DABDA @ DABDA @lemmy.world

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It sounds innocuous when used conversationally too so it's less likely to be picked up as derogatory.
A: "Was the user's login problem difficult to fix?"
B: "Nah, that was a PICNIC to troubleshoot."

• Faulty carbon unit
• PICNIC (Problem In Chair, Not In Computer) or PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair)

Face it anything that you can hide behind a screen and a keyboard with relative anonymity is fucking shit.

Once coined as: John Gabriel's G.I.F.T.

The over-reliance on apps and the privacy/security implications that entails is a separate issue for me. I also don't have the Google Play Store (or the associated underlying services) that all the apps require to function on my phone (CalyxOS). Comcast was decertifying my ancient modem so I finally bought a new one. When I needed to swap the hardware id info over and called their support line all of their workflows now apparently rely on using their app. When I told them it was between them supplying me with a vanilla smartphone or me cancelling my service because I didn't own any devices that supported their app they were then magically able to just update some fields in their database and my modem was set-up with no mobile phones or apps involved. I've had a passion for technology my entire life but its current predatory and user hostile default state just makes me hate it.

Because of their prices I'd basically given up on Taco Bell except for the value menu. But now every item that was $1 jumped to $1.5 (and everything else went up with it) so I'm cutting out Taco Bell completely. A few months back one of their limited time offers was $5 but when ordered à la carte was $12.47 -- that kinda revealed just how (unreasonably) skewed their profit margins must be.

Mac Switch - Gaming [from YouTube]

I don’t know how to link properly

Just need to remove the space between the [square bracket text] and (the parentheses text) -- the rest of your syntax was correct

TURN THAT NOISE DOWN, DAMMIT!

Dirty Dee's theme song randomly gets stuck in my head sometimes.

Awesome, glad you enjoyed it! The "making-of" info around the movie is pretty wild too, especially that there was no script. The full version of Coherence Explained by Director Jim Byrkit (trailer) was pulled from YouTube but it was pretty interesting.

It's more horror than sci-fi but I also really enjoyed Triangle (2009) if you run out of everything else to watch :)

Couple movies I didn't see mentioned yet (lots of good suggestions in this thread) to consider:

• Coherence (2013)
• Strange Days (1995)

And for books:

• "Remembrance of Earth's Past" trilogy by Liu Cixin
• "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky

It's entirely possible I'm missing/misunderstanding something, but I was frustrated by most of the fights in the special in relation to Samantha's powers. I was under the impression her only limitations in atom manipulation were against people and animals. So why bother forming shields or blocking attacks when you could just directly change the gun/bullets or dangerous object into air or powder or something. Kill Cannon appears to be mostly mechanical -- turn everything not flesh into sticky glue. The fight against her siblings they start fusing concrete and metal to attack with, turn that into jelly (I think she only did this once with the tire->parachute conversion). Same with cutting cars in half or dodging them, just directly transform them into something not dangerous. That's just from a defensive standpoint, could argue the inverse as well; like can she play "the floor is lava" on enemies instead of throwing punches? Or convert oxygen to mustard gas in a targeted area etc.

Funny timing, I emailed support about that community/user this morning. I previously tried reporting one of their posts ("spam/scam") but didn't notice any results so I decided to try email.

Mathematically it's obvious and straightforward but the point is that it's not intuitive from a typical person's subjective perspective. It's easy to underestimate or dismiss the rate of change until a situation becomes unmanageable.

There's also a good example of exponential change described using a doubling drop of water in The Power of Compounding