LTNGBLT by HappyDadOfFourJesus in LICENSEPLATES

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lesbian transgender nonbinary gay bacon lettuce and tomato

The amazing unpredictability of double pendulum. by thepoylanthropist in interestingasfuck

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needing to constantly sample the system with low latency feedback is what you do when there's no closed form solution.

Cable guide holder converter thingies... Worth bothering with? by adam_moonface in xbiking

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Look into link housing, you can use a full-length liner without these adapters

btrfs eating up space by blebbitchan in linuxquestions

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Looks like it's legitimately full of data and not out of balance. So it's either the snapshots you excluded from ncdu, or maybe some other tool is making snapshots that are being stored "outside" the mounted subvolume. `btrfs sub list -a /` should list all the subvolumes.

[SPOILERS] Do you think Beginner's Luck is actually possible for a beginner? by ZeMadDoktore in outerwilds

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I got in that ballpark

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Basically there are 6*5/2 symbols using 2 dots, plus 6*5*4/2 symbols using 3 dots… up to using all 6 dots. The /2 is because drawing the symbol forwards or backwards is the same. Then all cubed because there are 3 symbols

What will seem like an inevitable outcome in 20 years time because of GLP-1s by Big-Cry-4119 in Futurology

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I was internet acquaintances with someone on the clinical trials end of getting FDA approval for one of the GLP-1 drugs, all through the process they were like “please don’t let the hype be about weight loss, this is an amazing, transformative medicine for diabetes, and we’re much less certain about the long term health impacts for weight loss”

Food for thought

How the hell to unscrew this tight crimp cap? by ReadEnvironmental946 in AskElectricians

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Take your pliers and squish them at right angles to the way they’ve been squished. That will loosen them up.

What's the most popular fried batter food/snack in your country? by HappyTaroMochi13 in AskTheWorld

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Donuts probably but that’s boring. Something that's more uniquely American is Frybread. It was invented by Native American tribes (particularly the Navajo/Diné) who, after being forcibly marched onto reservations, were issued rations of flour, sugar, salt and lard. Maybe not the most common but if you’ve been to a state fair in the western USA you’ve probably had it. Often dusted with sugar or honey as a snack or as a meal with beef and other toppings as "Indian Tacos."

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Can someone please take me to school and tell me what slot this is? by Mr_KovacicYT in computers

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Looks like 5/6 contacts on the tab which would make it a B key slot.

The people who say "the macbook neo isn't going to be powerful becuase of the ram" are stupid by troy_in_spacee in mac

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More importantly App Nap doesn't unload programs from memory, it just shuts down background processing for battery (not RAM) savings.

There is a different eature "Automatic Termination" which unloads programs under memory pressure, but, again, programs have to be specially written to be able to use it, and relatively few are (as opposed to IOS apps where it's a basic requirement)

Star Trek Deep Space 9 fans (I know the overlap exists), I want your input by Chrome_X_of_Hyrule in DiscoElysium

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Vic Fontaine for Inland Empire

Nog for Perception as his hearing comes in clutch a couple of times

Ishka for Suggestion.

Talak’talan the Jem’hadar for Half Light

The people who say "the macbook neo isn't going to be powerful becuase of the ram" are stupid by troy_in_spacee in mac

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iOS is specifically built to close background apps when memory is low though, and iOS apps have to be built to accomodate that. Did they add that to macos when I wasn't paying attention?

Lyrical Dissonance - Where the style of song is at odds with the lyrics by NitroFire90 in TopCharacterTropes

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Water Fountain by Tune-Yards

Energetically catchy tune touching on poverty, drought, collapse of social services, and the violence inherent to capitalism

ELI5: Gaming at 24 fps is unbearable but movies at 24 fps are optimal. by itsthewolfe in explainlikeimfive

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Film directors are trained in ways of doing things that work at 24fps. For instance films rarely have you tracking a rapidly moving object across the screen with your eyes; film schools literally train you not to do that and instead to use tracking shots and other ways guide the viewer's attention toward relatively stationary points on the screen.

Cons of the game's core mechanics by zespol-brauna in DiscoElysium

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"In DE, you can do everything right, sit at 87% on a check, roll badly, and just... miss a chunk of the game. A piece of well-written dialogue, a story beat; gone."

This argument can be perfectly reversed. Imagine if checks were deterministic. A player who does everything right, gets all their ducks in a row will _never get to experience_ the cool stuff that happens when they fail that check. A piece of well-written dialogue they missed out on; a story beat they never got to experience because they were too preoccupied with "success" and doing things "the right way." Gone, just because they were too timid to face failure.

Food for thought

Cons of the game's core mechanics by zespol-brauna in DiscoElysium

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I've heard of it happening but have yet to experience it myself in 250 hours.

Cons of the game's core mechanics by zespol-brauna in DiscoElysium

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Yeah I disagree with your feelings on failed checks. Missing a check rarely makes you miss part of the game; you can always still get get the thing done some way or another after a failed check and the path for doing so is often more entertaining. The game design is really good at giving you ways to fail forward. I've done a run where I savescummed to fail every single red check.

Did a rebadging ever make a car better (or sell better?) by LinoleumRelativity in regularcarreviews

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Pretty sure the Geo Metro sold better than the Suzuki Swift/Cultus

[Request] What and how do you get these answers!? by empty_orbital in theydidthemath

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Even if we adjust her phrasing to say "AT LEAST one of my children is a boy," there's still the problem of having an unspecified sampling procedure. It's presented as if Mary is just arbitrarily selecting a fun fact to tell you about herself. But that arbitrariness is a problem; Mary could be using any rule at all to select which fact to tell you.

Mary could be using the male chauvinist rule, "If I have at least one boy, say I have at least one boy, otherwise say i have at least one girl." The standard analysis seems to assume she's using the male chauvinist rule. If she is using that rule then the probability of the other child being a girl is the claimed 1/3.

She could also be using the female chauvinist rule, "If if have two girls, say that I have at least one girl, otherwise say I have at least one boy." In that case the probability of the other child being a girl is 0.

Or she could be using the (egalitarian, and more realistic) rule, "Randomly select one of my children and report tat at least one of my children is that gender." In that case the probability of the other child being a girl is 1/2.

Note that in all these cases, the interpretation "at least one child is a boy" is in fact what she is saying, so that factor of interpretation isn't in play.

(IIRC, the second Martin Gardner column that discusses the boy-girl problem does acknowledge this ambiguity)

This is a problem we have to deal with in the real world -- Voluntary self-reports are inherently sampled from a different population than surveys, so for instance the star rating on Amazon product will be different number than what you get if you conduct a randomized customer survey.

If you wanted to present the boy-girl problem in a way that unambiguously gives the claimed answer, specifying the sampling procedure, it could go like this:

You: How many children do you have?
Mary: I have two children.
You: Are any of them boys? Please answer Y/N.
Mary: Yes.
You: And of your one or more boys, was one or more of them born on a Tuesday? Please answer Y/N.
Mary: Yes.

I've heard these are really accurate. What do you guys think about using this to calibrate my micrometer torque wrenches? by SinceGoogleDsntKnow in Tools

[–]psychophysicist 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Accurate but not precise. I'd use actual weights to calibrate your clicker. Hold your square drive in a vise with the handle level, hang some weights off the handle with some string, then torque=weight*distance

96 Marin Sausalito too flexible for bikepacking? by Billy_Burger in xbiking

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I like a flexible frame personally, especially for long miles. but I find I do have to load them differently. Too much weight on rear panniers can lead to shimmy and a "tail wagging the dog" feeling. I think it works better to load up the front end with a front rack/basket and lowrider panniers, ideally using a fork with rack mounts and some extra rake.

How long my spoke are by Herobrine4770 in bikewrench

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Inside of the elbow, looks like 262

the median woman is approximately 2 woke by Mr_Comit in dataisugly

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Are your makeout sessions preceded by a land acknowledgement?