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antennae

Convention is actually to refer to the radio devices as "antennas" and the biological things as "antennae," I believe.

It's not a crazy leap of faith to assume Lemmy demographics are similar to reddit demographics, where the USA makes up the plurality by a huge margin https://www.statista.com/statistics/325144/reddit-global-active-user-distribution/

I still have scientific journal access through my alma mater, but for those who don't it can be really frustrating --- especially since research is often funded to some extent with taxpayer money!

That said, in many fields it's common to post research papers to e.g. arXiv before submitting to a journal. So if you see a research paper that's behind a paywall, you can often find a nearly identical version on arXiv or similar. Note that this is not piracy, and the version you get on arXiv will be formatted differently, may not have the latest edits, etc., but the gist should be there. Also note that there's nothing stopping crackpots from posting there.

Restaurants have notoriously low profit margins. Not every restaurant of course, but there's a reason that restaurants regularly fail, especially in cities, and I don't think it's because the owners are spending it all on yachts.

Could be referring to 90s Microsoft/Netscape history https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/xscreensaver-windows.html

I could be wrong but I thought that there are only two channels (left, right), and that the output device (speakers, headphones) are a separate concept, meaning you can't have different audio. Similar to most cars --- left right are different, but front and back always mirror each other.

Surround sound/multichannel audio sounds like it might be what you want?

I could be wrong about this of course.

It was a class on sleeping+dreaming, an "easy A" class that was actually really interesting. Taught by William Dement, an old timer who helped pioneer the field of sleep research. As I recall there wasn't much emphasis on what dreams mean --- it was fairly matter-of-fact in that regard, which I liked.

The journal process, from what I recall, was just to write down every detail. In doing so you may realize patterns in your dream --- recurring objects or themes, or anything really.

Another thing, especially for lucid dreaming, is to do "reality checks" throughout your (waking) day. This can be something like looking at a watch. Get in the habit of this --- just randomly looking down and verifying that your watch is reading a valid time, and ask yourself if this makes sense, and if you're dreaming. Most of the time you'll look at your watch, say "yup 11:42, and I don't think I'm dreaming." The idea though is that this will be a habit that you perform in your dream, too --- and hopefully, in your dream, your watch won't make sense, you'll ask yourself if you're dreaming and boom! Lucid dream.

For me, lucid dreams were usually pretty short --- as soon as I realized I was dreaming, I'd only have a little time before waking up. I also found it frustrating that I couldn't always control my dreams, so I'd try to fly, and... nothing. Even though I knew I was dreaming.

Kissinger was on the board of Theranos, which feels a little anachronistic to me.

For software, something that plays nice with Linux.

For hardware, the M2 Air is a divine machine.

I kept a dream journal as a requirement for an undergrad class. Really interesting thing to do --- and it helped me to lucid dream a few times.

Hah, same/similar release as me --- family had dialup at the time, but I found "RedHat Linux Secrets 5.x" (with included CD) at a garage sale.

What's the difference between a dentist and a sadist? Newer magazines...

--- via Seinfeld

Sorry, didn't mean to diminish diversity across Europe. The point I was trying to make is that the cultural difference between two extreme ends of the US is...well, extreme, and that you could find two regions of Europe, in different countries, that felt more similar. Not at all suggesting that if you pick two random locations in the US and in Europe that the US will be "more different."

For example, the US state of Louisiana has about the same fraction of Louisiana-born residents as Switzerland has Swiss-born.

Cannot be overstated --- the US is huge, and the difference between one state and another can dwarf the difference between two European countries. Same de facto language, same currency...but that's about it.

Grew up on rural well water. Tastes great, a bit hard. Now I drink Hetch Hetchy's finest. Tastes pretty good. (My grandma's water was another story.)

We have one federal government, yes, but painting all of the US with the same brush is naive at best.

This sounds like the "steady-state model," which was popular in the 40s-60s, but fell out of favor.

This was a popular theory at one point: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady-state_model

In addition to CMB being tough to explain, the distant universe is different --- for example, quasars are far away/old. You would expect them to be more evenly distributed in a steady-state theory.

300Mbps symmetric, no cap, for $55.32 (Northern California).

So all this time Luke was actually going to Tushy Station...

Ah, TIL! I was looking for that setting in the WiFi settings, since I only wanted it on one access point (to avoid loopback NAT issues).