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Re:How we plan to de-extinct the Dodo bird on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @08:22AM (#34610021)
Isn't this the premise of the Red Letter Media Star Trek Trivia Show plot? https://youtu.be/Ko0fKuy8z2U?t=72
Re:Bell Telephone launched a mobile phone during the 1940s on Saturday January 28, 2023 @05:37AM (#34556590)
The talking on the phone bit at the beginning reminds me of Erlang, The Movie: https://youtu.be/xrIjfIjssLE?t=205
Re:A Programmable Markup Language for Typesetting [pdf] on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @05:46AM (#34425304)
Have you tried org-mode?
Re:Tail Call Optimization: The Musical on Sunday January 08, 2023 @10:36AM (#34299936)
I think the true goal is to bully Guido van Rossum into putting it into python. (See his reasons to not include it here: http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2009/04/tail-recursion-elimi...)
Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @08:28AM (#34065550)
In Germany they're calling them selves 'Querdenker' (lateral thinkers).
Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @03:42AM (#34063266)
>You forgot the trigger warning! Bro, don't use that phrase. "The phrase can cause stress about what's to follow. Additionally, one can never know what may or may not trigger a particular person." Consider using "content note".
Re:Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @03:43AM (#33620483)
To unlock that feature you have to buy a second phone.
Re:A court just gutted years of California's housing efforts on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @05:37PM (#33443260)
> warned that they may have violated the Housing Accountability Act, which says that cities generally can’t deny or downsize housing projects that comply with whatever rules are in place at the time the project application was submitted.

This sounds like a law which states that you can't break the law.

2023 will be the year of emacs on the desktop.
There are reports that a cable was severed. (https://twitter.com/gebauerspon/status/1578706469570351104) But it's just a tweet. Don't know for sure.
Re:Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @03:28PM (#32999971)
Little reminder that our (German) gas storage was only filled at 25% when the war started. On an unrelated note, we had sold big parts of that infrastructure to Russian companies.
Re:Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @03:20PM (#32999846)
1. I'm not saying the US did it. 2. I just want to remind you, that you're talking about a country literally renaming their national dish to "freedom fries" over France not wanting to join in a war, started under provably false pretenses.
Re:Should we let cars use the road as a projection screen? on Monday September 12, 2022 @10:03AM (#32810423)
1.3 million micro-mirrors per headlight :D God forbids we (Germany) just build good cars that get you from A to B.
Don't forget the eighth 'The Fast and the Furious' movie.
Re:Goat Rental – Hire Goats on Friday August 12, 2022 @07:30AM (#32436919)
The German proverb is also about a "Bock", same word, same meaning.
Re:The Reason Why Are Trucks Getting Bigger on Thursday August 11, 2022 @10:30AM (#32426234)
Looking like it's going to hurt you, while being safer, is not a contradiction.
Re:Patreon cuts deep inside creators’ pockets on Saturday June 18, 2022 @10:44AM (#31790236)
I would say it's the other way round. Since creators need an income, patreon recieves a huge amount of free advertising from small and big influencers/youtubers/etc
I'm just going to interpret "[autopilot] couldn't deal with something" as "autopilot would also have crashed the car in that situation".

To me a situation in which autopilot would have crashed, gave control to the driver, who couldn't "save" the bad situation, is just an autopilot crash.

Re:Are you the asshole? – AI powered answer bot on Thursday April 21, 2022 @02:22AM (#31106507)
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"AITY for telling everybody org-mode changed my life?"

>NAH I get why you feel that way, but I don't think it's entirely true. For me, org-mode has been a good tool for keeping notes, to-do lists, and other types of lists, and that's about it. I don't really see it as a life changer. I see other people using it for other types of projects and to get organized, but it's not really changed my life.

That being said, I don't think it's a terrible thing to say, and I don't think you're an asshole for saying it. If it makes you feel better, go ahead and say it.

Re:Drone footage of Tesla factory on Saturday April 09, 2022 @07:48AM (#30967199)
This is just a way to SEO away the shorty airforce! (see https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/comments/9t5f8c/latest_fr...)
Re:U.S. Surnames with No Vowels on Sunday March 27, 2022 @09:49AM (#30820215)
Of course there are only 100 people named SMRT left. The other ones died.
Re:My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll on Monday March 07, 2022 @05:13AM (#30586043)
I believe that in 100 years people will look back at our consumption of anti-social media the same way, we're looking back at doctors refusing to wash their hands before delivering.

Your body can deal with many things on it's own, but once there are cities with a million people in them, and railroads and steamboats zig-zagging between them, hygiene has to be a conscious effort.

Much same way, it's not your fault, if your mind can't handle all the shit the internet landscape throws at it.

One easy way I found is to have an older smartphone (S4 mini), without any cheap mobile internet access. (This works very well in Germany, as we have almost no free wifi). This way I only allow myself podcasts, which I chose to download before leaving the house.

There is also a (conspiracy?) theory about the movie Frozen and the rumor that Walt Disney froze his head to be reanimated at a later point in time,