Malgas

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Malgas ,

Sushi is supposed to be bite-sized. In my experience this is not always the case in practice, but the idea is that you should just pop the whole thing in your mouth.

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I believe the g palatalizes the n, so it's more like nyok-key.

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Yeah, my mom used to work for an organization called ARC, which pointedly hasn't been an acronym since the early '90s.

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On the other side [Wayland] is buggy af.

I've been having the exact opposite problem since recently coming back to Linux after a long hiatus. For me, Wayland has been flawless, while anything x11 looks like somebody ran the screen through a shredder, discarded half the strips, and smooshed the rest back together.

I don't know how to troubleshoot that. I don't even know what to type in a search engine to get relevant results.

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First OS on a computer I personally owned? Windows 98. First Linux distro was Source Mage.

If not counting ownership, then Apple IIs at school and then slightly later my family got an Amstrad that was primarily a DOS machine, but could also boot (by switching floppies several times) to some sort of GUI.

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Mediocre movie, best Daft Punk music video.

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Go for the eyes, Boo!

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These were octagonal in my school.

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This format is especially apropos, as Natalie Portman is one of a handful of actors with an Erdos number.

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Ah yes, the number blåhaj.

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On the other hand slavery of actual humans is a thing. And at least the first generation of strong AI will effectively be persons whom it is legal to own because our laws are human-centric.

Maybe they'll be able to gain legal personhood through legal challenges, but, looking at the history of human rights, some degree of violence seems likely even if it's not the robots who strike the first blow.

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The core conservative belief is that there are two groups: those the law protects but does not bind, and those the law binds but does not protect. Everything else flows from there.

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I wonder what he actually meant. 1g/kg maybe? That would be 125% of the RDA, which I don't know if it's a good idea but it's certainly more reasonable than…that.

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IIRC the original reference temperatures for Farenheit were ice brine (0°) and human body temperature (100°).

Nowadays it's formally defined in relation to Kelvin.

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That was actually Unix. Specifically the fsn file manager for IRIX.

There's a Linux clone called fsv.

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Something about the style of this is familiar. Is it from an Eyewitness book?

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It's technically possible for a woman of color to have white children, due to Punnett square shenanigans. Not likely, but it has happened.

But there's also the issue of the timeline. Age of consent in Florida is 18, so (assuming no other laws are to be broken) this would require even white women to have an average of six kids in four years. Which is…also improbable.

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See also: Herodotus is the father of history despite being an absolutely terrible historian by modern standards.

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I also like Astras.

But I would say to OP: get a sample pack of different blades (most online wet shaving retailers have them) to find out what works for you.

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Something something eat hot chip and lie.

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Biblically accurate kitty.

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*taps head* Can't have cancer if you're fossilized.

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Those "complex" Romans are all imaginary.

Something like "VII + i" would be unambiguously complex.

Unless, wait, are we taking "VIIi" to mean '7 + i' because that's how Roman numerals treat concatenation? If so, how would we represent other purely imaginary values? Just lowercase Roman numerals (e.g. "iv" for '4i')?

…I may have gotten a bit nerd-sniped there.

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There's also the nocebo meme, where you show someone a regular meme and tell them it's a shitpost.

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As far as any of those sites are concerned, I was born January first, [the earliest year they allow].

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Pfft, catapults. A trebuchet can launch a 90kg advertisement over 300 meters.

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As someone who is from Or*n, rofl. My parents even have a story about their dog from when I was a baby freaking out about a banana slug while we were camping.

James Webb telescope confirms there is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe ( www.livescience.com )

Astronomers have used the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes to confirm one of the most troubling conundrums in all of physics — that the universe appears to be expanding at bafflingly different speeds depending on where we look....

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The sound of scientific discovery is less often "Eureka!" than "Huh, that's funny..."

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Also thunder and lightning really ought to count as seeing and hearing electricity.

Hell, seeing anything at all may technically count, because electromagnetic waves.

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"Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own national bird at the windmills until they reached their limit and shut down."

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TIL the Star Trek Discovery character has a real life namesake.

Would you consider Wild Wild West to be a Weird West movie? ( lemmy.zip )

When I was thinking about starting this Lemmy community, I tried writing down every single Weird West work I'd seen, read, or played. In that list, I added Wild Wild West. But now that I think about it, I'm not sure if I'd call it a Weird Western....

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Even within sci fi there's a divide between "hard" and "soft", where the former puts emphasis on plausible technology and the latter can be little more than an aesthetic.

The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling is an example of hard steampunk.

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He did specify a large 3D printer. So it might be 2 or even 3 feet in length.

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"Talk to cats" is definitely a trick. I already talk to cats, the problem is understanding.

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Honestly, perception checks should be rolled behind the screen. Or anything where the character wouldn't immediately know the outcome.

Sure, players shouldn't act on things their character doesn't know, but why give them the temptation?

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Or mind-affecting stuff with will saves.

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    It's amazing how often things are similar to what they are.

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    Oh. I thought they were saying they're good a drawing curly brackets.

    Which, those are some nice curly brackets.

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    You could calculate the spherical volume of the entire universe with the first 39 digits of pi.

    What a weird thing to say. You can calculate any spherical volume with any approximation of pi.

    I think they cut a clause like "to within the volume of a hydrogen atom" but without that it's vacuous.

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    First I misread the headline as "transgender cows" and then you're in the comments talking about straight people insulin.

    I think it's time for bed.

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    And 65 digits is sufficient to calculate the circumference of the visible universe to within a Planck length.

    ‘We definitely messed up’: why did Google AI tool make offensive historical images? ( www.theguardian.com )

    Brin’s “We definitely messed up.”, at an AI “hackathon” event on 2 March, followed a slew of social media posts showing Gemini’s image generation tool depicting a variety of historical figures – including popes, founding fathers of the US and, most excruciatingly, German second world war soldiers – as people of...

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    Jojo Rabbit featured Jewish Maori Hitler and was very well received.

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    I forget what this is from, but:

    A man with a clock is content, and everything is right with the world. But when a man has two clocks, he begins to wonder what time it really is.

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    It gets even weirder in terms of game mechanics. High strength and no armor is kind of an unusual combination. Barbarians and bards (buff or otherwise) both typically wear armor. As do fighters, rangers, rogues, clerics...

    Wizards and sorcerers don't but also don't usually benefit much from strength. (Not to mention that bard is a strange multi for either.)

    Conclusion: Terry as pictured is clearly a monk/bard.

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    See also: Terror, Endurance.

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    Is it 16 amps for the entire wedge of cheese or just the wrapper?

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    Ezekiel 23:20

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