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[scriver]

Yes that isn't how we start seeing Cthulhu things eating our universe at all

[Egan_BW]

More qualia more gooder.

[dragdeler]

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[Naturegirl1999]

Why did you not want the rooster there?

[Yoink]

But pa might not.

I put Marmite on my "Euro food that is pretty much nonexistent stateside" list

Nooooo, skip it. Try Vegemite instead.   

[dragdeler]

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[King Zultan]

We should stuff more tequila in our brains so that we can see more color in the same wavelength. It'll be great, trust me.

FTFY

[methylatedspirit]

The thumbdrive I use for Windows 10 installs has managed to corrupt itself for the third time now, so now I'm considering a replacement for it. What brands (or specific models) of thumbdrive should I go for? I need something that's reliable, something that won't corrupt its contents when I leave it lying around.

[wierd]

Look for one that has name-brand flash inside it, and not chinesium flash inside it.

The "Corrupts itself sitting on a counter" issue, is because of gate drainage on the flash gates, which should not happen.  This is a sign of poor manufacture, and or poor quality flash memory. (All flash memory will eventually suffer gate discharge, but should only happen after a very prolonged period, measured in tens of years at the worst.)


Samsung manufactures reasonably high quality flash, and as long as the device itself is not a counterfeit device, this stick comes highly reviewed and rated.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-bar-plus-32gb-usb-3-1-flash-drive-champagne-silver/6296021.p?skuId=6296021&ref=212&loc=1&ref=212&loc=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwrcH3BRApEiwAxjdPTXKJ6OIx8YF1xyCVyJbOZtO-cWwBr5J0c4fvYP7H7eshJgvhfYBGNhoCre8QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Supposed to be water proof, dust proof, magnet proof, et al.  If it contains genuine samsung flash inside, it probably has good quality control on the flash chip inside it as well.  It's cheap enough at 10$.  Worth a shot.

[Iduno]

Look for one that has name-brand flash inside it, and not chinesium flash inside it.

The "Corrupts itself sitting on a counter" issue, is because of gate drainage on the flash gates, which should not happen.  This is a sign of poor manufacture, and or poor quality flash memory. (All flash memory will eventually suffer gate discharge, but should only happen after a very prolonged period, measured in tens of years at the worst.)


Samsung manufactures reasonably high quality flash, and as long as the device itself is not a counterfeit device, this stick comes highly reviewed and rated.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-bar-plus-32gb-usb-3-1-flash-drive-champagne-silver/6296021.p?skuId=6296021&ref=212&loc=1&ref=212&loc=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwrcH3BRApEiwAxjdPTXKJ6OIx8YF1xyCVyJbOZtO-cWwBr5J0c4fvYP7H7eshJgvhfYBGNhoCre8QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Supposed to be water proof, dust proof, magnet proof, et al.  If it contains genuine samsung flash inside, it probably has good quality control on the flash chip inside it as well.  It's cheap enough at 10$.  Worth a shot.

It sounds like they have bad write speeds, and is a bit too thick if your usb ports are close together (which the fast ports usually are). Probably minor issues, but something to be aware of.

I got some of these, and the plastic case keeps falling apart, which is a rather novel and annoying failure mode: https://www.newegg.com/adata-model-as102p-32g-rgy-32gb/p/N82E16820211573?Item=N82E16820211573

[bloop_bleep]

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I was talking about the sensory capabilities of the eye, not the processing capabilities of the brain. A "color" as I'm using it here is a combination of all light frequencies on the visible spectrum in a certain proportion of amplitudes. Our eyes currently reduce that infinite-component vector into a 3-component vector. Having more kinds of cones allows our eyes to produce vectors with more components and thus more information about the color.

[scriver]

I don't need no more cones, there's only one vector I want to see

[Jopax]

This has been something that's bugging me from time to time, more in the sense, am I the only one noticing this rather than the why of it. It concerns burial ceremonies, more specifically those usually done in christian or western nations, the kind of stuff that comes with a casket and a graveyard ceremony/mass and everything. Now I don't know how the rest of the world handles this stuff exactly but from what I've seen first hand the casket is usually carried by several male relatives/friends (generally from the graveyard chapel to the grave itself), then the mass/ceremony is held and afterwards the casket is lowered into the tomb/grave thing. Usually by the same people who carried it, occasionally with help from other attending male folk.

What struck me as odd and fascinating and something I couldn't stop noticing after the first time I've witnessed it was how instant the switch from the reverent/holy air of the entire thing is to the utter and completely profane (in that specific use of the word meaning earthly, not necessarily blasphemous) air of lowering a thing into the ground. Gone is the composure and somber (sombre?) demeanor of those lowering the casket and its occupant, these are now men doing a physical act of work requiring cooperation, like felling a large tree or more similarly, lowering a very big thing into a hole. If you masked out the rest of the procession and switched the casket for any other object I feel you'd be hard pressed to guess the original context of the scene.

Naturally, this is a bit of a fucked up observation to make, especially if it's your relative that's being put into the ground, but it was such a massive tonal shift that it kinda stunned me at the time. And it's even harder to just casually toss this into any sort of conversation with anyone really (well except that one friend but he's a bit of an odd one). So I've been wondering, have you folks attended any ceremonies where you've maybe observed this sort of thing? Or is it something a bit specific to my region and how the people are and how they approach these things?

[dragdeler]

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[scriver]

I recently buried my grandmother. Because of covid just the closest (the children and grandchildren living in the country, eight people) was present for the earth laying. Thus the church supplied the carriers. They handled he earth laying with grace as far as I could see. Granted, my grandmother was very small and weighed very little at the time of her passing. Being the church's own carriers they also probably had prior experience with the task.