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.

Yeah, I deserve that. I’m just gonna leave my typo. Thanks for the laugh!

1024 = 2¹⁰

FYFY

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.

That sounds like uncontrolled dosages of Desoxyn.

Oh hey, how about Madagascar?

“Clearly these numbers have a ritual purpose”

I liked the concepts in Sword and Mercy though. The various species and their oddities and taboos, the technology, the characters. It’s just that somehow you can feel that Leckie didn’t have as much of a clear goal in mind where the story was going.

I’ve read them too. I thoroughly enjoyed Justice, but had trouble finishing Mercy because it just failed to engage me.

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

I have one (came with my display) and it works really well. Plus it’s safe for their nanotextured displays (which are sensitive to having their nanotexturing worn off by cloth that’s even mildly abrasive).

Day can be seen holding the prime radiant as they leave the vault.