Contramuffin

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[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

That's a misinterpretation of the poem. The point was that both paths were equally valid but no matter what he picked, he would always think that the other was better. It was a poem about "the grass is always greener on the other side"

[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Just yesterday I had a CO2 valve close on me during an experiment while I was away for a moment. It takes effort to turn the valve so it couldn't have just shaken closed or something. The valve was in the corner of the room and was blocked off by boxes, so nobody could have accidentally bumped it. And, besides, nobody was in the room anyways. Before the experiment I made damn sure that the CO2 valve was open, and even looking through the computer records (which records the CO2) says that the CO2 valve was open until I walked away.

I still have no idea how the valve could have closed on its own. Now, I'm not saying it's a ghost, but I am saying that I cannot think of a single non-paranormal explanation. I've clearly angered the science gods and I would do well to sacrifice some more cells to the science gods to appease them

[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hmm... Weird. Seems like my app cut off the bottom from the video

[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world -2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

X axis label is cut off...

[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Mfw some barbarian listens to the Epic of Gilgamesh on their clay tablet without earphones in public

[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yes, you can add the Mozilla ppa and they offer a non-snap version. I think the Deb that you download from their website also isn't snap, but I haven't tried it

[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

Without another name change, I don't think that phrase will ever go away, for the simple fact that X as a name is too short and nondescript. In speech, X could refer to a someone you broke up with, or it could just be the beginning of another word, serving as a prefix. In text, it could refer to the actual letter itself, or the close button on a window, or a placeholder, or something NSFW.

There's simply too many ways that X can be interpreted that even if people associate Twitter with X, people will still specify "formerly Twitter" just to avoid confusion

[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Would definitely not recommend KDE Neon. It's more of a showcase of new KDE features than an actual usable OS. I currently use Kubuntu and it's fine. I wish it updated more frequently but the update frequency isn't slow enough to really be a deal breaker.

I disabled snap Firefox, not really because I'm ideologically against snap, but because snap Firefox is annoying to use. Other than that, the OS generally just works out of the box.

I've heard good things about OpenSUSE, but I've never tried it. My personal opinion is that I want to stick to the most common distros so that it's easier to find troubleshooting advice

[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Science is like going down a Wikipedia rabbit hole. There's always more things to do and more things to check out. At some point you just have to draw the line and say that enough is enough. Other scientists are likely to ask why you stopped where you stopped, and so saying that "it's outside the scope of the paper" is basically the nice way of saying that you stopped because you felt like it

[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Found someone nice. It was sheer chance, really. Met with a new neighbor and she had a crush on me. Was friends for a while. Years later decided to get into a relationship with her.

[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Pretty sure that's the point. It's bait

[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Enemy base looks inefficient and should be easily bottlenecked. Would recommend building a more efficient factory to counter his. Also, automate more pieces than just pawns - they might use a lot of red circuits, but you'll need the reds later anyways so you might as well automate that

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