[–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Starlink looks a lot like this when new satellites are moving into their final orbit, basically a string of dots slowly moving across the sky. I happened to see some last winter; it was pretty trippy to watch.

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  • [–] 47 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    I can understand the desire to change it given that the current name is arguably a slur in some contexts, but this is a terrible new name. There was a fork awhile back with this same motivation called "Glimpse" - I really think they should have chosen a name with some continuity from the original, and certainly not what looks to be an initialism (I never would have come to "Wilbur" on my own).

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Respectfully, what on Earth are you talking about? OP has only indicated that they're trying to be health-conscious by maintaining proper hydration - the weird "societal pressure" angle is being superimposed by you. As I alluded to in my previous comment, it's easy to ignore mild dehydration and sometimes a conscious effort is needed to maintain optimal intake. "Drink when you're thirsty" is fine in a vacuum, but to distill (no pun intended) hydration advice down to just that is to ignore how people work in real life.

    I don't know why you're bringing up hyponatremia. Water toxicity is exceedingly rare and one would need to consume an inordinate amount of water in short time before it becomes "unsafe." You're unnecessarily fearmongering and pushing misinformation when you don't know what you're talking about.

    Also, there's no "water-pushing" conspiracy at play here. It's just a reality that most people don't consume as much water as they ideally should, and as a result people sometimes draw attention to that reality as a means of improving the general health of society.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    OP, please don't listen to this person. Most of this is terrible advice.

    To start, it's still advisable to drink water through the day even if you're getting some from your food intake. A typical diet will provide around 20% of the recommended daily amount - the rest needs to come from actual fluid intake. Even with a diet with a high proportion of fruits and vegetables, it doesn't come close to meeting the ideal amount.

    Coffee and beer are not the same as the equivalent amount of pure water. Caffeine and ethanol both function as diuretics - that is, they promote urine production which in turn reduces your overall hydration. Ethanol is worse in this category to the extent that alcoholic drinks can actually dehydrate you. Caffeine has a more mild effect and is overall hydrating, but a cup of coffee still isn't equivalent to a cup of water.

    Citrus fruits do help prevent kidney stone formation, but it's primarily via a different mechanism involving the citrate found in those fruits/juices rather than the acidity itself. Not that this matters too much in practice, but I point this out due to the inclusion of "other acidic beverages" as an alternative.

    Chronic mild dehydration (generally) won't kill you, but it will prevent your body from functioning at its best and can potentially cause issues with electrolyte imbalances, blood pH, and plenty else. You should aim to stay optimally hydrated as much as possible for the benefit of your overall health.

    "Drink when you're thirsty" is the one solid piece of advice here. Your body has evolved cues like this over hundreds of millions in order to get you to take good care of it, and its best to listen to them as much as possible. That said: these cues only works when you're cognizant of them, and it's still important to be actively mindful and intermittently remind yourself to follow them, especially when you're involved in tasks that would otherwise distract you from them.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The second paragraph isn't accurate - Android uses the Linux kernel. Hardware manufacturers typically ship their own proprietary modules, but in principle there's nothing stopping you from running a mainline kernel image as long as support for the specific device or SoC is present. Granted, this isn't the case for the majority of phones, but this isn't a limitation of Android itself and you'd run into the same issue trying to run postmarketOS or really anything else on an unsupported device.

    I also want to point out that there really aren't any good alternatives to Android (and its derivatives) at the moment. Mobile Linux distributions are getting better, but at least in my personal experience and from what I've heard from others it's still a pretty janky experience in comparison and arguably is only suitable for enthusiasts.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    I just want to add that apart from time dilation, velocity also causes length contraction wherein an object will be measured as shorter when it's moving relative to the observer versus from its own rest frame. I've always found it (and time dilation) to be very unintuitive to reason about with my monkey brain - relativity in general is just super weird.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    NASA actually created an animation simulating what it would look like to fall into a black hole. In short, you'd see the outside universe warped into a circle directly opposite the direction of the singularity, with black all around it. This is ignoring the accretion disk that the other commenter pointed out, although that sits well outside the event horizon and I'm not sure off the top of my head how much of that light escapes inwards towards the black hole versus outwards.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    The closest thing I can think of is @author unascribed sometimes seen in Javadoc comments, but I don't think that's used in quite the same way as what you're asking.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Not to interject, but when people talk about using "Linux" they're generally referring to desktop Linux (usually GNU/Linux). ChromeOS and SteamOS are Linux distros of a sort under the hood, but they're also highly curated experiences. Android technically uses the Linux kernel but architecturally it's so drastically different from basically any other system using it that it's quite misleading to call it "Linux" in the colloquial sense.

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  • [–] 45 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    That .01% number is out of line with the overall share of Steam users in 2018 by literally an order of magnitude. I can understand some deviation within a particular game, but that figure is so far off that I kind of suspect he just made it up on the spot.

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