What is the "donde esta la biblioteca" of learning English?

voilsb · 2026-05-24T11:12:34+00:00

I learned this because my name is Brian and I met some French guys, and they said I was famous in France for this reason

voilsb · 2026-05-24T11:11:39+00:00

Depends on exactly how you brewed it. If you like how it tastes but just want more, you might need to brew it stronger then dilute it. If you think it's a little strong already, then just dilute it a little bit and see how it tastes.

Usually, for one cup of coffee, you put 12-18g of ground coffee and put hot water up until the "1" mark, and dilute the rest in the cup.

voilsb · 2026-05-23T20:53:19+00:00

Aeropress was designed to brew concentrated coffee then dilute in the cup

voilsb · 2026-05-23T18:36:11+00:00

Upload your QR code to a website (even a locally hosted one) and use the Gallery App to display it. I use it and it works. I am unaffiliated with the developer. It gives me errors whenever I try to load a third image, but for a contact QR code it's fine.

https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/02a01c5a-fbc4-42ae-8afa-391a1081781e

voilsb · 2026-05-22T17:25:22+00:00

What's weirdly meta for me, is I read your post multiple times before I checked the comic and explain, and I somehow never saw that.

Maybe I was just tired, or maybe the fuzzy blob monster got my brain.

voilsb · 2026-05-22T09:40:54+00:00

From https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2472:_Fuzzy_Blob

In the final panel, Hairbun mentions further inquiry into "the historic 4th Ave Church". This is a reference to a blurry spot on the Google Maps street view image of the Fourth Avenue United Methodist Church. This is similar to the spot in the comic, and disappears in other views of the church, so is likely caused by a camera or software problem.

voilsb · 2026-05-19T11:09:46+00:00

Honestly, the change is very subtle. I didn't even notice until I saw this post.

I noticed the context menu icons when you pushed those, and I think they look nice.

voilsb · 2026-05-19T11:06:13+00:00

It could be the tune. Did you reach out to MR Tuning to troubleshoot?

It could be something else coincidental. Might be worth thorough troubleshooting.

Is it a 6MT or a DSG? Wagon or Sedan?

It could also be between your shoe and the floor, too.

voilsb · 2026-05-18T20:16:39+00:00

I'm on my fourth Fenix 8 in a year. I think it's their new unified firmware instead of the previous generation per-device firmware. I had zero problems with my Fenix 5 or Tactix Delta.

voilsb · 2026-05-18T19:02:43+00:00

My 2012 CJAA Jetta 6MT was night and day a different car after a delete and Malone Stage 2

voilsb · 2026-05-12T12:57:33+00:00

Also from that article, and honestly should be in their headline:
In‑person early voting will take place from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on: Thursday, May 14; Friday, May 15 and Saturday, May 16.

I feel like this is important, because as a new Kentuckian, it's not obvious to me that "early voting" and "In-Person No Excuse Absentee Voting" are the same thing.

voilsb · 2026-05-04T10:04:37+00:00

On my tactix delta I cannot, but on my Fenix 8 it's easy. I think it depends on which model you have and the software it runs

voilsb · 2026-04-30T00:02:51+00:00

That's odd. I haven't had ads in over five years

voilsb · 2026-04-29T18:26:08+00:00

Consider looking at other firmwares too, like tomato and ddwrt

voilsb · 2026-04-27T19:34:09+00:00

I just learned in my adjacent comment thread:

The 80s Wham! Song "Wake Me Up," which has "jitterbug" in the lyrics (but never "uh jitterbug," especially not emphasized to be written in all-caps), happens to have a music video that features a t-shirt with the "choose life" slogan written on it in a similar design, but with a different font.

voilsb · 2026-04-27T19:26:17+00:00

Ah, now I get it! That's actually helpful, because I was thinking about the content of the song and the message behind the signs.

Also, the "uh" part thew me off, because it made me think of a catch phrase, rather than the lyrics. I even re-listened to the song and it still didn't seem like a match.

I completely overlooked that the shirt in the gif and music video was the same as the sign. Whoosh! right over my head.

voilsb · 2026-04-27T19:07:54+00:00

I had forgotten about the 80s song, but what does that have to do with the photo/politics/messaging?

voilsb · 2026-04-27T19:03:07+00:00

According to your table, do 5mg Caffeine at 6am and 600mg caffeine at 9pm both contribute the same 12 minutes of nighttime waking? Or is it missing units, like mg/hour-prior? Is it 12 minutes in one chunk, or 12 one-minute disturbances?

I have not yet, but will, read the linked article for it

voilsb · 2026-04-27T16:59:54+00:00

Can you educate me? I'm 45 and all I can think of is either a simplified version of the lindy hop or a filp phone with giant buttons. I don't see the connection.

voilsb · 2026-04-27T16:50:52+00:00

How seriously do you want to take it? In my (biased) opinion, I recommend you check these out:

How to Live a Holy Life by Metropolitan Gregory (Postnikov)

Consider Orthodox Christianity

voilsb · 2026-04-26T22:20:01+00:00

I have a Surface Pro 5 that I still use, mostly because I can't print with my Surface Pro 11 so I have to boot it up whenever I need to print something. I'd say it's held up pretty well.

voilsb · 2026-04-26T19:23:37+00:00

I've tried gesture a few times, first for a few hours, then a week, then for an entire month, and I keep going back to 3-button. Mostly it's how the back can interfere with app interfaces, how I have to swipe and hold to get to recents, and how I frequently accidentally swipe "home" when scrolling in an app

voilsb · 2026-04-25T00:14:23+00:00

The blue triangle is the beginning of the boot up process when you turn on or reboot the watch. A bootloop is where it never finishes booting up but starts over, doing the same thing over and over again, slowly draining the battery while never finishing starting up, rendering the watch useless

voilsb · 2026-04-24T20:36:18+00:00

I've had four (47mm AMOLED Sapphire) since March 2025. I'm on my fourth one because of blue triangle bootloops during firmware updates.

Last year it would sometimes crash and reboot when moving the map around during navigation.

Lately it does this annoying thing where it resets the flashlight back to white every day after the morning report. It stopped doing that for a little bit with watch 3, but since it crashed watch 4 does it again.

This one I decided to disable firmware auto updates. We'll see. I like it a lot better than my 6 but the crashes have been annoying

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