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SoleInvictus

@ SoleInvictus @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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  • Ouch

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  • I can smell both this comment and the people that would seriously say something like this.

  • Womp womp womp.

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  • Is that an electrophoresis gel?

  • build relationships with them. build relationships with us. build relationships.

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  • Oh fuck then I think we both might be autistic.

  • Womp womp womp.

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  • Laffy Taffy

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  • Can confirm. I went on a banana adventure during the pandemic where I ate nearly 10kg of all sorts of different bananas, including the "Big Mike". I learned the Cavendish is a shit banana and we've been cheated out of superior nanners for decades.

  • 'Totally Illegal,' Says Senate Dem as Trump Pledges $10 Billion in US Funds for His Board of Peace

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  • Not allowed for the commoners.

  • The longer I'm alive, the more I feel that people make things complicated to feel important.

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  • I see you have met my last boss!

  • The longer I'm alive, the more I feel that people make things complicated to feel important.

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  • Totally agree, it's a harder to debunk way of protecting your time. Grandpa story time!

    I follow something I call the rule of thirds. Of any three unverifiable improvements in workflow, two remain secret and they and their saved effort are solely mine while the smallest goes to the company. If I bust out 12 in a row, the company gets the smallest four. Maybe three if I'm feeling catty. I occasionally dole out one of the retained 2/3 when I need to look good for a review or something.

    I learned this from an employer a few years back. I maxed out the first year and made a ton of improvements, so my first review was stellar. My second year's review, though, noted that I hadn't kept up with the previous year, so it was just a "meets expectations". I was outperforming most of my peers, but not previous year me, so they thought I was starting to slack off. That's when I realized many managers are idiots so you have to game the system if you want to succeed.

  • Two sides to every story

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  • If you haven't seen Vice Principals, I can't decide if I should recommend it or warn you to avoid it. Both. Let's go with both.

  • deez nutz save lives

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  • I'm allergic to coconut, so I would.

  • Proton's width measured to unparalleled precision, narrowing the path to new physics

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  • Typo. Good catch.

  • Feeling discomfort driving at night? It’s not you — it’s the bright headlights, experts say

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  • Headlights are regulated and tested by brightness, not power consumption, so it's already what you suggest. The problem is brightness is tested using a few very standardized tests.

    LED arrays make it easier to engineer uneven brightness throughout the area of the light beam, e.g., dimmer in the middle than the outside, dimmer on the left sides, etc. This means manufacturers can make headlights that are overall brighter than allowed but can still pass tests as the region tested by regulators is designed to be dimmer, so the test results are acceptable.

  • Proton's width measured to unparalleled precision, narrowing the path to new physics

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  • If the average human hair is about 50 billion femtometers wide, it means it takes about 30 billion photons protons lined up side to side to equal that width. So really fucking small.

    Edit: swap an r for an h and the meaning changes significantly!

  • ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront

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  • For anyone else not familiar, here's the first line of Relooted's description:

    Reclaim real African artifacts from Western museums in this Africanfuturist heist game.

    The forum is full of exactly what you'd expect.

  • Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 — chief says some long-term agreements for 2027 and 2028 already in place

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  • I purchased two 12 TB HDDs last year when they were on sale and wow am I glad I did so. I joked how they'd last us the rest of our lives and now that might have to be true.

  • It has begun.. | IBM is tripling the number of Gen Z entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption | Fortune

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  • 2025: IBM lays off 16-20k tenured employees.Early 2026: "IBM emerges as a global leader (in asshole-tier cost savings), championing early career development by tripling their number of hired entry-level employees."

    Fuck you, IBM.

  • windows moment

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  • You nailed it. I get the same icky feeling, like I know it won't immediately kill me, but I'm vaguely doing something wrong and maybe bad or unsafe. It exists on a discomfort/danger continuum somewhere lower than "young me walking in on parents fucking" but higher than "shoplifting lip balm from Krogers".

  • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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  • Interesting. You're saying you can tell the difference between 320 kbps and FLAC? How long ago was this?

  • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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  • Anecdotal, but... I've been a musician for 36 years and have fantastic hearing not just for my age but for any age. I know, I have to get it quantitatively tested twice a year!

    I can't tell the difference at all between FLAC and 320 kbps from the same source. I can tell a difference between FLAC and 128 kbps, but it's not huge. It sounds a bit dull, but I have to be looking for the difference and comparing the two. If you just gave me one or the other with no reference, I might suspect the 128 if it was a simple recording of a single instrument or a song I'm intimately familiar with, and even then I wouldn't be sure of it. It just sometimes "feels" weird.

    So I converted over 4 terabytes of my music stash to 320 kbps and cut the total space into less than 2. Feels good.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Update: I did it! Old: Help! Installing Linux with no external media.

  • ADHD @lemmy.world
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    Request: basic communication skills

  • retrocomputing @lemmy.sdf.org
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    VIC-20 cassette stash - what's worth backing up?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Linux Mint - Can't get Dolphin to work properly with network files

  • Progressive Politics @lemmy.world
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    The Social Security Administration just spreading some propaganda. JFC.

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What are your notable stories of selling or giving away things online?

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Manul Rule

  • ADHD @lemmy.world
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    How I (barely) got through college

  • ADHD @lemmy.world
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    Not pictured: being overwhelmed at the thought of properly dealing with all the frogs when you find a different obsession, then just stuffing them in a box and hiding it.

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Community rules rule

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    196ers - We need a banner and icon!

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Looks like we started a community! Now we need feedback and mods.

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Guess I'll Start Rule

  • Communism @lemmy.ml
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    Help me find a video on North Korea?

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    I found the Lemmy bar in Reykjavik, Iceland!

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    People who poop with the bathroom fan off

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    Right-to-Work Laws don't mean your employer can fire you at any time for any reason (US Law)

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    SoleInvictus @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Halp! Calibrating touchscreen on Panasonic CF-30