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NeatNit

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  • Perspective

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  • Interesting. My parents' apartment had carpeted stairs when they bought it (when I was around 3). About a decade later they completely renovated the kitchen and naturally the renovations creeped into other parts of the home. One of the builders showed them that underneath the carpet were beautiful stone steps. They instantly decided to take out the carpet, and the stairs are bare to this day. Here's a photo I took just now (obviously from the bottom looking up):

  • Perspective

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  • The handrail argument doesn't make any sense. It would be at the same height regardless of direction.

  • Perspective

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  • Back when I thought it was two mattresses, I thought it couldn't be at the top because the right mattress probably wouldn't be held up like that. But since it's one mattress, it can relatively easily be held at that angle with most of its weight resting on the step.

    And that's my main reason: it really seems like the mattress is being pushed towards that step, and I believe it's being pushed by gravity. Doesn't make as much sense for it to be pushed in that direction by someone.

    I'm not married to it though, it's a really tricky picture.

  • Predatory tactics in gaming are worse than you think

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  • That's already banned in quite a lot of countries.

  • Perspective

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  • I think it's bottom too but I don't agree with your reasoning, I've seen steps without that bit.

    Edit: actually now I think top, I've been convinced by the daylight argument plus the realization that is a single mattress folded in half (I previously thought it's two mattresses).

    Edit: changed my mind again, made a top level comment

  • You have a million dollar smile...

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  • Nice. Perhaps better: you have a million dollar smile, unfortunately we don't have change from a million

  • Physicists Found the Ghost Haunting the World’s Most Famous Particle Accelerator

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  • 10/10 no notes

  • grabs popcorn 🍿

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  • Without know this we don't have enough context to assess the situation

  • Physicists Found the Ghost Haunting the World’s Most Famous Particle Accelerator

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  • Gordon doesn't speak. 0/5

  • Damn she had AI write it

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  • Fair point. It's still a red flag (in more ways than one!) but I accept it's not definitive.

  • Damn she had AI write it

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  • I'm not seeing it in Voyager, but I'm guessing you made a header:

     
        
Main header
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Level 2 header
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    The number of dashes or equality signs doesn't have to match, so I think that's what you did.

  • Damn she had AI write it

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  • How the hell do you even type an em dash?

    I'm sure it's possible (I know it's easy on a touch keyboard), but if the person who sent it has never used em dashes in their life, then it's pretty definitive proof. Otherwise, it's just a big clue that you might combine with other factors.

  • Do you succumb to the urge to stop the microwave a few seconds before it actually stops ?

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  • Me too, and it comes with the added benefit of usually having a pleasant "Ding!" instead of the shrieking "BEEEEEP! BEEEEEP! BEEEEEP!" that digital microwaves have. The downside is that you completely lose the precision of a digital timer, which some people (not me) consider a must have in a microwave.

  • there is hope for anyone...

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  • I'm delighted to report that I have no idea what gif you're referring to, and I am happy to keep it that way

  • Why shouldn't you use YAML to store eye tracking data? /s

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  • True (in most contexts, probably including this one), but I think that only makes the case for SQLite stronger. What people do still care about is a good flexible, usable and reliable interface. I'm not sure how to get that with YAML.

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    What is a good example of a necessary evil?

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  • Polarization is causing a lot of people to doubt that the collective money actually will be put to good use. In a lot of places (like my country, Israel) they're damn right, it's not.

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    Netherlands: 18 year old Ryan al-Najjar was tied up, beaten, and drowned by her father and brothers for being too Westernized

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  • I guess each country might have its own laws about this. Many countries have agreements (I forgot the term for this) where they would send each other's wanted criminals back so they can be tried where they committed the crime.

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    Netherlands: 18 year old Ryan al-Najjar was tied up, beaten, and drowned by her father and brothers for being too Westernized

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  • Just yesterday I joined a Discord server and one of the rules is:

    II. There Will Be No Tolerance For Intolerance

    SKG enforces a zero-tolerance policy towards hate speech or discriminatory behavior based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic. Any use of slurs or language intended to demean or dehumanize an individual or group is prohibited. Violation of this rule may result in immediate removal from the server.

    I thought "no tolerance for intolerance" is kinda funny, especially when phrased that way, but obviously I think the policy is good. Just an amusing little oxymoron.

    Sorry for going 100% off topic but since it came up, please everyone in the European Union go and sign the Stop Killing Games initiative: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/ the deadline is coming up and the goal is to reach at least 1,500,000 signatures! It's looking like it's doable, every signature counts!

  • Why shouldn't you use YAML to store eye tracking data? /s

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  • I think SQLite is a great middle ground. It saves the database as a single .db file, and can do everything an SQL database can do. Querying for data is a lot more flexible and a lot faster. The tools for manipulating the data in any way you want are very good and very robust.

    However, I'm not sure how it would affect file size. It might be smaller because JSON/YAML wastes a lot of characters on redundant information (field names) and storing numbers as text, which the database would store as binary data in a defined structure. On the other hand, extra space is used to make common SQL operations happen much faster using fancy data structures. I don't know which effect is greater so file size could be bigger or smaller.