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New comment by cbarnes99 in "Quirks of Human Anatomy"

cbarnes99 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:41:32 +0000

The urethra is routed through the prostate specifically because it needs to occlude it during sex. The prostate swells during an erection to obstruct the urethra and significantly reduce the likelihood of a bacterial infection in the bladder. It's a very important function.

New comment by cbarnes99 in "Got kicked out of uni and had the cops called for a social media website I made"

cbarnes99 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:03:33 +0000

No investor with any brains who reads this post would ever give you money. And no job that reads it would ever hire you.

New comment by cbarnes99 in "Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs"

cbarnes99 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:40:28 +0000

You're thinking about foviated rendering. They're just doing foviated streaming. So it renders at full resolution, and only streams the parts that you're looking at with full resolution on the stream.

New comment by cbarnes99 in "AI misses nearly one-third of breast cancers, study finds"

cbarnes99 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:23:57 +0000

They did all have cancer