leeoniya

> An enduring myth about the Moon is that it doesn't rotate. While it's true that the Moon keeps the same face to us, this only happens because the Moon rotates at the same rate as its orbital motion, a special case of tidal locking called synchronous rotation.

https://science.nasa.gov/resource/the-moons-rotation/

> If I ever felt I was too old to have kids I’d probably have no choice but to kill myself

sperm quantity and quality decreases with age. studies exist that suggest higher risk of autism when father's age >= 45.

you're not too old, but you should probably test & freeze some good sperm before you might actually be too old by the time you find the right person. this way you won't ever feel like you're too old to have kids. then the question becomes more of "how long and in what manner will my remaining health allow me to enjoy them"

> Did we choose the age at which we would have children? What does it mean to choose?

we planned to have a kid by our early thirties. she specifically wanted one by 30. we were both healthy, financially stable with solid careers.

then came multiple miscarriages, 10 years of background/foreground stress, and IVF. now we finally have two healthy ones. i think daily about those 10 years we've lost to spend with our kids while still younger and able to do activities that i still enjoy like snowboarding, mountain biking, etc. thankfully i'll still be able to do some of it, but man, it has been rough. my awesome father-in-law died of cancer 9mo before his grandson's birth; the only thing he ever knew were our ongoing struggles :(

something else that happens is that all your same-aged friends with kids...they have different lives now. you can't talk to them about the same child struggles / tips in real time, the kids don't go to school together or know the same people; they're a generation apart. it becomes an isolating event when the delay is long enough.

despite all that, when i think of where i was financially then and now (and what i did in those 10 years to get from there to here that would not have happened otherwise), and that if i had a kid 10 years ago it would be a different [probably worse] kid instead of the adorable 2.5yo that runs to me each morning now, i feel a lot better.

my advice would not necessarily be to start earlier, but if you've decided to procreate and are consciously deferring it until the "right" time, just expect the really, really unexpected.

> You're thinking Chinese surveillance

the big irony, of course, is that i'm much more comfortable with China surveilling me than the US, since the latter can throw me in jail, seize my assets, and ruin my family's life, while the former cannot.

was also confused why the site had exactly 0 images of anything. (i use dns ad blocking)

anyhoos: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tguSVmcMux8

previously...

https://www.confluent.io/blog/confluent-acquires-warpstream/

expected this to be about cpu cycles, given the author's works :D

> When you're just unwinding in front of a 65-inch screen, you might not notice the quality loss from compression.

this has little to do with the resolution, though. maybe 4k just gets the benefit of being compressed with better codecs.

for me at least, watching shows/movies at typical viewing distance, a well-encoded 4k->1080p mkv is only very slightly less sharp and is vastly smaller to store on the media server.

1. Buy up 40% of global fab capacity

2. Resell wafers at huge markup to competitors

3. Profit

after trying multiple distros 6 years ago to replace the enshittified Windows 8/10 [1], ended up at EndeavourOS + KDE. there is very little i miss about Windows. maybe Foobar2000.

amazing distro.

[1] after it messed up my linux dual boot config, continuously reset my registry tweaks with forced updates / restarts, insisted on re-enabling the io-destroying Defender, and started force-feeding me ads

reminds me of the LADA vs BMW meme

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fn...

> But because I'm not a PhD in these subjects, am I supposed to think, "Well of course the 14 pages on a topic I'm not an expert in are good"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

> We don't trust France and OVH to respect rule of law and human rights at this point. It's not a safe country for open source privacy projects and French companies cannot be trusted to even host a static website without hijacking it for French law enforcement.

VeraCrypt is French, too, iirc?

i was initially confused how 19.2K rps is notable when Express typically benchmarks around 15K rps [1].

however, the author is benchmarking a route with an id param here, not a static route.

[1] https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets/discussions/1415

and Mayim Bialik holds a neuroscience PhD

oh, good.

no longer will i have to settle for learning Quantum Physics from Kim Kardashian [1]

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/6a5mf7/whats_less_be...

ok, i dont get it.

on my phone at typical distance and 90 scale i only see about an asprin tablet size area spinning. but at 180 scale i see almost everything spinning at same distance.

i think peripheral vision is quite sensitive to movement/contrast changes, but the moving shapes have to be large enough to trigger those receptors?

not sure what to conclude from this.

i wonder how a river would be held liable for propery damage, or wrongful death

i will caveat that the demo really only tests a specific set of options for each lib that try to closely match what uFuzzy does; and you can only adjust uFuzzy options in the ui. so do your own testing :)

if LattePanda for $178 is on the list might as well throw in the Quieter 4C:

https://www.amazon.com/MeLE-Mini-Quieter-4C-Astrophotography...

very impressive N100 device. i run EndeavourOS with KDE/plasma on mine. i swapped out to a faster and more efficient single sided 4TB nvme.

it's fanless and idles at ~4.5W according to the USB-C cable's lcd power readout.

Svelte wasnt fast before 5.x

and https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic

> That’s not necessary with an ultrasonic knife and would generally be a waste of time

i was just saying they compare it to normal knives being used incorrectly.

all the comparisons in the vid show knives being pushed through the food. that's not a good way to use a knife.

if you used a knife to actually slice the tomato instead of chopping it, you'd get a much different force result.

not to say there's no benefit here, but def feels intentionally exaggerated.

also, i wonder how fast this blade will wear if you ever accidentally pressed the edge into the cutting block. my guess is that it will wear much faster.

weird they dont accept $Trump coin for this. it should be the only accepted form of payment, in fact.

it's like that Mach 20 razor. keep adding more!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m6GpIOhbqRo

i still use a RockBox'd Sansa Clip+ with SuperMix 4 iems :)

opus 160 vbr is basically the endgame for stereo listening. even 96-128 is transparent to the vast majority of people.

for archival and mastering you'd still use flac.

> but if it's something I know nothing about, I could see how easy it would be to just trust it, since 95% of it seems true/accurate.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

> Wait, let me take out my word 97 CDs

oh, those things you literally load from the side? :P

/s