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davidgro,

Actual public bulletin boards are generally on private property (such as grocery stores) and it’s up to the property owners to moderate them (taking things down after a delay or when it’s inappropriate, etc)

davidgro,

My family’s spaghetti and meat sauce recipe. 5 ingredients:

Water, salt, pasta;
ground beef, tomato sauce (from a jar if fancy, but canned is great)

  1. Boil and salt the water. Add the pasta. Boil until as soft as you want. While that’s going
  2. Cook the meat, breaking into little chunks. Then drain the fat. Then add the sauce and some salt and mix it. Stop it some time after it’s boiling

Serve together.

(Of course there are details like how much of stuff, but that’s the jist of it)

davidgro,

Buy the key on Amazon and then you can change the settings to dispense more or automatically

davidgro, (edited )

Star Trek: Discovery has some, it’s not usually a major plot point, but it’s present.

Edit: How to watch: Borrow DVDs from the library. Free, ad free, and legal.

davidgro,

Yup. That movie doesn’t even look like itself.

davidgro,

Cascadia/Pacifica would be my choice, I’m already in the borders of either one, and economically either would be a powerful nation, with decent politics

davidgro,

One quick typo I noticed: “For reference, one letter is a byte and a gigabyte is roughly a trillion bytes”. That’s billion of course.

Otherwise, great article!

davidgro,

The issue is that some of the brands are intentionally destroying unsold clothing so ‘the poors’ can’t end up wearing their brand and I guess diluting the brand’s reputation or something.

davidgro,

I’m not sure what you mean. They are (currently) explicitly making sure that the clothing never ends anywhere that wants/needs clothes - as in the goal is anti-charity.

Under the new law, I hope they can’t take a hole puncher to it. If they are allowed, they’ll do as much damage as they legally can.

davidgro,

Yeah, they might after this

davidgro,

Oh, interesting. I wasn’t aware of the reselling thing, and from the votes it seems a lot of others weren’t either. I guess if it’s just punched on something like the label/tag then that would be fine. Or maybe use permanent dye/bleach to blot it out.

davidgro,

Interesting. I haven’t heard them called that, even though I’m in a state where most electricity is from hydro, And my state borders Canada.

davidgro,

Ah - I didn’t know we were the only ones who do. But yes, it’s nice to have that. I understand we also have the largest ferry system in at least the US, although I think that’s not directly related to the rivers.

davidgro,

Unfortunately, the masses just don’t care - extensions/add-ons are “too complex” for the typical user.

davidgro,

Jeans that fit me.

I’m not even that unusual of a size - just taller than most, and with weight gain I have actually entered easier to find sizes. (Used to joke that I could find lots of them that would fit if I could wear them rotated 90 degrees - switching the waist and inseam numbers)

So I used to be able to go to a department store and with a lot of searching, find some pairs and try them on to confirm that they fit.

Then it started getting scarce. On the final offline jeans shopping trip, I went to JC Penny and bought literally every pair of jeans they had in stock that fit me - about 10 pairs.

Now I would just have to buy online if I want any new ones (not counting specially shops)

davidgro,

No. Feel old yet?

I do.

davidgro, (edited )

The text is clearly (badly) put there by the AI, so it must have been in the prompt.

davidgro,

I guess misspelling is contagious. I fixed it.

davidgro,

But I still can’t search inside a note or list on my phone.

davidgro,

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite had spells you cast by tracing a shape on screen, representing wand movements (and it was graded on how closely you matched that spell’s shape as well as on speed.)
Not a complex system, but some of them took some effort to get a good cast.

davidgro,

One thing to point out, The floppy thing isn’t due to formatting, the units themselves were screwed up: It’s not 1.44 million bytes or 1.44 MiB regardless of formatting - they are 1440 kiB! (Which produces the raw size you gave) which is about 1.406 MiB unformatted.

The reason is because they were doubled from 720 kiB disks*, and the largest standard 5¼ inch disks (“1.2 MB”) were doubled from 600 kiB*. I guess it seemed easier or less confusing to the users then double 600k becoming 1.17M.

(* Those smaller sizes were themselves already doubled from earlier sizes. The “1.44 MB” ones are “Double sided double density”)

davidgro,

Blocked on lemmy.ml

(Probably)

What's the name of the belief that gods/entities are quasi-semtient memes (the linguistic term, not the cultural term) in the same manner that corporations and governments are considered people?

It’s a personal philosophy that I’ve come to use as my own form of religion, and while I’m aware other people have researched the idea, I’m having some trouble finding the name for the concept.

davidgro,

Sounds like my layman’s understanding of the Warhammer 40K universe:

Thoughts and dreams and nightmares of the various races all over the galaxy in the material world create gods and demons in the “Immaterium” (also called “The Warp” for its importance to space travel, for mankind anyway) and those beings occasionally ‘leak’ to the material world.

davidgro,

And even more casual than that is their latest game, Honkai: Star Rail. The combat is turn based, so you can just look away and come back later as you wish and don’t need gamer reflexes at all*

I love it.

(* There’s one minor exception - an Ultimate move can be launched after your turn, but before the enemy’s turn or between two enemies’ turns, which does require some speed. It’s not usually important though.)

davidgro,

They could be low level. I certainly remember when a Ruin Guard was a big scary monster that could kill my whole party.

And later when I was playing pretty seriously I still stayed out of Abyss Floor 12 because it wasn’t worth the effort (literally - I never got enough stars to get a reward from it even when I technically defeated it)

davidgro,

I read the headline thinking ‘so what else is new’ and then realized they weren’t talking about the US. Here it wouldn’t be news at all.

davidgro,

Hedonismbot

davidgro,

And married to a hot river spirit who is just as chill

davidgro,

Valid point.

davidgro,

Impeding the right to bare arms. Shameful.

davidgro,

Correct, you get to pick the next category.

davidgro,

Or brassiere, or automobile, or cellular telephone, or taximeter cabriolet, or tarpaulin, etc.

This is just how language works.

davidgro,

When it’s added, I expect most implementations will make it red.

davidgro,

Granted. But you didn’t wish anything for yourself so nothing happens to you or for you. The next person to meet the genie enjoys the outcome of their wish.

Kim Kardashian’s next trick? A bra to make you look turned on by absolutely everything (www.theguardian.com)

Highlights: The new bra in Kim Kardashian’s lingerie range, with its “daring” raised nipple detail, goes on sale on Halloween, but not, I think, because the effect she’s going for is “scary”. The sales pitch is “No matter how hot it is, you will always look cold”, but I’m not sure “cold” is the look she’s...

davidgro,

North Korean Gray Space Lizard.

davidgro,

That’s Panda Express, which is a fast food chain.

davidgro,

The positive charge would remain though

davidgro,

Yup, there’s a theorem (“no-hair theorem”) that the only information about a black hole which does influence the universe is its mass, spin, and electric charge.

davidgro,

Until it suddenly does, and violently if actually superheated.

davidgro,

Oh wow, I had no idea there were two of them in my state, (but other side of it from the major cities) - I definitely first heard of it in relation to the copyright claim.

davidgro,

Same thing.

(Seriously)

davidgro,

Unfortunately, the same goes for headphone jacks, removable batteries, even sliding keyboards.

I really miss being able to find a phone with features I want.

Unveiling the Marvels of GPS for Precision Location Tracking (discuss.tchncs.de)

When it comes to pinpointing my location on this vast planet, GPS (Global Positioning System) takes center stage. This extraordinary network comprises satellites orbiting Earth, sending signals to ground-based receivers embedded in our smartphones, tablets, laptops, and other devices, bestowing upon us the power to calculate our...

davidgro,

Not bad - About 6 blocks away from my true location on a device that doesn’t even have GPS (or cellular, just Wi-Fi)

davidgro,

I once found 50 Rupees in some tall grass!

It was in my front yard (in the USA) and had a picture of Gandhi on it. Indian currency, not Hyrulian.

davidgro,

I think it’s a bug in the l4s bot which made the post. That bot does a lot of weird formatting and repetition.

davidgro, (edited )

I assume that’s the general pattern for most World’s ______est ________. An obvious example is some Olympic world records where second place is a few hundredths of a second behind, and 100th place is maybe 5 seconds. Those last few seconds/pounds/whatever make all the difference in the world at the highest levels of competitions.

davidgro,

Super Hexagon

davidgro,

Looks too complex. They brag about having twice as many buttons!

The amazing thing about SH is the simplicity - at some point I saw that someone had written a version of it for the Commodore 64.

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