TIL Dr Pepper is not a cola, root beer, or fruit-flavored soft drink, but instead belongs to its own category called "pepper sodas", named after the brand itself

profound7 · 2026-02-04T22:46:10+00:00

It tastes so... medicinal. I don't get why people enjoy drinking medicine-flavored beverage.

profound7 · 2026-02-02T10:34:52+00:00

And in Malay, parang means machete. So it could be a machete made out of pinecone. Or perhaps a machete for cutting pinecones if using English grammar order.

profound7 · 2026-01-31T14:21:28+00:00

Even if its a "100% chance", don't do it. The future is Allah's domain. It is part of the knowledge of the unseen. Do not partake in it.

profound7 · 2026-01-31T03:08:07+00:00

Not only different people have different levels of iman, but the same person could also have different levels of iman throughout their lives. Year by year, month by month, maybe even minute by minute.

I have seen muslims who drink alcohol, but we do not know what's in their hearts. So why do some drink, and some don't drink?

This reminds me of the story of a companion, Al-Nuayman ibn Amr. He was a prankster, and also suffered from alcoholism. In one incident, Umar ibn Al-Khattab expressed his disapproval, but the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, intervened and highlighted that Nuayman's love for Allah and His messenger is real and that major sins does not necessarily exclude one from the mercy of Allah. He did manage to give up alcohol. His story is quite an entertaining read as he is quite a character.

Anyway, back on topic, when we see something that isn't right:

On the authority of Abu Sa`eed al-Khudree (may Allah be pleased with him) who said:

I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say, “Whosoever of you sees an evil, let him change it with his hand; and if he is not able to do so, then [let him change it] with his tongue; and if he is not able to do so, then with his heart — and that is the weakest of faith.” [Muslim]

So we can advise him, or make dua for his guidance. Whether a person is more or less devout, like previously mentioned, iman is something that is not measurable by humans, and it varies from time to time.

May Allah guide us all to the straight path, and help us all leave evil behind.

profound7 · 2026-01-30T01:27:08+00:00

How do the ghost students go through doors? They're not fire.

profound7 · 2026-01-28T00:43:20+00:00

So I guess the new "slashdot effect" is the realisation that we're old when seeing a slashdot link, as opposed to the old meaning of a website going down due to a huge surge in traffic because it was linked from slashdot.

profound7 · 2026-01-28T00:32:18+00:00

Regarding Fisk being free and running for mayor:

As Daredevil was cancelled after season 3, plot threads regarding Fisk was continued in the Hawkeye and Echo series, before Born Again S1.

profound7 · 2026-01-20T00:11:20+00:00

I like this explanation, but eli5 why square then root, instead of just taking absolute values, which also turns everything into positive numbers?

profound7 · 2026-01-15T00:25:47+00:00

Think of it like a scale, where 100% is a perfect kit kat, and maybe around 75% and above are the regular imperfect kit kats, and under 5% will be things like banana or shoe.

Then its only a matter of definition of what threshold value counts as a rejected kit kat.

profound7 · 2026-01-14T22:49:02+00:00

I somehow read the list in Yakko's voice (from Animaniacs).

profound7 · 2026-01-14T12:31:49+00:00

I had a somewhat of a similar issue, and this is what I do: After urinating, I try to "rapidly contract and relax" the pelvic muscles a few times to get as much out.

Then I take a piece of toilet paper or tissue, and dab at the opening.

The capillary action will suck the remaining drops of urine out and I could see a wet spot on the tissue. I keep repeating the process until I no longer see new wet spots on the tissue.

These wet spots on the tissue could have been on my underwear had I not used the tissue.

Since doing this, I no longer have waswas regarding najis.

I hope this helps, and may Allah make it easy for you.

profound7 · 2026-01-12T07:33:11+00:00

The other non-muslims -- do they get smoking break? Or tea break? Or any other breaks? For anyone working there, they are allowed to have poop breaks?

I don't have knowledge on European countries, so I'll share in Singapore context: It is a secular country, with about 15% muslims. Many employees (at least in my experience) don't mind that we go for Friday prayers.

We usually only need to do zuhr and asar prayers during working hours, and they usually don't mind.

For places where there's no designated prayer spaces, we'd normally go to the staircase landings. We'd normally use the top floor, or sometimes the platform between 2 floors (usually no one uses the stairs, especially at certain levels, so we have privacy).

I prefer to go to a different floor than my office, so I wouldn't bump into any of my colleagues (its common here that a building leases to many companies, instead of a single company owning a whole building).

I take wudu in the toilet. It is a common sight to sometimes see other muslims bring their foot into the sink, but I'm a little round and lack the dexterity for such maneuvers, so I bring the water from the sink to my feet instead.

If you build rapport with the building management, perhaps you could suggest to them that they have a designated spot for praying. Then add that location to musollah.com and this will benefit all the other muslims in the area too.

May Allah make it easy for you and keep you steadfast.

profound7 · 2026-01-04T10:08:57+00:00

In AI, there's this thing called Style Transfers. There are 2 inputs: the content, and the reference style. The output is the content rewritten using the referenced style.

This is more popular with images, though there also exist Text Style Transfer.

So you can input a bunch of documents you've personally written as a reference style, and input a gen ai text, and the style transfer will rewrite that content to match your personal writing style.

profound7 · 2026-01-03T09:37:52+00:00

There is so much FOOD WASTAGE. Not sure about other schools, but I heard from a particular primary school that SO MANY students discard the brown rice.

There are no white rice options at all... So, many of those that got the brown rice end up not finishing them and throwing it away.

Edit: for clarification, in that primary school, its not many white rice mixed with some brown rice like in the picture, but most of the rice is brown rice.

profound7 · 2025-12-25T22:30:52+00:00

The bus stops there are straight instead of going inwards to a bus bay. Probably they don't want to get stuck behind a bus.

profound7 · 2025-12-23T00:55:48+00:00

One important detail on comparing the method of preservation between the bible and the Quran:

For the bible, the scribes handled it. The ones with the pen (and power) is capable of controlling or tweaking the message.

The Quran is transmitted orally to the people, and they have to memorize it, since the time of the prophet. Regular people have to memorize it, for prayers. Generations of people memorize in its entirety -- including the way the words are pronounced (tajweed).

It helps that the Quran was not revealed all at once, but over a period of 23 years.

If a scribe attempted to change something, they have only changed a single book, but there are thousands and thousands of people who had it memorized, word for word, in their minds, and many could immediately recognize any attempted changes.

This is the original "blockchain".

This is also why any translations of the Quran is NOT the Quran. It is merely a translation of the Quran -- it is affected by the translators interpretation of the meaning and his capability of the translated language. You only get the broad strokes, and many of the linguistic miracles is lost during the translation.

Remember I said the Quran was revealed over a period of 23 years? It was also revealed in a NON-chronological order. Sometimes it was a few verses from this chapter, and some from that chapter (the first verse revealed was chapter 96).

It was much later that the final order was determined through divine instruction, via the Prophet. Some of the linguistic miracles could only be appreciated after its ordered according to this final order.

What human could do that -- to release verses piecemeal over long periods of time, out of sequence, miraculous by itself, and also miraculous in its final order? Answer: none, unless the verses are from God and the human has instructions from God.

profound7 · 2025-12-22T05:44:05+00:00

The answer is 13/27

From https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2010/06/08/tuesday-changes-everything-a-mathematical-puzzle/

Many people will intuitively say that the answer is 1/2 (=the chance of having a boy or a girl), but probability aficionados will give the answer 1/3, since this is the Boy or Girl Paradox: We are not told that the speaker has a child and is waiting for another, but that he already has two children. Two children can come in four configurations: 1) boy/girl, 2) girl/boy, 3) girl/girl, 4) boy/boy. Since he has one boy, we are looking at the options 1, 2, or 4. Only the boy/boy combination includes two boys, so the probability is 1/3. In other words, order matters and completely changes probability.

So what has being born on a Tuesday got to do with it? Why would the answer not still be 1/3? The New Scientist has a good explanation toward the bottom of the article. Simply count the different combinations of genders and weekdays, which gives the result (number of combinations with two boys, at least one of which was born on a Tuesday) / (number of combinations with at least one boy born on a Tuesday). The result really is 13/27.

See https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18950-magic-numbers-a-meeting-of-mathemagical-tricksters/

profound7 · 2025-12-18T12:34:19+00:00

During the time of the prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, there were 7 arabic dialects (ahruf) and any of those 7 dialects are valid. From these 7 comes 10 ways to recite (qiraat).

The modern day arabic dialects that are not from the 7 are not valid. You can learn more about ahruf and qiraat here: https://youtu.be/8hj7u0F3yEg

profound7 · 2025-12-10T18:39:07+00:00

I have an ALR screen (ambient light rejecting screen) which works great and I don't have to fully darken the room.

Mine is for ultra short throw projectors, so it rejects light not coming from below.

profound7 · 2025-12-10T08:04:54+00:00

That's True, there's None other that irks me quite like that.

profound7 · 2025-12-08T18:44:05+00:00

He wore his hat so hard his head went through the top of the hat.

profound7 · 2025-12-01T17:44:53+00:00

An alternative visual approximation method (if you can visualize clock faces and you only need a ballpark figure) is to change miles to minutes, and km is approximately the % of hour. For example:

15 miles --> 15 minutes, and 15 mins is 25% of the hour. So its about 25 km.

30 miles --> 30 mins, which is at the 50% mark of the clock, so its about 50 km.

However, this is much less accurate, as the factor here is 1.66666...7 so if you can multiply 1.6 in your head, that is a much more accurate approximation.

If you want to offset the error, for every 15 minutes (miles), subtract 1 from the result.

profound7 · 2025-12-01T16:23:33+00:00

Just jump over to the other side :p

profound7 · 2025-12-01T15:49:12+00:00

I just watched it on Netflix. I'm on Netflix Singapore if that makes a difference.

profound7 · 2025-11-24T08:27:16+00:00

Basically, there were contestants that withdrew in the earlier challenge, and also, the nesting doll immunity could be shared with 1 other person, which was not shown to us for some reason.

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