[-] SoleInvictus 1 points 4 days ago

They absolutely responded to the right person.

[-] SoleInvictus 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Do you have any reliable sources backing up that increased pancreatic cancer risk assertion?

Recent studies suggest the opposite. Even recent studies that found a small, statistically significant increase cannot rule out survival benefit and other confounders.

[-] SoleInvictus 3 points 5 days ago

Probably, but it's the good ol' cost-benefit analysis. It'll survive so much longer than if it wasn't protected at at all, but the next-level fire protection that would increases its chances is really expensive.

[-] SoleInvictus 2 points 5 days ago

A lot of folks oversteep their tea, often because they don't use enough, making it bitter AF no matter how much diabetes dust gets added later.

[-] SoleInvictus 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You'd need a ton of silica gel, pounds of it, to capture steam as fast as it is generated. Your best bet would be a water tight, temperature resistant container like silicone bags for documents. I'd recommend a properly fireproof safe (read: $$$) or planning for potential losses for anything larger.

[-] SoleInvictus 4 points 6 days ago

I with that were true but it's worse than ever. Corporate and government propaganda pervades every aspect of people's lives in the United States.

[-] SoleInvictus 4 points 6 days ago
[-] SoleInvictus 4 points 6 days ago

From the article:

According to Google’s support documentation, there’s an entire set of commands exclusive to newer Pixel devices. Some of the more advanced features require a Pixel 8 or newer, while the latest features require a Pixel 9 or newer.

So it's both. Apparently most of this "advanced voice typing" process is handled locally on the device due to its Tensor G5 chip allowing it to more efficiently run small recognition models.

Or so I read. This isn't my field, like, at all.

[-] SoleInvictus 2 points 6 days ago

Same! I grew up playing a lot of dungeon crawlers, so I'm pretty good at making mental maps. I tried explaining to an ex how I could envision a rough map of wherever I might be and he was completely baffled.

[-] SoleInvictus 5 points 6 days ago

Just the diet gummies.

[-] SoleInvictus 164 points 2 months ago

I got fired for this! Even though it was my lunch break, I was off the clock, and I have a chronic illness that makes working an 8-10 hour day exhausting, I was fired since I was "setting a bad example for the junior staff".

Guess who got an EEOC/disability settlement.

[-] SoleInvictus 207 points 4 months ago

I need to do chores today, so I instead used my procrastination energy here! It's the molar of a herbivore. Here's what I have:

Definitely not beaver. Beaver incisors are orange and shaped very differently and it's far too large to be a beaver premolar or molar. Wrong morphology anyhow - beaver pre/molars are plicated and this is not. It's also not from a muskrat based on all the same criteria but the plication.

It's definitely from a bovid, not from a caprid or equid. Equids tend to have these bizarre columnar molars, and caprid molars are too small and the wrong shape. Since you're in Germany, that leaves us with cows and European bison.

It's the first or second molar from one of those based on the two cusps; if it had three cusps, it'd be the third molar. What clinches it is the asymmetrical gap in the roots (called a furcation area). Cows have a gap right in the middle of their first and second molars, whereas bison have an off-center gap in their first molar.

Congratulations, you have a bison M1!

Cow X-ray

Bison X-ray

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