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Non-Euclidean
  • I pretty sure that's not what non-Eucludian means. It's not just built on a rounded surface. The lines of latitude and longitude we define on a globe may exhibit non-Eucludian geometry, but that doesn't mean your house is non-Eucludian.

    These things are non-Eucludian: parallel lines that diverge or converge; triangles with interior angles don't add up to 180 degrees; hallways that appear perfectly straight, but also intersect with themselves; square rooms where every wall is perpendicular, but opposite walls aren't always parallel. Brain breaking stuff, not "all of our geometry". That would be dumb.

  • Intel pitches modular PCs to cut e-waste, ease repairs
  • PCs are already modular though, and have been for basically the entire time people have used the term, unless you buy them from a vendor like Dell or HP. This article isn't about Intel creating some new universal standard, it's about Intel creating yet another competing standard (that they control) so they can get in on the vendor lock-in party.

  • What are some things that everyone should try to master?
  • The most valuable learning tool I picked up to become a better cook was to stop learning recipes and focus on techniques. (Thank you Alton Brown, Gordon Ramsey, and America's Test Kitchen.) For example, don't learn a particular fried rice recipe, learn what makes any fried rice variation work. Learn to cold sear or roast practically any vegetable and how to adjust. Learn to cooks eggs: scramble, over easy, sunny side up, hard/soft boiled. Learn to pan fry fish, and why some need finishing in the oven or do better in a baked recipe. Learn to make a roux, sauce, vinaigrette, gravy, etc. Some people get locked into particular recipes and can't cope with changes. They soemtimes have trouble utilizing leftover raw ingredients, adapting to seasonal veggies, and may need lots of planning for grocery trips. My SO is like this, they can make a few dishes very well (if they have all the ingredients), they're a great baker (for the same reasons), and they are ready and able to test a new recipe on guests and events (while I new a few "attempts" to feel comfortable making it for others), but they can't fathom how I can go to the grocery store or farmers market without a plan and meal plan for a week based entirely on what fresh ingredients look good. I feel my kitchen munchies improv game with random ingredients and tools (like when in someone else's kitchen) is better than average, and even if sometimes things go a little off the rails, I can usually recover enough to make it edible.

    So, basically what you said with examples.

  • Barcelona
  • This video says it both ways I've heard. The white people around me pronounce it like the one with the union jack (heavy emphasis on the B), the Spanish speakers pronounce it more like the version with the American flag background (ironic). Most of the other pronunciation videos I could find seem to be made by AI voices and mangle the pronunciation in a myriad of ways. This other video has an actual person speaking well (I can't speak to the rest of the content of the video).

  • Cozy moment in front of the fire 🥾🔥
  • Not for the boots. This is the path to destruction. Stuffing them with crumpled newspaper and setting them in front of a fan will wick the moisture out of them faster and without the heat damage. Even if they aren't melting those materials keeping the boots pliable and waterproof don't generally stand up well to any kind of heated drying.

  • Is it better to place the food in the center of or on the edge of a microwave turntable?
  • This is a fun experiment, but it's not precisely the peaks and troughs of the actual waves themselves that you're seeing, it's the maximums and minimums of the amplitude from those waves interfering with their reflections. You see the interference pattern, not the waves.

  • New armor just dropped
  • And the pineapple armor works wonderfully, until its enzymes digest you enough that the line between knight and pineapple becomes unclear, like Leto Atreides II covering himself in Sand Worm Trout and becoming the God Emperor of Dune.

  • What cheap setup or technique works for truly flat photos for use in CAD?
  • Dark table corrects lens distortion based on the design of the actual lens, not the image itself. The grid it just to check in after the fact. I'm not aware of similar tools in GIMP. It's trivial in Darktable though, as long as your lens is in the database.

    Don't use a fish-eye lens, it's lense distortion will be the worst and most difficult to correct. Use a lens with a longer focal length, ideally a prime lens with a fixed focal length. If you maximize focal length and distance to your object as much as is feasible, you will have already flattened the image (minimized lens distortion) a lot. If you use a prime (fixed focal length) lens from a popular brand, Darktable can remove the remaining lens distortion.

    You can remove all lens distortion by using a pinhole camera, which has no lens. But that's probably going to be a tricky setup without an expert.

  • [R] Parkour police 🏃👮
  • The tracksuit and matching Adidas sneakers are kind of a give-away. Anyone can buy a hi-vis vest. No way a security guard or worker would be dressed like that to do any real work up there. And absolutely no way they would risk their life or their job to stop some nutter getting their Darwin award. Even if successful, they'd be fired for exposing the company to liability. They'd just wait by the door and have them trespassed on their way out.