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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Getting flashbacks of me trying to explain to a mac user why using sudo "to make it work" is why he had a growing problem of needing to use sudo... (more and more files owned by root in his home folder).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Same way people think corporations pay taxes, instead of just passing them along to the consumer.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

"Drop off" makes it sound like he'll carry you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Here's a hint: if a mirror truly did not flip anything, then when you looked into a mirror you would see your back, and it also does not "rotate" you. So how can you see your front?

spoilerA plane has a "normal" (a direction coming "out of the mirror"), and it basically flips things in that direction (front to back). It might help the understanding (and possibly the creepiness factor) to consider just the outer few atoms of your hair/skin that reflects light... and you are roughly seeing that, in the mirror in the same orientation that it actually is IRL if it were pushed into the mirror...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

The boob that launched a thousand forum threads.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I imagine this would be so bone-jarring that none of the... jockeys (?)... would have teeth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

There was a time that i was really confused as to why a mirror regardless of orientation would change left-hands to right, but not transpose heads and feet (or the like)...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Sir, there is no speed setting labelled "ramming"...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

In my experience it gets worse as the amount of context increases. I'll often re-ask a question w/o history just for comparison (getting significantly different results), and for the same reason i can't imagine the "memory" feature being beneficial (quickly turned that off).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I hope it's not "worse than useless" (which would mean "misleading"), as my goal was simply to find more identifiers for discussion or research beyond those provided: norway, thorium, 1959...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

According to GPT-4.1:

In 1959, Norway achieved a notable milestone by starting up its first nuclear reactor, the JEEP I (Joint Establishment Experimental Pile), located at Kjeller. This reactor was primarily used for research purposes, including early experiments with alternative nuclear fuels such as thorium. While JEEP I itself was not a thorium reactor per se, it laid the groundwork for subsequent Norwegian research into thorium as a nuclear fuel. This early phase demonstrated Norway's scientific interest in thorium, leveraging its domestic thorium resources and contributing to later thorium reactor experiments.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago
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