Broke my phone like two months ago and sent it in to get it repaired, which took about a month. I only had my work phone as emergency backup, so I basically didn’t have a phone during most of that time.

Well, staring into space while waiting for the bus seems to be the convention where I live, so I didn’t feel weird in that regard.
I did have some invasive thoughts, like what if you need to call emergency services and can’t? Haven’t needed that so far in my life and the chance of no one else with a phone being around is pretty slim, but the thought entered my mind anyways.

Well, and then I do use my phone for navigating public transport, for finding out where I need to go in case I ever get lost and then also just as a shopping list.
Shopping list is easy to replace with a sheet of paper. Navigating public transport had me suddenly looking at the hangouts in the various stations. It’s certainly not the same as having an algorithm tell you the quickest route, but you can find a lot of information there and you will find a route, which is good enough.
Not having a map is something that had me kind of just not take larger trips. I guess, if I had been without a phone for longer, I would’ve gotten used to that, too. Like, you can ask people, some of which might have a phone with a map on it themselves even.

Generally speaking, after the first few days, I did not miss my phone as much as I thought. I found it somewhat liberating even.

At least for cats and dogs, part of the explanation is simply that we’ve kept and bred them as pets for a long time. Them being predators made them useful as a pet, as you could take dogs out for hunting and cats became useful when we started doing agriculture, where they could independently hunt the rodents on the fields and in our storage rooms.

Make sure, you’re not blocking fontawesome.com in NoScript or whatever content blocker you might be using. All the UI buttons depend on that to be available…

Decency or even legality. If Zuck knowingly hosts hate speech, you don’t want that federated onto your platform or you can be sued, too.

I enjoy this one: https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/a/chris/video-channels

It’s mostly just two dudes having a bit of a chat and/or playing games. I mainly like that they do it for the fun of it, not because they desperately try to grow an audience to make money off of it. Feels a lot like early Youtube.

Fossify Gallery is what I’m using. It’s actually relatively feature-rich, but the basic interface is still simple and it’s not developed by a corporation, so no conflicts of interest.

Excuse me, I believe, you mean qu\ntumr\ndomnumbers. You see, it’s the Windows path equivalent of /dev/random.

Nah, sudo is fine. I can create users without touching the domain stuff. 🙃

I am currently finding that out, too. 🙃

So far, I’ve had them in a vegetable curry and in a sort-of-East-Asian style dish (rice, chickpeas, teriyaki, sriracha, peanut sauce) and I threw them onto a toast where I had a tomato-hummus spread on there.
I feel like that generally works quite well, if your base food is already quite rich in either veggies or spices, then you can just throw chives into the mix without it poking out too much. Lots of those dishes might use leek anyways, and chives aren’t too different from that.

Yeah, gotta newtype it up to make it even more relentless.

Here you go: https://lemmy.world/post/23816835

To be honest, I’m still annoyed that middle names don’t have more relevance. Maybe five or so people know my middle name, all of which are family or relatives. Aside from that, it just makes it more complicated to fill out forms for various government organizations.

touch eyes

At first, you look at them until they notice, then you look away. The first time, they’ll probably be irritated, because for all they know, you looked at them, because their hair looks silly or whatever. Then give it some time before you look again. In some sense, you can play it like you’ve just been caught looking at them, so you don’t want to be caught again right away.

Then you repeat that a couple times and try to gauge their reaction (without directly looking at them). If they catch onto you and make an ew face, then definitely abort mission. If they smile, that’s a good sign.

Then you can try to hold the stare a little longer before looking away and again, see if they smile. Eventually, you can try keeping the eye contact for a few seconds while they smile at you and then you smile back.

At that point, it’s definitely time to talk to them. They would not keep up the smile, if they had doubts about going on a date, although it’s obviously still not a guarantee. Sometimes, they only realize that they can’t follow through when it gets serious.

But this whole spiel does communicate that you’re shy about it. If that’s not how you feel, it’s better to talk to them right away.
In general, the more time you take before doing the talk, the more serious it is, because then it’s not just a spontaneous “you’re cute, wanna go out and see if we fit”, but rather a “I’ve been observing you for the past weeks and worked out that you are my dream partner please marry me right away”. So, yeah, don’t take too long before you talk to them.

A game I play has this as the quote for the Haste spell. 🙃

Yeah, the Y is a wildcard in that position. Typically, you would write it as an underscore, primarily because most Prolog compilers will warn about unknown variables, since those could also just be a typo of an existing variable.

I found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minifloat

self.disconnect_motors();
self.disconnect_nonvital_senses();

let memory = self.neurons.dump();

while self.asleep {
    let scenario = load_real_scenario()
        .randomize_params();

    self.neurons.apply(scenario);
}

self.neurons.load(memory);

self.connect_senses();
self.connect_motors();

Emoji log levels: 🔍 ⚙️ ℹ️ ⚠️ 💥

Well, forget for a moment everything you know about webpages and now you want a form where the user can create an account. The sales person tells you that the user has entered the data for us, so it just needs to be sent with a request to the backend, which always looks the same. And then it just needs to be put into a INSERT INTO, which also always looks the same.
All of that stuff can clearly be auto-generated by the framework. And 70% of the boilerplate code does exactly that, so that obviously means 70% of the workload of your devs disappears, which means you can get rid of 70% of your developers.

It just makes it really easy to scam people, when they don’t know the technical side…