BlushedPotatoPlayers

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I checked it, it's not :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Lots of astronomical objects have names, but somehow it's asteroids and maybe craters that really got the naming hype, there are hundreds of them named after scientists, poets, the discoverer's teacher, you name it. It's a nice custom.

Disclaimer: I might be slightly biased, as I proposed my wife with naming one of them (asteroid, I mean).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

As far as I know there would be, it's just that nobody is using them that way

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (16 children)

I don't mind bashing Musk for a second, but as far as I know China follows a startup mentality with electric cars - the government supports the industry so they can sell cars below their actual price, and once they killed all their competition they can increase.

There's no fair winning against this policy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Don't know those, also, stopped doing night shifts (mostly) :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I miss the old Yahoo games site where during night shift you could play Canasta with probably some retired folks from the other side of the world

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (12 children)

But what do you do if that field is needed? A throwaway address won't work as it's easy to recreate. Buy your own domain and run a server?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I use a Kindle, but never bought a single book from them. I mostly use their transfer method for convenience instead of looking for a cable. As for books, I downloaded a few gigs of ebooks in html/RTF/doc format well before e-ink was invented, and use those with calibre to convert to epub. Pdfs are rather suboptimal for ebooks.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

Have you tried tiny macros with q and @? Syntax highlighting? Z-folds? Or turn vi into a hex editor with :%!xxd ?

If that doesn't work, try :divorce

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Use justtherecipe.com - it will not only cut ads, but also the sob story about the writer's grandmother and how they kept this thing a family secret for exactly 137 years until now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Sure, there are transmitters without Bluetooth. I somehow preferred the SD card, as it would hold a few Gb of music and needed no internet connection. The only downside was if I was driving short trips only for a while, and it stuck with a 20-min long Deep Purple concert track every time :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I think there was a 99% invisible podcast episode about that, it's prison inmates. For some never-changed rule they are only allowed music on cassettes, so they are probably the target audience mainly.

Just a few years ago I had an old car with a cassette player/radio, and from time to time I enjoyed the cassette player with some leftover stuff, but in most cases I just used an FM transmitter

 

Did nobody really question the usability of language models in designing war strategies?

 

I'm visiting for two weeks and roaming prices are insane, I'm considering getting a prepaid SIM-card. Can I easily grab one in any shop, e.g. at the airport/Walmart? What are the prices? Unlimited data would be nice, but I can survive with a few GBs too, I'd probably need it mainly for navigation.

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