Sure, I’m just saying that’s why I imagine, they put it this way around. I do agree that it’s weird. You’d expect grandpa to be level 70, so he definitely shouldn’t be a baby dino anymore.

I am currently finding that out, too. 🙃

So far, I’ve had them in a vegetable curry and in a sort-of-East-Asian style dish (rice, chickpeas, teriyaki, sriracha, peanut sauce) and I threw them onto a toast where I had a tomato-hummus spread on there.
I feel like that generally works quite well, if your base food is already quite rich in either veggies or spices, then you can just throw chives into the mix without it poking out too much. Lots of those dishes might use leek anyways, and chives aren’t too different from that.

If we’re going by real-world evolution rules, OP is the next evolutionary stage compared to their dad, who is in turn the next stage compared to grandpa.

did you replace it, if you had no issues?

touch eyes

At first, you look at them until they notice, then you look away. The first time, they’ll probably be irritated, because for all they know, you looked at them, because their hair looks silly or whatever. Then give it some time before you look again. In some sense, you can play it like you’ve just been caught looking at them, so you don’t want to be caught again right away.

Then you repeat that a couple times and try to gauge their reaction (without directly looking at them). If they catch onto you and make an ew face, then definitely abort mission. If they smile, that’s a good sign.

Then you can try to hold the stare a little longer before looking away and again, see if they smile. Eventually, you can try keeping the eye contact for a few seconds while they smile at you and then you smile back.

At that point, it’s definitely time to talk to them. They would not keep up the smile, if they had doubts about going on a date, although it’s obviously still not a guarantee. Sometimes, they only realize that they can’t follow through when it gets serious.

But this whole spiel does communicate that you’re shy about it. If that’s not how you feel, it’s better to talk to them right away.
In general, the more time you take before doing the talk, the more serious it is, because then it’s not just a spontaneous “you’re cute, wanna go out and see if we fit”, but rather a “I’ve been observing you for the past weeks and worked out that you are my dream partner please marry me right away”. So, yeah, don’t take too long before you talk to them.

I was expecting a response like that. 🙃

You know the nuance, because you speak the language. Someone who speaks Italian might feel similarly about diminuendo and decrescendo. Personally (knowing no Italian), I always felt like diminuendo was more of an alright-slowly-become-quieter, whereas decrescendo was more of a you-need-to-be-become-less-loud-fairly-quickly. So, the decrescendo often undoes a crescendo and the diminuendo is more of a general trend over the next measures. But yeah, I am grasping at straws, since many composers will use them interchangeably (not least, because they may not speak Italian either).

It’s probably a regional thing that you’re more used to diminuendo. The also-subjective version, that I got taught here in Germany, is that the hairpin notation (< and >) correspond to crescendo and decrescendo, and that diminuendo is just an alternative way of saying decrescendo.
I’m guessing, they taught it to us that way, because just adding “de-” to negate is easy to remember. Maybe native Italians do use “diminuendo” more naturally. It certainly seems less unwieldy, because it doesn’t use the negation.

But yeah, ultimately it’s like how English has “silent” and “quiet”, which mean essentially the same thing, but both are in use. If we hadn’t already standardized on “piano”, you’d probably find both words in English compositions, with whichever one used that the composer liked more in that position.

I mean, there’s some decent design principles behind it. For one, it just takes up space only once rather than for each window individually.

But much more importantly, it makes use of an implication of Fitts’s Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts’s_law#Implications_for_UI_design
TL;DR: Because you can slam your mouse cursor against the top of the screen, you can’t miss the menu vertically. It’s like an infinitely tall button. This makes it fast for users to move their cursor there.

Having said that, this macOS design is from a time when the mouse and navigation menus were the primary user interaction method, which they’re not anymore. So, yeah, that’s why it was designed like that, but I doubt they’d expend this much effort to design it like that again.

A game I play has this as the quote for the Haste spell. 🙃

They’re decent at language tasks. So, if you provide them with all the information and configure them to not make up any of their own, then they can do things like rewriting it in a different style or different language relatively competently.

Yeah, the Y is a wildcard in that position. Typically, you would write it as an underscore, primarily because most Prolog compilers will warn about unknown variables, since those could also just be a typo of an existing variable.

I found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minifloat

I could never get over how boring the gameplay of Infamous looked. Comparing it to a third-person shooter is pretty apt. Like, you’ve got these crazy lightning powers, but 90% of the time, you just use your hand buzzer to give folks a bit of a zap. Riveting.

I quit Reddit many years ago, because I noticed the toxic culture was fucking with my mental health. Then I was on Mastodon for a few years. Lemmy started to exist in that timeframe and the premise sounded good, so I joined pretty early on, when there were only a handful of posts every week or so. But yeah, these days Mastodon is what I check only occasionally and this place has taken over, as I do like the format a lot more.

Edit history says 23:40 on the 31st of December for me. I don’t know, if that’s the correct timezone. 🙃

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Skeleton_Dance&oldid=1266503922

self.disconnect_motors();
self.disconnect_nonvital_senses();

let memory = self.neurons.dump();

while self.asleep {
    let scenario = load_real_scenario()
        .randomize_params();

    self.neurons.apply(scenario);
}

self.neurons.load(memory);

self.connect_senses();
self.connect_motors();

I know, it’s kind of the obvious advice, but I would recommend slowly incorporating more and more greens into your diet. I’m no nutritionist, but as I understand, when you just switch out your diet like that, some of your gut bacteria will get none or much less of the food that they need. Then they’ll chat up your brain and tell it that it’s now craving the food that you’ve cut out.

If you switch over slowly, your gut bacteria have time to adjust to the new diet and they don’t need to make you crave things.

Emoji log levels: 🔍 ⚙️ ℹ️ ⚠️ 💥

I wipe my floor with a damp cloth/mop every two weeks or so. That removes a lot of the dust with relatively little effort.