WastedCucumber

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by WastedCucumber 1mo ago
Maybe everyone just really, really needs a drink right now?
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by WastedCucumber 2mo ago
I largely don't find that surprising. Industry and mechanical activity (cars) cause direct warming - see "urban heat islands", "weekend temperature effect", and as a bonus the "weekend ozone effect". The l
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by WastedCucumber 3mo ago
The first time I built a freestanding bookshelf, I put a lot of effort into making the feet level and the back straight and at a right angle to the feet. Once I put it up against the wall I'd built it for, I realized I'd solved co
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by WastedCucumber 3mo ago
We have bread like that even in the more civilized parts.
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by WastedCucumber 3mo ago
Probably it's a bit like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation?wprov=sfla1 But on a more serious note that's a great paper and well worth the read.
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by WastedCucumber 4mo ago
https://archive.ph/VlvTj
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by WastedCucumber 4mo ago
Thanks for that hilarious history tidbit. The actual record makes it even better. From the wiki page for Taejong of Joseon: The king himself rode a horse and shot arrows at a deer. However, the horse stumbled, causing him to fall off, but h
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by WastedCucumber 5mo ago
I think that's also consistent with the idea behind a hot shower. The shower doesn't help by increasing your body temperature, in fact it does the opposite. The hot shower induces the body to try to cool down, so near-skin blood v
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by WastedCucumber 5mo ago
that was my experience too!
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by WastedCucumber 5mo ago
I think these studies aren't meaningless at all, but the fact that "AI" is a loosely used term means that many people might view even more simple ML methods with skepticism, as opposed to just, say, chat-like LLM tools.
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by WastedCucumber 5mo ago
It doesn't seem like a silly argument to me, and certainly not moralizing. Rather "I wonder..." seems to be an indirectly phrased request for information, an open invitation for somebody who has seen the numbers to provide a
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by WastedCucumber 5mo ago
This is vapid politics, not a thoughtful analysis, which you would expect from the title.
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by WastedCucumber 5mo ago
That's what I told my advisor about the model round about once a month, and round about a week later I'd tell him about the new bug I'd found.
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by WastedCucumber 5mo ago
>They could make huge improvements in safety by actively preventing the use of illegally modified e-bikes that travel too fast. Or by regulating bicycle food delivery services so thatheir employees' continued employment and wage mag
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by WastedCucumber 5mo ago
In Germany we have rules, and one of those rules is that pedestrians on the sidewalk who are in the cyclepath (usually a too-subtle red stone) do, in fact, have to get out of the way for cyclists. I imagine there's also a rule about di
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by WastedCucumber 5mo ago
Or else they'll eventually alienate a majority of their patron state's voting population, and finally get hemmed in / risk losing your military (and other) funding that their state is dependent on. Heavens to Betsy please don
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by WastedCucumber 6mo ago
I was just talking to a kiwi yesterday about diesel. The price has more than doubled already there. So there goes large chunk of the US beef supply.
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by WastedCucumber 6mo ago
I think the point is that a world with renewable electricity wouldn't need as much oil, thereby making smaller sources of carbon sufficient.
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by WastedCucumber 6mo ago
At first I took the comment about transferring nukes as a bit of a joke, but you make a fair point. Let Iceland have em!
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by WastedCucumber 6mo ago
The article in question: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/do-your-paren...
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by WastedCucumber 6mo ago
I don't watch a movie a day, but I'm at my friendly local indie theater at least once a month. It's got a more comftorable audience, more consistently interesting films, and it costs less than the big theater. If I went just
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by WastedCucumber 7mo ago
Just one more example here, which I think is a big one for some people - chat apps. Without Whatsapp, Telegram, and Signal, I can't really use my phone as telecommunications tool with friends and colleagues, because everyone is on them
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by WastedCucumber 7mo ago
Oh lord I feel old, I couldn't figure out why 67 was special until I read this.
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by WastedCucumber 7mo ago
+1 For Untilted Goose Game, it's wholesome and brilliant, also as a solo game.
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by WastedCucumber 9mo ago
People want to determine if the inportant events surrounding them are bad or good, even if they don't have a say in them. Perhaps it's even a way to cope with the lack of influence we have. But I do like the idea of imagining how
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by WastedCucumber 9mo ago
For who might be pulled in by the vague title, not knowing what a nostr is, thinking this article has anything to do with evolution - it has nothing to do with evolution or nature. Not one example of nature trying to evolve a nostr is desci
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by WastedCucumber 9mo ago
I think the point is that private owners might run into the same issue of needing to cross private land to get to their private parcel.
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by WastedCucumber 9mo ago
I wonder if they really have all that much value now. Barring any particularly lucrative natural resources, if one publically owned square is surrounded by private owners, who have the right to restrict travel, then that kind of heavily lim
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by WastedCucumber 9mo ago
I think the comment points to the other possible motivation - undo everything that was done under the Biden admin out of principle/spite.
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by WastedCucumber 10mo ago
I ran into this problem on a Slimbook some years ago now. I found that my battery drained way too fast in standby, and I remember determining that this was some (relatively common) problem with sleep states, that some linux machines couldn&

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