It’s just weird that it switches to someone’s Bluetooth. Usually there is some sort of combination of basic authentication required and confirmation. Have you tried something like a “factory reset” on the device?
Not really by much. The only way to avoid a hangover would be to not drink alcohol. Minerals might help a little but they are probably the smallest factor. The easiest way to reduce its impact is with sugar since alcohol impacts your glucose levels. Acetaldehyde builds up in your system without any remedy and that’s a big part of the hangover feeling. Minerals won’t help.
Water, sleep, and fruit are probably your best bet. I usually take water, fruit juice, and an aspirin if I’m expecting a hangover. In the morning, more water, fruit juice, and bread are probably decent hangover remedies.
I don’t think minerals help much. When I was younger, I used to go for a run. Even if I felt terrible, I’d start to feel better after 5-10min of running. But I was younger then. These days, hangovers are rare but brutal.
Arma and Operation Flashpoint is much closer than the other games you mentioned. You might be interested in trying them. But it requires a lot of patience and map reading. Also it’s not finger-level accurate. But the rest is on par.
In Germany, state-recognized churches collect taxes from their members in order to finance their activities as well as wages. Everyone who is a member of an officially recognized religious group automatically gets a percentage of their monthly wage taken from their paycheck. Usually, this amounts to around 9% of income tax — with the exception of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, where the church tax amounts to 8%.
For native Germans, church tax is often automatically collected. Many Germans are baptized at a young age and thereby become members of a particular church, which means they pay taxes to that church when they begin to earn income as an adult.
If you’re a foreigner moving to Germany, you can declare your affiliation to a church when you register at your local citizen’s office.
9%? That’s absurd. Is there a way to remove yourself from this?
Honestly I didn’t realize that. That does make it a bit more reasonable but it’s still a lot of the income tax. But the other explanations I’ve read sort of make it make sense. Churches were the original social services for the needy and Germany basically coopted the model into their tax system - rather than tearing down religious hospitals or making them private.
Ok. But the US did exist during westward expansion. America is a pretty modern look at colonialism. The “USA” territory was originally untouched by westward expansion. It therefore functions as a super recent, unmuddied, look at colonialism. It’s a good example.
I love to just have them on, in the background. These movies are self-aware. The Netflix equivalent has its own universe with internal references to each other, which includes fake countries, maps, etc. I’m no joke invested in the Netflix Christmas-verse or whatever the fuck.
Hallmark is a little less fun to watch, but still quality rubbish. Everyone knows it’s over the top. The actors, producers, and writers are all in on it. I’m not saying that makes them good. They are still bad. But when you watch them knowing the content is almost intentionally cringe, it’s a bit better. With a slight shift in perspective and perhaps a bit of squinting, you can see the Christmas overtures as nothing more than satire. Last year, one movie just threw in a vague reference to Santa. No beard. No glasses. Just a guy who wore a red coat and occasionally would get 1-3 seconds on camera breaking the fourth wall. He had like one line. No gifts. No reindeer. Never interacting with the Christmas Couple. Just essentially an old dude in red. To me, that’s the height of humor. It’s like they’re just wafting a single sprig of holly over the film in the editing room. I crack up every time.
Yeah that’s a fair assessment. But I like the description that they are “careful”. I forget who wrote it, but I remember someone saying that humans rise to the top of the social ladder quickly because we are not careful. We are willing to risk our lives testing a warp drive a day after inventing it. Meanwhile Vulcans would study the warp drive mechanics for a hundred years before testing it out. Vulcans are logically driven, but their logic attempts to preserve life as much as possible (ignoring wedding traditions). Humans use our lives more like Klingons - exploring is our sole form of glory. Klingons seek glory in war. We seek out new life and new civilizations because that is our cause.
So are Vulcans careful and arguably fearful? Sure. But I like the idea of logic as a driver, so I tend to lean towards that since it’s more “canon”.
I disagree. The number of “stuff” is important for RPGs. If you could only pick up “important” things, the game would have no real balance of mystery. Every meaningful item would obviously be useful in some mission or goal. I like it better where the stuff is plentiful and the mystery/puzzle is: can I use this? Can I use this generic poison in this giant pot of booze? Can I use this person’s hand?
I feel like the puzzle is sort of beneficial by hiding important items or clever usages of boring items in the midst of all the guff.
I get why it’s annoying but I think it adds to the games charm.
Lol that’s fair. I really wish we could manage things into chests. I want an armor chest, weapons chest, quest chest, etc. but I feel like the way it works right now isn’t too bad but maybe I’m a glutton for pain.
I want to see a list for each popular server (e.g. the top 10 lemmy instances) and I want to see - for each instance - with whom they federate. How can I do this? Any sure-fire way to know if a instance like HexBear.net is being federated with lemmy.world? How do you know?
I drive a small automatic car. For the most part, it struggles a bit with steep uphills, and picks up speed when going downhill. That’s to be expected....
I’ve always assumed it’s something in the engine. But I also wonder if it’s some sort of friction based math? I have heard most cars are most fuel efficient at 55mph or so. My town has a large hill which my car can “coast” down with no gas required. However, like you, it stops increasing its speed around 55mph. It doesn’t seem to go any faster without me stepping on the gas. I don’t notice anything different about the car. It just seems to stop accelerating.
And if I hit the gas, it seems to re-settle back to 55mph.
I sometimes wonder if fuel efficiency being at 55mph is tied to friction of tires on asphalt. And maybe even on a steep hill, typical cars just cant overcome the kinetic friction to continue speeding up. Obviously the steepness of the hill matters, but roads have pretty stringent rules about grades. So we have an upper bound of what’s “reasonable” based on whatever the steepest allowable grade is.
I’ve also had this question. I’d love to know the answer!
Like, say you had a grain silo or some theoretical structure that would allow you to fill the structure as high as you wanted, full of balloons, all inflated with regular air, not helium....
Depends on the structure. As you said, a grain silo is a cylinder. A grain silo is certainly not tall enough to support it (based on my loose guesstimation).
What you’re really describing is the various ratios between gravity, buoyancy, and tension required to “pop” a balloon. In the simplest model, you could put each balloon directly on top of the other. Imagine a cylinder which is the perfect width of the balloons. Also imagine, in this special world, that we have an infinitely tall cylinder which is impacted by Earth’s gravity regardless of distance. The only thing in the universe is balloons, the cylinder, and Earth. Assuming the cylinder has no mass, the only thing that holds us back is the weight of the balloons. If the “popping” height of balloons is greater than the gravity of earth by some ratio of the weight of each balloon, the air, and the distance from the earth , then it fails to pop. But if it’s lower than that, then we can theoretically pop it using the weight of the balloons above it.
I’m just going to guess that - yes - you can pop balloons filled with regular air.
Who determines who owns a domain name? International organization? Do unrecognized countries also get their own top-level domain? If someone or some organization wanted to register a website for highly illegal activities (terrorism, crime organizations, etc) who has the authority to shut them down? Does one government has the...
While everyone has covered the common cases with domains, I’ll cover the less common with a basic overview of domains.
Domains are basically just mapping an IP address to a human-readable string. 127.0.0.1 might be hard to remember. But “localhost” is easy to remember. Domain Name Servers and ICANN have developed a ton of RFCs to support making the internet easy to use and safe. This has also made the whole notion of domains a bit complicated.
But - like I said - they are basically just mapping an IP address to a human-readable string.
IP addresses are unique for a given network. On your local network, you have a unique IP address (e.g. 192.168.1.50). This is unique to the local network. But if you Google for your “public IP address” you’ll see that it’s different than your local address. The public IP address you have is assigned by your internet service provider (ISP). It’s basically the IP address of your home.
Every computer has things to optimize the domain name lookup for a given IP address. For example, your browser might cache something like google.com points to the IP address 192.168.1.50. Computers also usually have a “hosts” file. You can manually edit this file so that your computer will always try to resolve a particular IP address given a domain name. You can map Google.com to your localhost 127.0.0.1.
So the case of “who owns a domain” is actually dependent on how your computer and network is setup. You can own Google.com on your own personal computer. You just edit the /etc/hosts file (on Linux). If you own the router and have access, you can “trick” computers in thinking google.com maps to your computer’s IP address. Thus in that case, you own the domain for the local network.
But your ISP owns their network. The one you use to access the internet. And they have a vested interest in making sure it adheres to the ICANN DNS resolutions. You can change your DNS server to anything you want. Doing so is usually safe since it’s often 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1, but I suppose it’s possible you could choose a DNS server that is malicious. Though thanks to SSL they can’t do much.
Now you might be thinking: wait, if I’m on a local network, they can trick my computer into thinking a domain is valid when it’s really being routed to malicious server? Technically yes. However that’s why HTTPS exists. We use certs via a Certificate Authority to validate that the IP address you’re accessing is mapped to the right domain. That’s why it’s important you always make sure SSL is on a website (usually represented by the little lock icon in the search bar)
I don’t get it. I thought these models were “locked”. Shouldn’t the same input produce near-identical output? I know the algorithm has some fuzzing to help produce variation. But ultimately it shouldn’t degrade, right?
Ok but, regardless, they can just turn back the clock to when it performed better right? Use the parameters that were set two months ago? Or is it impossible to roll that back?
For real though, it’s habit. They didn’t naturally start that way. They just kept doing it that the body eventually “learned” to set their sleeping rhythm to that schedule.
I guess everyone is different. I used to wake up at 2am for gym + morning shifts. Eventually I woke up before my alarm consistently. I didn’t feel tired.
These days, I wake up at 7am most days and feel just like I did when I woke up at 2am.
I wonder if websites like Pornhub have enough dirt on foreign officials that they could change international policy. Maybe the great unification of nations will be started by Pornhub.
I think people can grow and change. I personally used to be quite cunty. Mostly because I was self conscious and - ironically - sought validation. Now, I’m less that way. Thanks to therapy, self work, and medication. I like to think I’m nice, but I know I can still have an edge from time to time. I like to think I’ll continue to improve as time goes on!
I’m going to bring you all down. When I was suicidal and less stable (thank you Zoloft), I used to think like this. My thought process was less like “I can escape to the next plane of existence” and was more like: “hopefully heat death is wrong and big crunch is right. If so, we will endure infinite expansions and contractions. I’m bound to ‘come back’ in one of those instances.”
What happens if someone posts something illegal? Does the instance owner have to know enough SQL to remove the row and the image connected to it or is there a friendly way to do it in an admin interface?
So if someone posts illegal images, it’s up to admins to know how to remove it from their database(s). That might be a bit of a sweaty, scary, moment for some people who can follow instructions to setup an instance but aren’t familiar with databases.
Yeah but maybe we should provide some unix tools which help people delete data from their server. Imagine someone is upset at an admin. So they post cp to the server as revenge and then immediately report the server to the FBI. The poster puts themselves at risk, but it’s much easier to avoid that risk than it is for an admin.
The unix tools can become the base for an actual admin interface, but I don’t have the time for all that lol but scripting something that:
Finds the offending post in the database
Deletes any images in the post from the pictures foder
What are some "no brainer" inventions or features that just haven't made it to the consumer yet?
Lemmy, what are some of your "oh shit" work stories?
Does water with minerals help attenuate the hang-over generating potential of drinking as opposed to water lacking minerals?
Whats your such opinion (discuss.tchncs.de)
I was doing fine until Steps 3 and 4 (lemmy.world)
Generated with self hosted ollama llama2-uncensored:7b (the small model since I have a small rig)
is there a community I can just rant in?
I know it’s not the most engaging or thought provoking question, but I’m having a bad day and would really like to find a space to vent
What companies have made your blacklist?
What companies will you never give another dollar to?...
Which is the best part of winter: the sun setting at 5pm every day, or it literally hurting when you go outside?
What is a video game that you'd love to play, but no one has developed yet?
What is something that definitely should not exist?
Israeli settlers steal Palestinian farmers’ land in occupied West Bank (www.aljazeera.com)
Hallmark channel go brrrrr (lemmy.ml)
It's funnt because it's true (fanaticus.social)
Time Travel (startrek.website)
Baldur’s Gate 3 players demand major “quality of life” changes for inventory management (www.charlieintel.com)
How do you know if your server (e.g. lemmy.world) is federated with another server?
I want to see a list for each popular server (e.g. the top 10 lemmy instances) and I want to see - for each instance - with whom they federate. How can I do this? Any sure-fire way to know if a instance like HexBear.net is being federated with lemmy.world? How do you know?
murder clown rule (lemmy.ml)
What’s the strangest unexplained thing that’s happened to you ?
Pleasing everyone (lemmy.ml)
linux users (lemmy.world)
old one I snagged somewhere. haven’t seen today. seems like one of those should mention porn. js
oh fuck we're in a recursion meme (lemmus.org)
Why sometimes my car slows down going downhill?
I drive a small automatic car. For the most part, it struggles a bit with steep uphills, and picks up speed when going downhill. That’s to be expected....
can the weight of millions of balloons be heavy enough to pop the balloons at the bottom?
Like, say you had a grain silo or some theoretical structure that would allow you to fill the structure as high as you wanted, full of balloons, all inflated with regular air, not helium....
There is a start and a end, don´t merge into the middle (feddit.de)
How does domain names work?
Who determines who owns a domain name? International organization? Do unrecognized countries also get their own top-level domain? If someone or some organization wanted to register a website for highly illegal activities (terrorism, crime organizations, etc) who has the authority to shut them down? Does one government has the...
ChatGPT can get worse over time, Stanford study finds | Fortune (fortune.com)
By June, “for reasons that are not clear,” ChatGPT stopped showing its step-by-step reasoning.
I really wish it didn't do it (lemmy.world)
Mars from Earth, and Earth from Mars (lemmy.world)
Data privacy: how to counter the "I have nothing to hide" argument?
I know data privacy is important and I know that big corporations like Meta became powerful enough to even manipulate elections using our data....
Do people become less of a twat as they age?
Or should I lose hope in humanity completely now?
Some people actually believe this (lemmy.world)
Stoner (i.imgur.com)
YSK: Your Lemmy activities (e.g. downvotes) are far from private (i.imgur.com)
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