lunarul

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

Barnard b [2], as the newly discovered exoplanet is called, is twenty times closer to Barnard’s star than Mercury is to the Sun. It orbits its star in 3.15 Earth days and has a surface temperature around 125 °C. “Barnard b is one of the lowest-mass exoplanets known and one of the few known with a mass less than that of Earth. But the planet is too close to the host star, closer than the habitable zone,” explains González Hernández. “Even if the star is about 2500 degrees cooler than our Sun, it is too hot there to maintain liquid water on the surface.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Xitter is simply short for "Elon Musk's X, formerly known as Twitter, currently known as dumpster fire"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

I grew up as a PC gamer (if you can call 8-bit computers PCs too) and never had a console as a kid. I got an Xbox One when it came out, just because of the Kinect, and never played anything on it other than Just Dance. Playing on my PC is more convenient. I got a Switch and played some Pokémon, but couldn't get in the habit of playing on a device instead of a PC. When I got a Switch emulator on my PC, I played more on that than I did on the actual Switch in all the time I owned it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

It's like saying Microsoft Windows is the most loved OS on PC. People just go with the option in front of them. Spotify is the biggest streaming service now, Amazon Music ties in with Alexa.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Don't they already believe that? What you call gender is a concept they don't believe in. They use the word as a synonym for assigned sex.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

And some shows have a slightly different intro for each episode, which might make you want to watch it every time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

The intro is the opening sequence of the show. People usually watch that on the first episode, but if you're binge-watching a show you don't want to keep seeing the intro over and over again for each episode.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's really good at boilerplate. Saves a lot of time on repetitive tasks. I've found it particularly useful for unit tests and demo pages. Things where you write one variation and it automatically generates the others for you.

Another instance where it was useful for me was when I needed to make a small change in another team's repo. I knew exactly what I needed to do, but I wasn't familiar with the language. Copilot helped with getting the correct syntax.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Also this "shower thought" is word for word one of the popular posts on lemmy from a few weeks ago.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

They can't say that the man assaulted someone as a fact. But that the man was charged with assault is a fact. Alleged attack is not a charge, so "charged with allegedly attacking" is nonsensical. To cover their ass they can say "charged for allegedly attacking", which shows that he was charged, why he was charged, and also adds the required "allegedly".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (3 children)

charged with allegedly assaulting

Is this correct use of "allegedly"? The man allegedly assaulted someone, so he was charged with assault. Or they can just say "charged for allegedly assaulting".

 

Found on a trail in California, SF Bay Area. About an inch long.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

How are these usually attached to the wall? Can I just pry them off or would that damage the drywall?

And follow up questions: how can I reproduce that texture when painting the newly exposed areas of the wall?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I don't know much about Pokémon cards, but I know this is a rare holo. Is it worth much?

Backstory: my son (6yo) kept talking lately about a Mewtwo he got at a birthday party and how he's going to trade it with his classmate for a Darkrai, but he lost his Mewtwo somewhere in the car. So yesterday I finally get around to searching below the car seat to find this. A holo Mewtwo Vstar, in a protective sleeve too. I asked him repeatedly if it was really in the goodie bag (making sure the b-day kid didn't just give it away on their own without parents knowing), but yeah, everyone got cards in their bags (but doesn't sound like anyone got something like this one). For now I told him to just keep it safe and not use it to play with and definitely don't trade it away.

 
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