Hmm, I follow the package's readme and only get invalid command errors.
Gotta install the pip dependencies.
Oh but first you need to create a venv or everything will be global. Why isn't that local by default like with npm? Hell if I know!
Ah but before that I need to install the RIGHT version of Python. The one I already have likely won't do. And that takes AGES.
Oh but even then still just tells me the command is invalid. Ah, great, I live CLIs. Now I've gotta figure out PATH variables again and add python there. Also pip maybe?
Now I can follow the readme's instructions! Assuming I remember to manually open the venv first.
But it only gives me errors about missing pieces. Ugh. But I thought I installed the pip dependencies!
Oh, but turns out there's something about a text file full of another different set of dependencies that I need to explicitly mention via CLI or they won't be installed. And the readme didn't mention that, because that's apparently "obvious". No it's not; I'm just a front-end developer trying to run the darn thing.
Okay. Now it runs. Finally. But there's a weird error. There might be something wrong with my .env file. Maybe if I add a print statement to debug... Why isn't it showing up?
Oooh, I need to fully rebuild if I want it to show up, and the hot reload functionality that you can pass a command line argument for doesn't work... Cool cool cool cool.
Python managed to turn me away before I wrote a single line of code.
Running an already functional project took me nearly two hours and three separate tutorials.
Dang it. You're right.
Doesn't answer the question, but new cards are going to be announced in January. Typically, around when the announcement or the release occurs, prices for older cards drop, and more used cards show up on marketplaces.
You may want to wait until then to get a better deal.
Honestly thought they would just throw them away.
I wish I had telemetry on such features.
I really doubt a significant number of people use AI chatbots often enough that having it in a dedicated sidebar is worth it.
Sgt Eamon McArthur of the BC conservation officer service told CTV News he did not want to speculate on how the jacket ended up on the cervid, although he noted: “Deer are not predisposed to wearing clothes.”
This quote is amazing. I laughed so hard. The real captain obvious for sure.
Before even wondering about the health effects, we should ask ourselves whether it actually achieves the desired goal. I doubt that.
If it doesn't, we don't even need to wonder about safety; we'll just stop burning money.
For one it's not a full, real backup strategy. That's supposed to include multiple tiers.
Also it's instantly synced, so if I bonk my stuff locally, it could be bonked over there and history might not be able to save me depending on the situation.
And I guess if Dropbox dies my data dies.
Some people take their data seriously enough to worry about that kind of stuff. I don't.
Expectations.
People don't expect a country that's supposed to be a close ally to do actual pure evil.
Russia has always been in a different category. It's oscillated between being an outright enemy and being a distant, somewhat-ally the West is suspicious of. Either way, Putin was never someone you trust.
When someone betrays your expectations, you have a stronger emotional response.
When you feel like your country is actually helping with evil acts, that's another layer of emotional response.
But if someone you feel like you can't do anything about and has always been bad anyway is being evil, again... Well it's a bit of a "no shit, Sherlock" moment. Doesn't spark anger in quite the same way.
Weren't people a bit more positive about monarchy back when Elizabeth II was alive? I feel like she had a sort of mystique that made her feel more legit for some reason.
I like to annoy my IT friends by saying my backup strategy is chucking what little important data I have in my free Dropbox account.
It's not even that important; I don't care!
Once i completely forgot the salt in my bread. It was disgustingly bland; like, I couldn't believe a teaspoon of salt would have such a massive effect.
But I actually salvaged it by putting salt on every slice of toast I made with that loaf.
It worked out okay!
What the hell. I've never seen such an issue. Microsoft is so considerate; they provide us with cool little surprises like that from time to time. ♥️
I like my pizza with lots of sauce, way more vegetables than crust, and cheese is actually optional.
I don't care what the purists think. I like what I like and it's valid.
I really don't think their version was minimizing anything. Just less specific.
I think I may have always mispronounced one or both of these then.
Man, English pronunciation, I swear.
Hmm, it is similar to a J, and may become the same depending on the speaker, but not necessarily exactly the same
Discovering new communities
One thing I liked (and sometimes disliked) about Reddit was that my feed was a mix of posts in communities I'd joined and a few suggestions of posts from subs The Algorithm™ thought I might like.
On Lemmy I'm realizing I'm starting to fall into a bit of an echo chamber situation because I basically only see stuff I'm already a member of, unless I explicitly go to All or scroll the list of communities.
Are there less involved (lazy) ways of discovering new stuff and broadening my horizons a bit?
Can you safely heat people with microwaves?
Sometimes, when I'm really cold, it can take over an hour to warm me up, even with a heating blanket. The quickest solution, a hot shower, feels really inefficient with all the heat going down the drain.
That got me thinking about microwaves. They heat food (partly) from the inside, contrary to simple infrared radiation.
Could we safely do that with people?
I found a Reddit thread where a non-lethal weapon and people getting eye damage because they stayed too long in front of a radar dish.
Could some sort of device be made that would warm specific areas (say, a hand or a leg) without endangering sensitive areas like the eyes?
Would it actually warm someone up from the inside? Would it be possible to make it safe?
Would it present advantages in cases of hypothermia, compared to heated IV fluids?
ELI5: Why is high frequency trading allowed?
I don't see how it's a benefit to capitalism or companies or, well, anyone, really, to allow people to make thousands of trades a day for minute profits on each.
My gut feeling is that the stock market would not suffer, and less resources would be wasted, if trades and updates to stock prices were limited to, say, one batch per hour.
There are probably reasons the system is the way it is though.