It just occurred to me (on the can, i might add) that with the various states of matter all being driven by pressure, it might have necessary characteristics to be classified as one.

On a side note, I wonder what pressure the intestinal tract is rated for. I have a certain potato-based experiment I'd be interested to know the outcome of.

I don't know, sometimes the though of "what if all my leftist ideas are false? What if trans people are just mentally ill? What if gay people are just deviants?"
I honestly really don't like it...

It's good to question your beliefs I guess, it's how you grow, but it sometimes makes me really uncomfortable. Why does this happen? Can I stop it? Should I?

I'm open to the suggestion of textbooks but I find it really intense just focusing on it or my interest goes down eventually, maybe textbooks with a combo of something else too, any suggestions?

Long story short: I'm (24M) American, and I'm visiting my long-distance Romanian boyfriend for the first time soon. In Romania, most cars are manual - including all the ones owned by my boyfriend's family (I'll be staying with them). I've never driven a manual before. His dad told me he can give me a quick lesson, and that I'm welcome to use their cars if I want; otherwise, I can rent an automatic. I don’t have access to any manual cars here in the U.S. to practice on, so I’m not sure what to do.

I reside in a nation where driving is done on the right side of the street. I've noticed that, for the most part (unless distracted by their phones, are intentionally flexing, or just being inconsiderate), most folks from a similar background, also seem to tend to walk on the right side of two-way paths, sidewalks, etc, and tend to "dodge" or veer right when encountering oncoming fellow pedestrians.

Is the reverse the trend for pedestrians in regions where folks drive on the left side of streets (UK, Japan, India, Australia, etc)?

For background, I am a programmer, but have largely ignored everything having to do with AI (re: LLMs) for the past few years.

I just got to wondering, though. Why are these LLMs generating high level programming language code instead skipping the middle man and spitting out raw 1s and 0s for x86 to execute?

Is it that they aren't trained on this sort of thing? Is it for the human code reviewers to be able to make their own edits on top of the AI-generated code? Are there AIs doing this that I'm just not aware of?

I just feel like there might be some level of optimization that could be made by something that understands the code and the machine at this level.

I have a relative who's son, about 10 year old, seems to be fond of me. He is an avid talker. He will talk about anything and everything with me. Problem is, he doesn't understand that I'm an introverted piece of shit. Even though I like being with him when I feel like talking, other times I can't match his energy and feel exhausted. To just ignore what he's saying and stop responding all of a sudden makes me feel bad. He's really a good kid. How do I tell him to give me a break without hurting him?

Today a friend of mine made me realize that roundabouts have "perfect" road markings around them and i started wandering how a machine would go about making a circle without a compass-like system. So i tried google but every result led to either a janky home made compass or some sort of hand-drawing technique. I assume it should be possible to draw a circle knowing the radius in an analog system without a compass but i can't figure out how. Plus i don't know how the physical structure of a roundabout is made to be round and that is even weirder to think about.

TLDR: How are roundabouts and round road markings made?

To clarify, if the display is showing a white image will it heat up less in any measurable way compared to if it's off and just showing black?

Im consistently running into a specific issue and it is that when instances have no “cancel” button I cannot move back from any post I clicked on unless the text box is completely empty. Having “cancel” as an option seemingly prevents this yet many instances do not seem to include this.

Where this becomes a bigger problem is if I hit “create post” or “share” by accident. If that happens the only way to resolve this is close the page and browser. This is essentially why I almost never contribute posts.

So what community is the best place for this? Fediverse says they aren’t a complaints/bugs forum.

Thanks

LONDON. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets, as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes - gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely better; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers, jostling one another's umbrellas, in a general infection of ill-temper, and losing their foot hold at street-corners, where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if this day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest.

Are you able to visualize what is happening in this passage?

This is from Bleak House by Charles Dickens, if you are curious.

A few days ago, I watched this short documentary, part of it covered Heliobiology, which the documentary said is an emerging field of science that began in Russia.

The Heliobiologists claimed that magnetic storms caused by solar flares cause all kinds of health problems in humans. Literally every health problem is named, from suicides, to heart attacks, to even terrorist attacks.

After Googling this and looking at some papers, I noticed a few things.

• The papers find correlations between magnetic storms and some kind of negative health effect, and go on to heavily imply or say that negative health effect is caused by the magnetic storms.

• Magnetism is always blamed as the factor causing these negative health effects (not radiation), but the papers don't go into detail. I saw one saying that since blood is magnetic, magnetic storms can cause heart attacks by disrupting blood flow.

• Most of the papers I read on this mention "Schumann resonances", and sometimes "pineal gland" crystals.

• Most of the papers are brand new, within the last few years.

I've been online all my life, I genuinely feel at home here. I relate more to random strangers across the world than any neighbors. Is it wrong for me to think of the (western/English) Internet as my culture?

@nostupidquestions How does generative AI handle creoles? Does it get confused and respond like it's one of the parent languages?

I mean, just declare a republic ffs.

I had a couple of new followers in bluesky. A new follower DMed me. He asked how I was, I said I was good. Then he asked where I was from and when I said I prefer not to say, he said he understands and that he wanted to know more about me. I told him my interests and such and didn't give any important information about myself. He too told me about his hobbies. Then he asked about my location once again. When I declined once again he said that he understands "not being cool enough to say where you are from". That was an odd thing to say. I got creeped out and blocked him. Is this normal? Why would anyone want to know about each other's location?

Hi everyone! I’m fairly new to lash extensions and have noticed that glue performance seems to vary with the weather. I live in a region with high humidity in summer and dry air in winter, and I’m struggling to find a lash glue that holds consistently year-round. I’d love to hear your suggestions—what brands do you trust that perform well in different climate conditions? Any tips on adjusting glue use with seasonal changes would be a huge help!

I came across this video on YouTube, which has a lot of footage and goes into detail. The 787 pilot flew the plane into, or too near a thunderstorm, something that's very forbidden in the aviation world because of lightning. Lightning struck the plane, causing the control surfaces on the wing to fail, which could've been catastrophic.

https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/494678 the report for this incident.

After this I heard there have been other Japanese airliners being struck by lightning because the pilots, for unknown reasons, flew into thunderstorms.

Is flying into thunderstorms not forbidden in Japanese aviation law? I'm pretty sure if a US or European pilot did this, they'd get their license revoked.