Far be it from me to defend the imperial system- I love and daily work in metric, but you realize nearly all ancient measurement systems are created around commonplace physical measures (body parts, strides, etc.) and simple multiples thereof to make their use easy, yeah?

We’ve got a lot of tools at our disposal now to both standardize and make working with a decimal system a lot more doable than before.

The length really isn’t important, it’s about how you use it.

Fidelity means not cheating, itdoesnt have anything to do with partner count, and is not synonymous with monogomay. You can be in a poly relationship, and practice fidelity by not cheating on your poly partners.

I just bought a machine with an NVIDIA card which I am going to install Mint on. Do you have any advice?

(I had planned to get an AMD GPU, but was unable to for various reasons.)

I believe that have swapped the Steam Machine in for the Kaaba at Mecca- the Islam holy site. The Kaaba is already a big black cube, so it works well.

This may just be me, but I’ve read a handful of books by Iain M. Banks, and found them all to have uneven or odd pacing that can make it easy to get stuck. If you like the overall vibe it’s worth pushing through, and it’s not just you!

This is the way. It works great, I’ve been running it for years.

Now that is a high stakes strength check.

It’s interesting because they went to some effort to get there shadows right, and possibly the sail boat, but not match simple things like umbrella colors.

Not bad, but I’d be interested to hear the story behind the choices!

My vacuum proudly runs Valetudo!

https://valetudo.cloud/

Before marriage? oh no you don’t!

Jorking it requires no ingredients (that I do not already possess) and is therefore free.

The refractory period is a hell of a thing

If you’d like to do this, consider instead an odd phrase that would not be guessable. Using a a string of generated symbols means that if a customer service representative ever asks for it, “it’s probably a long string of random characters” will work to bypass it. On the other hand, if the color of your first car is “Albert Einsteins mustache” the service rep will be confused but unlikely to accept the wrong answer.

I assume because it makes the coin flipping part more absurd.

Appears to be this person: TheSquareComics

I have to respect an organizational scheme that so clearly knows its priorities as to place human people in the “people” directory within the “yiff” directory.

Eat your heart out Diogenes.

This is the OP translated to English via google translate, for other who were curious:

"Cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/23348432

I’m also posting here, as I saw that my previous post was shared there.

Update: Following my test with a satellite dish, I’m planning to build a solar cooker using this diagram. The linear dish is 50cm wide and 1.40m long. For the reflectors, I plan to cut 50cm x 5cm mirrors. The dish isn’t curved, but rather composed of 50cm facets (I haven’t designed the transverse reinforcements or the mirrors).

I plan to build the structure from reclaimed chipboard, with a few pieces of 5 and 10mm plywood. For the complex parts, I cut them with my fablab’s laser cutter and will use it as a template to remake them in thicker wood with a trimmer and a copy cutter.

I’ll probably double the crosspiece at the top for added rigidity.

The upper parts with the holes are intended to hang a pot and eventually a hotplate. My goal is to see if I can make a solar griddle.

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That is a weapons-grade life hack right there.