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Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @04:50AM (#50349978)
Madison is literally "Madi's son". Madi's daughter would have been Madisdottir.
Re:Making a rickroll laser on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:14AM (#50333659)
The frequency the transducers produces is too high to hear, but their amplitude is being modulated at a frequency you can hear.

Picture each 40khz wave as a discrete bar in a bar graph and the heights of each bar mapping out the sound you actually hear.

It's still too slow to go anywhere but the nearest solar systems to Earth, and even that would require you to spend a decade or two in space. For comparison, the longest continual time spent in space is 14 months.
So they can sell janky, cheap PCs without further ruining their own brand association.