GrappleHat

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I recently learned to whistle as well! (in my late 30s). I'm bad at it, but finally can make a recognizable tune.

More recently though I've learned to cut my own hair :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

My favorite Halloween playlist. I return to it every year!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I don't remember all of the details, but I thought it was essentially the water's surface tension that foots the energy bill when climbing a paper towel or a capillary in a tree.

The surface of fluids like water are unhappy. Molecules on the surface would much rather be deep in the fluid because on the surface they have "dangling" Van der Waals & polar bonds to one side. You can calculate the potential energy of the surface due to all of those dangling weak bonds, & that's the energy that is used to climb a capillary (the energy isn't free).

I could be misremembering though, I admit. School was many years ago...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Nice clothes. She likes Free People, Anthropology, & Sundance. I try to choose a dress or jacket or something I think she might like (always get a gift receipt though!)

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Small things. Sounds. The temperature of the air. The fact that my side isn't hurting right now. The kids costumes who were just trick or treating at my house.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

I'd rather teenagers be trick or treating than doing other stuff. If they come to my house they'll get candy for sure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Russia is sanctioned for invading Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

If it's a topic I'm super passionate about & there's no community on Lemmy then sure. But I'm not going to start a new Lemmy community every time I want to post a random dog photo or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm Lemmy 99%. Can't do 100% because sometimes there isn't an equivalent community on Lemmy so I have no choice but to use Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ugh, you're right! I didn't realize. I'm going to give SpamBlocker a try instead. I just downloaded and flipped through the options and it looks better than "Yet Another Call Blocker" anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

You're right, I hadn't noticed that.

Looks like the F-droid version is way behind, because you can see on their GitLab page that the project is still maintained. It'd be best to get the app directly through GitLab I suppose, or add an F-droid repo that has a more up-to-date version.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

It can block hidden numbers, if that's what you mean by "private".

I hope you like the app!

 

I'm trying to run a program in wine and getting the error 0024:err:module:import_dll Loading library jmptojava.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\SAS\\JMP\\10\\jmp.exe") failed (error c000007b)

The missing jmptojava.dll file is in the same directory as the executable. Do I need to set a Windows environment variable or something so that it can find it? Any other thoughts?

 

I've read a few books about simple living/minimalism but I just finished 'Walden' and wow... it's beautiful. Many patient observations of simple natural phenomenon are wonderful meditations and potent lessons. It seemed just as relevant to present times as to when it was written. I finished feeling like there's so much more to extract from that book, definitely going to read again!

Maybe you were aware, but if not I wanted to share with you fine folks in case you've missed this gem like I had. It is in the public domain in the US (published 1854) so you can get the ebook or audiobook for free from Project Gutenberg!

 

I enjoy Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup played in the terminal with ASCII graphics. I wonder whether there are other hidden gems out there which don't get attention because they are "ugly"?

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