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For the second time in recorded history, global sea surface temperatures hit six standard deviations above 1982-2011, on January 6 2024
  • There was a hank green video about this a year back. Video link here, the tldr was that container ships used to use a type of fuel that was both bad for the environment but also really good at cloud seeding. More clouds shielded the oceans surface from the sun, artificially reducing its temperature. But in 2020 regulations made container ships move to a fuel that didnt seed clouds as much, so fewer clouds, higher temperature.

    So i guess one potential take away from that, if its right, is that the temperatures are not "suddenly" getting worse, but rather have been artificially depressed and we are only now going to what it should be.

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    Well, it looks like verification photos might be useless now.
  • GenAI made image of a verification post. The point i guess is that with genAI photos, anyone can easily make a fake verification post, making them less useful as a means to verify identity.

    The post originally is from reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/s/fEle6uaiR7)

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    Wi-Fi 7 Signals the Industry’s New Priority: Stability
  • If you can work through all of the weird issues it works great, but it can definitely be finicky to setup for some people. Im in an apartment and the wifi in 5ghz range is so congested i had stuttering every few seconds. Had to switch to use DFS and it was super smooth after that.

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    What are your favorite games of 2023?
  • Just finished vertigo remastered and it was great. Taking a little detour into asgards wrath 2 but once im done with that its vertigo 2, super excited

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    Climate-changing human activity could lead to 1 billion deaths over the next century, according to new study
  • Afaikt the paper refernced in the article is The Human Cost of Anthropogenic Global Warming: Semi-Quantitative Prediction and the 1,000-Tonne Rule. .

    From the abstract:

    The carbon budget for 2°C AGW (roughly 10^12 tonnes carbon) will indirectly cause roughly 10^9 future premature deaths (10% of projected maximum global population), spread over one to two centuries.

    The key part of this being that it specifies 2C of warming. According to the climate action tracker, with current policies are on track for 2.7 degrees of warming by 2100. So assuming no further polices to move back to 2C or less, the 1 billion deaths could be larger.

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    ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K
  • Not sure of others having been having issues with steam save file cloud sync but it seems like every other time i try to start the game it hangs on syncing errors. Wonder if it's just me or maybe a bunch of people due to the larger than expected concurrent player number.

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    Facebook's "Threads" has lost more than half of its users
  • I wouldn't be surprised if users of most new apps with a lot of hype follow this trend. Everyone jumps in at first, as hype dies a lot of users stop visiting, and after that is when # of daily users stabilizes and begins the organic growth. We are still in the hype dying phase, transitioning to normal growth.

    For that reason, I dont put much weight in headlines like this. It will take several more months or a year to really make a conclusion on whether the app is a success or failure.

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  • There are a lot of pizza posts in here but I figured I'd add my own since I lovemaking home pizza.

    The recipe for this is the same day pizza dough from Flour Water Salt Yeast (FWSY). Flour is Caputo 00 Flour.

    The tomato sauce is the smooth sauce from FWSY. Its a raw sauce but I found it really tasty on the final product, really easy to make if you have a blender, and much better than anything sold at the store.

    ~ 4oz of cold mozzarella on top (the cheese still broke a bit though, maybe I'll try freezing next time)

    I used a pizza steel and a 500 degree home oven (maxed out) for 1h before putting the pizza in. Baked for maybe 8 to 10 minutes. Can't remember exactly. I mostly just look at it until it "seems" done and take it out and then put basil on top.

    Pretty happy with how it turned out in the end, its not particularly round but definitely tasty.

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    Assassin’s Creed Mirage is five times shorter than Valhalla
  • Wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle isnt as meaningful of an experince as some thats maybe wide as a pond and deep as a pond. 100+ hours is useless if those hours are boring. Id rather they make shorter more meaningful experiences.

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    Sort by "hot" is inconsistent and often shows really old posts.
  • Top 6 hours is great but it’s easy to get to the end of all the post with the 6 hours setting, especially when you don’t subscribe to the spammy meme communities so I tent to lean more to top 12 hour or top 1 day sometimes too.

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  • Tteongmanduguk (떡만둣국), translates literally to rice cake (떡) dumpling (만두) soup (국). Its very often eaten in Korea on lunar new year. Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandu-guk

    Its roughly made by making an anchovy broth, adding large green onions (대파 [dae-pa] in korean, different from normal green/spring onions, but normal green onions are fine to use), a bunch of garlic, rice cakes, and then dumplings along w/ soup soy sauce and salt to taste and boiling for a bit. At the very end, you can mix up an egg like for scrambled eggs and pour it into the soup just before eating along w/ sesame oil. For decoration (definitely not required) I cut up the gim used for gimbap (different from the kind you might eat in a snack pack, less brittle) and put it on top w/ sesame seeds.

    The recipe i followed in is Korean (for those interested: https://m.blog.naver.com/ejs2122/223090632970) but this recipe is also good and has translations attached.

    The end result was really tasty and I will definitely do it again some day, but I will say two things I would do differently next time:

    1. Use fewer egg. I used two but one egg is plenty. You can probably tell from the picture there is a lot of egg.
    2. This soup doesn't take to storage well. The dumplings and rice cakes will quickly get very soft and mushy overnight it the fridge. My recommendation, is to make only enough to eat, or removing the dumplings and rice cake from the soup and storing separately.
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    Eggs and home fries have a special place in my heart as a breakfast food. Its my breakfast/lunch at lease a once a week. Goes great with hot sauce too :)

    The recipe in the picture is loosely based on Adam Regusea's home fries recipe. Main difference is that I don't parboil the potatoes. I prefer to cook the potatoes from raw, i prefer the final texture more that way.

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