Their priorities were fucked up. Cigarettes and alcohol, obviously, but more sugar than rice? Huh?

Also, lots of meat but no other food groups?

I’ll be honest I find it hard to understand for sports as well.

The supreme court, after such an amendment miraculously passes:

“Well actually, this sentence doesn’t mention the president of the United States in particular, so it means every president of every company ever. But a company president doesn’t have pardoning powers, so this makes no sense. So this amendment is invalid!”

Hmm, I follow the package’s readme and only get invalid command errors.

Gotta install the pip dependencies.

Oh but first you need to create a venv or everything will be global. Why isn’t that local by default like with npm? Hell if I know!

Ah but before that I need to install the RIGHT version of Python. The one I already have likely won’t do. And that takes AGES.

Oh but even then still just tells me the command is invalid. Ah, great, I live CLIs. Now I’ve gotta figure out PATH variables again and add python there. Also pip maybe?

Now I can follow the readme’s instructions! Assuming I remember to manually open the venv first.

But it only gives me errors about missing pieces. Ugh. But I thought I installed the pip dependencies!

Oh, but turns out there’s something about a text file full of another different set of dependencies that I need to explicitly mention via CLI or they won’t be installed. And the readme didn’t mention that, because that’s apparently “obvious”. No it’s not; I’m just a front-end developer trying to run the darn thing.

Okay. Now it runs. Finally. But there’s a weird error. There might be something wrong with my .env file. Maybe if I add a print statement to debug… Why isn’t it showing up?

Oooh, I need to fully rebuild if I want it to show up, and the hot reload functionality that you can pass a command line argument for doesn’t work… Cool cool cool cool.

Python managed to turn me away before I wrote a single line of code.

Running an already functional project took me nearly two hours and three separate tutorials.

Expectations.

People don’t expect a country that’s supposed to be a close ally to do actual pure evil.

Russia has always been in a different category. It’s oscillated between being an outright enemy and being a distant, somewhat-ally the West is suspicious of. Either way, Putin was never someone you trust.

When someone betrays your expectations, you have a stronger emotional response.

When you feel like your country is actually helping with evil acts, that’s another layer of emotional response.

But if someone you feel like you can’t do anything about and has always been bad anyway is being evil, again… Well it’s a bit of a “no shit, Sherlock” moment. Doesn’t spark anger in quite the same way.

Assuming it’s just like a Steam Deck without the screen, how would that compare to popular controllers like consoles first-party ones or 8bitdo’s offerings?

My doctor did 10, 20, 30, 40, and I ended up going back to 30 to reduce the tachycardia. I weigh 74 kg.

Maybe we’re just really different people. Or maybe my doctor is just really really careful

• there are lots of different drugs, and not all of them work on everyone. You may have to try several until you find one that works well and doesn’t have too many undesirable effects on you.
• usually they start you on a low dose and increase gradually, kind of similarly to how they do for antidepressants. So you won’t really feel the full effect right away. Though starting with 30 mg of lisdexamfetamine is kinda intense. Unless you’re a properly massive individual, I’m amazed the doctor just went there straight away. You could’ve had really unpleasant cardiac side effects. Glad it doesn’t seem like you did.
• it’s not like cocaine. The effect is supposed to be relatively subtle if it’s right for you.

Have you tried brush-gloves? The idea is that they allow you to brush your pet every time you pet them. Having several in every room where you’re likely to spend time with your cat could be the key to brushing more while not feeling like you do.

Also anti note taking propaganda apparently

Get a Nintendo console. Nintendo Games are absolutely a gateway drug. They’re high quality and generally very easy to get into.

It’s not just that the input data is crap. Mostly the issue is that an LLM is a glorified autocomplete. The core of the technology is making grammatically correct sentences. It has no concept of facts or logic. Any impression that it does is just an illusion borne of the word probabilities baked in.

LLMs are a remarkable example of brute-forcing a solution to a problem, but it’s this same brute force that makes me doubt it’ll ever reach the next level.

I’m a woman and I was born in the 1990s. I do live in North America though.

A few things:

• Pretty much all PC prebuilt companies favour glass and RGB, in part because RGB is popular, in part because it makes the system look more expensive, and can help feel like it justifies the costs.
• Tempered glass, as is used in PC cases, tends to shatter into cubic-ish fragments, not into knife-like shards, like you might be used to with most glass or ceramic items. Having to pick glass shards out of your skin because your PC case broke is extremely unlikely, even if it broke on you.
• While cases with no windows absolutely exist on the prebuilt market, they generally still have RGB. For example, Dell/Alienware systems.
• Some cases have two options for the side panel (often along the lines of perforated vs glass) and, in general, if that’s the case your prebuilt company is using, they’ll ship you the extra panel that came with it with your system. If there’s a PC you want that only has glass on the side panel, look into the details of the case itself. It might be one of those.

With all of that said, if I were you, I’d look into prebuilt companies that, in general, have a record of providing quality systems, and then look into turning off the RGB.

For instance:

• HP/Omen
• Starforge
• IBuyPower (although I think it’s been a little hit-or-miss over the years? Not sure)
• Maingear (very expensive though)

You may want to look at Linus Tech Tips and Gamers’ Nexus. They both review prebuilts.

LTT does it in the form of their secret shopper series, where they show the experience of a complete newbie buying and getting support through the phone.

Gamers’ Nexus purchases individual systems and review them in depth.

Both channels make great content and should help you come to a decision.

I’m a front-end developer. I sometimes need to solve algebra problems. I’m pretty bad at it because I , but my knowledge that a problem is solvable by math comes in handy maybe once or twice a month. It’s just that on the few occasions that there’s algebra that I can’t figure out how to solve (maybe once a year), I may ask for help from a colleague.

Examples of cases where math comes in handy:

• Pythagoras when I need to figure out the x/y components of a diagonal distance
• Width/height calculations from a variety of parameters

In summary, as long as you know what math is capable of, you probably won’t have major issues. There will pretty much always be someone around to help with the math part if necessary.

As for calculus… I forgot all about the one calculus class I’ve taken and I’ve never suffered for it.

When people use “different” with a preposition other than “from”. (Different to, different than)

I know it’s not technically wrong, but it just feels so wrong.

Also, when people add a phantom R between two words. “I’m a big fan of cinema ‘r’ and video games.”

Both stem from me not being a native English speaker, I think.

That’s a small thing?

I live in Canada, where eggs need to be refrigerated, and yet I’ve never seen a fridge with an egg holder. I already have an egg holder. The box they came in.

Come to think of it, I’ve heard that all my life but never questioned it. Is it really true for all of them?