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psud

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  • I love science

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  • Science is a process, and it's really simple:

    1. Form a hypothesis (make a statement of what you want to test, ensure it is testable; if it's not testable it's not amenable to science)
    2. Come up with how to test the hypothesis
    3. Test the hypothesis
    4. Publish the results and details

    There are technical bits that make that easier, but the big parts are keeping records of what you've done and what the results were

    Some hypotheses are expensive to test, best leave those to the well funded pros

  • I love science

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  • Oh no, they got a tiny bit of money from some of Bill Gates' foundations which support education.

    It's not from Gates directly.

    If it was from Gates directly why would you be upset at him giving some no strings attached money to an educational channel?

    (I'm taking it as read that you have beliefs about Gates being bad and don't see a point in arguing opinions like that)

  • Evidence

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  • Do you mean the people profiting are white boomers? Many are generation X. Some are millennials.

  • Humans rank between meerkats and beavers in monogamy 'league table,' but sheep are sluts.

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  • And the culture they live in

  • 94.3° F

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  • 101 or 102

    38°

  • They are German, of course.

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  • Really dude, don't gloat about the furries you fucked at CERN

  • Still trying to figure it out a way...

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  • They also take a lot of unimportant stuff and pretend it's important. Australian snakes are 17 of the top 20 most venomous snakes*

    *Against mice

    They just don't attack humans unless the human is fucking with them

    Cassowarys too. Deadly dangerous. The last people killed by a flock of them was throwing rocks and beer cans at them. You've got to try to get killed by them.

    We don't really have any animals we need to tell people to not try to get a selfie with, aside from koalas but for the koala's benefit, it's not going to hurt you

    There's an effort to replace rabbits as the Easter animal with quokkas. I reckon the quokka is more cute than the bunny.

  • I know its hard to digest.

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  • Not quite full, the biological signals are very clear when that part of me is full

  • bad bitch

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  • That gave you -5 aura

  • technical debt

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  • In my workplace a stretch goal is code for "we almost certainly can't do it but the scrum master thinks we might"

    My team was given another team's stretch goal after management worked out the translation

  • technical debt

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  • Tech debt is fixing the roof to save on changing the buckets under the leak

  • Good point

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  • Tit just used to mean small. That's how the word came to be used for some boobs, then all boobs. Perhaps teat (nipple) got shortened also, but the bird is named for being small

    There's also the titmouse which is littler than other mice

  • Don't be a fool, use the proper tool.

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  • I'm not sure what you're asking which of. I might have not worded the last part of my comment unambiguously

    To rewrite:

    I don't think you can tell Linux from a Unix by looking at it reliably. Though in general unixes are tidier, there are Linux users that are just as tidy and keep their system just like a Unix one

  • Sign the Petition: Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide

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  • We have an eco system in southern Australia that at the moment is eucalyptus trees. They take over all at once after a fire, and they live about 300 years. When they die off rainforest trees and undergrowth take over, until there's a dry period and fire

  • 2025-12-26

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  • With fountain pens people believe that the nibs become personal with use. Also they think they need different skill.

    I'm glad I use fountain pens. Nearly no one wants to borrow one, those who do are also pen nerds do won't steal or misuse it

  • constants r fun

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  • This is not very enticing as an idea — that something special happened to have this universe just right — as we really don't know whether there were unsuccessful universes before ours, we don't know what happened before the big bang that created our universe

    There could be good reasons we don't know of that forces all the constants to be as they are. The dice could have been cast many times before. We can't know. This idea doesn't help

  • Survey reveals most people are holding onto their phones for a long time, and it makes sense

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  • Flying international from Australia I really miss headphone ports. The USB port is needed to keep the phone charged, since even the biggest batteries only give you about 4 hours of YouTube. My Bluetooth headphones last about 16hrs, so that's almost enough. I usually carry alternative Bluetooth earbuds that last several hours to cover such gaps

  • Survey reveals most people are holding onto their phones for a long time, and it makes sense

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  • Australia has a rule that phones have to have a warranty for at least as long as the contract period. So most of ours are paid off in 2 years, and that's when the carriers start advertising at you heavily

  • Human drivers break laws all the time. So now corporations that make self-driving cars want to be allowed to program their cars to do the same

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  • I wonder if mad max mode is different for Australian cars. All it does here is pass other cars on multi lane roads even if they're only going a tiny bit slower than you. The other settings are more tolerant of slowing down. Mad max is the least tolerant of three TACC settings.

    It still stops at any intersection, including green lights unless you authorise it or it sees several other cars going through. It always stops at stop or give way signs.

    Speed settings: if you activate self steering you can't go more than 10km/h over the speed limit as the car currently believes it to be (mine reads a temporary 80 sign as 30, and an end of road works 100 sign half in a ditch as 60). With self steering off you can set whatever speed. It flashes the speed at you if you select a speed higher than its idea of the limit.

    My speed is set to +2km/h as that's the speedometer error, so in an 80 zone it defaults to 82