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What's something you just learned, that you should have known for a while?
Don't mess around with partitions on your disk when it's past midnight, you're extremely stressed, and you don't have (easily accessible) backups.
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What's something you just learned, that you should have known for a while?
Don't mess around with partitions on your disk when it's past midnight, you're extremely stressed, and you don't have (easily accessible) backups.
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In case you're mad at yourself for closing your precious window with all the right tabs opened, note that Firefox allows to reopen recently closed windows
How would people function without knowing this?? Maybe I'm just young, but this has been a thing as far back as I can remember (maybe 2010 or so), on all browsers I've used (Safari, Chrome, Firefox).
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Apple Watch faces potential import ban in the US | The International Trade Commission has found Apple in violation of a bloody oxygen tracking patent owned by Masimo.
>"bloody oxygen tracking patent"
>click on post
>"blood oxygen tracking patent"
:/
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Sovereign citizen was detained.
I don't know what they're saying, but those cuffs were too tight.
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What is the (subjectively) weirdest word in the English language?
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It's a Q: a bunch of vowels are lined up behind it!
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How did we come to say something courteous to someone after they’ve sneezed
Off the top of my head, I think something in traditional European beliefs said that the soul was at risk of flying out of the nose when one sneezed. Hence people would say "bless you" in case you died and were at risk of otherwise falling into hell.
(Edit:) This vaguely supports my memory: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_bless_you#Origins_and_legends
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computer
Why would you pipe edit: redirect neofetch into your .bashrc?
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Anon shares an icebreaker
Anon was clearly not in choir. Any singer would know it's "deh oos", not "day us".
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What are your thoughts on piracy related stickers on cars?
It's not a good idea to put any sort of identity on your car since people don't generally think nice things about the drivers they see on the road with them. One of my friends refuses to put a Jesus fish bumper sticker in case she cuts someone off or something and they get mad at God.
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What kind of network is Lemmy looking to be?
It would be great if it could become a virtually universal social media eventually, but for its quirks to be understood by everyone, some critical mass of first adopters must understand the fediverse. So I think the fediverse will self-select for technically knowledgeable people at first before eventually becoming accessible to the public, not by any fault of its own but by virtue of having been around long enough and grown enough of a community to attract the average person from traditional social media.
I also think there are different instances and communities for people with different priorities. People interested in the ideas behind the fediverse can congregate on lemmy.ml (because that's where Lemmy's developers are, right?) and in FLOSS communities, etc., while people looking for a social network that won't use them for profit can flock to region-specific instances, etc.
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What thing are you exponentially more experienced in than the average person?
By feel I can identify 20 lb, 24 lb, 28 lb, 65 lb cover, 110 lb cover, and 12 pt matte paper. I'm increasingly impressed by people's business cards as a result, as it is often much, much heavier than 12 pt matte.
Using comparison I can distinguish 80 lb semi-gloss cover, 100 lb semi-gloss cover, 8 pt gloss, 10 pt gloss, and 12 pt gloss. (But then again, most people could, given multiple choices rather than a free-response question.)
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8 years of "Show us your birth Certificate" from these weirdos
Sidenote: I hate when people refer to women by their first names and men by their lasts. Would it be so difficult to call it the Harris campaign?
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Oppan-heimer
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Yeah, it was attempted cultural genocide. Some of the older generations have a Japanese name from when parents were forced to give their babies Japanese names and not speak Korean.
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That is actually a good question. Smoothly ignoring age or being polite?
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Is that why they use tú for God?
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What are two things that are good on their own but bad when combined? And bad things that are good when combined?
Can't think of anything myself, but I just want to say this is a really good unique question.
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computer
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But .bashrc is executed, not displayed.
Maybe they meant to say echo neofetch >> ~/.bashrc.
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Trump popularity.
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The insurrection.
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TIL that due to a disfunction of the ABCCII gene the majority of Asians have significantly less body odor than other populations
I'm East Asian. My ex (also Asian) said I smelled bad sometimes after exercising, but my current partner (not Asian) says I don't have any body odor. I do think that when we go to the gym together, their smell far outweighs mine. I can't smell myself at all, but then again, people are usually habituated to their own scents.
Sometimes, though, when I was a child, my father would come home from the gym, and we could all smell him from a mile away. I don't know if that's because the gene skipped him or if it's just because humans generally think their close family members are stinky.
It's nice to talk about this when my armpits aren't in danger of being sniffed by several drunk friends.
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A hidden consequence of the gig economy is that workers keep asking customers for sex or dates
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Considering it's limited in scope to Brits between the ages of 18 and 34, one in three is actually conservative seeing as it's less than the half of the population you would expect to be women by default.
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Users from China! What do you think about the CCP?
I thought they can't say anything bad online about the CCP.