of heart tests already. And the nurse was familiar with my case. Had she not been, she definitely would have just sent me to the ER.
She made the right call. All the heart and brain tests came back fine. Nobody ever saw fit to give me a diagnosis beyond "your nervous system is too sensitive." (I asked if he was talking about "dysautonomia" and he agreed to that. Not a "diagnosis" per se, but better than nothing.)
So, there's this guy at work, right? And I've been working with him for probably a year or so by the time this story takes place. Same team and everything. Kindof elbow-to-elbow. Good guy. The company would take us all out to lunch occasionally. And this one time, 15 or so of us are all sat down at the chain restaurant and shooting the shit about whatever. And the music playing at the restaurant plays a song by Imagine Dragons. And then some other random song. And then another one by Imagine Dragons. I don't remember specifically how many Imagine Dragons songs they played before we even got our food, but it was enough in a short enough period that someone commented "huh, they're playing a lot of Imagine Dragons today." And this was in the period when it was in vogue to dunk on Imagine Dragons, right? And so I'm like "yeah, at least they're playing Imagine Dragons songs from back when Imagine Dragons was good." And I expect folks to banter back at me and maybe some folks would defend Imagine Dragons, but probably more would agree, or even take the position that Imagine Dragons was never good. (Again, that was in vogue at the time.) But everyone just kind of looks at me awkwardly. And I have no idea what's going on until the guy next to me leans over and lets me in on it. Apparently the guy directly across from me *grew up with* the Imagine Dragons band members and nearly ended up in the band at one point in his life. And I worked with the guy for a year and never knew that. And I kindof looked like an asshole over it. What are the chances! I don't live anywhere near Las Vegas where Imagine Dragons came from or anything. I appologised, of course. He kindof laughed it off, but I still felt bad about it. In retrospect, a piece of me wonders if the boss hadn't called ahead and asked the restaurant to play a lot of Imagine Dragons just to make the guy across from me feel special or something. But then again, the vibe this chain restaurant gave off was that probably the restaurant didn't really control the playlist at all. Probably it was just some XM station or something. (It didn't have a DJ or any speaking between songs or anything. Just music. So *maybe* that gives some credence to the boss-called-ahead theory? Dunno. Dunno.) Maybe some day I should call the restaurant and ask if they're able to take music requests or whatever just to get some closure. Lol.
Yesterday, I started watching [a video on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFhn3IO23lE&t=273s&pp=ygUJZ251IHRhbGVy) but closed out of my browser (Firefox) only a few minutes into the video. I've got my Firefox set to delete all cookies, history, form data, etc on every close. (Pretty much everything but bookmarks.) The image on this post is a screenshot of my relevant settings. Today, after having exited my browser and fully shut down my computer for a while, I remembered the video and decided to continue watching it. In Firefox, I searched for the video (I used the search term "gnu taler" -- something worth looking into especially for folks interested in this particular Lemmy community by the way). In the search results, [the video I was searching for showed the red bar at the bottom indicating I'd watched only the first few minutes of it](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/63e07f0e-4a01-4cd6-b282-baf8acd0556d.png). Which seems weird given that I'd cleared all my browser data since I watched the first few minutes. So I did some experimentation. I closed my browser completely again and opened it back up, searched in YouTube, and it still had the indicator. I updated to the latest version of Firefox in the Arch package repository. Same indicator. I tried the same in Chromium (which I've also got set to delete all browser data on close). Still the indicator. I installed Tor Browser Bundle (specifically torbrowser-launcher on Arch Linux), changed none of the default settings at all, and searched in YouTube. The indicator is present. In Tor Browser Bundle. W T F ? Anybody have any idea how that's possible? My only guesses are: * That search is so niche as to be literally unique (which if true makes me sad -- I really hope GNU Taler takes off and becomes widespread) and YouTube is using that to identify me. * YouTube doesn't know where I left off at all. Not even my browser knows (because if it was my browser keeping track, it wouldn't persist between browsers). It's something else on my system that my browsers depend on or tap into. The only other pieces of relevant info I can think to share: * There's another video (also about GNU Taler) that I watched all the way through the same day that I *started* the video this post is about. It doesn't show any indicator. * I tried searching on my phone's browser. No indicator. But then I'm not sure my phone ever shows indicators. I haven't tried this on any other devices on my network or anything. * I still haven't watched the video in question. Heh. Thanks in advance for any insight you might have. Edit: Sorry for neglecting to mention previously that at no point during any of the above did I log in to YouTube. And the "Sign in" button was visible at the top of the page indicating I wasn't logged in. Since multiple people asked, I figured I should edit my OP with that info. Edit2: Two more things to mention. I think some folks are thinking I copied the link and pasted it between browsers during the above test or something? The only reason the timestamp is included in the link I posted above is because when I copied it into this post, I didn't think to remove the timestamp. But I didn't do anything like copying the link from the search results in one browser and then paste the link into TBB or anything. In each separate browser, immediately after opening the browser, I went to YouTube (by typing "youtube.com<enter>" into the address bar) and put "gnu taler" into the search bar and hit enter. And in each browser, YouTube somehow remembered where I'd left off in a whole different browser -- with a different IP address in the case of the switch from Chromium to TBB. And no urls were copied between browsers in any of the above. The other thing to mention. Changing my search term to the full title of the video ("Building an Open Source Payment System - Sebastian Javier Marchano, Taler System" sans quotes) gives the relevant video as the top search result, but no "left off" indicator. And I'm in the Firefox in which I first noticed it had remembered. Oh, actually, one *more* thing to mention. After posting this, I continued watching. I'm probably about 3/4 done with it now. But I closed my browser again before completing it, reopened my browser, and searched "gnu taler". It gives the indicator, but the position of the indicator is roughly (possibly exactly) where it was when I first noticed it had remembered. Not where I left off after watching to roughly the 3/4 mark. Edit3: Wow! Ok. I'm 99% sure folks smarter than me have hit upon what's going on here. Thanks in particular to Tony N and Chozo for the right answer. It looks like YouTube has a feature where, depending on your search terms, it may automatically skip you a certain ways into the video. (Like "oh, you searched for 'gnu taler'? Well, in *this* video result, this bit in the middle is the part that's relevant to your search terms, so we'll just start you such-and-such-many seconds into the video.") The red bar doesn't mean "you've watched this" at all. And YouTube isn't "remembering me" between browsers. It's just consistently (as long as I use the specific search terms "gnu taler") suggesting that I start that video 273 seconds in rather than from the beginning. And anyone who searches that exact search term should get similar results... unless they're on mobile for some weird reason? That paired with the coincidence that I'm pretty sure I just happened to have stopped the video yesterday right about at the same place where YouTube recommends you start had me very confused. Whatever the case, I'm satisfied this must be the right answer. Thanks again, ya'll!
This post really isn't the usual faire of this community. Sorry about that. If there's a better place for me to put this, definitely feel free to point me there. But, to the point of my post, before Bitcoin became a *widespread* cult, back when all Bitcoin was was a couple of posts on Slashdot, back when mining it was comparatively extremely easy/quick/"profitable", I mined some Bitcoin. About 1/20 of a Bitcoin. Just by, like, leaving my computer on for a month or so. And I still have access to it. And Bitcoin ~~is worth~~ can be sold for $62,000 USD per bitcoin right now which makes my little 1/20 of a Bitcoin tradeable for about $3,100 of real money. *Now* I know that blockchain is just straight up a scam. But I've still got this Bitcoin in a wallet on a hard drive in my posession. (I know, the wallet doesn't actually "contain" the Bitcoin. Leave me alone.) The obvious thing to do with it would be to sell it now, but that would leave some poor chap(s) holding a $3,100 bag in a way that I wouldn't feel great about. I could just sit on it forever. I suppose I could sell it and donate the proceeds to some cause I thought to be worthy or anti-crypto. If there were enough crypto-skeptics had cryptocurrencies and wanted cryptocurrency to die in a fire, they(/we?) could coordinate to use our collective cryptocurrency in a way that most damages the market and hopefully hastens a crash-to-zero. (But the likelihood that there'd be enough cryptocurrency in the hands of crypto-skeptics to pull that off seems low.) Or I could print out my private keys, delete them from my hard drive, and ceremonially burn the papers while chanting "web3 is going great". And maybe this post is just me asking like-minded folks to give me permission to just sell it and leave someone holding a bag so I can buy myself a new OLED TV. Heh. Whatever the case, I wanted to hear you folks' takes. Edit: Thanks for the input, everyone. I'm gonna sell it.
I linked to MSN because (at least for me) it wasn't paywalled. The original source for the article can be found on the Washington Post's website [here](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/15/amazon-one-medical-patient-safety/) but *is* paywalled.
If I had a nickel for every one I've seen, I'd have two nickels, which isn't much, but it's strange it happened twice. And I have no idea what it means. A couple of examples: [One](https://lemmy.world/post/16185922?scrollToComments=true) and [two](https://lemmy.world/post/16183003?scrollToComments=true).
This was on the Netflix login page until pretty recently. I can't be the only one who thought it was unintentionally... suggestive, right?
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Please tell me I'm not the only one still obsessed with these things. Edit: Woah. I *am* the only one still obsessed with Animutations, aren't I? They're mine! All mine!
It bugs me when people say "the thing is is that" (if you listen for it, you'll start hearing it... or maybe that's something that people only do in my area.) ("What the thing is is that..." is fine. But "the thing is is that..." bugs me.) Also, "just because <blank> doesn't mean <blank>." That sentence structure invites one to take "just because <blank>" as a noun phrase which my brain really doesn't want to do. Just doesn't seem right. But that sentence structure is very common. And I'm not saying there's anything objectively wrong with either of these. Language is weird and complex and beautiful. It's just fascinating that some commonly-used linguistic constructions just hit some people wrong sometimes. Edit: I thought of another one. "As best as I can." "The best I can" is fine, "as well as I can" is good, and "as best I can" is even fine. But "as best as" hurts.
And if you disagree with any of my answers, you're just wrong.
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"Vindaloo" is a running joke in the series Red Dwarf to which this song is the theme song.
Apparently I'm banned from !imageai@sh.itjust.works now. That's a community for posting AI-generated images. My feed is set to "all"/"new". So I see every post that comes into the Lemmy servers that lemmy.world federates with. Or at least those that come in while I'm on and browsing. I downvote what I don't like. And I don't like AI-generated images. I downvote any that come across my feed. I don't seek out AI-generated images to downvite. (That feels too much like brigading.) So, I wouldn't, say, go to !imageai@sh.itjust.works and downvote every post there. Just the ones that "organically" come across my feed. Today, I clicked "downvote" on a post from !imageai@sh.itjust.works and the down-arrow wouldn't change color to register my downvote. Lemmy's error messaging is lacking, so I had to go to my developer tools to find out for sure, but the server clearly indicated the reason why it wouldn't accept my downvote was because I was banned from !imageai@sh.itjust.works . (I *can* downvote posts on other sh.itjust.works communities.) So, apparently one of the mods of !imageai@sh.itjust.works noticed I downvoted some posts from !imageai@sh.itjust.works and had never upvoted any posts in that community and decided to ban me. I'm honestly not really sure whether I or they (or both or neither) am/are in the wrong here. But I was interested to see that just downvoting could get me banned from a community. Anyone else been banned from any communities for similar behavior?
Over-the-counter diphenhydramine, for instance, at least in my country, says adults can take "1 to 2 tablets every 4 to 6 hours." If you decide "my symptoms aren't so bad; I'll just take one" and then two hours later your symptoms are still bad (or worse), is it safe to take a second tab then? And if you do, should you wait until "4 to 6 hours" after taking the *first* tablet or the second to take an additional tablet? Does it depend on the drug? (Maybe it's fine for diphenhydramine but not for ibuprophen?) I'd imagine blood levels of any particular drug tend to quickly spike and then exponentially decay back to undetectable levels. If you take two tabs, I'd imagine that graph is just twice as tall. If you wait a couple of hours between tabs, it's got two spikes and the second is a little higher than the first (but not as high as the two-tabs-at-the-same-time spike.) If the concern is total concentration of drug in the bloodstream at any one point, a second tab a couple hours later is less of a concern than two tabs at the same time. If the concern is total area under the curve, then probably there's no difference between two tabs at the same time and a couple of hours between. If the concern is total time spent with a blood concentration of such-and-such, I could see there being more concern with taking a second tab just a couple of hours after the first. And maybe there are other effects that I'm not aware of. Maybe if the blood concentration kicks up to two-tabs-at-once levels, the liver kicks into high gear, clearing the drug out quicker, but if you go a couple of hours between tabs, the liver neve kicks into high gear or some such. And maybe this question hasn't even been well studied and maybe there's not really any good answer. But if there is, I'm curious.
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This guy's one of the few and the brave actually saying publicly that AI is a bubble. I think most other public figures are scared to be proven wrong and made to look foolish. Doctorow's not committing to the idea that AI will never have any use, but at least he's countering a lot of the ridiculous claims the "AI Industry" is making lately.
I've got a pretty severe sensitivity to -- of all things -- sugar. (I know, "sugar" isn't very precise, but I'm pretty sure it's either glucose, fructose, or sucrose.) I virtually never eat anything with added sugar or anything with any significant amount of natural sugar. And I've eaten that way for like 20 years now. I'm practically blind to half the produce department (any "sweet" fruits like apples, pears, cherries, grapes, oranges, etc) at the grocery store, let alone the candy isle.
I've been thinking about this for a while now. Richard Stallman has been practically synonymous with Free Software since its inception. And there are good reasons why. It was his idea, and it was his passion that made the movement what it is today. I deeply believe in the mission of the Free Software movement. But more and more, it seems that in order to survive, the Free Software movement may need to distance itself from him. Richard Stallman has said some really disturbingly reprehensible things on multiple occasions ([one](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/richard-stallman-leaves-mit-after-controversial-remarks-on-rape/) and [two](https://www.stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#23_September_2018_(Cody_Wilson))). (He has said he's changed these opinions, but it seems to me the damage is done.) He's [asked](https://www.fsf.org/news/rms-addresses-the-free-software-community) that people blame him and not the FSF for these statements, but it seems naive to me to expect that to be enough not to tarnish the FSF's reputation in the eyes of most people. And Richard Stallman isn't the only problematic figure associated with the Free Software movement.. Eben Moglen (founder, Direct-Council, and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center which is closely associated with the FSF) has been accused of much abusive and anti-LGBTQIA+ behavior over which the Free Software Foundation Europe and Software Freedom Concervancy have cut ties with the SFLC and Moglen ([one](https://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2023/10/11/moglen-sflc.html) and [two](https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/oct/11/joint-statement-fsfe/)). Even aside from the public image problems, it seems like the FSF and SFLC have been holding back the Free Software movement strategically. Eben Moglan has long been adamant that the GPL shouldn't be interpreted as a contract -- only as a copyright license. What the SFC is doing now with the Visio lawsuit is only possible because the SFC had the courage to abandon that theory. I sense there's a rift in the Free Software movement. Especially given that the SFC and FSF Europe explicitly cutting ties with the SFLC and Moglen. And individual supporters of Free Software are going to have to decide which parties in this split are going to speak for and champion the cause of the community as a whole. I imagine it's pretty clear by this point that I favor the SFC in this split. I like what I've seen from the SFC in general. Not just the Visio lawsuit. But also [the things I've heard said by SFC folks](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUEeuNvX2UyTTyTYXR9dm_A). If the Free Software movement needs a single personality to be its face moving forward, I'd love for that face to be [Bradley M. Kuhn](https://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/), executive director of the SFC. He seems to have all of Stallman's and Moglen's assets (passion, dedication, an unwillingness to bend, and experience and knowledge of the legal aspects of Free Software enforcement) perhaps even more so than Stallman and Moglen do. And Kuhn excels in all the areas where Stallman and Moglen perhaps don't so much (social consciousness, likeability, strategy.) I can't say enough good things about Kuhn, really. (And [his Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_M._Kuhn) doesn't even *have* a "controversies" section.) (Also, please tell me there aren't any skeletons in his closet.) Even if the community does come to a consensus that the movement should distance itself from Stallman and Moglen, it'll be difficult to achieve such a change in public perception and if it's achieved, it may come at a cost. After all, Stallman is the first person everybody pictures when the FSF is mentioned. And acknowledging the problems with the Free Software movement's "old brass" may damage the reputation of Free Software as a whole among those who might not differentiate between the parties in this split. But I feel it may be necessary for the future of the Free Software movement. That's my take, anyway. I'll hop down off of my soap box, now. But I wanted to bring this up, hopefully let some folks whose ideals align with those of the Free Software movement about all this if they weren't already aware, and maybe see what folks in general think about the future of the Free Software movement.
Often times, when looking at the comments on a post, some comments are hidden and replaced by a button that (in Lemmy-UI) says "1 more reply ➔" or "2 more replies ➔" (or in Lemuroid says "1 more replies") or some such. I assume the intent of this button is to cause the hidden comment to be shown, but the button never works for me. I have similar issues in both Lemmy-UI and in Lemuroid. In Lemmy-UI on Firefox (on a Raspberry Pi 4 running Arch Linux Arm, but I doubt that matters), if I click the button, it turns into a loading graphic which spins forever. If I tap the button in Lemuroid, a loading bar appears at the top of the screen for a little under a second and then disappears, but the "1 more replies" button remains and the hidden comments do not appear. Given that this is an issue in both interfaces I use, maybe that means it's a Lemmy issue and not specific to Lemmy-UI or Lemuroid? Not sure. Looking in Firefox's Developer Tools, it appears that when I click that button, it does send a request to the server and the response is a 200. There's no output in the "console" tab when I click the button. I did go look at the issue trackers for both Lemmy and Lemmy-UI, but haven't found any relevant bugs. Actually, I'm not really sure what criteria are used to decide whether a post should be hidden by default. But I do moderate one community and if the hidden posts are the ones that are most downvoted or some such, it's probably important for mods to be able to see those hidden posts. Thanks in advance! Edit: Well, today it's working in Lemmy-UI but only in some threads. In Lemuroid, the one that *did* work in Lemmy-UI just shows as expanded without me having to expand it, so I'm not sure about Lemuroid. Weird.
Never thought I'd see the day.