loaExMachina

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[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I've found the experience of coming back to Reddit rather pleasant as of late.

By "coming back to Reddit", of course, I mean clicking the Reddit link when looking for the specific answer to a question and reading exclusively that page.

And by "as of late" of course, I mean since I installed the "old Reddit redirect" Firefox add-on and used the filter selector of Ublock origins to remove every element of the page that featured a snu or suggested that I log in.

[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't get why anyone makes chemicals when they could be using my body.

[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago

I haven't seen the movie, but Chihuahua is also a region in Mexico, maybe it takes place between these two places?

[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Since the beam reduces the objects into particles and reconstructs it, doesn't it imply that it's able to destroy the ring in the first place? I guess it's necessary to get rid of the particles to make it so they can't re-build it again. But that does raise the question: Would the ability to reconstruct the ring affect one the same way the ring itself would? Or does the ring need to exist to exert its power?

[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago

...And then the gorilla's hand held up one more finger.

Oh, Shiro Sagisu, the one who made the soundtrack for Evangelion ! Very good.

[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Snake. There are many good versions of it, but I'd say my favourite is the one from coolmathgames.com .

[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Mint is a pretty sturdy plant, it can grow in a variety of climates and even get a bit invasive at times. Among the domesticated plants, it might be one of those with the best chance to still strive after humans disappear.

[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 40 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Fascists: "At least under Mussolini the trains ran on time!"

Italy under (fascist) Meloni:

[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 days ago

I'd misread the summary and for a minute I thought Trump had killed her dog and she called him out in her book.

I found "elsewho" through another comment, it makes sense, I actually hesitated between typing it or "elseone". I chose the latter because you say "someone else" and not "somewho else"; but "who" is closer to "where or "when".

[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I feel with enough people working together, something could be done. I don't mean to threaten anyone, so let's just say the target is a Fictional Evil Technologically Advanced Billionaire, or FETAB ; and definitely not any real person. The strategy I have in mind would involve digging trenches outside his property and literally smoking him out by burning a huge pile of tires upwing.

The biggest problem would be getting shot by drones while digging or while setting up the pile of tires (if it's done during the purge) or being attacked by police if it's done beforehand. I think secret underground tunnels should start being dug in secret before the purge, so they can collapse into trenches when needed. Then, the trenches keep FETAB from escaping by land in his FETAB-mobile, and the smoke makes a helicopter or private jet difficult to get of ground.

Drones or makeshift aircrafts with makeshift incendiary bombs can be sent to the house under the cover of the smoke. Even assuming he is in an underground bunker, this much smoke would put it's air filtration systems under significant stresses and also cause big material losses. In the end, he still have chances of making it out alive, his death would come either from suffocation in his bunker (if hos filters are saturated by soot and he doesn't have enough bottled oxygen) or, more likely, him trying to escape and having an accident (made more likely by the smoke and trenches).

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The word "elsewhere" conveniently exist to spare us the chore of saying "somewhere else". Why then do we waste or time saying "someone else" or "some other time"?

 

"You" can either mean the second person (Shakira in this case) or people in general.
Therefore, "I never really knew you could danc like this" can mean either "I didn't know you (Shakira) were able to dance like this." or "I didn't know it was humanly possible to dance like this". It is usually context that tells these interpretations apart, for example, the first one would only make sense if Wyclef already knows Shakira. But is Wyclef's character supposed to know Shakira's in the story of the song?

Two lines later, he asks her "Como te llamas?", which seems to imply that he doesn't. #However he later also says "Shakira, Shakira", even tho she hasn't answered yet, implying he did know her name. What gives?

I'm not sure either why he keeps saying "No fighting".

 

TL:DR : I just want xterm to not do anything special when I start typing ctrl+shift+u so I can write special character, so I must remove the ctrl+u default keybind.

I'm using xterm on a laptop (no discrete gpu and pretty bad integrated graphics, so gpu-accelerated ones like kitty are counterproductive, and I use i3 so an xorg based one sounds better). I also like using vim.

I'm also using a qwerty keyboard, but sometimes write in French and need accents. I've memorized the codes for those I often need, like ctrl+maj+u+e+9 for é, but it doesn't work in xterm because it executes the ctrl+u keybind (delete previous characters and then types "(" (because it's maj+9).

So, following online guides, I've created a .Xresource file with the following code:

XTerm.VT100.translations: #override \n\
   Ctrl <Key>U: none

And I also added the line

exec xrdb ~/.Xresources

But to no avail, even when restarting the x session or manualy running xrdb ~/.Xresources.

What am I doing wrong?

 

Des erreurs ont été commises

Un nombre insuffisant de chaussures a été emmené lors du déménagement.

Des chaussures ont été mises sans chaussettes, qui n'auraient dût être portées qu'avec.

Du bicarbonate de sodium a été mis pour absorbé l'humidité, jusque-là sans beaucoup d'effet.

Les souliers retrouveront-ils une odeur tolérable ?

Seul le temps nous le dira, l'histoire reste encore à écrire.

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Only one page this time, but the color is back... Sorta, I'm experimenting different methods.

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For context, the post I'm referring to is a map of Africa with subsaharia Africa in deep green, Sudan in light green and north Africa was white or some other color. The poster was claiming nothing had ever been invented in the green zone. My comment was gonna be this:

Antiseptics before Europeans.

Iron Smelting Not the first to discover it, but recent evidence show it was invented independently.

Sudano-Sahelian Architecture

Some modern Archtecture taking inspiration from Sudano-Sahelian features such as a roof shape favoring natural ventilation. And since I just transitioned to recent inventions, there's the Cardio Pad, invented in Cameroon, to help diagnose cardiovascular disease.

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Médine Vals !

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Next part Yeah, I've become too lazy to make full color pages. Maybe I'll color them later, probably not.

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