Super interesting; I wonder whether the fraction of nodes that need to be represented by cycles eats into the performance benefit vs. other approaches.

Game Genie Sokolov is one of the most talented chiptune / FM-synth artists out there. I especially recommend the albums Signal Loss and Insert Disk 02. Not game music, she writes all-original songs.

Degaussers use varying magnetic fields in a specific way, it’s not raw field strength doing the erasing.

We have to go deeper!

I love how often seemingly simple questions just get fuzzier the closer you look at them.

It reminds me of the surprisingly deep rabbit hole regarding the first video game. People often say it’s Tennis for Two, but there’s not really a clear single answer!

The Ball two-piece-lid is pretty rad.

I don’t need them to be that nice, and I’d much rather pay a bit more than lug bulky extra components around.

I use my laptop’s speakers all the time; why would I want to bust out external speakers when I can have perfectly usable ones built in? Doubly so when I’m not at home!

You really can’t see the forest for the trees. Reflect.

It’s only about you because you made it about you.

“Ghoul” is not a slur. You saying that seeing an unpleasant word next to a word that reminds you of anime is at all equivalent to a slur is frankly ghastly of you.

You’d almost have a leg to stand on if they changed it to “Captain Weeaboo” or something, but even then the comparison is a stretch. You’re showing up at somebody’s funeral to say “I scraped my knee, that’s bad too! We’re all equal as humans, so I deserve to speak”.

Grow up.

You’re drunk for thinking this is about you.

Go home, you’re drunk.

Sure, because the persecution of black people in the US is at all equivalent to the bullying of anime nerds, right.

The problem is not that thin-skinned people could do mental gymnastics to find reasons to be upset, it’s that ‘coon’ is straight up a racial slur that was historically a major tool of oppression.

Still extremely customizable, and peerless rolling release features.

You can mix and match stable and bleeding edge packages very easily and switch at any time.

When packages make breaking changes, Gentoo will warn you and guide you through the migration before you update and only if you have the affected package installed.

Not so! General binary support was added quite recently.

Precisely why I say ‘unlikely’. For every couple who’s happy without physical intimacy, there are probably ten others that are falling apart. Saying that kisslessness signals disfunction is not the same thing as saying that hypersexuality signals health.

At the end of the day, everyone is different and it’s not possible to infer anything about an individual couple by looking at averages and correlation. It’s still interesting to look at trends and why they might be the way they are.

Five seconds or less is a huge smallest bucket for kiss duration! At the five-second threshold you’re already entering make-out territory.

Plus, people whose kisses average one second are having a very different experience than those who average around four seconds.

Seems like a poorly-designed statistic to me. I wonder if they felt they needed such coarse granularity because the data is collected by survey and people struggle to bucket themselves well.

It’s a key symptom, I’d say. Relationship health is a deep and subtle thing, but if people aren’t kissing then it’s unlikely things are going well.

Sex is a hell of a drug when it comes to diversity.

That’s a really nice spot for it.