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Most deals aren't up yet so I think you're a bit early.

However my number 1 recommendation would be the Serif Affinity products. They will probably be on sale for something like half price. 35 euros for a lifetime purchase of something that really gives Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign a run for its money.

My number two would be ProtonMail. Though you shouldn't buy this before using a free account for a while.

Ive also been to school in countries with and without and I find that absolutely none of the good things people attribute to school uniforms are true.

1. No pressure to dress well. Except that either a) you can buy better or cheaper fabric school uniform or b) the school makes new designs every year or two of the uniform and students that cant afford to buy new clothes every year or are buying second hand are easy to pick out.
2. What about earrings, rings, hairstyles. School uniform shoes need to usually be bought from outside of the school and those come at just as many price points as normal shoes.
3. I guess thats true
4. This totally depends on the school you're going to and what you personally like. If you are going to a fancy private school then you might have to wear a tie a lot which could be annoying to some. My sister had to wear skirts that went to her ankles which she didnt like. I was in a public primary school so you could wear pretty much whatever you wanted as long as the colours were correct which makes me pretty lucky. In the best case, you arent restricted but that often isnt the case once you are done with primary school. If you can buy your own clothes you can always pick something that fits you and is made from material you like.
5. And stupid for enbys that are still finding themselves when uniforms are clearly for men or for women. Its much easier to find something that suits you personally if you can pick from everything instead of a reduced set that forces everyone to fit into one of two groups.
6. Wardrobe malfunctions are less likely to happen if you dont need a whole second wardrobe for things you only wear to school and take off immediately when you come home.
7. Kids can reuse hand me downs in any case.
8. You can recognize your friends just fine without the uniform. Youre also not likely to wear the uniform outside of the school, because if you do anything that isnt perfectly exemplary behaviour while in school uniform and a teacher gets wind of it (and believe me this happens in the suburbs) then you (apparently) tarnished the school's reputation forever. Also, you take it off because its ugly and because you dont have a lot of it and have to make it last before it goes in the laundry.
9. Maybe from a distance? Up close people can very easily tell what your body type is.

There is absolutely no merit for school uniform. They're exhausting to deal with. They kill your self expression which is important for teenagers especially. Often schools take it too far and try to send the pupils back into the 17th century. My sister wasnt allowed to wear make up. If you were seen with make up there were wet wipes at the front of every classroom so the whole class could see you wipe off your makeup. School uniform socks are just a greedy money making scheme.

And most importantly, they dont do anything against bullying. Kids dont bully each other for clothes because they actually mind the clothes. They bully because they want to bully. There will always be something. And there are better ways to work against that than forcing all children to buy a second wardrobe and suffocate anyone who is trying to express themselves in an unconvential way.

You see trans people with a small flame above their head?

Incorrect four-way Venn diagram. There is, for example, no intersection of exclusively Preachers and Bank Robbers.

(The meme is still amazing though)

I dont get this at all. There are plenty of people not drinking during a night out for the simple reason that theyre driving.

Dual booting isnt that finnicky. Just dual boot until youre certain that there's nothing you need in your life that you cant get running under Linux. I dont understand why everyone wants you to switch so quickly when there is no harm in going at your own pace.

Unfortunately C needs you to remember a lot of formalities and best practices to keep things from blowing up in your face. So I think it makes sense in this case.

I feel like there are too many exceptions to this rule. Maybe dont get the cheapest but you dont need to spend a lot to have a very good:

• Cast iron pan
• Carbon steel pan
• Enameled cast iron pot (seriously, look it up, I see people saying how much they love their Le Creuset all the time but I got one from KitchenAid of all brands at 50 euros in my local supermarket)
• Baking tray
• Cooling rack
• Baking bowls
• Spatula of any kind
• Peeler
• Electric mixer
• Kitchen scale

I could go on but I believe Ive made my point.

Besides everything thats been said, unknowns and variables are a pretty common concept in maths...

I'll go against the grain a bit here and say that I found this game to be very boring.

The combat is bad, the puzzles are boring and repetitive.

What the game does well is atmosphere and storytelling. It's mostly a monologue of the main character which is performed quite well but that's not what I look for in a game.

I personally play much more fast-paced games so it simply didn't cater to me.

Good running shoes are engineered to increase performance. You will definitely be slower without.

Tunic?

I was also raised atheists but I found myself being entertained by the bashing of ridiculous claims of fundamentalists. Things like thunderf00ts "Why people laugh at creationists" or anything by Darkmatter2525 were just poking harmless fun. As time progressed, some of these YouTubers started making more podcasty stuff where they would rant and rave about the evil effects of religion on daily life and I was still on board.

When they all switched to bashing feminism I left pretty quickly because I had a good friend who was an outspoken feminist and I realized that the videos portrayed feminism all wrong. Who knows where I would be if it wasnt for her.

I personally wasn't doing any content creation beforehand so I only started with the Affinity products.

For me, I find it easy enough to use, even as a beginner. If I can't find out how to do something even after googling for "How to do x in Affinity" I can just Google for how to do it in the Adobe version and usually it's really easy to find the corresponding tool in Affinity.

If you're a pro you probably have very specific demands for your creation programs which may mean that you need to stick with Adobe. But if you aren't aware of any demands you have, Affinity fits the bill easily.

I'll try to remember to check them out closer to the day

You could also get the trial version for a month for testing it out

It conceals socioeconomic differences.

It doesnt even do that.

• Do you have the cheap generic stuff from the uniform superstore?
• The higher quality stuff from the uniform superstore?
• The fancy stuff with the school logo printed on it?
  • This year's version or last years?
• How worn is your stuff
• Is it a hand me down or second hand?

These things are actually very easy to see. But you actually dont even have to go that far. Any kinds of accessories can give you away quite quickly but the worst offenders are school uniform shoes. You have to get these from the shoe store and they come at all price points.

Bullies will always bully

Exactly

One thing that has been stopping me from switching to Wayland is that I have a 32:9 screen and usually virtually divide into a 16:9 in the middle and then an 8:9 on each side. This works well enough on Xorg.

I would love to see this implemented in Hyprland and I opened an issue for it a while back. The maintainer says that the workload seems too large and he is uninterested. I've racked up quite a few upvotes though and it seems like quite a lot of people would be interested in this.

I've glanced over the code and I think it shouldn't be extremely difficult to add a layer of indirection between workspaces and monitors as an initial PoC. Dont get me wrong, this will still take more than a week to get running which is why I sadly havent found the time to do this myself.

If you could maybe look into it there may be possibilities to split up the work a bit. I dream of a world where you can dynamically add and remove virtual outputs and it's all animated - very long way to go until then.

There are already quite a few approaches to quantum safe encryption. We'll just have to switch to different algorithms. It's really nothing to worry about.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography

Girls have pockets?

My mum's name is Ira and she thought it would be cute to name me Ari. Most people I meet agree.

If your friends are walking 20 miles in two hours they very well might be gods

I use the term rather loosely so it's hard to say because it depends on the setting and how pedantic you want to be.

In a continuous setting (time, for example), you will usually see the derivative of a function f(t) being denoted as a df(t)/dt. In some cases it would also be written as f'(t). Engineers are pretty much always dealing with functions across time so they added another notation which is simply a dot over a variable. E.g. if x is your position in space then ẋ is your velocity (the derivative over time). You can add another dot if you want your acceleration (the second derivative over time = the derivative of the velocity).

The counterpart of a derivative is the integral which is always denoted by ∫f(t)dt.

The discrete case is a bit more tricky because these things arent that well defined in these cases. People dont seem to mind if you go with the next best thing. The derivative is the difference between steps (Im not aware of a notation for this) and for the integral you would use a sum ∑.

Note that even this wall of text doesnt cover all of it but I hope it gets the point across.

I think you are making a blanket statement about uniform systems and attributing all the bad things from a few to all of them.

I already touched on this and said that the best ones are the ones that give you the most freedoms. The very most freedom is had without any uniforms at all.

I would know because I spent a good 5 years living on just two suitcases drifting from home to home

How did this look when you moved somewhere with uniforms? You probably had to buy new uniforms and you would be able to give them away when you moved away again. That money could have been put towards buying something newer and nicer for yourself instead.

Saying "there will always be something to bully" as a counterpoint to how bullies will always find something to bully is pretty dismissive to how much it hurts to be bullied for one's appearances.

The problem is that one's appearance isn't just the clothes you wear. How much does it hurt to get bullied for facial features, hair, skin colour, accent, pimples, issues possibly related to a disability? Bullies can also just pick any part of your body and make fun of that because most people dont have a perfect body. Everyone has something that is not perfectly adherring to body standards.

I just don't see any reason to believe that uniforms would make it more "difficult" to bully in any way. Bullies don't blanket bully everyone who wears X or does Y. They are predatory and choose specific type of person to bully and then just fling everything at them and see to what that person reacts.

I get that being bullied for your clothes may not look a big deal to you because you're a grown adult. But that's not how many teenage minds work. Small things like that can be detrimental to their self esteem.

I totally understand that. But the only time I, personally, ever saw someone get bullied for their clothes was when that person was wearing uniform that was in clearly poor condition because that kid had it really rough at home. On the other hand, I've noticed people attempting to bully me for traits of my personality. They weren't satisfied with my reaction so they went on to bully someone else instead but the point still stands. Could school uniform have protected me from that? Does school uniform make me less nerdy?

I'm sorry you had to go through all of that growing up and I hope you're over it now. I just feel like you're giving school uniform too much credit.

I like noticing when something is the derivative/integral of something.

Often using a derivative helps break something down and an integral might show an end result.

For example, a software product is the sum of its commits.

I've been to both school with and without uniforms. As I said, I only witnessed bullying based on clothing in the schools with uniforms.

For the schools that did, I often bought mine discounted or second hand, and still I've yet to be bullied about my clothing compared to when I only had my dilapidated wardrobe

I still don't understand why money put towards uniform could not have been put towards better leisure clothing.

I've been consistently bullied less often in schools that have a uniform, regardless of the topic.

I neither believe that school uniforms create more bullies, nor do I believe that all schools with uniforms are bad. I think that uniforms are a huge waste of time and money that makes many children miserable - of course some will also like it, as you have made quite clear.

You could argue that this is correlation and not causation

Whether uniforms are normal or not really depends on the local culture so there could be any number of things at play of why there was less bullying or why you may have felt more comfortable in general. Attributing everything to uniforms sounds reductive.

For the vast majority of the world, uniforms are the norm and even mandatory in many countries.

The vast majority of countries also still use corporal punishment. I don't value their opinions on education.

There is a reason why schools, hospitals, soldiers, and prisons have uniforms

to legitimize an institution and instill discipline.

Do doctors and nurses need to be taught discipline? Prisons use the lack of individuality as part of a punishment. Wearing something stupid is supposed to make you unhappy. For military this is true though but these are adults who know what they are getting themselves into. These aren't angsty teenagers trying to find out who they are and instead being forced to wear things they hate.

When schools are already understaffed and underfunded, the lack of a uniform makes it even harder to keep students in line. When students wear uniforms, their individuality stops being just about how they look and starts being about how they want to be perceived by others through their actions.

In the school where I had to wear a uniform there were quite a lot of children from socioeconomically disadvantaged homes. There were quite a lot of kids who acted out and made life difficult for teachers and other students. There was far less of this in the schools without uniforms. It's a socioeconomic thing. Uniforms don't change that.

What's most impressive are his animations. This is on his main YouTube channel. Really good stuff.

I found that Elder Bug would pretty much always just tell you where to go

But that was the point of the DLCs. Fans complained that there werent any truly challenging parts to the game. So you could opt into Nightmare King Grimm if you wanted a hard boss right. Normal Grimm is pretty easy by comparison.

Still wasnt enough so you got Godseeker mode with pure vessel and true radiance - you cant find these if you aren't into hard boss fights. Path of Pain was introduced for a hard platform level. Doing these things gives you nothing so it's completely optional.

I think this is a very fair approach to difficulty. I love hard metroidvanias but wouldnt want to exclude anyone from Hollow Knight (just give me something optional and difficult somewhere).

Our current ML Neural Networks work (simplified) like this: A neuron emits a number and the next neuron calculates a new number to emit based on all the values given to it by other neurons as inputs. Our brain can't fire numbers in this way. So there's a fundamental difference. Bridging this difference to create NNs that are more similar to our brains is the basis of the study of Spiking Neural Networks. Their performance so far isn't great, but it's an interesting topic of research.

I dont see why, tbh. This feature is only needed by users of tiling WMs with (super)ultrawide monitors. A niche in a niche. Normal floating WMs work fine with ultrawide monitors, you are constantly resizing and moving windows around anyway and simple snapping takes care of the rest. Windows 11 even lets you snap exactly into the setup described above.

Also, there are good plugins for supporting tiling for GNOME (I know its in PopOS, not sure how to get it into the normal one) , KDE, and even Windows

This isn't poorly educated, it's just a mistake in our education system where software isn't treated as well as it should be considering our day and age.

Even so, there are valid reasons to use some forms of proprietary software. Not every program has a good FOSS alternative. I would encourage people to look into FOSS alternatives but I wouldnt call someone poorly educated because they play games other than SuperTuxKart and Kmines.

EDIT: Ignore the below, I suck at reading.

The above comment is wrong. Its open source and its on Fdroid, you just have to add the IzzyOnAndroid repo https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/.

Here's the source code for liftoff: https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff

In Germany we have Nudossi which has less sugar and a lot more hazelnut. There's a variation without palm oil so this is what Ive been buying instead of nutella.

I find that their take on psytrance has a lot more going on than the usual rave stuff. Theyve been published a few times by Monstercat which shows that they fit more into this - for lack of a better word - "gaming" EDM.

I have running shorts that have an extra inlay which functions as sort of underwear. So I dont feel as if Im going commando but I kind of am. In winter I go commando in leggings and wear the shorts on top to cover up a bit. If youre not going commando you should put thought into what material youre going to wear as underpants because not being breathable in your crotch area, especially on a bike is going to be extremely uncomfortable.

This is what I ate after I could finally graduate from soup after having my wisdom teeth removed

In Melbourne, Australia there were stores like that in pretty much every shopping center and they would just have all the usual colours and you would buy the ones your school wanted you to.

They would have different fabrics at different price points. We all looked the same from afar but there were differences up close.

I find it interesting that there weren't any sets with the school logo at your school. My school used these to raise a bit of money and would buy them back and sell them second-hand as well when you were done.

Completely agree. Didnt put stainless steel on my list because of it.

I was able to stop by teaching myself classical guitar. Suddenly there was a reason to have nails and it was easy to stop. I guess it's similar to the other guy having nail polish. Find a reason for yourself to have fingernails instead of simply trying to stop biting them.

I'm actually having similar issues. Seemingly at random, my PC will freeze up due to lack of memory and killing Firefox fixes it. Im also sure it must be an extension causing it.

Here are my extensions, let me know which of these you are using and maybe we can narrow it down from that:

• Neat URL
• uBlock Origin
• Return YouTube Dislikes
• Firefox Multi-Account Containers
• SponsorBlock
• Vimium
• Decentraleyes
• Enhancer for YouTube
• Privacy Possum
• I don't care about cookies
• First Party Isolation
• Startpage Privacy Protection

There are some simple plastic cable channels that get the job done. Make 6 messy individual cables look like one nice fat cable. Much easier on the eyes.