I can’t activate my hyperfocus on command, sadly. It sometimes happens around trains but that’s not what the work is about.

Look up “homemade Dubai lamps” or as Big Clive likes to call them, “Dooby lamps”. Basically decrease the power by 30% or more by replacing or removing one of current-sense resistors to get a many times longer lifespan. Very easy with lamps that have a linear regulator on the LED board; ones that have a switching regulator inside need to be disassembled further than just popping off the plastic globe (preferrably by milling into the housing from the SMD side of the board because that doesn’t disrupt the thermal design of the LED board). With the latter approach, I can also fix another common issue: the input inductor going open circuit, usually indicated by flashing and a burned-out bypass resistor (most often 4k7 or “472”) − I just short it, I don’t care about the little extra interference if it mskes the bulb work again.

Most sane WWA plot point

Exactly, it is just taken into account in their evaluation. A person respecting consent will just reevaluate that relationship opportunity as 0 and move on to the next candidate or stay alone.

The 37% is a great reference for math nerds! It’s ⅟𝑒, the number of candidates one should sample before waiting for a better one to maximize the chances of picking the best one in a pick-or-pass scenario. See Secretary problem on Wikipedia

True but the current online use of “biblically accurate angel” implies the angels we’ve been drawing are biblically inaccurate. That’s ignoring most types of angels, see Hierarchy of angels on Wikipedia.

wheel within a wheel

As an atheist, I don’t think Ezekiel actually had divine visions so his (or whoever pretended to be Ezekiel’s) texts must have been based on what he’d heard or could think of. A gyroscope might be the most mesmerizing and high-tech device he had seen. What is its equivalent today? Volumetric display? Drone show? VR?

She’s seeing a consumer whore version of herself, I guess? I haven’t seen a targeted ad in years.

AoC stands for Age of Consent

You need more than DNA to recreate a person. Is this comic by the writers of Black Mirror’s USS Callister?

Vibe spelling doesn’t work. I looked up a spelling on Google and the AI contraadicted itself.

It was in Czech but basically

Milosrdní bratři is an organization and its name is therefore correctly spelled with a capital M and capital B. The hospital is thus called “Nemocnice Milosrdných bratří” with all words capitalized, as you can see.

(Yes, we have different capitalization rules from English. The bold spellings are correct but don’t correspond to the “reasoning”.)

Not to mention all of Grammarly’s brain farts like this.

I wasn’t saying the exchange for money happens on Valve’s servers, but it’s Valve who oversees everyone’s inventory. You could hack the game and run a third party account server and give yourself all the knives but they would not be recognized by Valve and thus worthless, unless you convince exchanges that your server is trustworthy and has assets behind it.

I mean, there’s DRM but that hasn’t stopped them ever before…

Do they stand to lose something if they switch? I don’t understand CS:GO economics, maybe there is a sanction-evading money flow via weapon and skin trading on Valve’s servers?

What’s preventing Russians from hacking Counter-Strike and making their own “Кантр-Страйк” servers?

I submitted the mysterious extra n situation on military keyboards as a question for Lateral and they featured it in today’s episode!

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They reserve the right to edit questions and omitted the important n-lock key. A keyboard with a permanently missing 3 would be ridiculous.

99.999999999999% chance the lava lamp inside your computer is broken.

(The difference from 100% might be my CPU’s floating point rounding error)

That would indeed be way (quadratically) more likely but we don’t count the number of attempts but measure run time, and since comparisons (even with optimizations like insertion sort) take time, the speed difference between the two methods will be “just” a few orders of magnitude.

I fail to see any mistake. A comma belongs to either side of the word “Linux” there.

And the vertical line? Lools like the corner of a room to me

Witkoff is a real estate agent, not a diplomat, and it shows. The deal is largely irrelevant or bullshit.

How is she standing between the wall and the counter?