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    I've tried 'em both. They're interesting, but I'd rather drink water. I don't think I metabolize stevia leaf extract quite the way I want.
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    " 'Lysol' acts in a way that makeshifts like soap, salt, or soda never can." Nuh uh. Root beer* FTW!!! *Diet!!!
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    Depending on the duration of "short", you could be describing normal behavior, Saemantha. It takes some time for the SL servers to send your viewer all the data for a new location and all the avatars there. Objects in the scene will initially load in gray, then get textured. Avatars will show as white (SL viewer) or orange (Firestorm) clouds until their data arrives. If I TP into a busy venue, it can take a minute or more for everyone to rezz for me. Are you experiencing delays only in the loading of avatars? Is this delay much greater than you've experienced in the past?
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    I'll say you're freaking adorable, too. I don't want you bearing the burden of announcing that all alone.
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    I never engage in impulsive behav
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    Point it at someone else. That's what I do!
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    When I was little, I was taught that "To the casual observer, it is intuitively obvious that..." often precedes nonsense.
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    Satan tried to get Jesus to jump, too! According to the story. You don't think this is a case of Satan trying to devour his own children?
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    I was on Mac's roof yesterday, for spring cleaning. As I climbed over the peak, heading towards the gutter, the little voice way in the back of my head suggested I take a running leap. Once I'd settled into a crouch to scoop out the muck, the voice kept nagging me to just roll over the edge. Honestly, there's nobody more dangerous to me than me.
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    I did wonder how that happened. Spoils of a fight?
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    It's hard to explain how I've made it this far through life when I can't remember how to edit a post.
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    I've never seen such a clean wing print in my yard. I've seen both owls and hawks swoop in for lunch, and I've heard an owl eating a bunny on my chimney at 2AM. The prints I've seen in my yard have indicated tussles on the ground rather than the clean sweeps I've seen during daylight. Long ago I saw what I think were eagle prints in the snow on the beach, where I imagine it snatched a seagull. It was a fairly clean print wider than I could reach, with a distinctive tail strike. I've also directly seen an eagle snatch a gull off the water. During alewife die-offs, gulls would crowd the beach and eagles would crash the party. Eagles were rare then, but alewife die-offs were not. Now the alewife populations are (thankfully) way down, and the eagle population is (thankfully) way up. ETA: I agree with your assessment. The arc of the wings favors raptor over owl and the deer was clearly going opposite the hare. I've never seen prey tracks escape an angel of death print, have you?
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    I wonder if he's peeved about that hilarious wayward feather. Have you ever seen "Angel wings of death" out in the snow?... Those will make you think.
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    I grew up without TV, but with the NY Times on the kitchen table every morning and NPR on the radio all day long. When I moved to Milwaukee during graduate school and married into a television set I discovered that local news, print or televised, was day old bread. In the 90s, I became a semi regular contributor of weather/nature photography to one of the local network TV stations. As a thank you, I was invited to tour the station. During the tour, I asked the news anchor how much autonomy the local crew had. I was a little surprised by his response, not because he was irritated by my question, but because he refuted the idea that there was any corporate control. I made things worse by expressing dismay that some nebulous corporation was not responsible for the station's local coverage. Years later, that station's weather man (the channel for my photography) retired into my neighborhood. I've kidded him about the station's breathless reporting of impending doomsday weather. "Yeah, the network made it pretty clear that fear sells. I'm happy to be in retirement, enjoying snow days as much as my grandchildren." I think it's fair for you to accept some blame for the demise of your local paper. I'll take some blame for never contributing to mine. We shouldn't take all the blame, however. Changing technology has allowed large corporations to exploit both economies of scale and human nature to deliver what we didn't know we wanted... dopamine.
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    Be thankful I'm little.
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    I watched this little lady for a half hour this morning. She finally woke enough to determine I'm a devil and darted off after yelling "Ma!!!!"...
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    Oooh, that shows how far I've fallen behind Intel architectures. I imagine the same is then true of M1, with synchronization happening at the L2 cache/main memory interface.
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    Synchronizing CPUs running at different clock rates takes transistors and time, so you don't want to introduce different clocks unless there's a clear benefit. Since modern CPU cores can pause all or part (like floating point/vector units) of their operation instantaneously, that's the preferred method for reducing power consumption. When system load in a multi-core system does not require all the cores, some can be idled and their portion of the thermal power budget becomes available for those still running, allowing the clock frequency to be increased. Since idling can be done instantaneously, tasks that don't need all their CPU core's ability can "sleep" when they've completed their work, waiting for some event to wake the core again. Though idle cores still dissipate some power, and increasingly so at higher clock speeds, they don't dissipate nearly as much as active cores. From a thermal perspective, idling is indistinguishable from clock scaling. Over the years, it became clear that there are kinds of algorithms that don't ever need all the facilities of high end CPU cores, and the Big/Little or Peformance/Efficiency class split was introduced. My M1 Pro based laptop has eight high performance cores and two efficiency cores. I don't know if both classes share the same clock, but even if they don't, only one synchronizing bridge would be required between the two classes. Finally, synchronous operation doesn't preclude multi-threading. Sync/Async and single/multi-threading are different concepts. https://www.baeldung.com/cs/async-vs-multi-threading
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    Even my slippers wear glasses...
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    There's a difference between the purpose of life and the purpose of my life.
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    You know me, Ceka. The moment you mentioned "amount" you hadda know I might give you the numbers.
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