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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🎶 picture this we we're both butt naked banging on the bathroom door 🎶⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I studied Gaussian curves and found a mistress

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit like this is why we need open source printers!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pattern of symbols incorporated into a number of banknote designs. Many printers, scanners, even software will prevent loading the document for processing if the constellation is present.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would one exit a black hole?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Only from an outside perspective. Inside the black hole it’s already next Tuesday.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did that 22-year-old get on in the date his dad set him up with?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll think about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What bottles/containers should I use for shipping from sea level to places at higher altitudes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This may seem counter-intuitive, but air in this case is the problem, so filling it less introduces more air (which is compressible) versus liquids which are generally incompressible.

  But OP mentioned the bottles they use are not great so the problem they face may really be about gising better containers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I had no idea it was possible to create a working floppy disk from scratch, and neither did this YouTuber until they broke out their engineering chops⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There at the end he revealed the point of the exercise; it wasn’t to have a functioning disk, but to push one’s individual skill boundaries and learn new ways to solve problems. If the disk worked at the end then it would be a double benefit, but that wasn’t the point.

  It’s a lot like learning to fly or sail a boat. Are there more economical means of travel? Absolutely. But in doing these things we gain new tools to solve adjacent problems.

  Do I have a need to finely and evenly spread a magnetic slurry? Nope. But the wire-wrapped rod may very well help me out in the future!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please think of the CEOs—they need a new yacht for when they’ve flown in on their G4 to the Hamptons and their summer yacht is in San Diego.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robots on the Front Line: Ukraine’s Unmanned Land Vehicles Transforming Ground Warfare⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The machines rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire. Their war to exterminate mankind had raged for decades, but the final battle would not be fought in the future. It would be fought here, in our present.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dutch MPs want citizens to own the copyright to their faces⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If a company can own a copyright to the Eiffel Tower at night, then individuals ought to be able to own their own image and likeness, and have that encoded as a fundamental right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evading suffering is _itself_ a form of suffering⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard it out as all life is suffering. It can be a bit dark, depending on one’s headspace, but liberating if simply accepted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing has helped me learn to trust my instincts more than trying to plug in hundreds of USB devices over the years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Are there actually people out there not paying attention

  Have you ever been to a Costco?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secure Your Gmail Now As Google Warns Of Password Attacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Use hardware-based security tokens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically the premise of I, Robot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Elder God⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Make Pirates Great Again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a “dummy pronoun” and I only know this because this popped up as a TIL earlier this week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quick fix for cracked plastic clip: thread wrap and superglue⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been to SCS’s website and it seems… incomplete? It was on mobile so maybe that makes a difference but with how often I’ve seen it recommended I was surprised to see a site which did not look done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Do Sovereign Citizens Keep Pursuing Unsuccessful Legal Defenses?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because stupidity is immortal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coffee is not brewed homogeneous⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Really? I’m getting mixed signals tbh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dr Strange saw 4 billion possible futures and none of them had Thor lopping off Thanos' head on his first shot⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The subtext there might be that Dr Strange felt so hopeless about the situation that he didn’t conceive to look into the possibility, out of an infinite number of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You should know there's a font designed to make reading easier, especially for people with low vision. It's called Atkinson Hyperlegible Next. It's free for personal and commercial use.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s quite a nice typeface. I find myself torn between serif vs sans; when reading g a book it’s so ingrained to expect serif (I switched from Bookerly) that my eyes stuttered a bit when I started Atkinson’s.

  As long as I can get the OTF or TTF files, I’ll try em all. You have any more?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You should know there's a font designed to make reading easier, especially for people with low vision. It's called Atkinson Hyperlegible Next. It's free for personal and commercial use.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for that suggest. I had taken a peek at it a while ago and it’s too “wobbly” for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You should know there's a font designed to make reading easier, especially for people with low vision. It's called Atkinson Hyperlegible Next. It's free for personal and commercial use.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just added this to my eReader. I’ve been reading g a lot lately and while I haven’t had any difficulty, I’m eager to see if it enhances comprehension.

  Good post OP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything old is new again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish I could find it now, but there was a quote attributed to someone suffering under an oppressive regime which would blatantly lie, and yet it remained accepted: “The lie is the insult.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, it's finally socially acceptable again to clap when the plane lands⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I find comfort in k owing there are more planes in the sea than there are submarines in the sky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder if these still work...⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you! Can’t believe it’s been a year already. Wow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, it's finally socially acceptable again to clap when the plane lands⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, it's finally socially acceptable again to clap when the plane lands⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All planes land, some more controlled than others.

  Take-offs are optional; landings are mandatory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder if these still work...⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Two of them, one on each side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Note linking is what did it for me a few years back. It’s possible in OneNote, and clunky as hell.

  I was sold the moment I read links can be wiki style.