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  • It's a good feature, and probably makes sense to default to on. But I know I'll find it more distracting than useful, so I'll turn it off.

    Large tooltips on mouseover are usually distracting. Facicons, text, and additional windows do enough to remind me what my tabs are.

    New features often aren't helpful to each and every user, but as long as I can turn off the ones that are actively unhelpful to me, I'm perfectly happy to see them.

  • I didn't see you mention these authors, but maybe because your cutoff date looks to be around 1989:

    • Wild Seed- Octavia E Butler
    • The Left Hand of Darkness- Ursula K LeGuin
    • Dhalgren- Samuel Delaney
    • Book of the New Sun- Gene Wolfe
    • A Scanner Darkly- Philip K Dick
    • Cat's Cradle- Kurt Vonnegut

    Not exactly always considered sci fi, but maybe sci fi adjacent:

    • The Terror- Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, seems to be free of his politics
    • The Yiddish Policemen's Union- Michael Chabon
    • Gravity's Rainbow- Thomas Pynchon
    • Fictions- Jorge Luis Borges
    • Machine of Death- collection of short stories from various authors
    • Infinite Jest- David Foster Wallace
  • I don't think they're confused by times like 1pm.

    At least for my brain, 12pm and 12am are the sticking points.

    As you note, pm is Latin for after noon, yet we call noon 12pm. Noon isn't anymore after itself than it is before itself. Neither makes any sense.

    With 12am, we generally seem to think about midnight as the end of the day, even though it's really the start of the new day. The Latin isn't confusing here, but the numbers get real weird. We start the day counting at 12:00, go up to 12:59, and then reset the count to 1 an hour in? Our 12h clocks are split between being 0-indexed, and a weird variant of modulus 12.

    I'm clearly overthinking things, but I don't always immediately remember which 12 is which. Latin doesn't help.

    With 00 it's clear which time we're talking about, and which calendar date it's part of. It's also the easiest way to sort out which 12 gets mislabeled what.

  • Microwaves still cook from the outside in, but yes, mostly only excite water.

    I believe this came up in another ATK thing, but can't track it down at the moment.

  • The bag suspended from a stick is called a bindle was also real. I suspect these were just replaced by backpacks that were cheap/ubiquitous enough.

  • I thought I understood your comment until I got to the emoji. I'm not sure if they work terribly well

  • No disagreement on raspberries, but your comment makes me think you might like mangos in plain yogurt. The tartness of the yogurt works beautifully with the extreme sweetness of the mango. It tastes like a fresher more balanced version of flavored yogurts. So if you're into the flavor of mango, but the sweetness is off-putting, this could be a way to still enjoy them.

  • Yes. But it's a duel, so they're just trying to stay behind one person.

    You're not allowed to stop, so you try and creep forward really slowly by doing bike stands until the last lap.

    I dunno exactly what sandbagging looks like in Mario Cart, but I kind of doubt it looks this silly.

  • It does, but for a real world parallel see bike sprints.

  • IIRC, the Pope is only considered infallible when they say they are. Otherwise they're just speaking as the highest ranking member. So most of the time what they say is not treated by members of the clergy as the literal word of god.

    Maybe other Catholics are more in the know, but this isn't a distinction I was aware of when I was a practicing Catholic. That might be because the Pope really didn't come up much at all. I'm sure he influenced policy, but his words seemed to come up in the news, and not really much outside that.

  • For me it also happens constantly with things like the crossword, which obviously can't be listening.

    Links between folks is part of it, but a lot is just ordinary coincidence.

  • Also it's Valve. People choose the projects they work on and are free to start their own projects.

    I'd be a little surprised if there weren't several earnest attempts to make 3.

  • It sounds plausible? I haven't taken the effort to figure out how to like anchovies on pizza.

    The one time I tried it the result was way too salty. I think I need to find someone local that likes them and copy their order.

  • Bacon or pepperoni. You need something salty do to do the job that ham fails to do.

    Jalapenos are semi-optional. If they're too spicy for someone, then pepperoni might be the choice. There needs to be something spicy to complement the pineapple.

  • Hot take: ham doesn't go on pizza. The pineapple isn't the problem

  • If those are communication apps supported by the bank, that's the idea. Banks have been hit with huge fines for employees communicating over unapproved channels.

    One of the problems with the unapproved channels is that the bank can't enforce a retention period. So written messages that are supposed to be kept on record for 10 years or whatever can get deleted. In the event of a lawsuit the bank can be fined for not having the messages.

  • Has-text is case sensitive. Adding / before the keyword and /i after will set it to case insensitive.

    Example:

    lemmy.world##.d-sm-block.d-none > .row:has-text(/Blockchain/i)

    You can also use | to add multiple keywords to the filter.

    Example:

    lemmy.world##.d-sm-block.d-none > .row:has-text(/Blockchain|ChatGPT/i)