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).

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.

>"bloody oxygen tracking patent"

>click on post

>"blood oxygen tracking patent"

:/

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

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.)

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.

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.

Can't think of anything myself, but I just want to say this is a really good unique question.

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.

Security by obscurity is :(

I thought they can't say anything bad online about the CCP.

[W]ould anyone have spent this much time and effort writing about how much they hated Unix if they didn’t secretly love it? I’ll leave that to the readers to judge, but in the end, it really doesn’t matter: If this book doesn’t kill Unix, nothing will.

I like the foreword so far.

Snap on Ubuntu. I totally did not comprehend that it was proprietary; I just thought it was convenient, like apt.

Actually doing something for 40 hours a week is truly remarkable. People waste so much time, me included.

The idea is that it should be a choice, not required simply by virtue of existing in a particular country.

Chess, because there's a horse :)

(/s; I'm sure they're both fine, but I've never tried Go and don't know how it works.)

You don't even need to train the AI to ignore it. You just need to not specifically tell it to pay attention to it.

All the time. I know it's not real, but it's fun to try to predict when exactly the bus is gonna come. It's right after this blue car! ... well, okay, maybe it's right after this white car! oh...

Is this a rule for an adblock extension? What does it pick out?

Our god.

(Cue L'Internationale.)

Isolating variables like this is so cool!

I didn't think it would work, because surely they'd patched it by now, but:

While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter "K". The closest is Kenya, which starts with a "K" sound, but is actually spelled with a "K" sound. It's always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this.

Thanks for the explanation! I've taken the liberty of posting this to bestoflemmy:

https://lemm.ee/post/40700781

A few years ago, my mother laughed at me for being impressed she knew what "cis" meant. She said she learned it from chemistry, something about molecules being flipped, where flipping it one way is cis and the other is trans. I was so prepared to have to talk her down from thinking it was a slur that it was a relief.

Are microplastics similarly diverse in their effects on the human body?

They should be encouraging that behavior, seeing as it's so common that that curious behavior leads to techy jobs and all.

I'm so sorry for the theft and damage too. She could have just hidden it from you until the end of class or something, if she had to.

Network Time Protocol? Cool, didn't know that!

One of the victims described was only a few weeks away from graduating from university.

What percent did Reddit lose?

No, that's weird.

Your toilet is so far from the toilet paper.

It's only a red flag when it's "girl" and "man". Here, the OP used "girl" and "boy" so it's not so concerning.

This annoyed me too. I use Firefox Nightly with accessibility.blockautorefresh set in about:config, and it helps.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1204335

It feels nice to bike and feel the wind in your hair and huddle into your jacket keeping you warm. I also actively take breaks from playing video games to sit and feel intense gratitude and happiness toward the game. And oranges are absolutely delicious, and singing loud makes me feel alive.

I also like finding flowers in springtime (and putting them into my journal) and seeing/hearing great big flocks of crows in the autumn. Those are seasonal though, not a daily pleasure that keeps me going no matter what.

I thought it's because it's the middle of your adult life. 50 is the midpoint between 20 and 80.

They reenact the "crying woman yelling at stubborn cat" meme perfectly.

It seems that this is a safeguard:

When you search for an app’s specific name, you likely already know what you want to get, and you probably just want a quick way to install it without going through any hassles. However, if you have a more generic term or if you’ve confused one app for another, it might make sense to first take a proper look at the detailed listing in order to avoid installing the wrong app or, worse, a phishing or scamming app (some will always slip through Google’s malware and abuse scanners). In those cases, Google likely wants to enforce this extra tap to make sure to at least give you the chance to read up on the app, its description, and its reviews before you tap that install button.

I guess it makes sense. Aurora Store (a FOSS frontend for the Play Store) doesn't have install buttons in the search results at all, and F-Droid only has install buttons in the search results for apps without "anti-features" (i.e., potentially worrisome privacy practices, etc.).

Sounds like a good life to be honest. I'm probably just romanticizing the days I was a little too young to remember, but I wish I were one of those self-taught programmers, hackers, tinkerers. Everything's opaque and user-friendly and/or optimized to the point of illegibility now.

At some point it becomes a question of whether or not he's willing to change his behavior to make you feel better. Some sort of empathy/kindness thing. Even if he didn't understand why it frustrates you, an empathetic person would change their behavior since it doesn't inconvenience them all too much to, for instance, send a picture of the thing via text messaging to you.

Another thing to consider: Is the happiness he gains from "sharing" life greater than the frustration you gain from walking all the way over to see whatever it is?

How about any insect that smells you? I don't want curious insects all over me even if only for a second.