viralJ

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[–] viralJ 1 points 7 months ago

Should that be really called "smooth jet ski ride" or "amazing image stabilisation"?

[–] viralJ 4 points 8 months ago

Me too, but there is one UK retailer (Co-operative) that makes it hard for you. They will have, say, a punnet of strawberries with 200g strawberries in it for £3.50 and another one with 300g for £4.50. The labels will say "unit price: £3.50/unit" or "£4.50/unit". (No, really?) So you have to do your own maths. Luckily other markets are sensible enough to actually provide price per weight. And in Tesco, when a given product is cheaper for clubcard holders, it will even give price per weight twice, for both normal price and clubcard price.

Btw. I don't work for Tesco. I just needed to vent about Co-op being dicks; Tesco just serves as a good counter example of how this should be done, in case any Co-op executive is reading this.

[–] viralJ 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

BTW, can a woman sue a man for using the ladies' toilet?

[–] viralJ 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah, but I think the point is that salmon can travel upstream, but it probably can't travel up dams.

[–] viralJ 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The caption says what caused them to decide to remove it :)

[–] viralJ 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I actually can't complain. It's not perfect, but I'm far from being as outraged as the OP. I used to love SwiftKey, it was amazing with text prediction, even when you had two languages on at the same time (I'm bilingual, so it was really handy). Since Microsoft bought it, it started going downhill and when I found that I can't just transfer my settings when I get a new phone, I switched to Gboard. Again, not perfect, but not terrible either. I will try out some of the recommendation from this thread though.

[–] viralJ 16 points 9 months ago (29 children)

Could someone ELI5 (if possible) what passkeys actually are?

[–] viralJ 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Lol made me imagine firemen standing next to a burning house and drenching the one next to it with their hoses.

[–] viralJ 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm a molecular biologist, but I'm into so many branches of science! I love maths (arguably not science) - the elegance, the consistency, and pi that pops up everywhere. Physics - the laws that actually govern the universe and it's most basic level. Chemistry - the science of change where so much emergence happens. Biology - the science trying to solve the actual mysteries of life. Psychology, especially evolutionary psychology - understanding what makes us tick and how it came about. And linguistics - the science of the original sharing app.

Edit: typo.

[–] viralJ 2 points 9 months ago
[–] viralJ 3 points 9 months ago

I do the same things. Half of my conversations with people is me first rephrasing everything they said to me to make sure I understood them correctly before I answer their question or address what they said. And I also always want to give relevant answers but find myself circling around them more than I'd like. I didn't study philosophy tho.

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