lauha

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If you're there just floating in a tin can, high above the world, and planet Earth is blue, is there really nothing you can do? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

First person bored in orbit
First unzip in orbit
First jizz from orbit
First frozen dick orbital drop
First dickless man in orbit

Linux boots in 4.76 days on the Intel 4004 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Doom has even been ported to 8088

TIL about the Mikiphone, a portable wind-up phonograph invented in the 1920s that could be stored in a small case that could fit in your pocket. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

At least it didn't have bluetooth audio delay

What's your default pocket loadout? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Phones

How many?

OpenAI threatens bans for probing new AI model’s “reasoning” process in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 month ago

"OpenAI - Open for me, not for thee"

their motto, probably

TIL about Sebastian Münster's 1540 map of the Americas, the first one to show that North and South America were connected by an isthmus and the first to call it 'The New World.' in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Also make the map shape and style match that times maps.

TIL about Sebastian Münster's 1540 map of the Americas, the first one to show that North and South America were connected by an isthmus and the first to call it 'The New World.' in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That explains the pearl harbour

If you could regulate something relatively inconsequential, what would it be? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

"inconsequential"

The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Some would not call that living

"Quick" security check... I had to do 15 of these... in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Yes, a magic wand

Intel’s Troubles Complicate U.S. Chip Independence in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 85 points 2 months ago

You can't trust capitalism to take care of your national security

What is the (subjectively) weirdest word in the English language? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

You give too much credit to natives on writing proficiency. Neither of those are particularly hard words.