Taking it up another notch, doing them both simultaneously was the clear winner. If I listen to a reading assignment while following along visually reading the text, it’s like a one-and-done and ready to take the test at the end of the semester with no further studying.

I believe there’s some research that confirms your anecdote in that kids with reading comprehension difficulties had a much easier time reading when they were both reading and listening to the text at the same time. Entirely possible it’s applicable to the general population too (or maybe you just have undiagnosed dyslexia or something).

audiobooks and reading books both activate the same language related areas of the brain

This doesn’t mean they’re the same thing. This is an area of ongoing research (because audiobooks have only recently become very popular) so there are surprisingly few studies on the topic, but the general consensus is that they’re not the same thing. For example, while reading you go at your own pace and can easily re-read or skim words or sentences, but you can’t do this when listening to audiobooks.

I’d link you to a nice essay I read(!) on this last year in a Finnish newspaper, but it’s in Finnish so most users here probably won’t get much out of it… Actually what the hell, I’ll link it anyway: https://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000011260022.html

Around here they do calibrate the theaters but the spec says they can still be insanely loud, as long as they’re not loud all the time. The peaks are well over 100 dB.

The way they do dynamic range in movie theaters sucks too. I have to wear earplugs because it’s so loud.

I feel like for the people still using X, AI-generated bikini photos of minors are pretty far from being the final straw.

I believe I explained why not in the comment you are replying to.

You should absolutely not run something as basic as a text editor under Wine. Just the way Wine interacts with the filesystem is already full of inconveniences and pitfalls. There are several Linux-native editors that are better options here.

No, you shut the fuck up. Mint is a gigantic noob trap that objectively sucks (Budgie got Wayland support before Cinnamon lmao) and it is a disservice to new users to trick them into installing it.

I ultimately had a single Windows program I couldn’t live without (Notepad++) but it runs under Wine with zero issues.

Kate is much nicer than Notepad++, though I dunno how pretty it’s going to be on Cinnamon since it seems you made a newbie mintstake with your distro choice.

The video is from April 12 2025, no idea why they’re posting about it now.

Just wait until you hear what happened to the guy standing in front of the tank in the original photo.

That doesn’t sound right at all, as obviously it would depend on the size of your body. The recommendation I’ve heard is 30-40 millilitres per kilogram of body weight, so by that to need 4 litres per day you’d have to weigh 115 kilograms.

I’m not entirely convinced by body weight either though, because e.g. perspiration is affected more by the body’s surface area than mass, and surface area does not grow linearly with body mass. Water loss via respiration is probably the same regardless of your size, because your lungs are still the same size. Cellular metabolism, I imagine, doesn’t scale linearly either because as you get bigger you don’t get more cells, the existing ones just get bigger, but I know very little about this.

4 liters per day is absolutely insane unless you’re doing physical labour in the sun all day, but you do you.

Politically underdeveloped take. The thing about trying to come up with a third way (not capitalized) is that it will inevitably either result in putting yet another layer of makeup on capitalism and ultimately changing absolutely nothing, or rediscovering some variety of socialism that some guy invented a hundred years ago. Socialism almost by definition has a monopoly on any and all forms of fair and equitable society.

There’s a lot more to socialist politics than communism or leninism.

fwiw it doesn’t say this on my Fedora system when I run FreeCAD via Flatpak.

I’m not a Mao fan I just think it’s a funny image (and unfortunately topical in today’s world).

The images aren’t generated by the LLM part of Grok, they’re generated by a diffusion image model which the LLM is enabled to prompt.

And of course they can create things that don’t exist in the training set. That’s how you get videos of animals playing instruments and doing Fortnite dances and building houses, or slugs with the face of a cat, or fake doorbell camera videos of people getting sucked into tornadoes. These are all brand new brainrot that definitely did not exist in the training set.

You clearly do not understand how diffusion models work.

Image models can generate things that don’t exist in the training set, that’s kind of the point.

13th Age is the real 5e