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Typical Twitter post: *Tweets a rage-inducing personal sob story of injustice* Followed by a typical self-reply: “Well, this blew up. I might as well ask that you please check out my indy app / startup project / Etsy shop”

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I’ve been quieter than usual lately, as I was über-busy conducting airport inspections over multiple days. 13K steps per day instead of sitting in front of a laptop broke not only my casting habits, but my fitness ones, too. I’m sharing this as an excuse to say that I love airports. No, not the pitiful excuses like those found in the US or Europe. I’m talking about Asian airports, in all their chaotic neutral glory. Airports are the epitome of liminal spaces (as this picture taken today illustrates perfectly). A place between places. A rendezvous spot to connect and also part ways. A bridge between cultures, codes, and norms; only with underpriced retail, overpriced food, and an endless spectacle outside the windows for aviation geeks. Truly, what’s better than an airport?

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The greatest mystery in the world is how anyone can reach adult age and yet not understand how thermostats work. Like, we get it, Teresa, you’re cold. But turning off the AC entirely is not how any of this works

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Imagine if the Crowdstrike bug had struck ten years later when everybody had a Neuralink implant running on Windows

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The original gloom https://youtu.be/ZwMVMbmQBug

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uwu~ AviationDoctor-sama's PhD took 7 years and still can't answer the question, just like my smooth brain can't understand ETH, nyaa~ Create a Waifu based off your FC profile with WaifuCast!

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I am not familiar with OS architecture design, so if you are, please enlighten me. Why should a null memory reference necessarily cause a kernel panic? Why can’t the kernel just skip the faulty driver and keep running without it?

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Vietnam’s Communist Party Secretary Nguyen just died, opening up an era of transitional uncertainty for the country. Nguyen is expected to be replaced by new Communist Party Secretary candidate Nguyen, unless he loses the nomination to Nguyen thanks to Nguyen’s alliance with the Nguyen bloc, which also has Nguyen’s support. Only one thing is certain, I’ll be betting on Nguyen on Polymarket https://apnews.com/article/vietnam-communist-party-chief-trong-dies-d0d858c015dd23af615cdfedc78b9a8d

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I hold Bell's theorem (1964) to be one of the most elegant and provocative physics results of the 20th century, and yet its seemingly impenetrable math means that it's likely to be not well known or understood outside of physics circles. I've come across two videos that do a fantastic job at explaining Bell inequalities. I recommend them if you're interested in QM. https://youtu.be/0RiAxvb_qI4 https://youtu.be/zcqZHYo7ONs

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Putting all of the world’s business-critical software in the cloud wouldn’t be such a bad idea if the top three players didn’t control two thirds of the market

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The Economist’s hot take on JD Vance’s French side (Vance recently cited Charles de Gaulle as his political inspiration)

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I’m happy to report that I’ve built muscle memory for the hide -> ban -> report as spammy -> mute workflow after practicing it a lot lately in various channels that I mod. If I could get an action that does all this at once, it’d be amazing

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SOLH: mental acuity should be considered a sense just like the other five Carlin uncharitably quipped about how stupid the average person is, and that half of them are stupider than that. But if you strip out the derision, the reality is that IQ is normally distributed, so 100 is both the average and the median. There’s a left side of the curve and people really do live there. It’s probably difficult for the Farcaster audience (with its likely positive skew) to imagine what it must be like to live life with an average intelligence or less. A bit like trying to imagine what color blindness or synesthesia must feel like when you’re not afflicted by them. When we design apps and tools for the general public, we must always keep that in mind. Inclusiveness in UX is not just for the vision impaired; it’s also for the cognitively disadvantaged. Abstraction is a barrier for them. Case in point: a peek into how people struggle with motor insurance https://x.com/swiftonsecurity/status/1813375862877671692

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Fascinating take from Kurzgesagt (which I haven’t DYORed further). TL;DW: your body burns roughly the same daily amount of calories whether you are active or not, based on your preset metabolism. Working out has plenty of benefits, including cardiovascular health and lower inflammation, but losing weight by burning vastly more calories isn’t really one of them. Dieting correctly (caloric intake) is key for that https://youtu.be/lPrjP4A_X4s

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