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Anything can be a screen if you drive enough voltage through it

Hmmmm. De AH Bio thee lijkt van dezelfde leverancier te komen als de Lidl-thee. Ik vraag me nu toch wel af wie dat is.

spoiler (character, not plot), re: sci-fi book, sort of uspol 

The authoritarian in the story is incredibly egocentric, and sees themselves as the necessary saviour of the world, the one who 'keeps peace', and goes to great length and cruelties as a result, constantly blurring the lines in their internal rationalizing between 'serving Earth' and serving their own personal interests and - most crucially - their own sense of being 'attacked'

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PSA

Cleaning screens with alcohol (e.g. generic IPA) is *NOT* safe and may cause damage to the screen

Please use dedicated screen cleaner spray/foam

@jonny Ah, but that would be Illegal, so that's not something that a Respectable Outlet like the Atlantic could suggest!

fill your code with asserts, kids

that's how you find out the input data is wrong

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Wenn Union und FDP sagen "Leistung muss sich wieder lohnen", dann übersieht man leicht, dass hier nicht gemeint ist, dass diejenigen, die leisten und diejenigen, für die es sich lohnt, dieselben Personen sind.

@ben Find average point, then calculate angle between each point and average point, and sort by angle?

@rail_ Addendum: if you can get Alklanet locally, it's a very good highly-concentrated cleaning agent that works for general-purpose cleaning and window cleaning, and crucially is also screen-safe (sample size: a good chunk of the Dutch hacker scene).

Mentioning this mainly because I've found most dedicated 'screen cleaners' to be absolute garbage in terms of actually cleaning anything off, barely better than water...

sci-fi book, sort of uspol 

I am currently reading the Saving Mars series of books by Cidney Swanson, which involves a colony on Mars and an Earth that is globally ruled by an authoritarian. Interestingly, some of the chapters are written from the perspective of the authoritarian and their inner rationalizing.

In the past few days, it has now happened to me several times where I read something said by Trump, and it tracks almost 1:1 with the behaviour and rationalizing of the authoritarian in the story.

It's a little unsettling.

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@maze@chaos.social Ohhh yeah I remember having that same problem now!

@clarfonthey With other tests it has taken much longer or been much fainter, though, in many cases (it was only fast/bright in some)

@gsuberland@chaos.social Right, I'm asking about Fluorecare because I've seen this happen before with other tests, but I've not seen it happen *consistently* with those, that's what surprises me here

For anyone else using Fluorecare tests: is it normal for a positive (COVID) result to show up almost immediately after inserting the sample?

With other tests I've only ever seen this with (apparently) high viral loads, but so far we've confirmed a positive test in two of us in this household, and in both cases the positive-result line appeared within a few minutes, long before the reading time

The non-profit radio station I listen to in the morning is doing their fundraiser. Going off all about how much they support local arts and culture.

Their main page has a butt-ugly AI picture of what's trying to be dahlias. Which is funnier than it should be since dahlias aren't even Spring flowers.

I decided it would be a real shame if someone called in and said, *Lose the AI slop if you really do care about local Arts and aren't just blowing smoke.*

#kqac #Oregon #Portland #FuckAI

Did you know you can buy a tiny anvil and shaping hammers and smooth out and fix tiny metal things!? reshaping, smoothing dents, etc.

The anvil is so tiny and you will feel so cool!!

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@maze@chaos.social This may not be worth much because Creality seemed to change their design with every single batch, but on my (relatively early) Ender 3 none of the steppers ever came across as 'weak' to me, so unless they really cheaped out on later design revisions, it *shouldn't* be noticeably weak

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