spittingimage
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- Comment on 4 days ago:
Based on the last article I read about it smart dust is a group of networked sensor pods, each about the size of a pencil eraser, that you can scatter to collect environmental data. The collect and report readings for as long as their batteries last, or longer if they’re larger pods with solar panels.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 5 days ago:
“Please use my product so I don’t have to sell one of my yachts”.
- Comment on How do you distance yourself from your country when it doesn't represent your views anymore so you won't be viewed by the rest of the world as part of the problem? 6 days ago:
Have you considered being part of the solution?
- Comment on Just another "we are all going to die" prediction 2 weeks ago:
I worked on an ISP helpdesk in 1999 (including New Year, to my disgust), and we had dozens of people call in during the next few days because systems they relied on to run their businesses had failed.
The fact they were calling an ISP about their accounting software is probably an indicator of the type of thinking that caused their problem.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Seems to me you prefer texts that have a fact-presenting or conversational tone rather than a narrative. Nothing wrong with that.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
There are versions of Linux that don’t need any internal storage at all, eg. Puppy.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
For a start, all your friends have the same face. That just screams ‘pod people’ to me.
- Comment on Would you want to be Michael Jackson-level famous? Why or why not? 5 weeks ago:
Fame seems like a burden. Given a choice, I’ll take the money.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 5 weeks ago:
Can you think of a useful purpose it serves?
- Comment on gen x 5 weeks ago:
I don’t get it.
- Comment on Is Annie okay? 1 month ago:
Well, no. She was struck down. It was her doom.
- Comment on If you (a regular American citizen) had actionable, insider knowledge about the US Federal Government/Military and felt the public should know, how would you tell everyone? 1 month ago:
Sounds like a good way to get suicided.
- Comment on What was the stupidest form of US defaultism you've encountered in real life whilst they're abroad? 1 month ago:
‘On’ Spain?
- Comment on What was the stupidest form of US defaultism you've encountered in real life whilst they're abroad? 1 month ago:
When I was a teenager an American visitor wrote to our biggest newspaper calling us a shitty little 3rd world country for not serving hashbrowns. Which is how I learned what a hashbrown is. I can see why you like them, they’re in the same conceptual space as potato chips. Not sure you’ll get my buy-in as a breakfast food, though. So greasy!
- Comment on Why would anyone doordash food from a place that already does delivery? 2 months ago:
The online ordering system fritzes out at the last step and I’m not about to call and talk to them.
- Comment on When is the last time you had actual conversations with friends? 2 months ago:
Bout 12 hours ago.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Similar, but fewer spices in the mix. I prefer ketchup.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Makes sense. In my country tomato sauce has a lot of sugar in it and we put it on french fries. You wouldn’t want it in your dal.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
What’s tomato sauce in the US?
- Comment on Is school cafeteria food in America trash? 2 months ago:
Ever thought about not being that way?
- Comment on Is school cafeteria food in America trash? 2 months ago:
I swear to God, every comment I read about life in the US boils down to ‘slight adjustment made to orphan-crushing machine’.
- Comment on What's the weirdest argument you've gotten into with someone? 2 months ago:
I was working telephone company helpdesk. A customer called in demanding that I raise the priority of their ticket so the serviceman (who was in their house already) would finish the work faster. I made the mistake of trying to explain that’s not how it works.
- Comment on freelearninglist.org -- The Internet's Best Education Resources 4 months ago:
A lot of those things seem like infotainment rather than anything genuinely useful.
- Comment on I got banned from Fuck AI community, anything I can do? 4 months ago:
It was meant to be provoking to motivate people to try to argue.
Absurd. People don’t argue on the internet.
- Comment on What do you recommend I carry in my first wallet? 4 months ago:
A condom.
Apart from the obvious use, you can carry water in it if there’s an emergency.
- Comment on Do people eat this? 4 months ago:
1861? I wonder what the original poster’s ancestors were eating back then.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
If you are, so am I. I was part of the BBS scene, and it didn’t survive the transition to the internet. I’ve never felt so well-understood since then. Sometimes I dream about the LAN parties and summer picnics.
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 4 months ago:
I’m stupid because I’m younger than him and vaccinated.
Your friend is not for taking seriously.
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 4 months ago:
That’s not really much of a concern unless you aim satellites directly at it. There’s plenty of space in space.
- Comment on how to dust properly 5 months ago:
You can wash it off. Just hold the duster under a tap and run cold water over it.