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vagina_museum, 1 month ago to random

Do female pigs have orgasms that last for half an hour? Sadly no, that's a complete misconception. It's also probably not true of male pigs.

However, here's something we can tell you about pig orgasms: female pigs are more likely to get pregnant if the inseminator "stimulates" them.

fribbledom, 3 months ago to random

Keming, noun.

kem-ing, plural kemings.

The result of improper kerning.

ersatzmaus, 3 months ago to random

Could whoever decided nearly invisible scrollbars/handles that only appear (and even then not very much) when you hover over them should be a thing please die in a fire? kthxbye.

ZachWeinersmith, 4 months ago to random

9 year old is into mythical epics. She knows Beowulf. Got her a kids Iliad, Odyssey, and Ramayana. What else?

mjg59, 4 months ago to random

In the absence of a dynamic symbol section, is there a way for me to tell the linker that a particular symbol is at a specific address in a library?

ersatzmaus, 5 months ago to emacs

I got fed up of having to find my phone when I needed to do 2FA so I rolled up a little package that does TOTP in emacs.

https://gitlab.com/fledermaus/totp.el

It's not on elpa/melpa/marmalade/etc yet.

#emacs #2fa

darth, 5 months ago to gaming

Who played ELITE as a kid? Let me hear you.

#Gaming #VideoGames #RetroGaming #RetroComputing

video/mp4

futurebird, 5 months ago to random

Time flies!

loke, 5 months ago to Kotlin

My Kotlin Native project started giving me link errors after installing Fedora 39.

My Kotlin code links libgmp using cinterop, and when building on Fedora 39 I get this error:

undefined reference to '__isoc23_strtol', version 'GLIBC_2.38'<br></br>

I know that I'm probably one of very few people that uses Kotlin Native for a large project, so the chances of someone actually having stumbled across this issue is probably small, but I'm still mentioning it here in case anyone has any ideas.

#kotlin

ersatzmaus, 5 months ago to random

One.
Thousand.
Four.
Hundred.
And.
Ninety.
Three.

#surveillancecapitalism

simontatham, 6 months ago to emacs

In #emacs, what's the easiest way to type (say) a hundred 0s?

For a non-digit printing char, ESC 100 x is easy. But for a digit, you need to indicate what's the count and what's the literal.

Perhaps C-q, "insert this literally even if you otherwise wouldn't"? For digits 8 or 9, that works, e.g. ESC 100 C-q 9.

But C-q special-cases octal digits! So the best I've found is to enter the octal code for the digit you want: ESC 100 C-q 060 RET. Yuck. Is there an easier way I've missed?

ZachWeinersmith, 6 months ago to random

Hey geeks, what are your thoughts on the use of math where we don't have good data? E.g. suppose you want to say "I think fusion reactors will be used at [rate] by [year] based on guesses from older tech adoption." Like, you can do a math model, but it doesn't seem obviously better to me than saying "it's path dependent." The math is a kind of ritual you can perform, but provides no new information.

tomw, 6 months ago to random

Spotted in the DIY shop: this socket has a WPS button

futurebird, 6 months ago to random

I hate daylight savings time changes so much. (I have to say “daylight savings time changes” rather than just “I hate daylight savings” because some smarty pants will always insist that one half of the year is “daylight savings” and the other has some other name but really who cares?) The problem isn’t what time it is! The problem is CHANGING it twice a year for no good reason. I always feel sick for two weeks after each change. It’s cruel. No one can justify the suffering.

cstross, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

NEW HOME SECRETARY ANNOUNCEMENT:

Will it be:

liw, 6 months ago to random

Finnish uses the letters ä and ö, and they're not just a and o without the dots on top. They're individual letters in their own right. Dropping the dots results in a different word. Usually it's a misspelling, not an actual word, but sometimes it is.

Examples: "sää" (weather) vs "saa" (to get), "välittää" (to care, or to transmit) vs "valittaa" (to complain); "kärttää" (to beg) vs "karttaa" (to shun).

Languages are a cultural phenomenon to make communication difficult.

ZachWeinersmith, 6 months ago to random

So, there's this old ballad, meant to be sung as a duet. There's one line that I never quite understood, which is "you know a hog must root." See:

My initial guess was it's the woman in the story describing that she wants her home a certain way, same as a pig wants its wallow a certain way. It occurred to me later that maybe the sense is more like "because I know you will never change."

Could be a sexual meaning, but given the rest of the song that seems unlikely?

futurebird, 6 months ago to random

I think all of the comments I've been leaving like "this channel is almost perfect, if only there were more ants." have had an impact on CPBD. He's exasperated and delighted by the atta in his yard collecting plants. (kinda hard to judge them when botanists do the same thing) Excellent episode!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDqdZhPEExo

ZachWeinersmith, 7 months ago to random

Hey exercise geeks-- OK, so I normally jog on fairly good gravel roads that are fairly hilly. Today I went off-road a bit running around in some low grass hills. Well, it just obliterated me. What gives? Does it just take more leg power to keep balance and form on grass? Or is it that you get less sproing off a step when it's not hard ground? Is this good for you or just dangerous?

futurebird, 7 months ago to random

My students are so miserable from college admissions that when we were trying to guess why giving a good effort is called “giving the old college try” their guess was “it about how hard it is to get in to college”

… I thought it was about quals.

I tried to look it up and drown in baseball trivia.

garius, 7 months ago to random

What's the technical term for when you start measuring something to evaluate it, but then that shifts over time to people trying to meet the target not to do the actual thing.

Happens a lot in schools with exam results.

I know there is one.

futurebird, 7 months ago to random

What kind of music comes to mind when you think about ants doing things? I need some good (no lyrics) “ant music” any suggestions?