pruwybn

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Imagine if some distance measuring system decided their zero was at like 10 feet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

"One haircut, please."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

This is wild.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

Thank you for this comment. I wanted to reply but didn't want to add too many personal details, or get into a big argument about it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (4 children)

In a perfect world, yes, but it's not always easy to change plans at the last minute.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

My first thought too, but it didn't work in this case - even opening the link on my PC told me to install the app.

Luckily I found that just replying "yes" to the message worked.

 

update - after doing some research online, I found I was able to just reply to the text message with "yes" and it confirmed the reservation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

The duck test is a frequently cited colloquial example of abductive reasoning.

More like abducktive reasoning.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I played quincunx in scrabble once. My proudest moment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's hard to beat Obra Dinn, but The Witness is another of my favorite puzzle games.

Edit: "hard to beat" meaning it's a good game, not that it's difficult (although it is in fact pretty difficult).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This comment is more effort than the person you're responding to was going to put into the game.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (3 children)

What's the black thing on the left, in front of the building?

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I've noticed the site loading slowly for the past few days. Wondering if there's something going on with the instance.

Edit: also getting a 504 Gateway Timeout error sometimes.

 
 

I'm a mod of [email protected], although my user is on discuss.tchncs.de. I mainly asked to be made a mod to remove an old sticky post, but I've seen it come back after unfeaturing it a couple of times. Today I tried to unfeature it again, about an hour ago. Currently it does not show up as featured on my instance, but it still does on lemmy.world. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Here is the post in question on each instance:

https://lemmy.world/post/6104535

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/4076675

 

Back in school I heard the story that Haydn wrote the "Surprise Symphony" because he was sick of people sleeping through his music, and wanted to startle them awake. It seems like this was a myth.

From the Wikipedia article:

In Haydn's old age, his biographer Georg August Griesinger asked him whether he wrote this "surprise" to awaken the audience. Haydn replied:

No, but I was interested in surprising the public with something new...

Why do all the cool stories from history end up being made up?

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