I recently did that and my account was banned. It was not expensive (~$1), but still felt bad

yes and no. You would like to do it in relatively cheap and less populated area, and where cracks are a bit closer to surface (you do not want to drill a lot, as that would not be economically beneficial)

I know this is a meme, but in case someone is interested, we usually do not want to use strong acids/bases to maintain buffers, instead, weaker acids (for eg, acetic acid), weaker bases (nh4oh), or their correponding weak-strong salt pair, or if it is really close to 7, then weak-weak, weakly dissociating salts (likr (nh4)2 co3).

I am probably forgetting the proper names for this, but idea is that waker acids/bases do not dissociate completely. for example, iirc, nh4oh is something close to 9-10, so if you want a basic buffer, then you use nh4oh in bulk to get close to required absolute amount of oh- ion concentration (maybe, because you want some reaction to happen in proper stoichiometric ratios), and for fine tuning, use very low concentration of stronger acid/base (depending on the fact that your target is above or below the value of bulk). stronger acids/bases almost immediately completely ionise. for example, i want to make something like 8.5, then i start with nh40h with 9, and slowly add hcl to reduce ph. with this, you make nh40h + hcl -> nh4cl + h2o. this nh4cl, is now acting as weakely dissociating. this reaction is also reversible. around the equillibrium ph, if you add more h+, then reaction goes forward. but simply by adding more water (or diluting), you can reverse this. with salt like nacl(nacl + h2o -> na+ + cl-) , they will practically never recombine, and you can not use this to your advantage.

the actual salt/acid/base to be used will also depend on solubility of present ions, miscibility, organic or non organic (in this context, organic means carbon related molecules)

this is regardless of that. The meme explains it a bit wierdly, but we start with 17 squares, and try to find most efficient packing, and outer square’s size is determined by this packing.

Thank you for making this instance.

I have a script which fetches bib entries for pdfs, and then renames it to my prefered format (names of author (no more than 2) - name of paper).

in case you are interested

#!/usr/bin/env sh

newnamefn(){
	bib="$(pdf2bib "$1")"
	name="$(echo "$bib" | grep "title = " | cut -d'{' -f 2 | cut -d'{' -f 1 )"
	authors=$(echo "$bib" | grep "author = " | cut -d'{' -f 2 | cut -d'{' -f 1  | sed -z 's/\ and\ /\n/g' | head -n 2 | tr '\n' ' ')
	echo "$authors-$name" | detox --inline
}

for i in "$@" ; do 
	newname="$(newnamefn "$i")" 
	mv "$i" "${i%/*}/$newname".pdf
done

detox --inline is just a utility which makes the file names shell friendly (removes special characters and spaces), but that is optional. Also, technically the newnamefn is what does all of the job, and below is just a loop to iterate on all files that are given as input like script file1 "file2" file3, where file2 had some special characters, so enclosed in "" quotes. you can also translate it to python, then you would not even require sed and grep (you can just get output in json-esque format). I have a small keybinding in my file manager, which renames all selected files, so I do not have to spend any amount of my mind

you can make it work in any os (maybe use some llm for it), you just have to install pdf2bib

It happens. I have seen it on my comments, I have seen it on others. This is largely human behaviour - this person has said something so wrong, I must correct them, times 10 billion

Easy, bowl 2 overs from each end

broadcasters would not allow this. I agree with your general sentiment, but advertiser usually sneak in 30-40 s of ads in this time, and if we do not change ends for 2 overs, then essentially total break time would be halved. there still would be some small window where bowler will collect their items from umpire, and next bowler comes, so not halved, but more like 30% dip in breaks, and that is 30% dip in ad revenue.

I’m very pro bowling

My man. Game currently is way too much in batters court. Recent ind vs eng match basically was a display of very ipl esque batting and flat pitches. I did not expect a full time bowler, who has bowled atleast 10 overs to have a economy over 6; especially a fast bowler.

Deliberate short run: I like it.

will ask the fielding team to decide which batter they want on strike.

This seems a tad too powerful. Especially, becausee decision that a short run was deliberate or not is still largely subjective (how far do you have to be from the crease line for it to be deliberate or just accidentally short. and if the batter is not looking vs looking at his bat/feet as they approach the crease line)

Now refering to linked article

Also, can we please nearly get rid of umpires call. I kinda hate it. Especially, wickets hitting being less than 50%. If the trajectory known is not precise, then there should be changes done to predict trajectory better. In last 10 years, the measurement has approved, with better/cheaper cameras, which now record at even higher rates (hence, we would have more precise and larger amount of data), but the 50% has been the same. 50% should at least be decreased to something like 10%. Practically, if there is no contact involved with body, bails get removed with any reasonable amount of impact, so even 10% touching would dislodge the bails.

So if there is an appeal for an lbw as well as a run out, the TV umpire would now first take up the leg-before review as that occurred first. In case the batter is out, then the ball would be declared dead.

Thank you, it had to be done.

The injury will need to be evident and visible to the match officials before they allow a full-time replacement. This would not apply for players suffering hamstring pulls or niggles.

this “not applies to hamstring/ niggles” is bad imo, because these are one of the most common form of injuries one can get. I get the idea that these are also easy to fake, but maybe icc officials can allow one (or both) team physios to check the player, and verify if the injury is sub worthy or not. In recent memory, tim david (some ipl match I do not remeber exactly, but towards the end of season) got a hamstring pull. Most fast bowlers keep getting niggles because that is the demand of fast bowling on the body.

yes. And since there was almost no activity on this post, that hints that this community did not really have a active user base, so there would not be huge loss. maybe any posts intended for this community will be going to /c/physics

I am not a drummer, but I did learn something closer to piano.

My 2 cents - Just go and teach. I would have loved if I were taught drums. The children who lost their last teacher also lost some of their recreational activties, and regaining that would be great. Also, DRUMS ARE FUN!.

Do not be afraid. If you think you are not going to do well, maybe try to teach it to some relative or friend or neighbours’ kids first, and make sure it is a good experience for them.

might as well take a safety factor of 2, so I can use τ, which requires less tie to write than π (I am a engineer)

yes, there are “characters” from linux universe (like bsd puffer fish, or krita female something, goat (fsf) and more))

what exactly are you looking for? there are many guides for switching to linux, for example, arch wiki; has enough details for anybody. similarly, there are other distro wikis (fedora/debian/mint/…). But none of them are specifically for switching from windows (10). Most of them do mention that backup your stuff, or mount windows partitions for moving stuff.

If you need something to switch specifically from windows, that is hard. because the way people use windows changes a lot with people. My personal recommendation would be to just search “switch to linux” on youtube, find suitable videos (in prefered languages or target audiences, which are also suitabbly licensed(most linux youtubers release their stuff under some variation of cc, and youtube by default has also some cc license for all videos. you can check about licenses in youtube description.)). Video demos for people today or more approachable, and can also help navigate any issues that might occur during the move. Once they have some distro installed, they can look up distro wikis to build upon.

no (ish), what I meant there was i can manually click through all links in yacy’s index (a bit of a hyperbole). But as I had hinted, I have offline backup for a lot of pages (so it is not a index really, but it is searchable and i can just open pages). I have nearly 0.5 million articles. 90+% is wiki, then arch and programming books/docs, and hopefully more to come. And all of this requires less than 60 GiBs, and searching is really fast (my typing speed is the limiting factor)

I’d be curious to know what your native tongue is

I would not give you a specific language, but country is India

Orientation refers to the same thing as attraction

this is new to me. In my post I used orientation for what I assumed to be gender, but I had no idea it was also related to attraction.

I do understand both points of finding similar folks or possibly finding partners

does your language assume that gay people do not exist?

pretty much. Many old folks consider it as a disease or mental illness.

Do you use the exact same word for a man who likes women (eg a straight man) as you would for a woman who likes women (eg a lesbian)?

That was not a thing, and hence it never had a word/s. basically someone born with a male reproductive part was male, other is female, and that is about it. A male was (is) expected to marry a female (love or arranged(where family finds “suitable” partners, and the bride/groom have little idea of other)).

Things have changed a lot for better in past 2 decades, but much of the “older ways” still remain as “traditions”.

I never confused sex and gender, as you describe them, as I said these do not exist as separate concepts in my natiive tounge. I used different words for them, which while not ideal, do convey the meaning. My questions were mostly regarding gendered pronouns, and having terms for different sexes (as in lgb of lgbt) or genders (t of lgbt), and why do even need terms for these, or why would one like to share it with others.

I also did use yacy for some time, but problem is - index is too small. I could within weeks visit each and every page indexed by yacy, and that is not a good thing

no, libreddit ( a privacy frontend for reddit, third party) was renamed to redlib.

We all got our own shit and the world would be a better place if people could just not be assholes to each other about the little things

If only everyone would get that. Thanks!

old reddit or libreddit (now redlib). If you browse without accout, that should be enough. If you have a account, I would still enable js only for old reddit and not reddit as whole.