In 2016, Burridge and Linden defined the criterion as the time to reach 0 °C (32 °F; 273 K), carried out experiments, and reviewed published work to date. They noted that the large difference originally claimed had not been replicated, and that studies showing a small effect could be influenced by variations in the positioning of thermometers: “We conclude, somewhat sadly, that there is no evidence to support meaningful observations of the Mpemba effect.”

I’m with those guys.

Sensible soccer was the GOAT.

I’m like 95% sure that yo don’t need to worry. It’s going to be fine.

This could be my comment lol.

Yeah I was in school during the 90s. It was bad. Very little awareness back then.

Discord is actually a great counterexample to my point, I hate that app.

Yeah those things do seem shit. Pretty happy here on Linux with the dark theme and Dark Reader extension on Firefox, can’t remember the last time I had to contend with a white background.

I’m mostly a command line guy, but whenever I have to interact with one of them modern, simple GUIs I’m quite happy with how much thought they put into cleaning them up so there’s not a million icons and menus and stuff. I also like that there’s more space (to some degree, you can obviously have too much space), because space is a good visual separator and my eyesight isn’t getting any better.

Seems to have gotten worse around here actually. The nurses and doctors are getting worse pay and worse working conditions every year, and many quit. They’re also closing down hospitals because of “efficiency” or something.

Right. At least WinAmp (actually XMMS, the theme compatible clone for Linux in my case) was kind of fun.

Right, I can believe that. I was thinking of making ice cubes, which is also something I heard.

I’ll start by saying that GUIs have gotten a lot better since the 90s. Many people seem to think Windows 95 or 2000 was the pinnacle of the user interface design, but it was clunky and terrible and I much prefer literally any contemporary GUI.

Also taking a toxic drug that is meant to kill parasites surely has side effects, so you maybe should not give it to people who don’t need it, especially if they’re already sick.

I will believe that warm water freezes faster only if I see it with my own eyes. It just goes against everything I know about thermodynamics.

I use Firefox (and I’ve used it since it was called phoenix, and I’ve used the free software mozilla suit before that).

BUT I’ve been very unhappy about the corporate leadership of the project for a long time. I don’t trust them at all. They regularly do user hostile shit like ads and tracking and endorsing DRM, then act surprised by user backlash and backtrack partially, only to try again a couple of months later.

Many people who work there are clearly shit-brained corporate silicon valley types, and the leadership most likely cynical money-grubbing grifters.

I hope the various free software degoogled chromium forks all come together to make a good browser. A browser that works on both Linux and Android, that can sync all the stuff between both, and which has no tracking and good ad blocking.

Good answer. I’d be useless as a peasant. The nobility is probably not going to give me a job, and even if they did, I wouldn’t like working for those fuckers. I could try to become a craftman’s apprentice, and maybe some of my education might be useful, but this also seems shit and hard, and they don’t just take anyone anyway. Monks would probably let you in more easily. My Latin is terrible, but just my overall education would probably be at least somewhat useful. Monks do all sorts of different stuff, I’m sure there’s something I could do.