For the longest time I thought pressure-treated wood meant it was treated with pressure. Only just crossed my mind that it means they use pressure to get the treatment chemicals further in the wood.

Annoyingly, some of the censorship is baked into the model, it still won’t answer all question about china.

Yeah if you’re exposed to cold weather then ski goggles tend to handle not fogging up with a scarf/mask better. You can get some pairs with clear, swapable lenses for biking at night.

I frequently wear safety glasses, you can get some that can be worn on top of a pair of glasses but still provided wrap around protection like:

I can’t explain why but I find this really house of leaves coded

Lmao yes technically correct. The grapes aren’t doing anything new, they’re acting as a microwave resonator which makes some very interesting plasma physics you can do with a grape in the microwave. However, this is not a new phenomenon and there are much more convenient microwave resonators you can build out of metal.

Enjoy your stable systems while you can! Learning comes through solving problems as they come up. It’s a good sign if you don’t have to.

Need some new functionality? Figure out how to set it up. Encounter a bug or issue? Troubleshoot and fix it. Functionality that you want doesn’t exist? Time to program it yourself.

You can also start customizing (ricing) your system as you wish. Take a look at unixporn style communities for inspiration and advice.

no matter how much you try, traffic will be the end of your city

that’s not how addition works

I can’t say I’m ever particularly aware of my gender when I’m dreaming

Fun thing is that in Montreal, ‘North’ is refereed to as the direction where streets go away from the river, which ends up being the WNW, further from north than “East”.

Ah of course, the bog blog log

maaaan I really wanted the Maryland flag to be official, but it was made by someone on /r/vexillology

I’ve got a print of this beauty framed, hanging on my wall.

As a visual learner I prefer the Finnster standard reference sample

English also has cases, we just don’t think of them much. It’s why pronouns are typically given as nominative/objective pairs: she/her, they/them, etc. So, similarly in German you’d probably only need to give one or two examples to make it clear which set to use. Or give all four.

No part of this article involves AI making independent discoveries. The researchers used ML to map muscle contractions to wing motion.

It’s interesting, but a far stretch from what OP wrote for the title.

ah nice, ads disguised as memes

Title now shows as “In 8 years, Stardew Valley never lost sight of its core philosophy” for me.

+1 For KeepassXC, I use it in combination with syncthing to have my passwords available on all devices.