ConstipatedWatson

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[–] ConstipatedWatson 27 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Aren't these 0.5 seconds the moments we live for?

[–] ConstipatedWatson 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I know it's a national sport (which I also practice) to worship Bill Watterson, but I was reading this strip and thinking both how nice and friendly his style is, as well as how realistic his imaginary stories are. Sometimes it's not just funny and creative, it also feels like he's drawing from everyone's childhood.

Maybe we should sue him, how does he know so much about us (lemmings, earthlings, planetary beings, etc)?

Edit: fixed grammar

[–] ConstipatedWatson 11 points 6 months ago

If you only need to look for slang expressions, that is...

[–] ConstipatedWatson 1 points 6 months ago

I'm blue, da ba dee da ba dam...

[–] ConstipatedWatson 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That's truly depressing, but unfortunately in line with how we're treating the rest of the planet 😔

Edit: fixed grammar

[–] ConstipatedWatson 11 points 6 months ago

This is so deliciously nerdy

[–] ConstipatedWatson 2 points 6 months ago
[–] ConstipatedWatson 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I finally had a minute to try it out and unfortunately it does not seem to change anything on my 2020 Mac+Intel (the GPU load skyrockets when I watch videos on YouTube)

[–] ConstipatedWatson 7 points 6 months ago

It is so awesome Carpenter thought about making a movie whose protagonist is the sidekick. It's an absolutely obvious role reversal and yet (as far as I know, and I admit I know little) it hadn't been done before and hasn't been done again (please correct me if I'm wrong)

[–] ConstipatedWatson 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)

Well, you're right in principle, but with my (old, but current) Mac+Intel configuration Firefox is not as sleek as Chrome and also often Firefox turns the fan on while Chrome doesn't (it may just be that Google is bricking Firefox when you're on YouTube, for example)

Anyhow, I'm trying to use Firefox as much as I can (I've always done so), but it's always been true it was a better experience to use Chrome on my setup (and I've never used Safari)

Edit: why the downvotes? To teach me a lesson? I said he's right, but I do have an actual problem and cannot yet make the full move (and am going to check out the suggestions below. Thanks!)

[–] ConstipatedWatson 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Publish or perish" is an expression that's been around since forever and it's well ingrained into every researcher's mind so...

What did society expect?

(Not so) Fun story: when a friend of mine was doing her PhD she was trying really hard to reproduce an experiment published on Nature by two Harvard postdocs at the time. She was so frustrated because she couldn't reproduce it, so she approached one of the authors during a conference and he candidly admitted the experiment was utterly wrong, since after publishing it they realized they made a fatal mistake in interpreting the result which invalidated their claims.

They published the original paper honestly, since they were not aware of the mistake at the time, but they willingly decided not to retract it since a paper in Nature is always a paper in Nature and the citations piling up were too important for their career... How about that for the intellectual honesty that scientists project having as an aura?

Anyhow, this nearly killed my friend's PhD, but luckily she switched to something related she managed to understand and graduated...

[–] ConstipatedWatson 2 points 7 months ago

This would be an awesome plot for an Alterered Beast sequel (and a satisfying thought to keep while working out)

It would be awesome for those who played the original game and those who have no idea what it is!

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