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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨House Centipedes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Took a lot of getting used to when I moved to the East Coast for grad school. Supposedly they do live in my home state but I can’t recall ever seeing one here. It’s mostly spiders, millipedes, and earwigs where I’m from.

  The thing that really freaked me out about centipedes is how absurdly fast they are. Also the one time I watched one crawling above me in bed and then it dropped onto my pillow **what the fuck**.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Follow this daily workout for huge gains⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now everyone needs to play all the clones of that dumb auto-shooter on rails. Their ads keep telling me that game is going VIRAL right now. I think they must have misunderstood someone saying their ads are like a virus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact: the surface area of Pluto is only about 4% larger than Russia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outer wilds: at what point should I give up?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s one of my favorite games ever, but I wouldn’t say it’s the best game ever made. I would say it’s one of the most unique gaming experiences I’ve ever had though, and that’s valuable to me. Learning about this cute little star system one mystery at a time is an incredible experience IMO. But if you’re bored by the gameplay loop, don’t expect it to change much. It stays pretty constant. The point is learning one secret at a time and getting a full picture of what’s happening.

  Flying is definitely clunky, but to me it feels intentional (or at least fitting). As others have said, always use auto-pilot to go between planets and cancel to move your trajectory around anything that comes in between and then re-engage auto pilot. Usually that’s either the sun or a moon (happens a lot if you book it straight to Brittle Hollow). When you’re near other things, match velocity is very useful either to stop next to something or get nice and aligned with the planet you’re about to land on.

  When flying manually, less is more. There’s no friction to slow you down but there is gravity to speed you up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alignment Chart Shitpost⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, all it takes is one cat who goes for it and you’d have to adjust. I just don’t believe it’s super common the way common wisdom on the internet suggests.

  I also think the amount of other enrichment your cats get can deter this sort of “naughty” behavior. I see that as them trying to find something fun to do. If they have other outlets I would hypothesize they’d be less inclined towards this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alignment Chart Shitpost⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Either I’m the luckiest person ever or this isn’t as universal as everyone always makes it out to be. My house was always a multi-cat household growing up and I’ve got one cat of my own now. In total I’ve lived with 8 cats and my parents have had another 3 since I moved out. We have always aligned the toilet paper and not once that I’m aware of did our cats ever unroll it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Planning to propose in a few months, what should I look for in a good value engagement ring?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO, an agreement to get married should be a mutual discussion, not a surprise. My wife and I also decided to get married by having a discussion and then went ring shopping together. We went with a blue topaz. Super pretty and didn’t break the bank.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Academia to Industry⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I generally tell people the only reason to do it is if your career pursuits require it, and even then I warn them away unless they’re really sure. Not every research advisor is abusive, but many are. Some without even realizing it. I ended up feeling like nothing more than a tool to pump up my research advisor’s publication count.

  It was so disillusioning that I completely abandoned my career goal of teaching at a university because I didn’t want to go anywhere near that toxic culture again. Nevertheless, I did learn some useful skills that helped me pivot to another career earning pretty good money.

  So I guess I’m saying it’s a really mixed bag. If you’re sure it’s what you want, go for it. But changing your mind is always an option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Core Keeper - Console & PC 1.0 Release Date Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh nice, I picked this up a while back to play on Steam Deck. Very nice 2D Minecraft/Terraria-esque sandbox game. Looks like I’ll be starting a new playthrough for 1.0. 😁

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kids are gowing up faster and faster⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk, that was someone else’s comment. I just install.packages() and library().

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kids are gowing up faster and faster⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess I must’ve saved my IT department some headache when me and my colleagues just asked for RStudio IDE. Everything runs perfectly well, no need for any of the garbage you just described. I literally just need an IDE to write scripts in. I’d say I don’t even need the IDE, except I do use rstudioapi::getActiveDocumentContext()$path to set the working directory and work with relative paths. Plus I just like it, barebones as it is (and dark mode).

  Sorry for the nightmare you clearly had to go through. :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kids are gowing up faster and faster⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s nightmarish about the installation? Is it because medical stuff is still on like Win XP?

  Installing on more modern Windows systems is pretty simple. Install the R distro from CRAN + almost certainly RStudio from Posit. Should be pretty plug-and-play. Not nearly as fiddly as LaTeX installs are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kids are gowing up faster and faster⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I barely even write base R anymore, I mostly use it for data wrangling these days so my code is almost entirely tidyverse. Every once in a while I get to bust out some statistics, but rarely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨evangelism⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Surprised no one else is saying this. It sounds exactly like an LLM, especially ChatGPT.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨natural sciences be like⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sunny days just after a rain are even better. The plants are happiest, the birds are out hunting worms and bugs. Plus you just got a free car wash*.

  *Pollen not removed, just caked on further.