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by qbrass 3y ago
Turns out 'vacuum Cleaner' isn't overly broad enough. https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4805:29...
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by qbrass 3y ago
I remember some website having them as a gag. It would show you some complex math equation but the answer was always 0. If you failed enough, because you didn't get the joke, you'd get a (1 - 1) or something simple that still work
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by qbrass 3y ago
They most likely didn't have blue eyes, but might not have had brown ones.
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by qbrass 3y ago
It's more like mopeds to motorcycles. If your moped went slower than 25mph and had an engine smaller than 50cc, they were treated more like a bicycle than a motorcycle.
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by qbrass 3y ago
This place is faker than wrestling and politics. I thought everyone knew that already?
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by qbrass 3y ago
Let the car drive itself, but do all the work of driving anyway so you can take the wheel when it screws up.
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by qbrass 3y ago
The boring version crept in while everyone was distracted waiting for the cool neon one from the movies to show up.
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by qbrass 3y ago
NOx can be reduced using non-electronic equipment. Well, you could do it in 1983, anyway.
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by qbrass 3y ago
You should add "using a webcam" when describing it. It's one of those things that seems too obvious for you to mention since you made it, but isn't apparent to everyone else.
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by qbrass 3y ago
You may also have learned not to try it at home if you've upgraded the water pump on your dishwasher with one made for a pressure washer.
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by qbrass 3y ago
What was left of Sega was bought almost 20 years ago for around $1B and is now part of a holding company using the Sega name.
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by qbrass 4y ago
Perhaps someone will give it vague instructions to create a character capable of outsmarting the smartest robot around, and it creates a sapient version of a fictional evil genius that escapes it's simulation and takes over the spacecr
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by qbrass 4y ago
You're using ones bought half a century ago and wondering why they're going broke.
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by qbrass 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=rss_gpt Apparently it's 2 a day.
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by qbrass 4y ago
At least they didn't put that in writing you can quote whenever it would work in your favor instead of theirs.
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by qbrass 4y ago
It actually happens less on this engine than piston engines because the lobe on the rotor kind of rotates over the combustion chamber for a while instead of moving towards or away from it. On the other hand, it exposes a lot of surface area
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by qbrass 4y ago
You not only get the downside of high glucose levels from the spike, but you get the downside of the insulin your body produced in response (or you injected because you're diabetic) kicking in as the spike falls on it's own, makin
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by qbrass 4y ago
Lisp has already walked the 8th circle of hell to write the first Malbolge program. Calling a C stub written in Rust using Lisp's C FFI is just your average Tuesday in comparison.
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by qbrass 4y ago
It'll match couples based on predictions of how subservient to machines their offspring will be.
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by qbrass 4y ago
Time travel and being a killer robot?
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by qbrass 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_known_prime_number The largest known prime number (as of February 2023) is 2^82,589,933 − 1 Like that, I guess.
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by qbrass 4y ago
While your body would also make noises if someone cut your head off, it's not a process your body evolved to signal everything around it to run.
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by qbrass 4y ago
\ = not. {Sol} = The Sun.
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by qbrass 4y ago
I've done that too, but even better was when I used Compiz on Linux. I made a filter that you could use to toggle any window or the whole screen to amber with a hotkey. It was much more useful than the spinning cube of desktops. Probab
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by qbrass 4y ago
"We're disregarding public comment over the matter after discovering the majority of the comments were from Russian bots."
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by qbrass 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRj34o4hN4I The future is 5 years ago.
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by qbrass 4y ago
It's John Shaft and John Rambo, btw.
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by qbrass 4y ago
It's where you start to learn that the whole series is actually about Duncan Idaho.
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by qbrass 4y ago
Not to be mistaken for HotBot Summer back in '96.
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by qbrass 4y ago
It's charged plasma in the upper atmosphere being ripped away by fluctuations in the magnetosphere. The upper atmosphere is mostly hydrogen and helium, so it's that after it gets ionized.

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