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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

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lightbulbs

Both. Both are good.

Daylight for the work rooms and things like home-office or homework desks, warm light for cozy couch corners and bedrooms.

Or go full high-tech and install lights with adjustable color temperature.

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I support this

Practically never in my whole live, standing in thousands of checkout lines, have l heard anyone say "Thank you" to another person placing a divider.
Maybe under very special circumstances that primarily had nothing to do with the divider itself.

It is in both person's interest to place it, so the the one who has the opportunity to do it just does.

Had I encountered the woman from the post, I just would have classified her as mentally not entirely stable and kept my distance...

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Don't fix the problem just change the parameters

First: Some UK teachers exchanged the analogue with digital clocks. This was only to reduce interruptions by some students (during a specific kind of UK exams), who had trouble determining the remaining time in the heat of the exam battle.

Secondly: The use of analogue clocks is taught at UK schools. What's missing is the practice that former generations of pupils had. No more wristwatches, public clocks all but gone, and (what I am nostalgically missing from my youth) no more peeking onto parked car's dashboards to read the analogue clock there. Times have changed, and this specific partially lost ability is not the schools' fault. (Not to say that other things aren't...)

Can we please bury that stupid old meme, as it has been based on some inaccurate buzz and largely giving a completely inaccurate impression of the topic from the start...

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Considering how intentionally malecious the side effects of typical genie-wishes tend to be, the extra electron probably comes to rest in the wishers hypophysis and causes a free radical that leads to a rare sort of cancer that prevents the wisher from falling asleep ever again, so he dies in madness scratching out his own eyes.
0r something similar along that line.

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Anthropic inadvertently leaks source code for Claude Code CLI tool

“Just because the source is now 'available' *DOES NOT MEAN IT IS OPEN SOURCE*. You are violating a license if you copy or redistribute the source code, or use their prompts in your next project! Don’t do that"

Don't worry, we will just use an LLM to slightly rephrase the code before using and redistributing it, so that copyright doesn't apply any more.

That's what LLMs are there for, after all.

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Trump drops F-bomb and says ‘Praise to Allah’ in wildest social media post yet

Here we are, in a strange world where I have to count fucking a*******s to find out, if the P***S said "bitches" or "bastards" in his latest social media post. Or wait, maybe he said "butchers", or perhaps "bollards"...

It's a god-damned direct quote and the distinction what the asshole in the W***e H***e exactly said is kinda important.
So why is something like this censored on a news site?

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I don't think that is the explanation.

More likely:
Linux Mint is based on the LTS variants of Ubuntu, so 26.04 LTS will threaten to make the current Mint base rapidly obsolete.
So the Mint team has hard times ahead switching to the new base.