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Futility is resistant

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  • My brain made a tiny satisfaction reaction after learning about this.

  • Oh, we’re a bit bad at spelling. We meant “thongs”, so they won’t get stuck when they breach to breathe or snipe.

  • That was very, very likely what the parent comment meant. The correction was unnecessary.

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  • That’s because swamp-ass cat was rejected.

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  • If mods know what their rules mean, they could describe them more clearly so it doesn’t become a philosophical debate.

    For example, “Zero politics allowed”, or “No politics without science as the main theme”.

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  • Somewhere I read that bread has most of the essential nutrients for humans, except for vitamin C. That would mean that prisoners who were sentenced to bread and water could last many years if they had fruit occasionally.

    I guess the kind of bread, and the reduced caloric needs of prisoners, play a huge role here.

  • Some continuous glucose monitors are MRI-safe, and they keep working after it. Just adding another data point.

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  • It’s not mythology, testing was crucial so you wouldn’t ship a broken cartridge, which was very costly than a patch download. It made financial sense to test throughly, and more than that, develop carefully.

    I think the only guys that made a working game in a week were Atari VCS developers, and IMO it wa a combination of the limited hardware, and the skill of a few legendary programmers.

    Today we get games that dwarf the entire software stack of computers decades ago, but they’re made loosely, knowing they’ll ship broken and need patch after patch until it doesn’t make financial sense, and then they’re abandoned.

    My most recent experience is Fallout 76 on Steam, and by god it is a bag of bugs despite being the bread winner of the franchise. For example, a long-standing bug is that once it starts, and offers to press any button to sign in, you have to wait about a minute before doing that, otherwise it will likely hang. This has existed since launch, and after numerous patches it hasn’t been addressed yet.

  • User declines using the application and escapes downstairs, robot pursues, falls down and can’t get up [mechanical tantrum with loud pig squealing]

  • It doesn’t mean “never improve”, though.

  • Since I saw that primates have a sense of humor, things like this don’t surprise me as much, because it’s not like they’re similar to us, it’s that we are very similar to them. It’s natural to share many traits.

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  • I’ve always wondered if cells created viruses, or if viruses are a natural consequence of complex genetics. They look so useless, having no need to reproduce, yet killing cells to do it uncontrollably. They don’t even feed, what is their purpose?

  • – Sir, you need to walk a bit to recover faster.

    – Take my signs already and don’t interrupt me!

  • More pragmatically, time travel for a casual party would be risky because you’re carrying germs many generations apart. Time travelers would wear full-body suits or risk dramatically altering history. They could not drink or eat anything.

  • Imagine your time machine has spiders at the time of your arrival, because it had a small defect that grew into an opening after several years.

    “Ha ha, I can’t see anything, but it seems like time travel tickles”

  • Let’s Encrypt is a trusted, established alternative, it could replace Microsoft for long-lived software certificates.

    Or tarnish its name associating it with malware and bad actors, who knows?

  • For USAians, a fifth of a kilogram is 200 grams, almost two quarter pounder burgers.

  • Whatever Ubuntu 22.04 LTS shipped. I know we have many tools to micromanage energy in Linux, and I’ve used them in the past, but I think it’s fairer to compare Windows vs Ubuntu out-of-the-box, without tweaks.