I work at a company where we are not allowed to slash zeroes but they refuse to set up the lot number generation to never have Os in it (there are almost always 0s in the lot numbers)

it’s infuriating to have to write exaggeratedly skinny 0s and wide Os because the company is run by fools

new race wars spring up over attached/detached earlobes, innie/outie belly buttons, and toe length ratios

finally beating a really tricky level/boss in a video game (but not so tough that by the time you beat it you’re just over it)

usually because I wrote the note before unsticking it from the pad, realize I wrote it upside down (or sideways), and I’m not gonna be arsed to rewrite it

bout to be some Mice of NIMH

the left needs a strong leader

problem is strong leaders tend to not be very trustworthy

computers are ladies! :]

phone in bed

INDOOR PLUMBING

looking into it, seems like you’re actually right. looks like it runs best with a solid GPU. there may be other distributed computing projects better suited for abundant RAM.

seems like the last update was 23 Jan 2025

that makes sense for the ones decaffeinated via supercritical CO2. my guess is vacuum boiling off the CO2 makes the beans microscopically porous in the same way that freeze drying other foods does. so you get more surface area, thus more efficient extraction

apparently enjoying hot water is common in east Asia

the folk explanation is that it’s a holdover from when water always needed to be boiled before drinking to kill microbes

the west (mainly Europe) didn’t get that message and decided to purify water by making nearly all of it into beer, which explains a lot lol

Fold At Home!

https://foldingathome.org/

You can essentially donate your processing power to various science projects that need it to compute protein folding simulations. I used to run it whenever I wasn’t actively using my PC. This does cost electricity and increase rate of wear and tear on the device, as with any sustained high computational load. But it’s cool! :]

Firefly does a good job of this with its Blue Gloves, Jubal Early, Adelai Niska, and Reavers. They’re the worst kind of monsters—human ones.

Also Twilight Zone (Peele series), Six Degrees of Freedom is fantastic existential scifi horror.

“Situational,” if that’s a thing? Especially with surreal elements.

Curve short film as example. I’m existentially afraid of spillways now.

Another example which is body horror on the surface, but the situation is the real scary thing as you find out alongside the main character exactly how fucked up things are in his world and how betrayed he is by authority: Operator (link is to the 2nd in the series, but that’s the one where the plot takes off)

Pop culture examples:

• Doctor Who (2005– series) S04E10 “Midnight”
• Enigma of Amigara Fault (yeah it became a meme but it fuckin got to me)
• Triangle (2009 film)
• Get Out
• Twilight Zone (Peele series) S01E06 “Six Degrees of Freedom”

Jordan Peele is a modern horror legend

me who uses Debian at home but SUSE at work: why is the work computer cooler? :[

(tbf the work computer is objectively cooler because it controls a really sciencey machine but still)

those are some quality highbrow memes