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  • What have scientists discovered very recently that most people should absolutely know ?

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  • Liquor is commonly understood to be 40-50% ABV

    None of this is really exact anyway. This is what doctors seem to go on

    • 40%, 1.5oz liquor
    • 12% 5oz wine
    • 7%, 8oz malt liquoe
    • 5%, 12oz beer

    The problem is the beer I usually drink is in a 24 ounce can, and has 9.8% abv, and I don't know a single person who would call that 4 drinks (which it is! One drink is .6oz of ethanol, and that can of beer has 2.4oz of ethanol)

    Doctors try to get people to accurately report their lives because people aren't thinking about this. I remember there was a place (Scotland maybe?) where they put how many "Units" of alcohol were in drinks, which I think is a good idea for these kinds of things. A unit seemed to be that 0.6oz (~17ml) of ethanol you get if you do the math on the earlier measurements.

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  • Yeah, I've seen a lot of articles saying that GenZ is drinking less overall, and what they're buying is nicer, which is making it harder for the alcopop companies that sell bulk cheap booze.

    I think we tax alcohol higher in the States, and it depends on where you live for how difficult it is. Some places you can't get any alcohol at the grocery store, some you can buy beer/wine at the grocery store, but anything harder is at a state-run liquor store, and some places they'll sell you vodka at Walmart. There's more variance, but yeah, depending on where you live alcohol's more difficult to get than cigarettes, since those are at most grocery stores.

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  • The comment this was a reply to was specifically about many Americans not knowing there's a link. I wasn't even disputing the link in the comment, more just pointing out that 2 cups of liquor seemed like a whole lot to be classed as "Light to moderate" drinking imo

  • Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too

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  • I mean, SL took off enough that it's still here. A lot of F2P MMOs from around then aren't really around anymore at all, I can only think of 2 others.

    It may not be one of the big MMOs, but an estimated 600k MAU isn't anything to sneeze at either.

  • Most mouse pointers designs assume right-handed users

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  • Honestly mouse cursor customization is the one thing I miss from KDE, I love having goofy animations as my cursor

  • What have scientists discovered very recently that most people should absolutely know ?

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  • Yep. Admittedly they didn't know how much I was drinking, just how often, compared to the fact that I only drink a couple times a month most of the time.

  • What are your favorite healthy snacks?

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  • I'd imagine some of the popcorn seasonings you can get would work well, too... Might try making them at home, I've gotten a bag of them pre-made before and liked them. Don't have an air fryer, but I'd imagine a toaster oven would probably work well

  • What have scientists discovered very recently that most people should absolutely know ?

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  • I clicked one of the links, and read the study.

    450ml of liquor per week isn't light to moderate by most definitions? If you don't drink 2 nights a week that's 5 medically significant binges per week, every week. One "drink" in this context is 1oz (~29ml). Most of the doctors I've been to, when asking how much you drink, will even ask of you have 15 drinks per week. They cut that off at 7+.

    While a lot of us don't know the link to cancer, I'd imagine most of us know there's something there.

    I'm fine with doing alcohol like we did cigarettes, I was just kinda shocked that they called "5 medically significant binges per week" light to moderate drinking??? Even when I was drinking an amount that people were talking about doing an intervention for, it was less than half of that (1oz (29.5ml) per day)

  • What do you wish you'd have known before you started your hobby(s)?

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  • On, no, I meant for knitting! Gave the full example here

  • Given the way GPT operates, I bet it would be more accurate if we trained it to speak like Yoda.

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  • If only Waze weren't owned by Google... I saw they had that function. Wonder if you can do that with OSMAnd...

  • Is a Dell Latitude 7430 any good for general school stuff?

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  • Honestly, for what they're using it for I'd say just get an external hard drive. Move completed assignments to the external as needed, that way they're not risking grades if you can't find it for a night or two. Unless they get some storage-heavy applications later, that should work fine.

  • In the phrase “a long-winded response”, “winded” can be pronounced as in “wind” or as in “wind”, and both make etymological sense.

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  • ... That makes me viscerally uncomfortable, and I'm going to be putting it into my daily vocabulary.

  • What do you wish you'd have known before you started your hobby(s)?

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  • The screenshot is in orgzly, but this is the actual file that I use. The source looks basically identical:

     
        
1. [X] CO160 (tail on right)
2. [X] b5vE, WT
3. [X] b3vE, WT
4. [X] b3vE, WT
5. [X] b4vE, WT
6. [X] 2, FW
7. [X] Field 1 [31/31]
   1. [X] 40, WT
   2. [X] 21, WT
   3. [X] 2, WT
   4. [X] 4, WT
   5. [X] 6, WT
   6. [X] 8, WT
   7. [X] 10, WT
   8. [X] 12, WT
   9. [X] 14, WT
   10. [X] 16, WT
   11. [X] 18, WT
   12. [X] 20, WT
   13. [X] 22, WT
   14. [X] 23, WT
   15. [X] 24, WT
   16. [X] 26, WT
   17. [X] 28, WT
   18. [X] 30, WT
   19. [X] 32, WT
   20. [X] 34, WT
   21. [X] 36, WT
   22. [X] 34, WT
   23. [X] 32, WT
   24. [X] 29, WT
   25. [X] 26, WT
   26. [X] 23, WT
   27. [X] 20, WT
   28. [X] 17, WT
   29. [X] 15, WT
   30. [X] 13, WT
   31. [X] 26, WT

    Just hit C-c C-c

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    when the row's done to mark it. It took me about 30 minutes to get the file set up, mostly because there are 45 sections like the "Field 1", most patterns would just go straight through to whatever the final row is. Plus the pattern's split into 3 columns, and a PDF, which is notoriously painful to convert to anything.

    But yeah, no fancy configs, just basic org-mode functionality. I don't code much at all, I just use org-mode because it's been the best PKM tool I've found for myself.

    If anyone's curious about the pattern, it's the Phoenix Wing Shawl by Nadine Schwingler on Ravelry

  • What do you wish you'd have known before you started your hobby(s)?

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  • Oh, absolutely! My primary laptop is a t430 that I got for $50, got the charger for $7, a replacement CPU and RAM for $50 each. Runs better than my partner's budget PC from a couple years ago. Still needs a new battery, but those aren't too expensive either. It's at 20-25% of the manufacturer capacity now.

    I'm pretty sure my server was one of those, though. 1tb HDD, 16GB ram, no idea the other specs, but it was $100. Said it was new, but I 100% do not believe that because the RAM/HDD alone would cost $100 new

  • What do you wish you'd have known before you started your hobby(s)?

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  • No, for knitting xD At this point I do an org-mode list of every row in the pattern with checkboxes, then tick them off as I do them. Way nicer, especially for patterns you have to reference multiple parts at the same time for

  • What do you wish you'd have known before you started your hobby(s)?

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  • Emacs makes a better row counter than basically anything else.

    Restoring old business laptops will usually get you a better laptop than buying a budget new one that costs the same.

  • What do you wish you'd have known before you started your hobby(s)?

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  • I remember in college, when someone would get into MTG, we'd jokingly say coke's cheaper.

    Now, when someone I know gets into 40k, I much less jokingly say "MTG's cheaper"

    Then again, if you're just playing for fun against friends, a $200 3d printer is cheaper than any army I've seen. Still costs more than a $45 booster draft, but at least the printer's a one-time cost

  • How many hours do you spend on the computer/in front of a screen?

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  • 6h for work, probably 4 on social media/chat apps, and then the remaining 6 are wildcards of cooking, exercise, or hobbies. Most of my hobbies include some screen time (all of them if we include things like turning on podcasts to listen to while knitting)

    Probably averages out to 12h/day, more if we count multiple screens running at the same time in my line of sight (checking phone while playing games, which I'm doing now)

  • Anyone else about ready to give up on tech?

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  • For me it really was the fediverse that saved my opinion of tech, at least at the start. From that I found HackerNews (which I don't use anymore for reasons), then omg.lol, and went down a rabbit hole of self hosting that ended with me finding my love for tech again. Because it is disheartening, and a lot of how tech is now is just... Bad for you (and, admittedly, fedi's no different there).

    I also just... Disconnected from how a lot of tech is being run. While, yes, I'm doing this to avoid big tech, it's also just fun for me, and I'm not gonna have Google being evil ruin a hobby that's been with me for life.

    That being said, I do a lot more analog stuff now, or stuff that's digital but removed from the internet. Knitting, writing (though that is on a computer), journaling, boardgames, I'd even class about half of how 3d printing works in this. It's about finding a balance that works for you

  • Anyone else about ready to give up on tech?

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  • This is where I'm at. The process is fun for me, though. Setting everything up, maintaining it, seeing other people using the things I've put my time and effort into. Feels good.

    Not for everyone, though, and I think that's where division of labor comes in. We all have the weeds we wanna be in. Where someone sees weeds, I might see dandelions. Where I see weeds, someone else might see white clover, and we all work together to make each other's lives easier