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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1994 white Kevin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Drop off” makes it sound like he’ll carry you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No matter how crooked a mirror is, it always shows you a straight image.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a hint: if a mirror truly did not flip anything, then when you looked into a mirror you would see your back, and it also does not “rotate” you. So how can you see your front?

  spoiler

  A plane has a “normal” (a direction coming “out of the mirror”), and it basically flips things in that direction (front to back). It might help the understanding (and possibly the creepiness factor) to consider just the outer few atoms of your hair/skin that reflects light… and you are roughly seeing that, in the mirror in the same orientation that it actually is IRL if it were pushed into the mirror…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No matter how crooked a mirror is, it always shows you a straight image.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a time that i was really confused as to why a mirror regardless of orientation would change left-hands to right, but not transpose heads and feet (or the like)…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope it’s not “worse than useless” (which would mean “misleading”), as my goal was simply to find more identifiers for discussion or research than: norway, thorium, 1959…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  According to a modern statistical oracle:

  In 1959, Norway achieved a notable milestone by starting up its first nuclear reactor, the JEEP I (Joint Establishment Experimental Pile), located at Kjeller. This reactor was primarily used for research purposes, including early experiments with alternative nuclear fuels such as thorium. While JEEP I itself was not a thorium reactor per se, it laid the groundwork for subsequent Norwegian research into thorium as a nuclear fuel. This early phase demonstrated Norway's scientific interest in thorium, leveraging its domestic thorium resources and contributing to later thorium reactor experiments.
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  odometer += sensor * this_is_just_for_debugging_i_promise(odometer);
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Irresistible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Something about that fastener seems out-of-class with the rest of the sign.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Lifts Sanctions on Wife of Russian Billionaire Rotenberg⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Something about “state-sanctioned wife” sounds creepy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bols⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s unclear to me if (1) she intended to say that and the second panel is her dominate-knowing-mania, or (2) it was a fruedian slip and the second panel is her internally death-spiralling because she can’t believe she just said that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  1000013171

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spilled My Coffee, Now I’m a Ghost Eating Pizza in Another Dimension⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like an anime title

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Strange behavior with images⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably a front-end/back-end version difference. What I observe of those ‘error in store’ is that they are actually “error: success” messages (i.e. it worked, but the front-end doesn’t understand that).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just got my OpenWrt switch - what configurations / preparations should I do?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe run a bandwidth speed test, and enable/set qos to 95% of that value… I found that’s an easy way to kill the buffer bloat (way better latency).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At the request of the Turkish government, X blocks access to student and opposition accounts amid nationwide protests.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t it one of Musk’s stated reasons for buying twitter to prevent exactly this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨my dreams in colour⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda surprised how long it took me to see the alien, almost a jump-scare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you have a circle of friends, then by definition they are all fringe⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If we had a seperate word to mean an unfilled/hollow circle I would jave used it, bit alas… oh, wait a minute… a ring… dang it! Still not sure how I feel about the implication of friend-wedges, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you have a circle of friends, then by definition they are all fringe⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really stupid, so prepare yourself for disappointment… Consider a circle, and then identify it’s fringe. Any point on the circle is on it’s fringe. Same thing holds if all your friends joined hand-in-hand to make a circle. Every one of them is a fringe element of the circle, because that’s what a circle is.

• If you have a circle of friends, then by definition they are all fringe
  Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨9⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Show top LLMs buggy code and they'll finish off the mistakes rather than fix them.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I noticed they aggresively build out todo comments, even if it’s not possible to do in place they take a wild stab at it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The chair⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Clear sign of a confusing interface.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to readjust it's position in your pants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Only forward? Kinda need to go forward and back repeatedly, no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was going to comment on the +/-8m accuracy being a let-down, but apparently that’s the accuracy of GPS too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to -NOT THANK- AT&T for being extra shitty and eliminating community forums. Less information for all!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Much like that thing that restores the youtube downvote counter, it ought to be possible to make a platform that gives comments, corrections, and annotations to ANY webpage to other users of that platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Of all the sources of truth, why pick auto-complete?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nicole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess you’d need to mint it as an NFT? :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nicole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds ominous…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nicole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, you’ve unlocked a second image!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now *we* have memes comrades⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Memeing the dream!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't all rooms holodecks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I always leave the Brocolli alone. :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't all rooms holodecks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine they prefer to be grounded in reality, as over-use of the holodeck is shameful.