BougieBirdie @ Bougie_Birdie @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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There's a few ways to interpret this question.

'Smooth' and 'Chunky might refer to the size of the leaf. More processing often means cutting the tea leaves into smaller pieces, but you can also get whole leaves.

'Smooth' tea might be tea with no added ingredients. 'Chunky' tea could be tea that has fruits, nuts, or other infusions included.

'Smooth' tea might refer to teabags, while 'Chunky' could be steeping loose. 'Chunky' tea may also be the practice of not removing the leaves before consuming.

'Smooth' might refer to powdered tea like matcha - although if we are talking about matcha then the preparation involves whisking away clumps. In which case the 'smooth' matcha tea can be prepared with only a light stir to be served 'chunky' style.

'Smooth' might refer to a less bitter flavour. 'Chunky' might refer to a stronger flavour, particularly if the infusion is somehow exotic.

The most fun interpretation is that this a joke, in which case I like mine to be smooth, but a little chewy

I barely have two dollars to rub together and I still try to

I guess I'm probably overdue to make a donation myself

I also have the impression that motion blur causes frame drops. Then again, some games do seem to hiccup when turning regardless of if motion blur is enabled.

Now I'm wondering if it's causation or just correlation. Intuition suggests that additional post-processing would at the very least exacerbate frame drops even if it doesn't cause them itself, but I've never done a deep dive to find out.

I agree that it's healthy to be able to disconnect from the news.

I also think that current events are going to get real bad, real fast, real soon. Then again I'm part of a minority that has some of the most vile rhetoric thrown at them, so that probably colours my opinion a smidge.

I hope you get to vote in the next cycle. I also hope that everyone starts doing something for their community beyond showing up to vote once every four years. The world's not going to change for the better otherwise.

You can get pretty good results by saying, "Well {verb} my {noun}!" It always ends up sounding quaint. It's like the mad libs of incredulity

• Well kiss my grits!
• Well steam my hogs!
• Well string my banjo!
• Well iron my shirts!
• Well paint my deck!
• Well trash my patio!
• Well crash my harddrive!
• Well tear my pants!

I have a Day of the Dead (1985) drinking game that includes taking a drink whenever the alcoholic says, "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph." It's the only real catch-phrase in the movie, and since he's usually taking a drink too I don't feel like I'm drinking alone.

Depends on the article.

If it's something I have a genuine interest in, then heck yeah, I read the article. I like me some long-form discussion, so if it's a high quality article then I need to read it in order to make a high quality comment.

If it's about politics it requires more nuance. I'm not going to stay quiet about things that do have the potential to affect me, the people I care about, and humans in general. I'm also not going to go out of my way to consume a ton of propaganda. That's when the pithy jokes come in, usually with a goal of calling out misinformation or general assholery.

By and large, the vast majority of headlines are bait. You're not going to get a clear picture of what's going on from a loaded title anyway, and it's alarming how often people make the opposite inference from the headline compared to the body of the article. I suppose it's human nature to look for easy answers, but if you only look at the summary then you're allowing other people to form your opinion for you. Those people always have an agenda.

In this political climate, the news is probably going to make the average reader angry. If it does that means it's working - either because they're consuming hateful propaganda or because they're being agitated against the evils of the establishment. This is by design: you can garner more clicks from angry, frightened people, and they're usually easier to control that way.

I agree that you can't take on the burdens of the world as an individual. But ignoring problems that have no will to resolve themselves only allows those issues to perpetuate themselves. Something about evil succeeding when good people do nothing.

Dumb fuck!

(/s this is the meme, I wish you the best)

The caption is mislabeled, but don't worry, I've got your back:

Left: Biology majors looking at Computer Science majors all day

Right: Bugs looking at bugs all day

Just start WWIII with Canada on a whim.

I live in Canada, please don't. It's challenging enough being a neighbour to the US in this political climate, being a vassal would be so much worse.

I'm queer as heck, so if I'm not killed in action it'll be the camps for me.

Of course, if I am killed in action then I won't have to worry about how interesting life is getting anymore. Gotta keep an eye out for those silver linings.

I've been thinking lately that it would be great if my life was less interesting.

Finally a community to live vicariously through

I wasn't aware my mediocrity was on display. 😅

Honestly, I liked the professor. When he had time to teach something he was clearly interested in, he did a great job of connecting. He didn't get to teach us OOP though because there was a staffing emergency. The person we did get normally taught Hardware, so he was basically just reading aloud the textbook. Poor guy.

And you're right, the professor did let us know that there was going to be a change of requirements partway through. But it wouldn't be a good lesson if he told us what was going to change, although he did give some examples from previous times he'd taught the course.

A lot of people got burned when the change came. For my part I thought I did pretty okay, the refactor didn't go perfectly but it was better than if I hadn't been prepared. But I've also written a bunch of really gross objects that served no purpose just because they might change later. As anything is, it's all about finding that happy medium

I was a little curious myself, so I found an article about it.

I admit that I don't know exactly how a freezer works, but my impression is that the cold temperatures not only make it more difficult for the freezer to run, but apparently regardless of if it's running they can damage the insulation.

So I suppose that even if you do disconnect the power, the damage to the insulation will cause more work for the compressor, which will increase its energy costs and cause more strain for the part.

Knowing that, if it was me, I'd probably bring the freezer in for the winter. Although I suppose if you want to keep your food on your balcony you could swap the freezer for any insulated cooler. The winter is pretty long here though, so I guess I'd just find a more permanent home for the freezer if I could

So wait, you're telling me that an octopus doesn't have tentacles at all?

My whole entire world (in regards to a small subset of cephalopods) has been turned upside down.

I can't speak to public domain...

Commenter admits that it isn't public domain. So Wikipedia isn't a great suggestion for this answer, although I would argue that it is indeed "very valuable or worth archiving"

Wikipedia is under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License which again, isn't public domain. However it is a largely permissible license which allows people to do close to whatever they'd like with the material - which some people might find similarity with the public domain if they don't know how the licensing works.

I would swear T-shirt sizes have shrunk since I was a teenager.

I thought that too, but it turns out I just got fat

When my cat does this, I sit on her (gently).

I figure she does the same to me, so it's fair play.

That's interesting, when I was a kid I remember always hearing that an octopus has eight tentacles and a squid has ten. I suppose 'limbs' might have been a more accurate descriptor.

Oddly, I knew that cuttlefish have a distinction between arms and tentacles. I'm not in biology, but I always thought of them as tiny squid, so it wouldn't surprise me if they were related.

If you're correcting me on the joke, it's a pun where "ten tickles" sounds like "tentacles." The number ten is unrelated to the number of limbs - it's actually usually told about an octopus

That's a fair assessment. It's kind of like the rule for premature optimization: don't.

With experience you might get some intuition about when it's good to lean into inheritance. We were definitely lacking experience at that point though.

OOP is a pretty powerful paradigm, which means it's also easy to provide enough rope to hang yourself with. See also just about any other meme here about OOP

It's all fun and games until there's a shahed in the bodega