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  • aliens

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  • Wheels are always a fraction of pi. Whether you like it or not. Lengths of string can be arbitrary, but a circle's dimensions are always tightly related to and proportional to pi in some way. I also recall that wheel measurements are more precise for large scale building because, unlike rope, leather and cloth, a wooden wheel doesnt stretch. Two wheels made similar will stay more between a much tighter error factor than two pieces of rope. The rope might start at the same length but will deform differently as they are used.

  • Heat

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  • Search YouTube or revanced or whatever other free service for Technology connections, also the alt channel Technology Connextras.

  • Bazzite 44 Update

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  • Unfortunately, it seems like for many, including me, it is borked. It just refuses to boot. Guess it's just a matter of rolling back and wait a couple of weeks. Also tons of Bluetooth, graphics driver, monitors and Wifi issues for those that do manage to boot into the OS. It seems like it was rushed, this shouldn't be on stable.

  • My eyes!

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  • We used purpose made floor pedals on the sociology research office to control a transcription software. It allowed precise control over a voice recording so any of us lowly students could quickly transcribe interviews and focus groups without removing the hands from the home row of the keyboard. It was already 30 years old technology by the time I got to college. It was apparently first invented for work with actual tape players.

  • Thank you for flying Spirit

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  • In Nevada, it wouldn't surprise me. The US is indeed filled with assholes.1 Most of the world though, has good Samaritan laws and you won't face criminal charges if you were actively trying to save a life outside of extremely gross negligence. Many places of the world also have strong first aid certification programs that further protect those certified as long as they followed the standard protocol.

    1: Disregard that comment, Nevada does have Good Samaritan laws, that person's friend is just a piece of shit.

  • Thank you for flying Spirit

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  • If they are asking it is explicitly because it's beyond basic first aid and they're scared. The plane is landing either way, if they are already asking for a doctor, then the decision was already made by the pilots. Afterwards it's a matter of providing proper care until delivered to a emergency services at the airport. All doctors I know will absolutely respond to such a call on a plane, but medical assistance doesn't always include touching or doing something to the patient. Often, it's just looking at them or talking to them (if they're conscious) and advising the flight crew on what the proper care should be like. Ultimately, doctors are useless without proper infrastructure and resources. A surgeon without a hospital is as helpless as the patient and no first aid carries a pharmacy.

  • She was up over a year.

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  • Even if there are no security risks to mitigate, updates can bring bug fixes and, god forbid, new features once in a while.

  • What is the coolest website you’ve visited that no one knows about?

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  • It's a neat piece of satire. Turning the humans into AI. There's this saying that AI really means “actually Indians”. As many AI companies have been caught using humans, mostly outsourced offshore daily workers, to cover up for incomplete AI models, and agentic AI. So as to hide the fact that the tech is not actually all the way to what's promised, and actually depends on human labor to keep up the façade of advanced technology. This webpage drops the pretense altogether, to mock the state of the LLM bubble.

  • Microsoft drops Copilot branding in Notepad for Windows 11 for everyone, but it’s really just a rename

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  • My company discontinued access to notepad++. Fortunately, that same week they added vs code. If stripped to the bare minimum it's a serviceably fast text editor. (FOSS has to be approved by IT)

  • Microsoft drops Copilot branding in Notepad for Windows 11 for everyone, but it’s really just a rename

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  • Weird, Notepad is not installed in my computer. Hmm.

  • Go on...

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  • It's probably subwoofer bass. It's become a thing because digital productions allow a higher control on super low frequencies that weren't even possible in the past. As a matter of fact, some of those frequencies you can't actually hear. But the air pressure can be felt, with a proper HiFi system. The wub wub effect you hear are the upper harmonics of those very low sounds. It dizzies some people because they can hear the harmonics but don't feel the corresping true bass note.

    It's how some people get dizzy and nauseous when they travel in a car and look outside the side windows. One sensory input is mismatched with another, so the brain panics and feels a ton of discomfort.

    It's music mixed for dance halls with pro sound systems with Low Frequency Effects drivers. Though, some sound players should do a good job of cutting unwanted harmonics out of things they can't play, some others actually add more and make the listening experience worse.

  • GIMP rebranding as WLBR?

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  • First time on Lemmy?

  • Is it possible to not know who a famous person is?

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  • Bro, Grande is a word in like 4 different languages, but it's a last name only in one, Italian.

  • It's your fault.

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  • Yet yours is exactly the kind of stupid rethoric politicians use to convince constituents of defunding emergency and security services. Congratulations on being part of the problem.

  • It's your fault.

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  • Exactly, it's not there for the unforseen improbable plane crash. It's there for the moments people statistically actually die a preventable death, as in fucking up and misbehaving during evacuations, stampeding others to death or dying of asphyxia because they were too stupid to listen to the flight crew.

  • It's your fault.

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  • Doesn't matter, the cell towers will still be barraged with hundreds of high intensity requests for several seconds. It's akin to a very underpowered and inefficient radio jammer.

  • It's your fault.

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  • Survivorship bias. “We have been doing this safety thing forever, but nothing bad ever happens. Let's stop doing the safety thing!“

    See also, “why pay for firefighters if there's so few fire incidents in our city?”, and also “I've never been in a car crash, no need to use a seat belt.”

    Every regulation is written in blood.

  • It's your fault.

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  • It's not. Hence the conspiracy thing. The pain with cellphones in planes is that they can see the tower, but the tower can't see them. So they punch the transmission power to 100%. Worse still, they can see not one but probably several dozen towers at the same time, trying to reach them all in hopes one of them can hear them.

    Now multiply that by 80 to 200 phones on a plane. This will not interfere with electronic guidance systems or computers in the plane, but will also never actually last for long enough on a cell to establish a connection, but all the requests will busy the tower. So cell towers get briefly radio jammed as the plane flies over them.

  • If this is terrorism...

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  • Which is why international law has never recognized terrorism as a category. Any and all acts of armed violence from one country to another is a military action and constitutes an attack in the frame of an armed conflict. Terrorism is a political, not a legal, concept.

  • Books @lemmy.world
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    Boundless (previously Unbound) has informed over 238 authors they won't be getting paid royalties on books they already sold

  • Movies @lemmy.world
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    JOHANNE SACREBLU "el musical" un homenaje a EMILIA PEREZ

  • Brand New Sentence @lemmy.world
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    Seinfeld raped those toys because she ate turkey

  • Games @lemmy.world
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    The games industry sucks

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    What is you backup tool of choice?