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  • Yep, it measurably increases consumer spending.

    $500… Can’t afford that. Now $125? Yeah I could come up with that.

    Psychologically they often don’t really think beyond that first payment, and then are pretty stressed when they need $125 for the next three fortnights…



  • I basically never used swap until I used some script that was supposed to de-duplicate text messages from SMS backups.

    Turns out feeding it a 100,000 message archive spanning back 15 years will somehow eat up ~80GB of RAM. I doubt it should, I guess it probably just wasn’t optimized for such a large amount.

    So I made a 64GB swap file and it completed fine.






  • An identical arrangement of atoms as I have in my body could appear next to me. They would be identical to me but I would remain aware of only my original body and consciousness. The two bodies would then diverge on their paths as time goes on and they live different experiences since they don’t ocuppy the same space. Same with any future doppelganger. Is it really reincarnation if there is no hint/remnant of the previous?

    if atoms have come together in the right way to produce my consciousness now, after only 13 billion years, then it’s reasonable to suppose that over the next many trillion years, the right arrangement of atoms will occur again at some future time long after this body is gone. And in fact, it’s reasonable to suppose that this very same consciousness will be produced many many times over.

    I’m not sure that’s true. The possible combinations of literally OCTILLIONS of atoms that comprise your body could easily never be seen across trillions of years if you try a new combination every millisecond. And that’s operating under the completely wrong assumption that things on the scale of humans are just formed randomly like that.



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    What just normal drinking glasses? In whimsical magic castle?

    Lmao I want nothing to do with that series anymore for a variety of reasons but if this is actually a screenshot of the utterly unnecessary remakes then that is pathetic. I’m pretty sure the source material said goblets. Most meals were described as tables full of food such as the left. Not a cafeteria plate that wouldn’t look out of place in a modern school. Soulless remake cashgrab I hope it flops so hard it just basically marks the end of HP in the mainstream. Nobody asked for this.