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squaresinger

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  • Is it normal to be able to shut your nose from within?

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  • Basically what happens when you look at your nose. But it's also possible to e.g. only move one inwards while keeping the other straight. It's not difficult, but there are people who can't do it.

  • With just a microSD card, you’ll be able to easily bring your games across the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame.

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  • This is exactly it. If you buy a €20 SSD you'll be disappointed as well.

  • Is it normal to be able to shut your nose from within?

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  • Might be, but all of these are things I was not able to do at some point and that I conciously learned. So while having the "wrong" genetics might preclude you from doing them, you still need to learn these things if you have the "right" genetics.

  • Is it normal to be able to shut your nose from within?

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  • At least not in my case. If I blow out a candle, my nose passage closes.

    Maybe try the following:

    • Start with the motion of blowing out a candle.
    • While doing so, close your mouth, so that no air escapes through your mouth or nose, still holding the pressure of blowing.
    • Release your nose and feel the air popping out right at your nose.

    It's not the bottom end of the nose, but the top end of it. It's certainly not the laryinx, at least not for me.

  • Is it normal to be able to shut your nose from within?

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  • Try blowing out a candle. Feel how your nose feels while doing that. Try to replicate the same movement in your nose without blowing.

    There's a ton of face muscles that you can learn to control with a bit of practice:

    • Wiggling your ears
    • Moving your eyes inwards
    • Clicking your ear channels (like the click you hear when swallowing)
    • Creating a humming noise in your ears by flexing a muscle inside your ear channels
    • Plugging your nose from the inside
    • Rolling your tounge
    • Individual motion of your brows
    • "Vibrating" your eyes super fast left and right

    Probably a few more that I didn't think of right now.

  • With just a microSD card, you’ll be able to easily bring your games across the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame.

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  • Depends on what metric you look at.

    • Lifetime when stored on a shelf: HDD wins
    • Lifetime while powered: SSD wins
    • Lifetime while constantly writing: HDD wins
    • Lifetime when used in a mobile device that gets thrown around: SSD wins

  • you guys are paying for git?

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  • Because Cloud is cool or something. You know, now that the US is beconing more and more unreliable and untrustworthy, it's exactly the right time for a large European corporation that provides critical services to move over to an US product hosted on US servers outside of our control.

  • Don't touch my garbage!

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  • I never understand people rejecting free improvements on FOSS projects.

    I never understand people who don't install every free FOSS software offered to them on their PC.

    Why would someone take every contribution to their FOSS project? It makes no sense to take a contribution doesn't help the project owner's vision of the project.

  • you guys are paying for git?

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  • I'm not OOP, we will continue using Gitlab for the foreseeable future. Our company recently switched from self-hosted to cloud hosted by Gitlab.

  • If we ever find a planet with life in it, we could never set foot on it, because the interaction of the two biologies can have unpredictable consequences

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  • Oh no, a HFY story... They are kinda entertaining but filled with so much weird pathos and self-dirision. That "btw, religions suck" section was just so out of place.

    Imagine that: Getting abducted by aliens, fighting and winning against some of the most dangerous aliens of the whole universe and when being interviewed about it, one of the first things he chooses to say about humanity is "btw, we have religion and it sucks".

    And these stories go on for all eternity. 97 long chapters.

    That's what you get when people on the level of fanfiction writers write original stories without any oversight by an editor.

  • you guys are paying for git?

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  • In fact, yes. Not exactly for git itself, but for Gitlab, which does the git hosting for us.

  • Arch in the early 2000s

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  • I'd love to see the results you come up with. What you are saying makes a ton of sense, but I don't see an obvious solution for these problems.

    The worst one for me is cable management. My PCs are laptops (one for work, one private one), and while I have them mostly on my desk (where I want the cables to be out of the way), I also frequently have to take them with me and I don't want to disassemble my cable management system to get to the laptop charger. I also don't want to have to buy a second charger for my laptop that doesn't do USBC charging.

  • Tabloid: the clickbait headline programming language

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  • Is it only me or is the same old joke-esolang thing getting boring? They all read exactly the same, just with the keywords replaced by some other random string.

    No, this doesn't read like tabloid headlines. It uses similar words, but nobody would mistake it for tabloid headlines. Same as the other esolang doesn't read like Shakespeare.

    Maybe I am also just getting old and thus I've heard this joke too many times.

  • It can be harder to surveil private conversations if everyone just used sign language.

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  • At least for BSL there's a "hybrid language" called Sign-assisted English.

    That's basically using BSL vocabulary with English grammar. You take your regular English sentence and do a 1:1 translation just replacing English words with BSL signs.

    While Sign-assisted English isn't nearly as expressive as full sign language, it's super easy for an English speaker to get to a level where you can actually hold a conversation in it. It took me maybe 20h of practice to get to that point, which is much, much faster than I managed to in any other language. Because it's not a new language to learn, you are just substituting words.

    At the same time, Sign-assisted English is quite easy to understand for most sign-language speakers, since they usually already understand the spoken language of the land, even if it's just so they can read, since most sign languages don't have a written form.

    So it ends up being some form of pidgin hybrid language that's easy to learn and easy to understand for everyone involved.

    If everyone would be able to use Sign-assisted spoken languages it would probably already be really helpful for everyone.

    Funnyly enough, the group I started learning sign-assisted language with started using it even if no deaf person was part of the conversation, because at times sign language is much more useful than spoken languages. You can speak silently, you can easily communicate in noisy areas and it can be used over a much higher distance.

    I think it would be really cool if sign-assisted spoken languages became a basic skill of everyone.

  • It can be harder to surveil private conversations if everyone just used sign language.

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  • ChatGPT claims to be able to translate to and from Sindarin. (I can't speak Sindarin, so I can't verify its output.)

  • It can be harder to surveil private conversations if everyone just used sign language.

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  • Laser microphones can record audio via line-of-sight at a close to unlimited range.

  • A 50/50 chance is an 100% chance.

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  • Seems like you didn't get the joke.

    The joke is a mathematical pun, purposely misunderstanding the "/" in "50/50" as a division sign instead of a separator.

    50/50 means, 50 of hundred fall on one side, 50 on the other.

    But in mathematical notation, 50 divided by 50 equals 1, and 1 is 100%.

    It's just as much a joke as any other pun, just in mathematical notation instead of in a natural language.

  • applogies

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  • In my last job we called that "optimizing", after a colleague (who usually only did frontent work) used the opportunity when everyone else was on vacation to implement a few show-stopping bugs in the backend and put "optimized backend code" in the commit message. He did the same thing a few months later during the next vacation period, which really solidified the joke.

  • A 50/50 chance is an 100% chance.

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  • Funny how many people in the comments don't get the joke.