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by lapetitejort 1y ago
Based on the images and knock-off ice cream bars I've seen, ice cream trucks seem to treat copyright as a suggestion
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
Have you heard the ice cream trucks with a random "Hello?" thrown into songs? I don't understand the purpose. Googling brought up some people saying it goes back to the 90s, or that it's specifically a Southern Californi
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
Well, for one, we've only recently started to look at the bottom of ships
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
We need to sneak a CT scanner, into the Fed...?
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
The only large number that would make the general populace care would be $30 watermelons.
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
I struggled with this recently. Someone was trying to patch up an error and force the program to continue. I asked him what was causing the error and he could only respond with how they were trying to patch it. I got so frustrated that I to
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
What you're missing is the will to go through with it. Even state actors would get spooked spending months or years setting this up. One slip-up and you're in prison for life. When your country's existence is at stake, the pr
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
No they don't, but they paid for a ticket, and any insurance amount is probably more than the discount of flying in a group.
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
In the flavor of religion in which I grew up, it's easier to just quickly pray for forgiveness than to bother justifying anything. The most vile genocidal maniac could pray for thirty seconds right before death and get into heaven. Why
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
Another solution is to accept our bodies as they are and not to promote unrealistic beauty standards in our media
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
DOGE is going to delete Jon Tester [0] from the list of historical senators [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Tester
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
My Something Awful account recently turned 20 years old and I signed in on its birthday for the first time in over a decade. I felt the same thing as you. I looked for some new feature or something to show the passage of time, but found not
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
I ran some calculations looking to see if there were patterns to the next lowest number (call that number x) and could not quickly find any. So even if 7 + k*2^n follows a predicable path to its next lowest number, that number is not curren
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
That is correct. I use pseudo-binary to represent the steps the number takes. Simply counting the number of steps is enough to get n, as all steps will have an implicit or explicit even step.
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by lapetitejort 1y ago
I've been fiddling with the Collatz Conjecture off and on for years now. I'm convinced I found a pattern that I haven't been able to find mentioned anywhere. Granted, that could be because I lack the mathematical language nee
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by lapetitejort 2y ago
> I think I am also right in saying that you can buy a road bike that is better than the ones permitted in the Tour de France. Recumbent bikes have been banned since 1934[0]! Remarkable machines. I'd love to ride one in a civilized
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by lapetitejort 2y ago
I had classes with take-home tests of three impossible questions, and standard tests of disguised regurgitation. The impossible questions are the ones that will really test your understanding of the fundamentals. It's the different bet
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by lapetitejort 2y ago
I would like to learn the skill to dodge harmful prolonged sound waves. A technique similar to the safety squint, but with your ears?
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by lapetitejort 2y ago
The article mentions that carriages had odometers, which I found just as surprising as pedometers existing in that era. I'd love to see more tech that we consider beginning in the 20th century that is actually older.
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Surveillance and the history of 19th-century wearable tech(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
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See also ε_0 [0]. 1/sqrt(ε_0*μ_0) = c, the speed of light [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_permittivity
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by lapetitejort 2y ago
I'm old enough to remember the supposed wire that ran up George Bush's back during one of the Bush-Kerry debates in 2004 [0]. Any time a candidate has a poor performance it's easy to create a secret earphone conspiracy theory
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by lapetitejort 2y ago
The Atari Lynx came out a few months after the Game Boy with a backlit color screen
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by lapetitejort 2y ago
For regenerative braking, a similar question would be how best to break to recover as much energy as possible.
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by lapetitejort 2y ago
I've been looking for years for a way I could make the tiniest contribution to game preservation. My most viable option seem to be getting a high quality scanner and scanning magazines, manuals, and box art. I've also noticed that
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by lapetitejort 2y ago
I just ran it and got "segmentation fault (core dumped)". Is this one of Joyce's silly sentences he's famous for?
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by lapetitejort 2y ago
Funnily enough, ground birds like chickens and quail do need to eat small rocks or sand. That helps grind up food in the gizzard. I had quails, and the hens ate pieces of oyster shell. That also gave them enough calcium to lay an egg almo
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by lapetitejort 2y ago
There's some good movies based around deafness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CODA_(2021_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_of_Metal And a bad video game: https://en.wikiped
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by lapetitejort 2y ago
The quotes around gigacasting implies that the word is unfamiliar to the reader. The article explains, and implies that the name is made up by Tesla: > Tesla has backed away from an ambitious plan for innovations in gigacasting, its pion
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by lapetitejort 2y ago
Depends if you have any useful info to them. Just a tip: they can sense your heartbeat and know when you are lying

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