I cowpulsively check if I have my key before closing doors. I always feel uncomfortable leaving a place that I know I might not be able to get back to.
Caveman
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I feel the same way. I’ve always assumed it’s because scientific information doesn’t change with time unless it was wrong to begin with. It somehow always ends up sticking to already existing information very well and getting the label “permanent”.
Where are my keys? What did I have for dinner this week? Those have the “ethereal” label on it so it’s get thrown out at the first opportunity.
It really depends. When I’m doing something I don’t like it’s the butt lazer but when I do things I do like it’s the single eye lazer.
Caveman@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's your favourite story from history that is actually false or exaggerated?
10·1 day agoThat the four good emperors of Rome, namely Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pious and Marcus Aurelius had a good thing going until Marcus by deciding to pass the empire to their adopted sons. Nerva was also there with his excellent decision to adapt Trajan out of everyone.
This is portrayed as an altruistic non-nepotism move when in reality they were all childless. Nerva and Antoninus specifically selected because they were old and childless and Hadrian was just straight up gay. They probably would have passed on the empire to their sons if they had them.
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Steam Hardware@sopuli.xyz•Steam Frame Using Mesa's Turnip Vulkan Open-Source Driver
2·1 day agoI think Qualcomm drivers are the least of our problems. Getting all the other drivers for 5G, GPS, gyro, accelerometer, compass, WiFi etc is going to be an issue since they’re all vendor loaded blobs now.
Turns out you can, by using () instead of {} in the function declaration you can run the function in a subshell where changes to variables are scoped to the subshell and functions are local.
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•This comic is missing a chunk of asbestos.English
9·2 days agoWikipedia agrees with you. Commonly viewed as a psuodoscience. The equipment is very good at amplifying subtle hand movements.
You’re not forced into global forced variables, but they’re the default. Use the
localkeyword in front of the variable declaration for nicely scoped variable.It’s not that cumbersome to do things like
local date=`date` echo "$date"but in all honesty the syntax sucks ass because it’s not intuitive. If statements suck ass, passing variables has to be done via command line arguments sucks ass, switch statements suck ass, making structured data sucks ass (
jqis nice though).I agree with you that bash really sucks when you get to anything more than 10 lines and at that point I’d take literally prefer Dreamberd.
It’s true that the ears receive stereo input, but brain postprocesses it to make surround sound. It uses the time difference from sound hitting your right and left ear to do some black magic and figure out at which angle the sound is coming from.
Another interesting part on this is that the brain is pretty bad at detecting whether a sound is coming from the front or back of the head so it uses visual cues and combines it with the processed sound to make it seem like it’s coming from either the front or the back.
That’s the neat part, the brain does that using some black magic. You just have to add all the sounds individual waves together and the brain deciphers it.
Caveman@lemmy.worldto
Linux@lemmy.ml•What are the silliest reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?
7·4 days agoIt’s pretty simple actually. Mine runs the program as it would normally and whenever the program reaches out to say “create this file” or “load this font” for example Wine will grab that call and translate it into a Linux OS command. As long as the program gets all their Windows API calls and windows specific files requests satisfied it will happily continue.
This is why ARM support is such a hassle for wine since the processor is with a different architecture so the compiled binary needs to be translated as well with all the nuances.
Now let’s prove that 7x6 is also the answer to the ultimate question.
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Autism@lemmy.world•Study reveals why the brain 'zones out' when you're exhausted
1·8 days agoFor sure that’s a thing, but I’d it’s more related to sleep deprivation than neurodivergence. I have a 1 year old and get sufficient sleep so I’m not zoning out all more than around once a month.
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Games@lemmy.world•Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leadersEnglish
1·9 days agoOn the steam hardware page it says the CPU and GPU are discrete although also “semi-custom” which I think means it’s not Gigabyte and has some cooling features that are tailored to the form factor.
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Games@lemmy.world•Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leadersEnglish
2·9 days agoI know my case is specific but having a Jellyfin running on a Steam computer looks to me as good case for having a computer in the living room. Adding a TV applications to Steam such as Netflix is also a case. Then there are people who have their workstation close to the TV so they can use it instead of their laptop and just switch displays with one of these HDMI branching dongles.
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Memes@lemmy.ml•What do you want to be when you grow up? USA vs UK vs China
2·9 days agoWe are both actively exploring the stars and the ocean. There’s still a lot we don’t know and there’s still plenty of species being discovered in rainforest all the time.
Bacterias and viruses are also something that you can never finish exploring and there are for sure weird creatures like tardigrades that are still undiscovered.
You’re just in time to discover genetics, epigenetics, biomechanics of nutrition, chemistry, biochemistry, how to make custom creatures from DNA building blocks, protein folding applications, mysteries of how the brain works and even math as mature as it is also has tons of undiscovered parts.
Sure you might be too late and to early for a couple of specific things but science discovery is absolutely exploding and random average Joe types are discovering things all the time. I think on the contrary now is one of the most likely things where you can just flat out discover something about the world that nobody has discovered before.
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Memes@lemmy.ml•What do you want to be when you grow up? USA vs UK vs China
3·9 days agoI wanted to be an inventory that makes crazy gadgets or as wealthy as Scrooge McDuck.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•You're given $20,000 USD (or the equivalent in your local currency) to spend, but anything still left by the end of the day you lose for good. What are you spending it on?
1·10 days agoI think 1000 or 2000 for me. I know it’s optimal to put it on my mortgage but that’s an amount I would use the excuse of “having to spend it” to spend it on myself. 20k in cleared debt is like 1.4k yearly expense reduced which really moves the needle. If you pay off 1k a month you’re effectively increasing the payoff rate by 12%.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Valve's new Steam Machine and Steam Frame and implications for Linux
32·12 days agoI thought it was obvious, 2026 is going to be the year of the Linux desktop.




Not as good as I would have expected. I remember my in-laws car license plate but not their birthdays. It might be because I use a calendar to track those.