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squaresinger

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  • why?

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  • It very much depends on what's meant by "stylish".

    If the style means "no pockets", yes, that's very much contradictory.

    But the point remains: If you want pockets but you want to have a pocketless style more, then you won't have pockets.

  • why?

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  • Womens clothes with pockets are still available, but usually harder to get and less stylish, and thus women often end up picking other preferences over large pockets.

    They might want pockets, but they end up preferring easy availability, style and low price over pockets.

    The same thing can be seen in other product categories too. People (used to) often say they want a small phone, keyboard phone or phone with really long battery life, but in the end nobody would pay more or sacrifice other qualities over one of these types of phones and thus they went out of fashion.

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  • To be fair, I chose my career in a very similar way.

    When I was a kid, people kept bugging me what I will choose as my future career. I didn't want to keep having the same stupid conversation all the time, so I decided that since I liked playing computer games, might as well become a programmer.

    So I did.

    Probably not the best way to choose, but certainly a way that happens.

    Remember, kids aren't adults. They work differently. And once you are on a track, sunk cost fallacy and people around you can make it quite hard getting off said track.

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  • Rowling said on multiple occasions that Hermione is her "idealized self-insert".

    So I don't think she'd use her own self-insert to say "Look how stupid people like me are". Doesn't really make sense.

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  • For all her bigotry, I don't think Rowling is/was pro slavery. In the books that plot point is clearly meant as social critique against the imaginary wizarding society.

    But after a while I guess the plot point got boring and it doesn't make sense for the world to change because of some random school girl's protest, so the whole thing was dropped.

    Kinda like fridays for future. At first the reporting around it was like "Cool, the kids have something they getting political", then it got boring and then society got hateful against it and then everyone just ignored them and nothing was changed by it.

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  • Basically the plot of Loki Season 1

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  • I guess Sisyphus just had a regular blue-collar job.

  • I did not care for the Godfather

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  • I mean, fair, but I understood it as a "must watch" movie. Something that everyone needs to have seen kinda thing.

    And Harry Potter, I think, does fit that bill.

  • I did not care for the Godfather

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  • Harry Potter 6 for me. I could not get through this movie. I tried it about 5 times so far. Same with the book. I tried reading it at least 10 times including listening to it as an audiobook.

    It's just insufferable.

    (And don't worry, Rowling-haters, I of course pirated it except of the copy of the book that I got when I was a kid)

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    y'all are gonna hate me for this, but it's the truth

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  • I'd be very surprised if that was able to damage your speakers. If it could, then so could any sound you play. It would have to be an exceptionally bad design if playing a youtube video could destroy your speakers.

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    y'all are gonna hate me for this, but it's the truth

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  • And with a command like ffmpeg a wrong bot command might just as well overwrite your source file.

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    y'all are gonna hate me for this, but it's the truth

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# Stupid shitty piece of fucking useless waste of compute resources! Do your fucking damn job, you useless clanker!

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    Explicit enough?

  • F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email

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  • Looks like a bad LLM's try at drawing ASCII fish.

  • How do I improve the overhangs on my Artillery Genius?

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  • On my printer I added an external 15cm pipe fan that blasts at the print. I only turn it on on prints that need it, but then cooling and overhangs are perfect.

  • The Birth & Death of JavaScript

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  • I am so surprised how many of the predictions kinda came true.

    It didn't happen exactly how he tought, obviously, but a lot is actually happening.

  • These glasses solve many central-vision problems. For $5000.

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  • It's called PEPit, and it can be found here: https://github.com/Dakkaron/PEPit

    Most of the documentation is in German, since my primary audience so far were people living close enough that I can hand them devices and I haven't gotten around to translating everything to English. But I think it should be simple enough that auto-translation should be understandable.

    I'm not sure what to do about distribution other than just handing them out for free, having them sign waivers, and getting funding from a charity or similar organization.

    That's what I have been doing so far. I "sold" a few of them for the price of the parts. I donated two to two different local hospitals to use with in-patients. I got a physiotherapy device company to donate money for a scientific study at one of the hospitals, where they will hand 30 devices to patients to keep them and measure how it improves their therapy experience. But so far that's pretty much the end of the road.

    I'm already worrying about how I can even do the study without getting in trouble in regards to taxes and stuff.

    It would be really cool if someone else would start picking these up and making some for kids that need it.

    This is mainly made for kids with Cystic Fibrosis (like my kid, who was my original audience for the device), but I talked to a few people with broader experience in regards to lung conditions, and it would also work well for kids with Asthma (for RMT therapy) or people with COPD (for inhalation and PEP/RMT therapy). PEP is breathing out against resistance, RMT is breathing in against resistance.

  • Is this nozzle too low or bed temperature issue?

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  • Looks like that's a magnetic spring steel bed. You need to use a magnetic plate below that that's glued to the bed below.

    The magnet will pull the spring steel bed flat.

  • ‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate?

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  • “This idea that the lower cost of renewables alone will drive decarbonisation – it’s not enough,” said Daly. “Because if there’s a huge source of energy demand that wants to grow, it will land on these stranded fossil fuel assets.”

    Corporations don't think in savings, they think in budgets. If the cost of electricity goes down, thanks to e.g. renewables being cheaper, that just means that they can afford to use more electricity.

  • These glasses solve many central-vision problems. For $5000.

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  • Tbh, no. The device is realistically priced for a niche medical device with low number of units sold. Medical certification alone is around €500k. Development costs for a very custom device like this are also quite high. The price point isn't crazy at all.

    At the same time, health insurances (even more so here in Europe than in the US) are pretty slow to pay for new technology, especially if the benefit isn't immediately tangible.

    As in, "Will this reduce the need for further insurance spending by e.g. preventing hospital visits?" or "Will this allow a person who is on disability benefits to return to work?"