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Density saves nature
  • It’s called Papyrus and it’s everywhere. From Arizona Green Tea to the band Lamb of God.

    I hate it, maybe not for good reasons, but if I see that font on a product or document, I feel repulsed. Like reading someone’s resume printed in jokerman or one of those faux-handwritten cursive fonts that are all the rage on handmade hipster farm-to-table rustic authentic commodities.

  • Borderlands' theatrical run grinds to a halt with just $31 million worldwide, which is barely enough to cover the marketing costs
  • This has to have been some form of egregious waste.

    I can’t recall seeing any promotional material for this besides the trailer being reposted to talk shit about the movie.

  • Klingons make fantastic allies
  • If you could make utterly perfect copies of people like you can with objects and they only differed by their UUID...how different would those two people be really

    This made me think of identical twins. Perfect copies, but the minute they are born (for the convenience of tracking experience) they begin to differ. The majority of their properties and attributes remain identical, but their associations and metadata start to change.

    Identical twins provide an interesting thought experiment because a lot of times they end up with the same job roles, married to similar people (or even other sets of twins), dress similarly, have similar attitudes and opinions, etc. But in many ways they are just the same genetic code running in a different environment.

    If souls are just uuids, then I guess twins are some type of hash collision?

  • Huawei unveils world’s first tri-fold phone, the Mate XT Ultimate Design
  • Cue the Scroll PhoneTM.

    I can’t even imagine the nightmare UI that would accommodate that type of screen.

    Mechanically, I could see a device that has a slide down keyboard and a roll up screen. Functionally, I can’t see how it would be useful for daily smart phone actions like one-handed use or swipe-gestures.

  • $4 Razer Huntsman Mini at Goodwill
  • Try Razer’s config tool; not available on macOS though. If you can’t get that software to work, then try using that karabiner tool mentioned on another comment for macOS or AutoHotKey on Windows.

    Note: I do all of my keyboard config stuff the hard way with qmk, so I can’t vouch for, or explain, any of the tools I just listed.

    As for your spacebar issue, you have a key set that only supports Cherry Mx-style switches. This isn’t a problem for the switches themselves, but those stabilizers look to be incompatible with that spacebar. I don’t know much about razer boards, but it looks like the stabilizers are designed for their original spacebars, or there is an adapter that didn’t get installed with these new caps. You could confirm this by looking at the stabilizers for the shift or enter keys; pop one of those off and see how they are mounted.

    You might be able to open the case and install mx-style stabilizers. You’ve got a 6.25u size spacebar, which is usually covered in stabilizer kits like Durock or Cherry. The real issue is whether you could install them on the PCB. Cherry style stabilizers are also noisy as hell, so be ready for that (the noise can be controlled with some modifications, but that’s a rabbit hole all by itself).

    Good luck!

  • Newsmax pundit accuses Kamala Harris of 'doing blackface' to win presidency
  • It’s the serious tag. Used for only the most serious and factually correct statements ever. Seriously. /s

  • Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI
  • I went through a McDonald’s drive-thru the other day and had the most insane experience. For the context of this anecdote, I don’t do that often, so, what I experienced was just weird.

    While not quite “AI,” the first thing that happened was an automated voice yells at me, “are you ordering using your mobile app today?”

    There’s like three menu-speaker boxes, and due to where the car in front of me stopped, I’m like in between the last two. The other speaker begins to yell, “Are you ordering using your mobile app today?”

    The person running drive-thru mumbles something about pull around. I do. Pass by the other menu “Are you ordering using your mobile app today?”

    Dude walks out with a headset and starts taking orders from each car using a tablet.

    I have no idea what is happening. I can’t even see a menu when the guy gets around to me. Turns the tablet around at me.

    I realized that I was indeed ordering using the mobile app today.

  • Anon makes up a word
  • Frank Lloyd Wright (1701-1959). Frank Lloyd Wright was an omniscient demimortal techno mage who took up architecture in the late 19th-century at the age of 186 after discovering the eldritch art of soul drafting. He began designing and building structures across the United States with the intention of harnessing the psycho-emotional energy of the US population. Many of his architectural plans plainly display the geometrical interplanar-harvester elements, in comparison to architects such as Ivo Shandor (cult of Gozer) who felt the need to obfuscate the intent of their structures. ^[citation needed]^ Wright’s final design was commissioned from archmage Norman Lykes, who trapped Wright’s life force in a soul stone embedded in a Mission-style rocking chair. Wright’s legacy was commemorated by logistical clerics in a postage stamp in 1966 and in 1970 by Bardic duo Simon & Garfunkel.

  • Anon makes up a word
  • My experience with this just taught me that eventually most teachers will just default to authority. They will tell you to stop questioning or stop being difficult in order to prevent the class from getting off-track. Instead they miss a teachable moment both about academic integrity and being a decent person.

  • Man who calls women "females" hopes to one day be allowed within 500 meters of one
  • I think the difference is that one case is a collective noun and the other is a fallacy.

    Contrast with using females as a collective noun which can been seen as reductive or offensive on its own without the fallacious logic.

  • Man who calls women "females" hopes to one day be allowed within 500 meters of one
  • I’m bothered when ever I hear someone use females as a collective noun for women. Not necessarily because it offends me or because I’m offended on behalf of someone else, but because it sounds so strange to me and the context where it is used is often wildly inappropriate.

    The usage is odd; in my experience people who refer to women collectively as females often do not refer to men collectively as males which is often telling about other beliefs and ideas. Also, male/female and man/woman are dichotomies, and using men/females sounds really off.

    Referring to people using technical terminology feels reductive and weird to me. Replace female with any other technical identity term and use it the same way: it will get really awkward really fast.

    I am aware that the majority of people who use females collectively are not doing so to offend. Hell, the other day, I heard a teacher refer to the girls in her class as females. I doubt she was using it as a pejorative, but she referred to the boys as… boys. The whole thing was weird to me.

  • How to find great Chinese food
  • Extradimensional takeout box.

  • Alarming 500% Surge: Colorectal Cancer Rates Skyrocket Among U.S. Youths
  • You mean that there are consequences for drinking four loko out of a cup made of cooked weaved bacon?

  • Is this a crime? Thoughts?
  • Fair point, but it’s the Whole Foods brand unsweetened applesauce. We also don’t serve the pouches and this is a controlled food served with planned meals, not something that our kid is sucking down multiple times a day.

  • Is this a crime? Thoughts?
  • It’s not any of the brands flagged by the FDA. Plus, our pediatrician does regular blood tests to check for lead.

    It’s the Whole Foods brand unsweetened applesauce.

  • Is this a crime? Thoughts?
  • I’ve been feeding applesauce and cottage cheese to my toddler and mixed it one day by accident. Surprisingly good.