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you keep linkingdisagrees.Although having given its name to the word henge, Stonehenge is atypical in that the ditch is outside the main earthwork bank.
An atypical example of something is still a “true” example of the thing, especially given that the very term derives its origin from Stonehenge itself.
Edit: Oops, mistook 2 basic pedants regurgitating trivia as the same person.
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Technology@lemmy.world•DIY E-Reader Folds Open Like A Book (Diptyx)English
2·13 days agoBeing able to fold down a larger “sheet” display so that it fit in a pocket would be pretty cool. Having extra room for reading things like maps and comic books is so much better than pinching and zooming on a pocket sized display. What you call limited purpose, I call functional design. I’m kind of over all-in-one devices. They’ve turned into Jack of all trades, but master of none.
Obviously that’s not what this device is, but it got me thinking about why I’d want a device with multiple e-ink displays or a foldable display.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do I deal with the outside world when I have germaphobia and don't really like outside?
3·14 days ago“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do we know that the ratio between the circumference and the diameter of a circle is preserved across radius sizes?
4·15 days agoYou’re looking for proofs that Pi is constant.
Here are some explanations (without in depth review on my part):
No. Soulseek is old school P2P. All you need to do is run the client software, set a local shared folder, and your are client and server in one. Funkwhale is more like running your own Lemmy instance and building a community. The difference between them is like the difference between using Airdrop or Syncthing to share files and hosting hosting your own domain and server.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why does everyone put celery in soup stock?
1·21 days agoIt is a basic ingredient in mirepoix, which is used as a base for a variety of sauces, soups, gravies, and stews. It’s just one component of what is basically just a fresh vegetable mix. You can always just substitute whatever you have on hand or local that fits, just like you would with a stir-fry or fried rice. It’s less about the specific vegetables than it is about the way they are prepared and what they contribute. Onions and carrots add sweetness. Celery balances those with its saltiness. Celery and garlic feel to me like a bridge to the other proper herbs like parsley and thyme that usually go in the mirepoix I combine with a good roux to make gravy.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search ItEnglish
21·27 days agoThose reduced civil rights related to border patrol extend about 200 miles in from every U.S. border.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What's the security situation when opening a jellyfin server up for casting?English
2·28 days agoThis needs to be copypasta’d as a reply to every comment suggesting that opening up jellyfin to the internet is easy and everyone should do it to get away from Plex.
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movies@piefed.social•Star Wars Returns to Theaters for 50th Anniversary
1·1 month agoAs bad as that scene is at least it didn’t really change the plot or characters in any meaningful way.
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Gaming@beehaw.org•An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores
5·1 month agoSo, by that definition and the definition everyone else is using, the game has been banned from various marketplaces for games. Context matters. In this context ban is used EXACTLY the same way we talk about banned books at the library.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•New Community Rule: "No low-effort posts. This is subjective and will largely be determined by the community member reports."English
41·1 month agoSelf-hosting is inherently not low effort. This isn’t memes or shitposts. This is people helping people that are trying to help themselves, a.k.a. people making an effort. Communities rely on the discretion of mods and rules specific to the community focus. If this community didn’t have some kind of bar to meet for low effort posts it would drive away participants and contributors more interested in higher effort and more interesting topics. It gets real old seeing people ask and answer the same basic questions about Plex, Jellyfin, *arrs, and docker all the time. Worrying about if this rule will be abused seems premature. Besides (as others have pointed out) there are other communities with similar interests, if you’re that concerned that your spammy no-context YouTube video got deleted, please go try your luck elsewhere.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why does a community called no stupid questions allow comments that say the question is stupid?
34·2 months agoIt’s often framed as a system of moral philosophies and the way the impact our behavior and interactions with the world and society. So yes, in many ways, veganism is a religion, or at the very least religion adjacent. Religions aren’t limited to belief in a magical sky daddy.
To be clear, it is clearly bigotry to use “religion” as a label in an effort to be dismissive of anyone’s personal moral belief system or philosophy.
Those things fucking suck when you can get them to work and they are downright dangerous otherwise.
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL Statistically, there are 2 popes per square kilometer in the Vatican cityEnglish
131·2 months agoWhenever someone says, “Statistically…”, you know they’re about to say some dumb shit that is an ignorant misinterpretation of statistics.
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movies@piefed.social•Official Discussion - The Running Man [SPOILERS]
3·2 months agoOh yeah, me too. Reboots can be novel and interesting sometimes. In this case in particular, a less campy vibe would be a very good thing.
I think we can stop worrying about spoilers for stories that have already been told though.
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movies@piefed.social•Official Discussion - The Running Man [SPOILERS]
4·2 months agoSpoilers? The novel was published in 1982. The original movie (as silly as it can be) was released in 1987. You can’t spoil a reboot.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•My perfect Linux setup is always just one more tweak away
51·2 months agoThis whole post is a lie to manipulate people into engaging with an astroturfing bot.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is it weird that i talk to my pets more articulately than i sometimes talk to actual people?
1·2 months agoDo don’t do this. You’re just a few lines of code.


The argument in that article is basically “Most calculators do it this way now, so that must be our convention to use, so 16 is the correct answer. Please ignore that this goes against the conventions established before calculators became transistorized.”