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Big hugs
And now the cropping is fixed, so the comments deriding the cropping don't make sense anymore.
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Big hugs
And now the cropping is fixed, so the comments deriding the cropping don't make sense anymore.
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Light switches should be glow in the dark
My friend had light switches that glowed with a bright blue LED glow.
I couldn't stand it. I prefer to sleep in the actual darkness.
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Mastodon Myths
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Ha, I missed that part. Subtle.
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Do people realize you can create another Reddit Account?
Reddit never banned me, and yet here I am.
Maybe there's something missing in your analysis?
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tetrapods
Cheese with Japanese curry? Sounds pretty whacky, whatever shape it's in.
Also there's an elegant solution to keeping some rice visible out of the curry and it doesn't involve any extra ingredients.
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I will step on you and spill your food, my small friend
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Those caps are meant to affect the way you read it.
In this post, the capital letters (plus the "How To") suggest a title, like a book or something.
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Survey for curiosity: How many readers are in a library network that holds video games?
Yeah some of the libraries near me have a selection of video games on the shelves. At least one even has board games.
I love libraries.
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how do you survive without toilet paper?
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LBreakout2 level 19/37 - How the hell do I get past the unbreakable bricks?
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I downloaded the game and its source code, and I have new information for you.
There is an upgrade (this game calls it an "extra") that lets the ball break through that middle column of bricks.
The extra you want looks like a ball with a lightning bolt on each side. Something like:
⚡🪩⚡
It seems to be called METAL or ENERGY BALL.
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Paths of 800 unmanned bicycles being pushed until they fall over
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I dug up the actual paper (Cook, 2004) and it turns out the bicycle was symmetrical... and, in fact, entirely virtual.
It's a plot of a computer simulation, rather than records from a real-world physical experiment.
A bicycle is composed of four rigid bodies: the two wheels, the frame, the front fork (the steering column). Each adjacent pair of parts is connected with a joint that allows rotation along a defined axis, and the wheels are connected to the ground by requiring that their lowest point must have zero height and no horizontal motion (no sliding).
So the simulation has a lot of simplifications from reality, and the picture tells us more about the simulation model than it tells us about the real world. It is a pretty picture, though.
Here's the paper reference:
Cook, M. 2004. It takes two neurons to ride a bicycle.
(I couldn't get it from the Cook's Caltech site, but I found a copy elsewhere.)
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What is this and how is it relevant to the community you're posting in?
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Are there plans for Voyager to support PieFed?
According to the PieFed developers page:
The API for third-party apps (frontends, bots, etc) is 95% the same as the Lemmy API.
I don't know if there's anything special that Voyager needs to do. Maybe it even works already!
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The secret to colonising other planets is _____
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How do I start a new instance?
It sounds more like you want to create a new community on an existing instance.
Setting up a new community can be as easy as clicking the new community button and filling in the fields.
Setting up a whole instance of Lemmy (like lemmy.world, which you're on, or aussie.zone, which I'm on) is way more involved than you're probably thinking - buying a domain name, figuring out hosting, installing the Lemmy software, and a whole lot more.
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Causes of Death in London (1623)
Planet.
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Swiss Rule
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Actually, yeah, kinda?
Like, there are only so many one-syllable words. Even fewer words that are just a single letter.
Generally you don't want to waste them on complicated, niche concepts that only come up rarely.
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I experimented with some unusual psychology tricks to help me feel less awkward, and the outcomes were pretty surprising
What made you choose this particular community to post your story?
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OK, follow-up question: what does 'lovies' mean?
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retain terminal output colors through piped commands?
Color codes will pass through pipes just like any other output.
In this case, your grep is being smarter than you want and actually parsing the incoming color codes itself.
You can try a simpler program like head, tail, or even sed -n /ii/p to see it for yourself.
You can also control GNU grep's color processing with --color but you may not find exactly what you seek.
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Discussion Thread: 🌞 Saturday, 22 March 2025
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Equinox... equine ox... a horse-like cow.
This has been today's That's Definitely Where The Word Comes From, No Need To Look It Up.