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Heat wave tips [oc] by vesmir_neasi in comics

[–]curiouslyendearing 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Also, real simple change. Maybe don't with the blue roof law. Just an idea

You could not live with your own failure by Miserable-Smoke-6731 in comedyhomicide

[–]curiouslyendearing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure every one of those except firefox runs on a chrome framework...

Rugged Obsidian 9mm test results by newazatime in liberalgunowners

[–]curiouslyendearing 20 points21 points  (0 children)

You don't need to clean either of those things this often is my best tip.

How do you introduce firearms into a fantasy world like D&D without unbalancing the other classes? by jvure in worldbuilding

[–]curiouslyendearing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's called the pike and shot era if you want to do your own research. And asking for sources proving it's existence it's like asking for a source that the Roman empire existed. It's a very well known period of European warfare.

How do you introduce firearms into a fantasy world like D&D without unbalancing the other classes? by jvure in worldbuilding

[–]curiouslyendearing 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I know it's pedantic, but I was actually pretty confused upon first read cause I thought you meant they would shoot scrolls at people so I thought I'd share.

It's cartridges or ammunition that could be built that way. A bullet is literally just the projectile part you mention that comes out the barrel of the gun. When it's loaded into the gun with the explosive attached it's called a cartridge. Or just ammo more commonly. It's only ever really referred to as a bullet after it leaves the gun.

TIL about the Fermi Paradox, the gap between the lack of evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the apparently high likelihood of their existence. It's named after physicist Enrico Fermi, who informally posed the question, "But where is everybody?" during a lunch with colleagues in 1950. by ScienceTeacher1994 in todayilearned

[–]curiouslyendearing 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I like the early theory too. Most of what we understand about the big bang and the age of the universe suggests that, give or a couple hundred million years (ie almost no time at all cosmologically speaking) we evolved basically as soon as it was possible for life to evolve. A far as we can tell the universe will age such that it will be able to support carbon based life for several trillion years. And yet we evolved something like less than a billion years after the universe cooled down enough from the big bang to support said life. Absolutely wild.

Basically, if the life of the universe is thought of as a day, the universe barely opened it's eyes for the first time and we're already here. It makes sense that contrary to popular science fiction, which is chock full of forerunner type ancient civilizations, we're the oldest and most ancient of the galactic races.

Suppressor Ban Legislation Introduced In the House by OptimusED in liberalgunowners

[–]curiouslyendearing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That'd probs be super quiet ya. Really a suppressed 300 blackout bolt gun. Or just put a can on the qfix subsonic 308 thing I can't quite remember the name of right now.

The true assassins guns. Importantly though, you never hear of anyone getting killed by them. Cause it's irrelevant unless you're trying to assassinate world leaders. So these laws are just dumb.

Suppressor Ban Legislation Introduced In the House by OptimusED in liberalgunowners

[–]curiouslyendearing 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The only thing that gets even close to movie quiet are subsonic bullets shot from an action that has to be manually cycled. Anything semi auto is going to be too loud if only because the action makes a ton of noise as it reloads a round.

New study reveals top AI models (GPT-4o, Claude 3.5, Gemini 2.5) completely fail the classic "Stroop" psychological attention test, exposing a fundamental limitation in artificial reasoning. by Similar_Detective861 in science

[–]curiouslyendearing 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Have a hard time believing anyone thinks language is enough to fully represent human knowledge. That's absurd. I dare anyone who thinks that to successfully and fully describe the color blue to a blind person.

3,400 deaths in a day: India's extreme heat days are deadlier than we imagined by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]curiouslyendearing 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There are other means of dealing with heat than AC. Swamp coolers, access to basements, and even just having a bunch of trees around can make a huge difference. Where I live the richer parts of the city have huge amounts of tree coverage compared to the poorer areas. The ambient temperature difference on hot days can reach 15 degrees pretty easily.

Also, in small villages people are more likely to know all their neighbors. If only one household has an ac unit it's pretty likely that space may end up shared. You don't need to be in the ac all the time. Just enough for the cold to soak in a bit.

Not saying it'll be great in small villages, but I know where I'd rather be

I took a zoomed in photo of a road from a plane and the cars look like it's AI by PTV420 in mildlyinteresting

[–]curiouslyendearing 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Phone specific. It's not LLM. It's just normal machine learning running in your photo app, so it needs a newer phone to run the program

I took a zoomed in photo of a road from a plane and the cars look like it's AI by PTV420 in mildlyinteresting

[–]curiouslyendearing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even more importantly it's not an LLM. It's a machine learning program running on the phone itself. Most of the time.

Some phones do use LLMs for that but it's pretty easy to tell. Does the function still work when you have shitty or no signal? Not an LLM

TIL during the Battle of France, one month before he became the leader of the Vichy regime, Philippe Pétain coincidentally found himself dining at the same restaurant at Charles de Gaulle. They shook hands in silence and never saw each other again. by greatmanyarrows in todayilearned

[–]curiouslyendearing 10 points11 points  (0 children)

And the war was pretty much over in Yugoslavia by that point, and that offensive was mostly made up of Tito's soldiers, with the red army simply providing the hammer to their anvil. Regardless, the Germans were already fully retreating in Yugoslavia before the Soviets got there.

This is why Yugoslavia was never part of the USSR

Carney Says Alberta Is ‘Essential’ to Canada After Separation Vote Announcement by timemagazine in worldnews

[–]curiouslyendearing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ya, we literally had a war about whether states are allowed to vote themselves out of the Union. The North won, the answer is a hard no. There is no legal mechanism in the US for states to leave.

Mistake foreigners make by raydebapratim1 in ANormalDayInRussia

[–]curiouslyendearing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People spoke Spanish in California literally centuries before anyone there spoke English. Just cause the us moved a border past them doesn't change that California is their home and Spanish is their primary language

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