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New account since lemmyrs.org went down, other @Deebsters are available.

  • xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech

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  • Ha, in my original reply I'd started to contrast my SSB accent with American - I wouldn't go as far as the final panel, although I feel I'd understand it easily enough.

    Also, even in SSB (as opposed to the more London Estuary type English), we use glottal stops a lot more than over the pond: /h ɔ́ ʔ p ə t ɛ́j t əw/

  • xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech

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  • You pronounce the t in hot and then pronounce the p of potato?

  • xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech

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  • It was a choice of posting to there or here (I assume most people who are in one are also in the other).

    I imagine they're fairly dialect-dependant as well, at least at times.

  • VFX artist explains why CGI in films is worse now

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  • VFX artist explains why CGI in films is worse now

    Article includes screenshot from The Mummy Returns which is from 2001 and is therefore old enough to watch any of the other films mentioned.

  • Stare at it.

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  • One place I worked had a small park, so sometimes I'd go for a lap or two to think something through - the fresh air, mild exercise, change of scenery and lack of distractions wroked wonders.

  • Stare at it.

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  • I'm not sure if this eBay seller is confused or witty...

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  • I don't know either - it could be purposely wrong to indicate that the figures aren't included, or to get attention via the mistake/meme. Or just that lots of people are fuzzy on the many Star * IPs.

  • Number of monthly active Lemmy users rising again

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  • I'd assumed it was servers running on renewable power, although I'm not sure how they measure that. I know some hosting companies and CDNs have that as an option, but I don't see how you'd know if each server chose that option so I guess it's more like "servers with green hosting companies".

  • Number of monthly active Lemmy users rising again

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  • Don't downvote stuff just because you're not interested in it! There's no algorithm you're training, you're just being rude to people.

    Downvotes should be for worthless content and people being dicks.

  • Regarding sleep quality, why did humans evolve to require full darkness?

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  • Plenty to read, thanks.

    I see that first paper is for tropical environments, is this also found in other parts of the world?

  • Regarding sleep quality, why did humans evolve to require full darkness?

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  • There's some evidence that the bacteria in the air are different at day vs. at night

    This is really interesting, do you have more info on this to share?

  • Stargate SG-1 Creator Reveals Real-Life Star Wars Tech That Could’ve Made “All the Difference”

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  • Or the same old quarry with a different gel over the lens.

  • Stargate SG-1 Creator Reveals Real-Life Star Wars Tech That Could’ve Made “All the Difference”

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  • "Real-life Star Wars tech" confused me, since it's a missile defense system IRL, but it's talking about:

    The massive screens and virtual set technology pioneered on more modern shows like The Mandalorian.

    “Yes, it grew increasingly difficult and frustrating to go out into the woods of British Columbia and pretend it was another planet”

    I quite liked the feel of the series being in woods so much, and it made sense given that many of those "worlds" were pre-industrial (plus alien tech).

  • TIL: Gamergate's have interesting hierarchy and can replace the queen

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  • gamergate (/ˈɡæmərˌɡeɪt/ GAMM-ər-gayt)

    Ah, so nothing to do with incels harassing women. Do incels have a queen?

  • Ok, hear me out. What if, instead of the teachings of Surak, the Vulcans adopted the angry logic of David Mitchell?

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  • Bravo! If this is a harbinger of the memes that we can expect from Davulcan Mitchell, then it's going to be good.

  • Your API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS

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  • It's interesting that the author and most others went with 403, when 426 seems to be the most appropriate.

    Neither are perfect matches, since 403 is about authentication and 426 is for Upgrade semantics (i.e. the upgrade is over the same transport protocol, not switching from http to https). npm isn't sending an Upgrade header, which is required, but I think if it sent Upgrade: TLS/1.0, HTTP/1.1 then that would be claiming they supported TLS on port 80 (STARTTLS style) - possible but unconventional.

  • Spyware maker pcTattletale says it's 'out of business' and shuts down after data breach

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  • Spyware app driven out of business. Oh no!

  • Ant smell

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  • At the same time, Penick had people rate what they thought the ant smelled like. Most people said blue cheese, but some thought it smelled like rotted coconut. So Penick rotted a coconut in his backyard and found a mold growing on it that, sure enough, is the same mold (Penicillium roqueforti) that's used to produce blue cheese. Another mystery, solved.

    So American house ants, rotten coconuts and blue cheese all smell the same. Life is weird.

  • Do you have a more complicated shell history scheme than the distro default?

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  • I haven't used atuin yet, but I believe the histories from other machines is more like accessible than mixed - you don't just hit ↑ on machine1 and see machine2 commands.