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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I find it funny that they thought to copy "Hi-Fi" when fidelity isn't really how 802.11 works since it has an entire digital layer, though now I kinda of miss that they dropped it lol.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Buddy had one of those barely FCC compliant wifi "debugger" boards, so for a while we actually had an entire armada of FBI surveillance vehicles, vans, and a helicopter on every 2.4ghz channel lol.

I dont know if fake SSID advertisements really impede actual stations, but it was pretty funny seeing 15 SSIDs coming from a single, almost thumbstick size board.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

War Thunder devs refusing to look at 50 year old NATOPS manuals because of "confidentiality" and then proceeding to buff Russian slop has me convinced Putin plays the game to cope with his losses in Ukraine.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I mean its literally right at the beginning in Surah 2:75 and 2:79, which is why I remember:

Do you covet [the hope, O believers], that they would believe for you while a party of them used to hear the words of Allāh and then distort it [i.e., the Torah] after they had understood it while they were knowing?

So woe to those who write the scripture with their own hands, then say, This is from Allāh, in order to exchange it for a small price. Woe to them for what their hands have written and woe to them for what they earn.

  • So the words of allah, such as the Gospel cannot be corrupted. So if the Gospel was corrupted, Islam is false. If the Gospel wasn't corrupted then it doesn't "confirm" the Qur'an at all, so Islam is false. This is the Islamic Dilemma.

Is such a weird argument that makes no sense from what you just provided. AFAIK the quote you gave is talking about "words of Allah", which indicates his power and decree, ie everything that happens is because of him, and it will happen. Nowhere does it imply that his revelation cannot be altered by humans.

I would talk about the Qur'an also explicitly stating about its superceded position, but you quoted your first quote wrong:

Surah 4:57 is:

But those who believe and do righteous deeds - We will admit them to gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they abide forever. For them therein are purified spouses, and We will admit them to deepening shade.

So I'm not really sure which quote you meant to use.

As for the 7 versions, those were specific subdialects on how the pronunciation slightly changed that you can still find today but no one uses since they decided to standardize on one when writing it during the first caliphate iirc.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The problem is I can actually name quite a few books I regret reading, but none of those were recommendations lol.

Most recommendations I've gotten are average, maybe a handful of mediocre, but nothing like "why did I waste my life on this?"

Regardless, here is a book (series) I think had to be a prank written as a joke submission that somehow got approved and somehow made enough money to make a complete series: https://www.scholastic.com/andygriffiths/chapter_butt_wars.htm

Seriously I want you to read the Scholastic excerpt and tell me with a straight face the writing wasn't a bet to see if the publisher would pass anything if you slapped a fasade of a poop joke title onto a book.

I cannot emphasis this enough. This doesn't read like a children's humor book, it's literally just a drunken action packed story that the author did a word substitute to see how far this could go lmao.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Uh, I'm pretty sure the Qur'an is pretty explicit in naming the Bible and Torah as corrupted text that was modified with intent to change the meaning and resultant laws.

I mean its entire basis is that it has remained unchanged ever since it was revealed, hence there are no versions/revisions like the Bible.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Trying to figure out if this means Trump's brokered peace with India & Pakistan will also crumble just as fast, or if they'll wait another 5 years before doing another air battle.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I'm more surprised they aren't spam locking to have the RWR jukebox tracking alerts lol

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I thought it was funny how it was some magical conglomerate of Iran and Russia, and how the plot literally included the exact nuclear refinery target that was bombed earlier this year.

Ignoring all the insane air fight stupidity, the only thing I could think about during the whole movie was the WKUK Nerf Nuke spoof.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It fits the bill of cheap and reliable, but not "modern"*. The heat retention is very useful, and handling the surface of the pan itself is easy when you're using it to cook constantly.

Non-stick more often than not is going to be cheap and modern, but not reliable because high quality non stick pans are expensive (or people opt for enamel instead because of low quality PTFE/PFAS that both scrapes off easily and can't handle high heat which is dangerous, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-eBmPSqd4g)

I would argue the "upgrade" to cast iron is carbon steel, which is much more common as a wok material. You get a nice balance between affordable, reliable, and modern.

  • *By modern, I just mean the underlying technology. Cast iron is pretty old and has its own flaws you have to deal with, and it lacks some of the nice features of newer materials.

gas vs. electric vs. induction vs infrared…

The tier list is:

  • Induction (most responsive heat control)
  • Gas (Slightly less responsive heat control
  • Infrared (Electric, much slower)
  • Electric (direct heating element, as slow as infrared but lacks the heat retention, have not seen these outside bargain basement cheapo units landlords like to put in apartments solely to screw with your ability to cook food normally)

Gas and Induction is always preferable because infrared is slow enough to be at the best annoying and at the worst less forgiving if you mess up the temperature. Induction comes with the great advantage that it doesn't require a special gas line, and you can actually buy single unit cooktops for pretty cheap, but do keep in mind that induction only works on magnetic metals (won't work with pure copper or aluminum).

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Tangentially related, but theres a reason why Pakistan's field marshall has the internet nickname of "Hafiz Whiskey"

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

The absolute pain of opening an old forum thread with an exact solution/guide and all of the images are long gone.

Of course asking for the same solution on reddit will get you a 300 long chain of useless comments.

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