Ah good. Now I know what specs not to buy.

One thing about the pre-Internet times I don’t hear much about is how much more centralised our media were and how, as a result, people or ideas on the fringe of society didn’t get much attention. That includes for instance how the strange ideas about vaccines or ethnic groups now spread much easier than they did before the Internet, but also how trans* people and other marginalised groups find it much easier to find and support each other and be a united front against oppression.

In summary, I don’t thing that what has been termed “the great awokening”, nor the organised opposition against it, could have taken place before the Internet. At least not at this scale.

Sadly Microsoft didn’t specify where on the keyboard the key has to be.

In order to find out, hit the keyboard with your head; wherever your forehead touches the keyboard first is where the key is supposed to be.

The tweet wasn’t easily available on nitter (it wasn’t being highlighted).

It just so happened to be the canonical source for this piece of information. And it wasn’t being run by an antisemite at the time the linked tweet was being written.

Exactly. The good kind of failure.

Hyperloop was always a project to sabotage high-speed rail. Good thing it failed.

Oh hey, how about Madagascar?

Seeing as they melt the stuff, I’m not sure the grains need to be rounded.

The problem for chipmakers is not the sourcing of materials itself, but the purity of the sourced material. So don’t worry about public beaches disappearing into Intel’s hopper-feeder.

Nah, must’ve been thing

Their blog would work so much better if PINE64 stopped bundling their updates in one big wall-of-text post and would simply publish them as they came in (or were finished, in the case of a more in-depth article).

Such retention times are often probabilistic (ie. some percentage of bits have retained their proper value) and an “up to” value, which is negatively influenced by such things as the storage temperature and background radiation.

In practice, it might be that the only useful retention time is only a small digit number of years.

I misread this as stimulate and thought to myself that doing so would be highly appropriate for documented virgin Isaac Newton.

Why would cats keep humans? It’s not as if they like us or anything….oh wait.

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Indeed.

Same on the eyebrow raise, but instead like Seven of Nine.

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You keep using that meme. I do not think it means what you think it means.