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We're lucky that our bodies require sleep, otherwise our cultures would have us working 16-20 hour days.
Investment bankers would like a word (but they probably don't have time).
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We're lucky that our bodies require sleep, otherwise our cultures would have us working 16-20 hour days.
Investment bankers would like a word (but they probably don't have time).
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The buttons on Zenith’s original “clicker” remote were a mechanical marvel
Would it have been possible for the speakers of the time to emit those frequencies? Imagining the equivalent of a Twitch raid: "I'm done broadcasting so I'm going to send you to the next channel."
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The decentralized web is growing
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I hadn't dealt with video in years (like 2008) and recently used my Canon R6 to record a few seconds of 4k footage.
After getting over being annoyed at the camera stopping due to overheating after just 5 minutes, I was shocked to see a 7 second clip come to almost 700mb as a raw file.
Indeed video will probably be the last kind of network to see federation. It could take some pretty generous acts of philanthropy along the way to make anything sustainable happen.
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How many Lemmy users are non-technical background?
My tech background is in the fact that our family computer in the early 2000s wasn't powerful enough to do much and my parents wouldn't pay for games, so I spent a ton of time digging around in Control Panel and system files and messing up the BIOS settings.
My studies have all been in the humanities and I've never worked in an actual tech role; I got into scripting and self-hosting because I'm lazy, I like FOSS, and I like systems that work in the way I tell them to rather than how someone else thinks they should work.
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Lemmy.world active users is tapering off while other servers are gaining serious traction.
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Full keyboard navigation (j and k to focus up and down posts, u to go to user profile, c to enter comments…) including toggling expandos, and regex keyword filtering for me.
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What's a good alternative to Gmail?
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IIRC Cloudflare is the only registrar that doesn't mark up from wholesale prices, or something like that. Basically makes them cheaper than most other registrars. I think the point is that they can then sell you their other (related) services more easily — the services that actually make them money.
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*Munches Table Quietly*
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When you go at it harder than a trash compactor and your partner literally changes shape.
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Those of you who shower barehanded: Do you lather and then use your hand, or just shove the soap wherever it needs to go?
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Aka "(Korean) Italy towels".
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With lab grown meat we could see the advent of ethical cannibalism.
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"Gourmetally free", surely, without the oppression of the squeamish crowds?
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Lemmy.world active users is tapering off while other servers are gaining serious traction.
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Thanks will take a look!
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Putin Signs Gender Reassignment Ban Into Law
Pure speculation: could this have been motivated, to any extent, by some desire to maintain a predictable portion of the population conscriptable, given that only men are conscripted?
The war isn't going quite in the way Putin would have hoped, after all.
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Reddit's pathetic attempt to quash dissent
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Shame someone can't make a bot for tha— ohhhhhh…
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The lengths we have to go to
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That's really interesting. So does that mean the interpreter just checks whether the current line is more indented, less indented, or equal vs. the preceding, without caring by how much?
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Those of you who shower barehanded: Do you lather and then use your hand, or just shove the soap wherever it needs to go?
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Isn't soap technically self-dirtying since it's supposed to get dirt to cling to it rather than your skin?
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The buttons on Zenith’s original “clicker” remote were a mechanical marvel
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I meant it more in the sense of one channel, when shutting down for the night, emitting the "next channel" tone such that every viewer's set would change to a channel that was still broadcasting.
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What's the dumbest thing you thought as an adult that you recently learned was wrong?
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there was this other, similar town pronounced -bruh or -boro that people talked about.
You were so close: Edinburgh only got its name after Edward I invaded Scotland in 1296. Before that it (which was then a larger area than the present Edinburgh) had just been called "the Burgh", which depending on regional variation would have been pronounced either "burg" or "boro". "Edinburgh" referred to a smaller area within the Burgh that the king's guards would patrol more severely due to the perceived increased risk of rebellion due to higher population density.
(/joke)
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People from the "hotter" regions, how do you deal with the heat?
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An umbrella makes a crazy difference, I basically won't leave the house without at least a lightweight one in summer.
Note not all umbrellas block UV equally though.
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The lengths we have to go to
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Please elaborate (eg which standard is this defined in?)
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Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service
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Reading through their mail merge tutorial, their method looks insanely risky: putting all addresses in "to" and rembering to click another button.