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What is your favorite dinosaur? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just want to give props to OP for playing the role of host/MC very well.

Researchers discover battery-free technology which harvests power from radio and Wi-Fi signals for low-powered devices in c/[email protected]

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

Yeah, you can also find "crystal radio" kits

radio receivers that use only the received RF to produce sound (no external power source).

Bacon tho in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Imagine I have two choices: end world hunger, or end world hunger and kick a puppy. If I choose to end world hunger but also kick a puppy...well I'm kinda a dick, right? Ultimately I did a very good thing ending word hunger, so on balance, my actions are "net positive." But the choice I actually made was to kick a puppy.

Now, I need to eat. So I have a choice: eat yummy food and don't kill an animal, or eat yummier food and do kill and animal. The choice I'm effectively faced with is, "kill an animal for better taste."

It's totally up to you to decide if that is a good choice for you personally.

If course it's not always so simple, and there are financial, cultural, and health reasons that complicate this. But for some folks (like myself) that's kinda how I view it.

Jeff's magic money machine in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Property can take a while to close

offer to title in under 30 days is on the quick side.

Of course, you could probably close very fast if you offered 100M cash on a 10M property...

xkcd #2962: President Venn Diagram in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

My favorite SMBC Venn joke leaves the diagram to the imagination: https://www.smbc-comics.com/?db=comics&id=1917#comic

The word "slyly" looks very aesthetically pleasing. What are other handsome words (any language)? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Mitch Approved™

Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Oh for their cloud services absolutely, you're right.

OpenAI’s latest model will block the ‘ignore all previous instructions’ loophole in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 49 points 8 months ago (2 children)

"...today is opposite day."

Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world in c/[email protected]

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

Can you program some keyboard-presenting device to automate this? Still requires plugging in something of course...what a mess.

Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

As much as it pains me to say it, it's not really Microsoft at fault here, it's CrowdStrike.

lets push updates on a Friday, surely nothing could go wrong in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Probably coincidence? It sounds (???) like this is a pretty simple fix on Windows.

The number of times I have borked my Linux machines so they wouldn't boot is, well, greater than zero for sure. Any operating system can be bricked to the point of requiring manual intervention by software with elevated privileges.

the data does not lie in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

*The data do not lie

(I know, it's acceptable to use it as is done in the title, but the cartoon dude seemed to me the sort of fellow who might have opinions about the Latin roots of words and whatnot.)