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Astronomers: The Sun is a recent development

Check for sap-sucking bugs. Not all of them hang out in easy-to-see places all day. They could be down by the soil or under perfectly healthy looking leaves.

Even if you don’t see them it won’t hurt to spray some insecticidal soap here and there on to the plant. Sometimes it takes care of bugs you can’t see.

The thing runs Windows so it’s not a Steam Deck competitor… It’s a has-been at launch.

Windows is absolute garbage for a handheld gaming device. When are these manufacturers going to learn and just ship the things with Linux? Many Chinese devices (made for running emulators) ship with some customized Linux so why aren’t more mainstream manufacturers doing it? Seems like a no-brainer to make a better device and save money on licensing costs.

Correct 👍

The researchers focused specifically on 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzofuran (TCDF), a widespread persistent organic pollutant (POP) that is a byproduct of waste incineration, metal production, and fossil-fuel and wood combustion.

Because the tree absorbed it? Anyone know?

You’ll quickly find out which brands of filament aren’t of the highest quality, haha.

Pro-tip: PETG (even the shittiest brands) won’t clog 99.999% of the time 👍

(There’s always contaminants that can make their way into any filament… Even large chunks of dust/gunk in your house)

As someone who’s caught a leaker in the past (well, someone that was exfiltrating company secrets to a competitor) catching leakers is actually pretty easy if you have any modicum of control over the tools they use and the places they work. Barring that, no. Just no. It’s not going to happen.

If a leaker is gullible and stupid some trickery is possible but I wouldn’t get my hopes up, Warner Music. Seems like a job that’s doomed to fail from the start. I wouldn’t even bother unless they know it’s just a job on paper and are actually just looking to give someone’s kid a legit-sounding job to pad their resume 🤷

Not only that but if I were in charge of hiring I’d be extremely skeptical of any and all applicants. Anyone smart enough to do the job will know it’s impossible and will just become a master of stalling and picking low hanging fruit (aka useless) and everyone else is just a fraud.

It’s not just actually innovative patents that are missing from the patent system (which they are). It has also become so expensive to both file and litigate a patent that only big businesses and patent trolls can afford it.

The median cost to litigate a patent is five fucking million dollars (in 2021). What this means is that if your patented solution isn’t worth at least 2x that amount it is quite simply not worth patenting.

The whole system should be scrapped. It was fundamentally flawed from the start and has demonstrated over and over again that it does not scale. It’s not even worth it to keep pharmaceutical patents (there’s other, better, cheaper ways to come up with new drugs than $100 billion dollar commercial entities ripping us all off and spending half their budgets on marketing).

Speed and memory efficiency, mostly. If you ever have to grep for something in a large number of files ripgrep will be done while regular grep will only be reaching the 25% mark.

The modern man uses ripgrep 👍

Hah! Obviously this girl has never had a puppy before. They bite. They bite anything and everything. They will chew anything and everything. Chair legs, your legs, door/window frames, and carpets can be endless fun for them (they’ll leave a looooong visible trail where they pulled up until they ran out or got caught 🤣).

Her reaction was great though! If a puppy bites you it won’t really hurt that much (more of a gentle pinch than an “Ouch! Fuck!”) but you have to sell it! When a puppy bites you, react loudly like they just sucker punched you hard in the face while insulting your mother. Act! And don’t interact with them for a minute or two. If you’re holding them, put them down and be like, “I don’t play with dogs that do that! 😤”

That’s how they learn that biting is bad. Also, always have treats handy for when they do good things and teach them to have a gentle mouth the same way as teaching them not to bite. Keep a death grip on the treats when you’re teaching them this because if they were too rough but got away with the treat they won’t learn.

BTW: Puppies have sharp teeth. Way sharper than an adult dog. You’re much more likely to get scratches from their biting than bruises.

If something is “older than dirt” that means it’s at least 18,000 years old but can be millions of years old depending on where you live:

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/science/14qna.html

You either get a tasty treat bland, mild dirt flavor or incurable certain death.

FTFY

This is seriously puplifting News!

Now do big trucks and cars modified to be extra loud!

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I’m failing to see the problem. As long as one of the languages isn’t PHP they’re still probably better off 🤷

SD3 not being free would be so sad! OMG. It solves all my major issues with Stable Diffusion (which are pretty much the same with all the major competitors).

I just want to have reliable text generation and better control over where subjects are! (Without having to delve into the depths of ControlNet)

Though I suppose if history is a guide, if Stability AI doesn’t release SD3 someone else will release an equivalent… After a delay. The problem is the cost of research in this area is quite prohibitive so that delay could be years 😞

Don’t be too fearful of this kind of thing. Companies have had much worse circumstances with even greater losses of employees/executives and come out stronger as a result.

Example: Apple.

So we can expect a number of bad leaders after this, eventually getting someone with a French accent to take over, run the company further into the ground, then the founder(s) will return (like the prophecy always said) and take over the world for like a decade.