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irishPotato

@ irishPotato @sh.itjust.works

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  • PSA: DST is a week away, you can start migrating your alarm today!

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  • Damn you sensible Canadian bastards! We need you in the EU ASAP!!

  • The Self-Help Trap: What 20 Years of "Optimizing" Has Taught Me

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  • Reminder to subdue the urge for auto-fellatial tendencies of self-improvement

  • Anon wants to talk about video games

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  • Hope I’m getting wooshed over here, since you know that tidbit you’ve gotta know that was because they couldn’t just throw more RAM at the problem and actually had to come up with some clever optimisations, right?

  • [No Spoilers] Update From Brandon (Apple TV acquires rights for Cosmere)

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  • Oh damn! Thanks for posting (and creating the community?). I’ve “only started” and read Mistborn 1-3, Way of Kings and am just wrapping up Words of radiance. I’ve checked out some reading order recommendations but am unsure how much of the auxiliary content I want to read since I’m mainly interested by the characters and what’s happening on Roshar right now. Thoughts? (lol)

  • Waiting in the queue at the gate; why do people rush?

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  • Thank you! I hate it but that’s why I feel compelled to join the herd, the number of times I’ve seen people bring on huge duffels or hiker bags large enough to require thumping the bucket closed is too goddamn high

  • Featured

    I need help! Volunteers needed.

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  • Yeah, I think it’s a tad unnecessary. I dislike serving repeats on the feed.

  • I haven't written code at all these holidays

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  • I’ve found myself in similar situations. However I haven’t taken full three weeks off; I think my longest has been about 10 days.

    I’ve always relished getting back to it with a clear mind and often a well thought out plan and it feels like the features flow faster from the fingertips.

    Never fight taking a bit of time off, it grants perspective and lets you decompress, don’t think that can ever be a bad thing (given there’s nothing you really need to be doing in that time to make sure you’ve got a steady income)

  • Common sweetener [erythritol] found to significantly and immediately boost heart attack and stroke risk

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  • “…The researchers did not yet test this in people. They went straight to the cells that line your brain’s blood vessels…”

  • China’s record-smashing maglev achieves 0-700km/h acceleration in less than 2 seconds

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  • That’s not a vehicle, that’s ammo for a railgun!

  • YSK that, in the USA, when you’re asked to make a donation at check-out, the company does not get a tax break for it!

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  • Oh, well that’s on me for only reading the headline then (and assuming the worst from corpos at every step).

  • YSK that, in the USA, when you’re asked to make a donation at check-out, the company does not get a tax break for it!

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  • Yeah no gotcha, I’ve known it to work similarly. Also, didn’t mean it as an attack on you per se (unless you wrote the headline I guess).

    The situation seems to me to be that companies obviously assume (I’d guess rightly) that a huge majority of people don’t keep these itemised receipts in order to claim the tax from these minuscule transactions themselves, thus enabling the company to get the tax break.

  • YSK that, in the USA, when you’re asked to make a donation at check-out, the company does not get a tax break for it!

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  • Loool, what a bootlicker BS headline then! Thank you for your time to tell us.

  • your brain tricks you

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  • Unintentionally accurate if you’ve ever tried meditation!

  • Explains it

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  • Is that what that is? To keep liches out? Can’t find any references apart from Warhammer

  • Why do helium-filled balloons float?

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  • Not my area of expertise but density is the wrong concept to be looking into remaining equal, its pressure. The amount of helium gas you pump in to the balloon creates a certain outward pressure that’s at equilibrium with outside air pressure, that’s why it doesn’t collapse (if you were to place the balloon in a vacuum then it would expand and probably burst, that’s usually what happens when a child loses one and it escapes higher up in the atmosphere to lower pressures)

    The atmospheric pressure simply isn’t strong enough to overcome the outward pressure.

    Bonus point: density is actually the reason why a helium balloon floats, its less dense than air so it wants to float up. Much like a rubber duck or ice cube in water.

  • A lot more things are pseudoscience than you might think

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  • I mean obviously not everything everyone is going to talk about is going to be scientifically accurate. Those two examples give big “Uhm ahcktualllly” energy as they’re simply helpful to explain simple patterns because everyone knows what you mean by them.

    Better examples (in my mind) would be real woo-woo shit like alt medicine or energy crystals.

  • Best date ever

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  • Lol what, who’s that referencing?

  • Historically accurate

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  • The what! That’s so cool, thanks for sharing!

  • Historically accurate

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  • Dudes obviously magic tho, summoning a strong enough concentrated beam of light inside with a futuristic lens design of unknown origin for the time period!

  • Bready @lemmy.world
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    Made Pitas last night, first attempt at baking (with yeast) since home-ed

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Hell('?)s('?) Angels UK's rul(e)ing on the missing apostrophe

  • Spotify Playlists @lemm.ee
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    Obama's playlist has no business being this fire

    open.spotify.com /playlist/37i9dQZF1DWVbX0Kwa6Hge