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dailygames@lemmy.zip•Estimate Me 2025-08-28 (Popcorn kernels in container)
5·2 months agoNice one. Got almost the exact number on third try.
Estimate Me: 2025-08-28 (Popcorn kernels in container)
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Relevant Mr. Lovenstein comic: https://lemmy.world/post/8457726
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you name your cars, if so what have you named them?
5·3 months agoBaby Shark. Because… it kinda looks like a shark? (Blue Mitsubishi Outlander Sport/ASX, depends on the country)

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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good?
1·6 months agoI made the jump recently, and although there are clear issues, I don’t see any reason to use windows as my primary gaming OS anymore. Some games still require some fiddling with proton versions, extra command line arguments, environment variables, etc. That is bad for the average user that just wants to click play and play. Also, I noticed that at least on my setup (alienware laptop with nvidia gpu), some games have clear performance issues compared to windows, mainly some UE games. But it’s not so bad to make me want to boot windows again.
And just some extra two cents: I’m still keeping a windows partition for those games that simply cannot run on linux, and it’s possible to keep your main library on the linux partition (I’m using btreefs) and use that same library on windows. You just have to install a driver on windows, and it works beautifully. Haven’t had any issues so far.
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World News@lemmy.world•Your tea bag is likely releasing billions of microplastic particles, according to a new studyEnglish
1·10 months agoUsername checks out
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's a technology that was cooler in its older iterations?
2·1 year agoWell, one possibility is using something known as Fabry-Perot filter. It allows an extremely narrow frequency to pass, due to multiple reflections and interferences inside the material. Put the light source material within this filter, and you get a laser. That’s essentially the main difference between a led and a semiconductor laser. The filter makes only a narrow band of the emission be “stuck” there, creating a feedback effect that eventually tends to infinity, and a good chunk of that power passes through the filter reflectors, which are intentionally not perfect.
Other than that, I don’t think there is a filter that could be as narrow as the line emission from vapor lamps. Maybe using metamaterials, but a laser would be so much cheaper and easier. A vapor laser would certainly get the job done, but they are large and hard to maintain.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's a technology that was cooler in its older iterations?
29·1 year agoA laser, maybe, but definitely not LEDs. Vapor/gas lamps produce the narrowest frequency bands possible, because it comes from very well defined atomic transitions (Hz range). LEDs produce frequency bands with widths in the GHz/THz range, while semiconductor lasers can maybe reach KHz if they are really good. So, unfortunately, for this type of applications, vapor lamps would probably still be needed.
Source: I work with lasers and spectroscopy.
Edit: very good idea about using non-visible light!
The answer is not real. The tool, on the other hand, is called Perplexity. It “understands” your question, searches the web, and gives you a summary, citing all the relevant sources.
My story is kinda cool. TLDR: she stole my cat.
We lived in the same street, but other than the occasional nod when passing by each other, never really talked. I always thought she was cute, though. Oh, and she was married to a typical abusive guy.
One day my cat escaped, and after a week of searching, I almost gave up. Then one day she knocked on my door and asked if that cat was mine, because she thought she was a stray, and took her in. She gave her back, apologized, and that was it. But that cat would always find a way to go back to her place, and we kind of agreed to let her have 2 homes. Still didn’t talk too much or anything.
Years passed, and she finally had enough of her husband, got a divorce, and moved out. Came to ask if she could take the cat with her, and I said that’s ok, she barely came to my place anymore anyway.
More time passed, we kept a little in touch, but still didn’t really talk to each other. And then I decided to have a barbecue at home for my birthday… I invited mostly people from work, but then thought: “it would be cool to invite her”. And so I did. We talked, and talked, and when we realized, it was already 10 pm (barbecue was supposed to be from noon to sunset). She went home, the next day I invited her out, and long story short, we’ve been together for almost 5 years, living together for 3 and a half years, have 6 cats, and our first son is about to be born.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How common of a name is Ghislaine?
2·1 year agoVery common in Brazil, but without the ‘h’. I was surprised when I learned about “that” Ghislaine.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What would happen if you drank bleach, and then drank ammonia?
29·2 years agoTask failed successfully
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Technology@lemmy.world•HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantlyEnglish
15·2 years agoAs someone who works extensively with the spin offs instruments, I can safely say that they would be just as outraged. They are all bad quality, fail VERY frequently, and, guess what, you have to subscribe to be able to use all the features of the hardware you bought.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why has the world started to mine coal again?
1·2 years agoSo that’s where the name coke comes from! TIL!




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