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linucs OP ,

there were small dinosaurs. They just don’t get as much press.

I rest my case

linucs OP ,

Mine are:

Quanta Magazine super interesting and awesomely written articles about scientific topics.

LessWrong blog posts on a variety of topics analyzed with rationality.

Big Think articles about everything, interesting analyses.

Regarding sleep quality, why did humans evolve to require full darkness?

I know evolution is governed by chance and it is random but does it make sense to “ruin” sleep if there’s light? I mean normally, outside, you never have pure darkness, there are the moon and stars even at night. In certain zones of the Earth we also have long periods of no sunshine and long periods of only sunshine....

linucs OP ,

I’m not talking about myself, melatonine, is synthesized by the body when it’s dark, light can reduce or stop the synthesis.

linucs OP ,

I’m here to learn, I admit I’m ignorant and that’s why I love asking questions here. Maybe it’s me but your comment came across a bit rude.

Anyway thanks for engaging here and providing answers and sources.

linucs OP ,

Really cool, thank you!

How easy is it to switch back to windows?

I’m considering switching to linux but I’m not a computer savvy person, so I wanted to have the option to switch back to windows if unforeseen complications (I only have 1 pc). Is it just a download on usb and install? And what ways can I get the product key or “cleaner” debloated versions.

linucs ,

I know it’s not what you’re asking but switching back is truly horrible, I have to use w11 at work and I hate every second of it. One drive shoven down your throat, Xbox stuff wants to install something everytime I update, installing stuff from random exes found on websites (I know the store exists but it sucks if your needs are not “I want to install candy crush”), changed something in your path variable? Reboot! Wtf? I really hope microsoft abandons windows in favour of its cloud apps for people who need it and lets Linux distros rule the desktop world

linucs ,

Thanks, appreciate it!

linucs ,

You sure Dolph won’t be busy busting heads because he smelled crime or performing outrageous sexual experiments on his incredibly hot but skeptical female lab partner?

linucs OP ,

Hard agree hahaha

linucs OP ,

That’s amazing, do you guys have the said post and related trolling framed at home?

linucs OP ,

Ba dum tssss

I know that naming variables is one of the biggest unsolved problems of Computer Science but how would you name a boolean flag to be self explanatory?

What I mean is: some boolean flags are perfect for the real world phenomenon they are representing e.g. is_light_on makes you understand perfectly that when it is true the light is on and when it is false the light is off....

linucs OP ,

Maybe I explained myself poorly, what I was asking is about cases in which there are only two states e.g. standing and sitting and they are equally important so is_person_standing would not be a good name

linucs OP ,

But if I have two states like standing and sitting, and call the boolean standing_sitting_flag how do you know what false and true mean?

linucs OP ,

Makes sense, forget booleans my new best friends are enums

linucs ,

I have multiple - it depends on the occasion:

  • illegal (I love mezcal)
  • moscow mule
  • bloody mary
  • piña colada
linucs OP ,

Thanks, have a good day

linucs OP ,

Source? :)

linucs OP ,

Why important? Where should it be facing in relation to window and door?

Why did groups of human beings migrate to northern zones of the world, and how did they survive?

After reading the abstract of the paper mentioned here I started wondering, why did human groups migrate away from southerner (warmer) places towards the north which is far colder and has less possibilities to grow crops and wild animals to hunt?...

linucs ,

I would recommend RethinkDNS instead of NetGuard, it has the same firewall capabilities but it also lets you change DNS (with Dnscrypt / DoT / DoH) and also lets you connect to a Wireguard VPN. It’s amazing.

linucs ,

Forgot to mention also the possibility of adding blocklists to block ads, trackers and everything you want. It’s really the best of its kind!

linucs ,

Go wolves!

"If you tell a lie big enough and tell it frequently enough, people will eventually come to believe it". What is an example of this happening today?

I would really rather that these were actual examples, and not conspiracy theories. We all have our own unsubstantiated ideas about what shadowy no-gooders are doing, but I’d rather hear about things that are actually happening.

linucs ,

futurism.com/…/scientists-recycling-backfiredIt’s not that it is useless, it’ just not the solution

linucs ,

Who’s yelling at this time of the night?

Does a colorscheme (for desktop or app themes) optimized for "Blue light filter" exist?

I found this post on Hacker News news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38421110and in it a comment that sparked my interest: “Only tangentially related but: I have a blue light filter (Plasma night color) always on on my laptop because I feel like, in combination with brightness reduction, I get less eye strain. I’ve always wondered...

linucs ,

I agree, the rules in AskReddit were too limiting

linucs ,

Pipewire is a true blessing for Linux

Why do trees stems grow new "parts" inside and not outside i.e. why is the oldest part of the stem the innermost "ring" and not the outermost?

Wouldn’t grow something from the inside require a very strong force to “move” the already present one? Instead growing from the last “layer” towards the outside would require a lot less force, but perhaps a lot more matter....

linucs OP ,

Yes they are, I messed up and I was not even high

linucs OP ,

Yeah my question was wrongly put but I thought trees did what you described skin does: I thought new tree cells were created in the middle and the outermost layers were the oldest ones.

linucs ,

They just copied the idea from terrorists

linucs OP ,

Cool, thanks!

Follow up question: are there different densities in space?

linucs OP ,

I genuinely laughed at the last sentence hahaha you silly silly person, of course it’s flat

linucs OP ,

Hahaha those kids are idiots, dinosaurs for life!

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