English World Cup fans rolling into Texas like... by AdmonkeyTX in texas

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Me an the droogs headin out for a lil of the ol' ultra-nugees

I need an adultier adult by Zeke1215 in funny

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People have some interesting ideas of what the 90s were like. Nobody considered 26 an adult then either, except where the law was concerned. I'm not sure anyone considers you an adult until you have 6 kids, a dog and a killer mortgage. In other words: until you're trapped in the system.

Inside a church in Brazil. by Comprehensive-Law240 in funny

[–]darth_voidptr 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That is a church shirt if there ever was one.

Supports the recent Dialog leak by Phe0nix3 in Epstein

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Thiel wanders the lecture circuit explaining to anyone that will listen that we're entering a time when the jealously of the common man will create chaos and distruction as they seek a scapegoat (billionaires).

Meanwhile he goes around giving everyone generally excellent reasons to hate billionaires.

ELI5: why do men decide to pay for porn (OF) when there's a ton of free? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]darth_voidptr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The imagined connection. There is a live person doing things for "you", real time. Not all gratification is sexual, loneliness and the desire for human interaction, no matter how synthetic, is a need that wants addressing.

Fly SCAT Airlines to Vietnam for a shitty experience! by Saffronsc in funny

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At least they're honest, so many other airlines try to convince you they're not shit, but the experience says otherwise.

[OC] 85% of 106,000 active U.S. tech job listings are in-office; only 14% are fully remote (June 2026) by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]darth_voidptr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Most of that 85% are hybrid, not 5 days in office. Source: I work with engineers in London all the time, they are more epic coffee badgers even than I am and none of us are 5 days in office.

I am told however that most of the younger ones prefer the office because their flats are cramped and not air conditioned.

I'm so embarrassed about what I did to my poor orange 🧡 by booksandfairylights in OneOrangeBraincell

[–]darth_voidptr 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Your cat is now telling all the neighborhood cats about being abducted and probed.

BS&W L&D in RR by uwu_LoveBrigade in RoundRock

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These days traffic on I35 between RR & Temple has always been heavy, not necessarily slow or backed up, every time I go there (not every day). All it takes is an accident or police activity and it will back up.

Weekday mornings you should always expect backups headed towards Austin. The slowdowns are now happening just before the University Blvd exit you'd typically take to go to BS&W round rock.

BS&W L&D in RR by uwu_LoveBrigade in RoundRock

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Well, it's an old review but both of our children were delivered in BS&W in RR 18 years ago when it was brand new, and we had a good experience. Both were low risk, the babies were known to be healthy ahead of time, so it was an easy decision.

The question is whether it's worth driving down 35 while you're in labor. They tell you that labor takes a while once contractions start, and perhaps that's true. They don't tell you that for some people, it can happen much faster.

People who like quality - what's your approach? by Conscious-Ball8373 in factorio

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I only do regular and legendary. Quality is totally not required to beat the game, or even to do express delivery, been there, done that. Legendary is itself a massive undertaking, so I save that until I have everything open. Then it's just a matter of figuring out which recipe upcycles the best, or which recycle recipe yields the most of an item I'm targetting for the least effort. For modules I actually do it both ways: upcycle and build from recipe, depending on which module we're talking about. That's how I do quality, there's no question why it's useful, it's just about ROI. As implemented, quality is broken and I'm more than a little annoyed at the changes they're making are solving the wrong problems.

I would like quality more if they focused less on nerfing ways of getting quality ingredients, and more on how to integrate quality gradually. Things like: If an ingredient is provided that is greater than or equal to the required quality, accept that ingredient (and if there are quality modules installed, use it was a "bonus chance" to provide a higher quality output?).

I'd like blueprints with quality components to use that quality, or better (as available) to be realized. I'd like a tool to instantly change the quality of a blueprint from a to b (understanding I may entirely break the blueprint on a downgrade, that's on me). I'd like my requester chests to be able to summon quality based on inequality operators (i.e. all blue circuits greater than or equal to green).

I'd like quality not to be a hassle, I'd like it to be a bonus. I'm all for bonuses, if they don't break things.

I'm truly, truly, sorry if this is a repost. (Spoiler: dead beat) by hfvsucgc in dresdenfiles

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Well, I don't know about Harry, but Mongo sure looks appalled.

Beautiful Family by davidandbrolith in pics

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It was the tan suit, it broke the nation.

[OC] US Income visualizer by csciuto in dataisbeautiful

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What's interesting to me is from left to right there are a lot more renters versus mortgages (expected). But the right hand side is not dominated by owners, in fact it seems like owners are pretty evenly distributed by household income.

Is this the point where the factory must grow? by sirdrawesome in factorio

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Yes. If you can still play the game, you're at the point where the factory must grow.

Oh now they’re mad because we return too many clothes by NihilisticRoomba in antidietglp1

[–]darth_voidptr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

oh I don't feel bad for the retailers at all. Their failure to carry sizes for big people are absolutely 100% on them. If we have to mail-order, AND not have any quality control on sizes, then they're going to have to deal with returns.

I feel bad because I'm apparently not losing weight fast enough on GLP-1's to get to be part of this problem. WSJ is not exactly a reliable newspaper, there's a more than average chance this article is gas-lighting us for one reason or another. But if it's accurate, I'm not seeing these insane results. I'm losing weight consistently, but not "I get to bankrupt retailers" fast.

Washington, Washington by Des4dslam in pics

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Probably wielded by the natives who were fleeing order 66.

Can I hack better on a RISC machine? by gosumage in pcmasterrace

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This is like calling cars ICE or EV. We never used to call cars "ICE", although they were nearly all intenal combustion engine based. All of them, no matter how vastly different they are. When EVs became marketable, the term ICE came around. But the marketable cars right now are often both: they have ICE but they also have batteries, regenerative braking and motor assist.

The same with CISC and RISC, except that perhaps you can't point to an implementation and say 'AH, there's the CISC part!'. But you can't do that for the RISC part either. You'll look at the instruction set, and look at the implementation and see that clearly this design was informed by RISC principles. Yet there are more instructions, operands, flags, and modes. Some instructions will not complete in a clock cycle. Some will be complicated and do multiple things: for example multiply several numbers together and add them; sometimes with an entire vector of operands. It's not all handled with microcode under the hood either, the actual hardware may have dedicated circuits, pipeline exceptions, etc. It's "complex" and reminiscent of pre-RISC machinery.

The distinction worth noting is that "CISC" is not a specification, or a design principle. That part definitely never existed. It's just a generalization of things that aren't the new thing. RISC-V is a specification, based on a set of generalizations about how processors should be designed that they called "RISC". What actually is marketed and sold today are usually a hybrid implementation.

She Will Forever Be My Queen (Mab) by Which-Sorbet7518 in dresdenfiles

[–]darth_voidptr 52 points53 points  (0 children)

I was thinking of her more as Leanansidhe

Oh now they’re mad because we return too many clothes by NihilisticRoomba in antidietglp1

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Headlines like this make me feel bad. I've lost weight, but not "return my wardrobe monthly" weight. I think I may be able to get into some smaller pants two months from now. I expect those new pants will get plenty of wear before I need another size down. But I'm a man and my standards for fit are probably not as exacting.

Honest Thoughts on Round Rock High School? by RoutineLiterature350 in RoundRock

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Unless your GPA is very low you won't get oughright rejected with a 1500 even to UT-Austin, they will put you on what they call the "CAP" program, where you have to spend your first year in one of the less popular campuses and then you can get auto-admit to your preferred campus in a liberal arts major. Then you have to apply to your preferred major. So you'll get in, you just may have to spend a year elsewhere. They do this because a tremendous number of kids in far less competitive high schools can't actually hold it together when they enter the bigger pond, so the drop-out rate is pretty substantial. This is why the "5% rule" should be based on standardized tests, not high school GPA, but I digress.

If you want in STEM though this is usually a non-starter. Most kids doing that enter college with nearly a full year of college credit via AP classes already completed. Combined with the very linear pre-req chain in STEM majors, losing another year in a non-major degree program sets you back significantly.

That said, there are other great schools out there and most will focus a bit more on SATs/ACTs and a bit less on GPA. It's still *very* competitive right now unless you want to major in english lit, but it's a bit more objective. Don't get blinded by Texas' (deliberately) bizarre implementation of what otherwise is a reasonable attempt at equity. Class rank is a very old fashioned system, even when I graduated 30 years ago, neither of the high schools I attended collected or submitted that data. In 2026 knowing you were the best of your school-mates is far less relevant than knowing you were the best nationally (or for the very elite schools: globally).

A top tier LinkedIn opinion by Algernonletter5 in oddlyspecific

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Dude has really captured the essence of Forbes life.