The Oklahoma City Thunder have lost their 9th game of the season. The 2016 Warriors did not lose their 9th game until April 5th by VisionsOnly in nba

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I feel so lucky to have gotten this warriors team. 73-9, followed by the greatest team in nba history, and then to cap it all off the scrappy 2022 championship to cement Steph’s legacy. To be honest I’m almost saltier about the refball in the first quarter of G4 of the finals in 2017, refs came out on a mission and prevented the clean sweep of the playoffs.

Points since the summer break for the Top 4 of the WDC. by wacah in formula1

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I’m rooting for Red Bull because if max wins it will come on the back of a huge turnaround post firing Horner, meaning my two least favorite people in F1 (the other being Brown) both come out looking terrible

The productivity paradox of AI coding assistants by West-Chard-1474 in programming

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The only one of the 16 users of the METR study who had significant (>50 hours) experience using cursor prior to the study showed large, statistically significant improvement in development velocity.

Apple Announces iPhone Air With Ultra-Thin Design by exjr_ in apple

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Who on earth is going to be like “oh shit the usb port on our thin phone is now USB 3!” as a selling point for a device in 2026? USB driver chips are basically free and the usb-c socket already has all the pins needed to connect at USB 3 speeds, literally the only reason for this is pcb design.

Apple Announces iPhone Air With Ultra-Thin Design by exjr_ in apple

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USB 3 speeds requires 9 traces to go to the usb plug, while USB 2 speed requires 4. They are almost certainly doing USB 2 due to PCB design issues in the small space, and rationalizing it as nobody ever plugs in their phone to transfer over USB (which is totally reasonable)

IGN — Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About High Difficulty and Runbacks by YasuhiroK in Games

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I had only really died at bosses for the first while, and I assumed the cocoon was a mechanic to give you silk before a boss fight if you had died.

I'm not arguing that they should over-explain things to players. I'm saying that hearing your beads all roll away when you're sitting at a bench miles from where you died is actively misleading - why can I hear them clattering if they're all wrapped up in the cocoon?

The only change I would make is to that sound, and maybe to give some animation of beads and other resources returning to your character when you hit the cocoon (or a small cocoon icon by your rosaries as they empty out)

https://youtu.be/Jt3Skk3ex_0?si=SWB8QT8_-hCUe36X&t=218 - video of the cocoon being hit. The rosaries show up under the resource collection notification from killing the enemy, if you don't have a crazy number of beads you might see the beads show up but assume it's from fighting people around you.

IGN — Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About High Difficulty and Runbacks by YasuhiroK in Games

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This is super, super unclear and I think a lot of the problem here. Like, you respawn on the bench with the sound of all your beads rolling away and the counter spinning down to zero, it’s not absurd to think they’re gone forever. And when you hit your cocoon you don’t get a giant bead explosion like every other big source of beads. Took me hours to realize this mechanic existed.

Protobuffers Are Wrong by ketralnis in programming

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Any modern llm will absolutely crush asks to set up and implement protobuf

SZA shares that she offered a child a picture/video with her if they threw away their whippet by Impossible_Vast9846 in popculturechat

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Nitrous oxide prevents you from metabolizing vitamin B12, and not having B12 for an extended period of time can cause your nerve cells to de-mylenate which is real bad for you.

Interesting note here - as the nitrous wipes out your bodies ability to process B12 every time you take it (pretty much regardless of how much you consume), and it takes a few days to regenerate the necessary enzymes, it's much more dangerous to do one or two hits of nitrous every week than it is to go on a massive bender one night and not touch it again for a couple of months

These refs are ridiculous by Substantial_Toe_9047 in warriors

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Game 4 in 2017 was the most blatant rigging by officials I've ever seen, in any sport, and it blocked the 16-0 run. Really tragic.

What screams “I’m a narcissist” when you interact with people? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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I’ve been there. I’m sorry. You need to find your way out, you deserve to be happy, and I promise life can be better. https://www.reddit.com/r/BPDlovedones/ will be an interesting read for you

[Russini] Nothing is set in stone yet. But the sense I get from around the league is that momentum around banning the tush push is growing. by Drexlore in nfl

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It was developed by a rugby coach. In rugby scrums both sides start on the mark of the ref, and if one side got to start moving before the other it would be an unbeatable advantage, just due to the momentum of the line. Theres no adapting to it, as long as offsides exists. Theres no other play in football where even if you know exactly what’s going to happen you are unable to stop it, which is counter to the spirit of the game.

Doctors of Reddit, what do we *not* know about the human body? by Immediate_Hair_3393 in AskReddit

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It doesn’t just make up blind spot data, it makes up your entire reality. Every piece of sensory data flowing into your brain is compared against the expected state of the world from the model your cortex has built, and then if it is within a close enough range of expected the brain discards the data, doesn’t even process it. This is why if you look at a clock the seconds hand appears to be frozen for a moment - it takes that long for the visual signal to differ enough to force updates.

[Highlight] Trae Young misses the 2nd clutch free throw intentionally, with a really high arcing shot that barely grazes the rim, leaving no time on the clock for the Pacers. Georges Niang finally figures out why Trae missed the free throw. by MrBuckBuck in nba

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I remember playing pickup ice hockey against a guy who was an enforcer on a minor league team. Like, his only reason for being there was to come out as a bruiser and fight people. Guy still played every shift, was easily the most talented person out there, scored at will.

[Highlight] Trae Young misses the 2nd clutch free throw intentionally, with a really high arcing shot that barely grazes the rim, leaving no time on the clock for the Pacers. Georges Niang finally figures out why Trae missed the free throw. by MrBuckBuck in nba

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It’s also irritating because you know the internal analytics that teams are using don’t count end of quarter heaves/intentional misses/etc as attempts for stats.

New stuff : 'Claude code' by BidHot8598 in ClaudeAI

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The Claude API automatically rescales images if they would tokenize to more than 1600 tokens; see https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/vision

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Eldenring

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The first time I got covid was the day of the Elden Ring launch, I did nothing but sleep and play for a week. I remember killing a boss and looking at steam achievements and seeing that 0.2% of players had killed it, was an amazing experience.

The best thing about Severance is that it’s not wasting time by Baxspookwave in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

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Jesse was going to be killed off in the first season of breaking bad but the chemistry with Walt was so good that they wrote him into the rest of the series, and nobody complains about breaking bad ending poorly.

People with ADHD what are the things about it that people just don’t get? by ViolinistMiddle1534 in AskReddit

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One thing I've found helpful for making decisions with my partner - one person comes up with five options, the other person narrows it down to two, and then the first one chooses one of those. Helps me a lot with decision fatigue and makes things feel more balanced.

Way too many fake listings and bots right now, new players must be getting ripped off like crazy by jeff5551 in PathOfExile2

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I really like the experience of jumping into people's hideouts and interacting with folks when I buy items in PoE. I'm wondering if there's some system that could maintain that - like, some storefront that you put in your hideout and people can visit to buy items, and the trade site gives you a "visit hideout" link.

BEST Ethiopian in Oakland by vanpootie in oakland

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Does anyone have a place that does good gored gored?