ricecake

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[–] ricecake 21 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Of sorts indeed. For a lot of people the military is the only option we give as a way out of difficult circumstances, and the educational grants and such are potentially their only way see a better future.
It's rough but it's unfortunately the best path our society has seen fit to build.
God forbid we invest in underserved communities or provide general education grants.

[–] ricecake 11 points 1 day ago

Well, clearly the court only said that the three judges in question had to stop issuing nationwide injunctions, right? The others haven't done anything yet, and since each case has to be tried independently....

So fucking stupid. And a clear signal that they're going to start deporting citizens now, since even though I can show my birth certificate, I can't show my parents, or my parents parents and so on. Trace it back far enough and everyone will run into an ancestor that they can't prove the citizenship of. "Oops, your citizenship is actually invalid! We're sending you to a central American prison".

[–] ricecake 0 points 1 day ago

This isn't the best or most popular way to do it, but: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install

There is a way built into windows to deploy and use Linux from inside windows.

It's not the most pure experience, but it's a way to make sure you have something like a feel for how some parts work before jumping in any deeper.

A bootable USB stick is another way to try before you commit. Only reason I might suggest starting with trying it the other way first is in case you run into issues connecting to the Internet or something you won't feel totally lost. Having to keep rebooting back into windows if you have a problem can be frustrating, so getting a little familiarity with a safety line can help feel more confident.

Issues with a USB boot are increasingly uncommon, as an aside. Biggest issue is likely to be that USB is slow, so things might take a few moments longer to start.

From there, you should be pretty comfortable doing basic stuff after a little playing around. Not deep mastery, but a sense of "here are my settings", "my files go here", "here's how I fiddle with wifi", "here's how I change my desktop stuff". At that point a dual boot should work out, since you'll be able to use the system to find out how to do new things with the system, and also use it for whatever, in a general sense.

If it's working out, you should find yourself popping back into windows less and less.

[–] ricecake 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Genes do play a role in dental health. Water flouridation very effectively does a better job providing better results to more people with great reliability. That's backed by a huge amount of data.

[–] ricecake 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)
  1. people do have different teeth.
  2. are you sure? Keep in mind that the most common reason to not flouridate water is because natural flouride levels are sufficient.
[–] ricecake 5 points 1 day ago

If insurance companies had their way we'd have universal healthcare and mandatory private insurance that was allowed to deny claims freely.
They get $800 a month, and replace their entire claims department with a system that automatically denies claims and forwards the bill to the government. You're legally obligated to receive preventative care and live a long and productive life to maximize the number of payments you make to them.
Obviously dental, vision, skin, bones, organs and mental health are an additional $250 a month each, mandatory, and provide no coverage.

[–] ricecake 5 points 2 days ago

It's absolutely abhorrent behavior. The absolute most I would expect out of the teacher is a friendly confirmation that the student wasn't sitting because they just zoned out. Even that kinda seems like a waste of time.

[–] ricecake 45 points 2 days ago (2 children)

No, I think it's saying that opensuse breeds Linux distros, and is trying to get Debian and arch to rub cloacas.

Also, opensuse once bit off a little chunk of someone's ear.

[–] ricecake 5 points 3 days ago

Oh, I totally know there's been a lot of politics in the Foss community and that some of the people are nasty, I'm just flabbergasted that someone would try to connect such disparate things.
I can comprehend a Nazi Foss enthusiast having opinions on race and on window managers. It's when they start having racist opinions on window managers that it all flies out the window. It's like being opposed to copper plumbing because it's too Norwegian.

Just a case of seeing irrational people who act irrationally act irrationally in a new way and being shocked that the irrationality doesn't follow a pattern or stay in topic.

[–] ricecake 6 points 3 days ago

If we're getting into practical realities it would probably pop and smolder long before it got fully charged. Capacitance is how much charge something will hold per volt. Doesn't say anything about how much charge it holds before catching on fire. :)

[–] ricecake 8 points 3 days ago

Technically correct. The best kind of correct. :)

I basically solved for shotgun, confirmed in was in the ~100V range and disregarded every other consideration for actually doing it.
I'm pretty sure most hand sized capacitors would just pop if you actually tried to put that much in them.

[–] ricecake 37 points 3 days ago (20 children)

Depends on the voltage it's charged with, but household current would give it more energy than a shotgun has.

Realistically one would not do that unless you were dealing with something industrial. You would use them otherwise for things like dampening lower voltage systems that need a lot of current.

Closer to the danger level of someone holding two exposed wires plugged into the wall.

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Cozy fox drinking tea (sh.itjust.works)
 

crochet fox drinking hot tea, cinematic still, Technicolor, Super Panavision 70

Not quite what I was going for, but super cute regardless.

 

Went camping in northern Michigan this week and I was quite popular with the local biting flies.
Delightfully, I found this local food samaritan doing their part to save me, and they were gracious enough to show off a little for the camera.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ricecake to c/imageai
 

Been having fun trying to generate images that look like "good" CGI, but broken somehow in a more realistic looking way.

 

Made with the Krita AI generation plugin.

 

digital illustration of a male character in bright and saturated colors with playful and fun expression, created in 2D style, perfect for social media sharing. Rendered in high-resolution 10-megapixel 2K resolution with a cel-shaded comic book style , paisley Steps: 50, Sampler: Heun, CFG scale: 13, Seed: 1649780875, Size: 768x768, Model hash: 99fd5c4b6f, Model: seekArtMEGA_mega20, ControlNet Enabled: True, ControlNet Preprocessor: lineart_coarse, ControlNet Model: control_v11p_sd15_lineart [43d4be0d], ControlNet Weight: 1, ControlNet Starting Step: 0, ControlNet Ending Step: 1, ControlNet Resize Mode: Crop and Resize, ControlNet Pixel Perfect: True, ControlNet Control Mode: Balanced, ControlNet Preprocessor Parameters: "(512, 64, 64)"

If you take a picture of yourself in from the shoulders up, like in the picture, while standing in front of a blank but lightly textured wall it seems to work best.

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submitted 2 years ago by ricecake to c/cats
 

He's not nearly as chubby as he looks.

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