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90% live in CA, TX, and NYC! Sounds right to me I can’t think of a single other large metro area or anything like that.

I really thought this was an elaborate Saddam hiding meme

I don’t know enough about eyeballs to be able to answer, but 5 leagues is a bit more than 5x farther than eagles can see, and eagles already have larger pupils than humans do.

I legitimately know people who press the caps lock key, type what they need uppercased, then press the caps lock key again. That said, I use both shift keys.

In undergrad I once went back to my dorm room and eagerly showed my roommate the video of Grace Hopper illustrating how long lengths of time are (https://youtu.be/9eyFDBPk4Yw). A little while later, he was talking about this scene and how he likes the writing, because engineers are often much more excited by something seemingly mundane, such as the various lengths of wire needed for a project, than “this is my spaceship.”

Anyway, I tell him, completely seriously and with no sense of irony, “yeah, but why would anyone care about lengths of wire?”

He yelled back, “You literally came in here to show me a video about lengths of wire.”

Idk, seems true to me. My phone died during a Twenty One Pilots concert at TD Garden during the part where we’re supposed to shine our phone lights and I was forced to stay an extra half-hour.

They could work for a company that requires remote coding environments.

Does anyone find trackpads like this usable on small laptops?

Personally, I don’t think they should make laptops bigger than 13", and the laptops 13" and smaller really benefit from the mouse buttons being above the trackpad rather than below, and those trackpoint nubs actually become really nice.

Just scrolling through shorts on a given day, I’m usually recommended at least one short by someone infamously hostile to the LGBTQIA+ community. I get that it could be from people with my interests hate-watching, but I don’t want to be shown any of it. (Nearly all of my YouTube subscriptions are to LGBTQIA+ creators. I’m not subscribed to anyone who has ever even mentioned support for right leaning policies on anything.)

I love the duckie!

It’s a reference to a reddit user (https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1gnxkgd/comment/lweabef/) who would post these intricate comments with these really engaging stories that would then end with that last paragraph, which describes the events of a 1998 wrestling show where the wrestler The Undertaker threw the wrestler Mankind (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mankind_vs._The_Undertaker) and the type of wrestling match (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_in_a_Cell ).

Holy moly that would save so much time. I already kind of cheat and mostly do my thighs now that it is winter, since I don’t really feel my shin hair normally.

The country of Brazil makes something like 20x Musk’s total net worth, but every year.

It’s a set of patches for the base ISO, so hopefully it’s pretty resistant to takedown? In either case I’m downloading it now while it’s up.

In published media it’s getting really frustrating to find articles that seem like honest reviews. The NYT did an article on toaster recommendations and they praised one for having something like a 3 year warranty because “toasters aren’t known for their longevity.”

As to not having neopronouns “back in my day”, a lot of neopronouns are surprisingly old. Ze is from the 1860s, hir from the 1920s. Even relatively new ones like xe have been around since the early 70s.

And they may be pointless for you, but they’re valuable to some people so why be rude about it?

I have a coworker who swears by it, particularly for C development.

Stunning tbh

The site metadata refers to it as Twitter for like, those media cards Facebook Messenger and Discord make when you send a link, so I guess to stop my browser from deadnaming the site I should just stop visiting it.