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    A steel ball is not a ball bearing. A bearing is something that bears load and allows for motion, usually rotation. There are sleeve bearings which are just one material or journal bearings which have pressurized oil to separate the spinning shaft. A ball bearing is an assembly with rolling elements (balls, rather than rollers). Those steel balls are just called balls. The whole assembly is called a ball bearing. I used to work in bearing manufacturing and they were just called balls.

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      Would it be better if I clarified by calling them “ball bearing balls”? Or would that lead to my unpleasant pummeling by steel balls?

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          Yeah, I think this is the best option. It sounds a little weird at first, because we’re so used to hearing it the other way around, but it makes more sense if you think about it.

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    All dates should be formatted according to ISO 8601 standard (YYYY-MM-DD).

    Months should be adjusted so September, October, November, and December are the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th month respectively (so the literally meaning of the names accords with their actual meaning).

    Not cleaning your kitchen knife after sharpening is trashy and contaminates your food with metal shavings.

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    Cloud-based. If a product won’t work if my internet dies, or I can’t access my data without internet or a subscription, I won’t buy it.

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    Search engines should not use locational data including IP address to provide “more relevant” results. Checking for restaurants or weather forecast? You should have to manually add the relevant search terms. Want results in a specific language? You should have to manually apply this filter.

    Convenience is not worth the potential harm of locationally biased search results.

    For example, where I live is like White Nationalist Central Station. My search results are thus far more likely to net me results with a pro-US/nationalist skew, thus potentially entrenching or normalizing harmful beliefs.

    Whenever I’ve tried bringing this up with Techlords, I get a feeble, “B-but then you couldn’t say ‘restaurants near me’ UnU” and like … good? It’s not like it’s hard to type city and state in the search field.

    I’ve never found a search engine that even has this as an option. Even Sear XNG instances net results that are clearly aligned with the location of the instances server.

    A Kagi dev even lied to me when I was looking into that as an alternative, saying they don’t use location, when it’s pretty easy to determine that they do.

    I also don’t want a “good” algorithm. I also don’t want to see big corporate sites prioritized either. If some backwoods nobody has a site that’s more relevant, show it to me. I feel like pre-Google search engines were better, but that’s another vent for another day.

    Now where did I put my false teeth and walker???

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      ip adress only gives the nearest big city. information like this is pretty useful to show you info based on your state/province.

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      The first time i searched for a business online the results came from a city on the other side of the planet. I’m ok with getting search results in my area.

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      With duckduckgo you can disable the country filter thingo to get international results, and you can also change it to another country

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        Oh believe me, I know. DDG was the first one I tried, and I tested it with every configuration possible. Like many other search engines such as startpage and kagi, you sure can do this in the settings, but it will do absolutely nothing to stop it from using your IP address to net locationally biased results specific to your current location. You may assume it would function like this, but it doesn’t.

        I even tried their html and lite versions, but although it was less cluttered and much more pleasant to use, it still provided results that were very clearly based on my IP address.

        I’m not even sure what those settings do because they appear to have no function. Maybe they change language and currency on some sites for convenience, but again, that’s not what I’m talking about in my comment! I’m saying a search engine should not use any locational data whatsoever to adjust results. And if you reply “well, good luck finding one because it doesn’t exist,” then congratulations, you understand my comment! They don’t exist because we’ve all sacrificed our societal wellbeing for the sake of the smallest convenience.

        Even if changing it to another country/region worked (it doesn’t), we’d still have the problem of netting biased results based on what country I switch it to. That would be akin to searching while using my VPN, which once again, does not solve the problem of search engines using IP address to provide locationally biased results.

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          have you actually properly tested that the results in your location are more extremist? like compared with using a vpn on ddg?

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        Just tried setting no country, then ducked “wine”.
        Results were definitely still from my country first.
        When I set display language to US English, results came up from the US, instead.
        When I set it to French, it shows French websites at the top.
        So the language you set affects what websites you are shown in the results. That sucks.

        But you can actually just turn off ads in the settings. That’s pretty fucking neat!

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          Even the lite and html versions of DDG will provide locationally biased search results. There’s no way around this. Best you can do is use a VPN, but then you’ve still got the problem of reading locationally biased results, just for a different location. It sucks.

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            You know what’s hilarious about this basically non-functional setting? If I toggle the switch off, it provides results based on my IP address’s location, but if I toggle it to “UK” it will also provide some results for the UK city that my town is named after, without me ever providing the name of my town lol

            DDG is a for-profit brand that’s a lot more nefarious than people think. They’ve even succumbed to AI.

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      100% agree.

      To add to this, when I’m looking up something online I want info provided by the internet in general, not just by my next door hillbilly.

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      Not a small hill and I could not agree more. This is relevant to Noam Chomsky “manufacturing consent”.

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          it was coca cola mixed with coffee. sweetened both with high fructose corn syrup, and two artificial sweeteners, simultaneously. I still remember the aftertaste… it’s not something you forget.

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      It never went away for me, I just make it myself!

      I’ll have like 1/4 glass of milk and add chocolate syrup then as I mix that I add seltzer and if stirring correctly it won’t fizz up. I know people say adding the acidity of seltzer spoils the milk, but I’ve never noticed it when I make it.

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        Spoiling milk is all about the ratio of the fat. It’s why cream is used in alcoholic drinks. The higher fat content of the cream means it can take more without spoiling. Try yours with skim milk vs. whole and taste the difference.

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    If a company has a bad interface on their electronic item I’ll not buy it. To me it’s a big hill but I guess it’s how you want to look at it. I’ll stop buying anything from that company if they keep doing it

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      I would agree with you, but I still want to own a microwave. There are none with reasonable UI behavior as far as I can tell.

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          Looks good actually.

          But how does it handle the door opening early? Does it still leave unused time sitting on the time dial?

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            Yeah, it doesn’t clear the dials, and if you want to manually reduce the time you do need to adjust the time dial, but you get a delightful bell sound when you do so. The door does stop the magnetron when open though.

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      My new corollary: If your online e-commerce site asks customers to add a tip, even if $0 / no tip is an option, I’m not buying shit from you.

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      If i need wifi, bluetooth, or an app to use a product that shouldn’t need it (eg a toaster, toothbrush) i will not buy it. i also won’t buy a wireless device (say a bluetooth speaker) if it requires an app. I would be willing to pay $500 more to have a tv with no smart features than a ‘smart’ tv. corporations: keep your shitty malware. my phone is a temple.

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      As an American, this disagrees with my worldview. But I also don’t know enough about the British version to say your wrong 🤷‍♂️

      I never watched the British one, and I don’t care for the American one, too cringey. Makes me sympathetic cringe.

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        The British one came first, hence my view. It doesn’t matter though cause you’re missing the point of the British one.

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    I live in a pretty mountainous area, but I can think of a couple blind corners on small hills near me. So probably the one on the way to the bakery while running or biking.

    But I do a lot of ski touring so I’d rather die on one of the big ones.

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    Using tabs for document management (f.e. Browsers, Text-Editors, …) was a mistake. It would be way better if every document (website, text-file, image, console, …) was in its own window, centrally managed by an intelligent window manager of the OS that allows quick and easy search between all documents like with a full-text searchable exposè-like view.

    Using tabs for document-management was a bad but necessary workaround because Windows is a horrible window manager (despite its name, ironically).

    Tabs work best when there is a fixed amount of them (Like with game settings: Controls, Audio, Video, Gameplay).

    I could go on for quite a while on this, but I think this is where I stop.

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    Anyone who puts always-on blue LEDs in electronics deserve the oubliette. People who put such LEDs in electronics meant for the bedroom deserve an oubliette that’a slowly filling with water.

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      That sucks, but you can put some isolation tape on LEDs.

      But I wish something horrible to those who thought it’s a great idea to make every goddamn electronic device make beeping noises.

      My water boiler, fan, washing machine. In my childhood I don’t remember everything beeping at every interaction. It makes me furious and you often cannot fully disable it.

      Once I tried to solder the beeper out but my soldering iron was probably not suitable so I failed :(

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        You can muffle the beeper pretty effectively with some tape, the old air fryer we had terrified one of the dogs because of the incessant beeping. My coffee scale by default beeps whenever you touch it, thankfully that’s 100% mutable.

        I also hate this.

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        The beeping! My damn air fryer has to let everyone in the neighborhood know that I’m making food at 3:00 am, I hate it so much

        Gonna ignore the fire alarm someday because I’ll just assume someone is air frying something

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      Allow me to try and persuade you. The problem is bright blue LEDs. It’s still stupid that they make them so bright, but the problem isn’t the color. A hypothetical bright red, green, or amber LED would also be a problem.

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        Shorter wavelengths hit different though. That’s why we have blue light filtering glasses, Redshift, etc.

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          a non-diffused, bright, monocromatic red led would still be painful to look at in the dark, it’s just that blue LEDs tend to be brighter + our eyes are more sensitive to blueish green light at night + the damn companies don’t bother putting a diffuser in front of the diode.

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        This is fair. I have had to put tape over a red alarm clock because it was too bright before. Those manufacturers also get the oubliette

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      Or just excessively bright LEDs. Just because LEDs are super efficient, doesn’t mean they should take them as bright as they can go.

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    There absolutely was a cornucopia in the fruit of the loom logo. That is the sole reason I know what a cornucopia is. It wasn’t on any table or in any thanksgiving decoration in my childhood, it isn’t a popular thing to exist in media, it was an obscure item that was a main part of an underwear logo.

    Anyone that says differently is objectively wrong. I don’t know why the logo changed and why besides a patent entry even the company itself denies it. I don’t really care if this is an alternate earth or aliens or time travellers or an entirely natural quirk of existing in a quantum universe, but I know for an absolute fact the sole reason I know what a cornucopia is is because of my underwear, and not because my dick is coincidentally called the horn of plenty.

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      I remember this as well, just like I remember Mandela dying in prison. Felt like I was Looney Tunes when I found out as an adult he was still alive.

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        Nobody thought Mandela died in prison. He was one of the most high-profile people in the world in the 1990s, constantly in the papers after his release from prison. How could you believe he died in prison?

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            But then how could he have been released to huge fanfare and shaken up politics?

            Do these people believe Narendra Modi died in 2009? It just doesn’t fit major world events.

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              Most people aren’t really familiar with the history of the world, especially the period of time that would correspond to ≈ 30-50 years before they graduated secondary school. I assume this is because there seems to be a pattern where you just don’t actually catch up to current events in many history classes.

              Also expecting the average person in the US to be familiar enough with world events to even know who Nelson Mandala or Narendra Modi are, is a good way to have a bad time. I don’t like it either, but as Carlin said, “think of the average person, now remember that 50% of people are stupider than that.”

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                Maybe the real Mandela effect is we were all tricked into thinking there are people out there believing Nelson Mandela died before leading the ANC, being president, winning the Nobel, and ending apartheid.

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          Steve Biko died in prison in 1977. There were a bunch of movies about Biko that came out in the late '80s to early '90s, the most famous was Cry Freedom starring Denzel Washington. Nelson Mandela was famously imprisoned, and released around that same time. My guess is that since most Americans don’t really pay deep attention to the news, especially world news, it just got all blended into a miasma of vague memories about some South African anti-apartheid activist.

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      I honestly believe this one is a gorilla marketing gimmick. Like they purposely went back and removed references to it so any time someone brings up the Mandela Effect their name gets mentioned.

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        Yeah, snopes isn’t a trustworthy source, and more importantly, there absolutely was. I know that for an absolute certainty, and gaslighting isnt going to work.