As a furry, i approve this message

*every programmer starts sweating*

The leading theory is that scooping the litter box throws the smell of feces into the air, which might attract predators (which is the reason they bury their poop, to hide the smell)

Since they think you’re doing something dangerous, they want to keep watch for predators

Oh, so that’s what all of you are talking about.

I still don’t really see what all the fuss is about

I’ve done this by accident a few times while reading a really good book

The following day sucks big time, especially if you have to go to work

it’s a false color image

it’s too tiny to take a picture of using a traditional telescope, so instead, they use multiple telescopes around the Earth, and piecemeal that data together. Which means they have to reconstruct the missing details (it’s not made up, it’s more like playing “connect the dots” with tons of math)

the final image is a composite of 3 different grayscale images, taken at different wavelengths of light.

The resulting black and white images are given different colors, then blended together (which is pretty similar to how cameras take images, they just map the grayscale images to colors we can see with our eyes)

I don’t understand spelling bee’s, never have

Just watching this is setting my spine on fire from social anxiety

I would suggest you [the reader] ask your doctor before actually doing this, just so you don’t accidentally overdose someone (especially kids, who are more sensitive to dosage)

(I am not a doctor)

That’s not often communicated to kids, especially when forced to apologize

Most often, when this happened to me, i wasn’t sorry, and i didn’t want to say what i didn’t feel

Every time someone suggests a new calendar structure, a software developer has a heart attack

You might be able to clear (or at least relieve) some of the pressure by doing a Eustachian Tube Massage

Apply pressure to the area below the ear and just behind the jaw bone, then follow the jawline down to the neck (I’m not sure if you go under the jaw or straight down the neck. I do both)

Obviously, if this causes pain, don’t continue

(I am not a doctor)

you’re just completely fucked because they (generally) follow the Mark Twain model of pay per word so once a story gets popular that shit absolutely gets milked into the ground.

This is a legit problem for web novels and wuxia (which get written and released chapter by chapter).

Lot’s of random plot arcs that go nowhere, and a lot of recycled story structure.

I stopped reading Tales of Demons and Gods halfway through, because the main character gains the ability to pause time and “power up” whenever he wants. I was already quite tired of it, but that was the “fuck this book” moment

I shall seal the heavens and The Desolate Era are some of my favorites (although TDE has some severe plot meandering syndrome)

Obsidian and Zettelkasten

It might be your phone getting a notification, and sending that to the BT speaker, which then takes precedent over the laptop

I usually just disable BT on my phone when stuff like that happens (on android, you can change the playback device without disconnecting, and that should also prevent the phone from stealing your headphones)

You got a purty mouth

If you use any kind of ad blocker, switch to FireFox

Chrome is deliberately crippling ad block extensions via manifest v3

I had to say my SQ answers to the bank as identity confirmation (which, them being capable of reading it (stored as plain text) is a huge security no no)

and my answers were 20 random characters. That was fun

Don’t use real answers. “Security” questions have the same ‘authority’ as passwords (they can be used to change your password), but are often not treated with the same level of care as actual passwords.

Meaning, SQ are often easier for a hacker to figure out and exploit. In that event, SQs are actually worse than passwords, because they’re “unchangeable” (well, the real answer is). So if an SQ answer gets compromised, you’re SOL

The best option is to use a password manager, and randomly generate passwords and SQ answers (i use 1Password, but there are other good options)

Edit: oh and, if you use real answers, then those are more likely to be publicly searchable on Facebook or socially engineered (like a “which dog are you” quiz)

For a while, I had to do this after every kernel update

Turns out, i accidentally had two /boot folders. One was is own partition, and the other was on the rootfs partition. When Arch booted, the separate partition was mounted over the rootfs /boot dir, “shadowing” it

Except, UEFI / GRUB was still pointing to the rootfs partition. So when pacman installed a kernel update, it wasn’t able to update the kernel that UEFI was booting, but it was able to update the kernel modules

Kernel no likey when kernel modules are newer than the kernel itself

This smells of bot/troll account

Maybe some reddit mod or admin taking the piss?