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  • Why do we have shampoo, conditioner, and body wash soaps?

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  • Chemicals like sodium lauryl sulfate and other fatty acids with organosulfate head groups, which are much more powerful surfactants than the fatty acid sodium salts you get by reacting lye with a fat (like vegetable oil). "Traditional" soaps like that also contain glycerol (formed when the lye cleaves the glycerol backbone off of a triglyceride), which acts as a humectant moisturizer.

    Technically, at least in the US, chemicals like SLS aren't legally classified as soap, and must be called a detergent. Which is why so many products are called things like "body wash" and "body bar", and you wont find the word "soap" on their packaging.

  • Ken Jennings on Doomerism/Nihilism

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  • If you wouldn’t interrupt a stranger at a party to announce that America is doomed, don’t do it here.

    Apparently the microblogging format has made people so socially dysfunctional that they've forgotten what a conversation is.

  • Yep

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  • My mom has trust issues with computing so deep she doesn’t even do any fucking software update.

    IMO software vendors have created this attitude. Don't get me wrong, in an ideal world users would be much more technically literate, but given the behavior of the software industry this really should be the expected outcome.

    Its similar to how popups on the web trained users to instantly close dialog boxes without reading them. Its not the fault of the individual person writing the CRUD app that uses a dialog box, but it is the fault of the system that collectively produced all of the things you see on the computer's screen.

  • Dutch students create modular electric car "you can repair yourself"

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  • Modern ICE cars aren't really any different in that regard.

  • Alchemy is so hot right now.

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  • Alchemists (correctly) observed that everything in the world was subject to disorder and decay as time progressed, but noted that gold seemed to be immune to this effect (since it is highly resistant to oxidation). Add into that the belief system that they were working with:

    • That everything in the world exists on a chain of being from the most corrupt at the bottom to the most noble on top (with god being most high).
    • That everything is really the same thing, and through physical processes changes its form, including up and down the chain.

    And they belived that if they could figure out how to transmute a lesser metal into a more noble one then they could probably move other things up the chain of being as well. Which is why the Philospher's Stone was supposed to make people unaging and immortal, and cure all disease, in addition to transmuting lesser metals into gold. Alchemists like John of Rupescissa probably belived that creating the Stone would also bring the world closer to the divine in some way, and it was god's wish for mortals to do this.

  • furry rule

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  • TIL that Baba Yetu, the grammy-winning theme song to the video game Civilization IV, is The Lord's Prayer in Swahili.

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  • I've heard that doing this can condition you to be anxious when you hear a song.

  • First code coded

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  • The microcode in integrated CPUs took care of routing your inputs and outputs to where they need to be, and triggering the various arithmetic operations as desired.

    In the transition from plugboards to programmed sequence control the thing that took over the task of routing values between registers, through the ALU, and to/from IO ports was the control unit. Microcode being one way to implement functionality in the control unit.

    One other approach was to use what was basically a finite state machine, implemented physically in-circuit. The output of that FSM was fed into a series of logic gates along with the current instruction value, with the output of that combination being connected to the control lines of the various CPU elements. Thus the desired switching/routing behavior occured.

    Modern chips are really complicated hybrids of microcode and a ton of interacting finite state machines. Especially in x86 complex or less commonly used instructions will be implemented in microcode, whereas simple/common instructions will be implemented by being "hardwired", somewhat similar to the FSM technique described above (although probably more complicated).

  • i cant wait to get a steam frame

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  • as requested. lmk if you wanna see more nurse memes.

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  • I thought this was some sort of tier list of drugs at first. Like "which ones are most important for a hospital to have", and I was trying to work out the logic behind the colors.

  • Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year

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  • it’s not hard to earn in-game money and buy ships with that

    If you can skip that process by paying real money, and the things you unlock are gameplay-effecting upgrades, then that's pay-to-win. That's what the phrase originally meant before being diluted. Non pay-to-win microtransactions are purely cosmetic.

    Not that people should be playing any game that's infested with a microtransaction funding model. Let alone one with a base price of $45, let alone one with absolutely absurd "micro"-transactions meant to prey on mentally ill people, let alone one that's already taken people's free money only to implement all of the above.

    At one point in time horse armor was enough cause controversy. How did it all go so wrong?

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    Scientists build device to harvest electricity from Earth's spin

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  • I didn't bother to read the paper, but the article says the system produced "10s of nanoamps at 10s of microvolts". I'll just assume each of those values are "100", since that's the highest value you could describe as "10s" of something.

    That works out to 0.01 nanowatts. For comparison the tiny solar panel on a solar powered calculator might produce 0.0075 watts, or 750 million times that amount of power.

    In reality, since wattage is a multiple of volts and amps, lowering both of those figures from my highball estimate would massively decrease the wattage. The solar calculator probably produces billions of times more power than this 1 foot long cylinder.

    So, i think its neat that they were able to measure an effect, but the article really should not even be mentioning power generation.

  • society rule

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  • For yuri authors that choose to list a gender the vast majority of them, 80%+, are women. While it varies by distributor the audience for yuri works is made up of close to 50/50% men and women.

    Furthermore, if you look at the tag numbers on sites like MAL or mangagao you will find that yaoi manga outnumbers yuri manga by more than 5x:

    Also, while its male audience has grown in the intervening years, yaoi originated as a genre primarily by and for women who were attracted to men. Bara is generally more written by gay men for gay men.

  • You should know this, Scotty.

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  • This sort of thing is really common in video games where you're able to move in zero G.

    In the few games that have accurate zero G movement people get really confused. They'll hold a movement key the entire way to a destination then smack into it because they didn't realize they'd have to hold the opposite key for an equal amount of time to stop. Or they'll fly a certain distance like that, then want to make a 90° turn, only to keep careening off in the direction of their initial travel with a slight bend to it.

  • Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat

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  • Am I allowed to complain about software bloat if I don't have that?

  • Op doesn't have time for interviews

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  • Philips Ultra Efficient bulbs use only 4 watts, and they have a glass bulb and metal base, so they might feel cool to the touch anyway. Or at least feel plausibly the same temperature as the room, depending on how hot it is in there.

  • 2025-12-24

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  • This one feels like it's trying to say something, but I'm not sure what.

  • Proton Experimental latest update improves playability for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Farlight 84, CHRONO TRIGGER, Rec Room, Warframe, Darksiders, GODBREAKERS, Indivisible and King of Bones

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  • It worked for me, but then again I don't use a virtual keyboard.

  • The American mind cannot comprehend this

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  • huge fucking place basically 50 mini countries who mostly hate each other.

    First, stop with the 50 countries crap.

    Next, the size of your country has zero, literally nothing at all, to do with transportation within an individual city. Get the "america special" shit out of your brain, please.

    New York does 8 million transit trips a day and it’s just a Lil state

    3.6 million people pass through this single building once a day every day:

    The rail lines in the Greater Tokyo Area serve in excess of 40 million people per day.

    If US cities really were so big and busy and extreme compared to the rest of the world like you seem to think, they would have a larger need for rail transit, not a lesser one. A rail line has a higher capacity than a highway lane, by at least an order of magnitude.

    I am asking you again, please get the "we are so special and big and extreme nowhere else is comparable at all, no one else could even comprehend it" crap out of your head.