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Assume spherical child

Apparently cheetahs aren’t “big cats”, they’re just large versions of small cats. They share features like purring and meowing, and their temperaments are closer to housecats than a tiger or lion.

Ah, the danger blep

The micropenis jokes write themselves. Seems too easy.

I’ve worked with lots of college students in my time. One thing I recommend to them is to pick classes based on the instructor, not based on the course content (something I wish someone had told me).

A good instructor can make any topic engaging and enjoyable. And people have different preferences for how information is conveyed (for example, I gravitate toward instructors that use diagrams and other visual aids, it works best for me). So look around until you find someone that really clicks with you.

The other thing that works for me is having some sort of end goal. I find it easier to stay engaged when I get to do something meaningful with what I’m learning.

Out of curiosity, why do you want to learn more about these topics? Understanding your motivation might help to figure out something that works for you.

I’ve been daily driving CachyOS for a while now. It’s fast, and I like the rolling release model. It pretty much worked with my 4070 out of the box I believe, I don’t think I had to do anything special there. I started with Cinnamon as my DE, but eventually moved to Gnome (Cinnamon still uses X11 I believe, and there were things that just worked better with Wayland, and with a handful of extensions, I can get it to look the way I like).

That being said, I wouldn’t recommend it to people less comfortable with Linux. CachyOS has its own repositories (which is the whole idea, the software is compiled specifically for more modern hardware), but it can sometimes be confusing when choosing packages to install. The wiki is pretty helpful though, especially with getting games up and running.

I work in an industry where LLMs aren’t helpful. And I’ve already automated away most of what they might have helped with.

Personally I don’t like using LLMs for anything. Hell, I barely tolerate tools like lint. Gimme Notepad++ for my actual development work and I’m happy.

c/greentext

Well, the research won’t research itself.

Capitalism. To a capitalist, the internet is another domain to squeeze until the last penny drops. Big corporations like Google don’t care about the internet being useful to people, they have only one objective: make number go up. And if that means smashing the web to pieces, you can guarantee they’ll try.

Seems dangerous to open your mouth while rinsing shampoo. I too like to live life on the edge.

How long is your pre-rinse? Are you covered in thick wool or something? Are you naturally water-repellant?

In the sink like a sane person. How is brushing teeth in the shower saving you time?

I switched to Ente a while ago and it’s been great. My wife and I can even share photos with each other by default. I don’t know that it has as good of photo “magic” but you can still use the Google camera app to do it if you want.

My only complaint so far is that it doesn’t sync photos as fast as Google Photos does.

I don’t think they’re ruling out any possibility of other weird ways our universe exists–I think they’ve just ruled out that we’re in a much higher frame rate version of the Sims. Whatever reality is, it’s more “real” than a simulation as we understand it. We could still very well be a cosmic ant farm for a higher form of life, and our universe could be contained in an infinitely large fish bowl, but it’s at least not a bunch of 1s and 0s.

That being said, they’re making some common assumptions. If you want to get really critical, you have to do a Descartes, which turns out to not be very helpful.

The Crane Wife by the Decemberists. Parts 1&2, and Part 3 - based on a Japanese folk tale.

This is how cryptids are born.