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That was a really great piece of game design that grew out of a problem picked up in playtesting where some players didn't realize they were meant to keep the cube with them to sol…

Someone told Trump they left the EU so in his mind they aren't part of Europe anymore.

Surely the rules in the US would have to be the same; you can't enter the intersection on a red, but if you're already in there you can exit. Yellow is meant to be "only enter if y…

Why pay people to do this when you can make a CAPTCHA that requires them to do it for free? Google must have a really good data set from all those "click the boxes containing X" te…

Prevent you from playing the game.

At this point it would be easier to start a new company and import the positive things from Boeing. They've lost their "engineering first" mentality and that's not something that i…

I can remember it, I think in setups where the TV signal was passed through a VCR (so it could be recorded) and then into the TV. If the VCR detected there was no useful signal it …

I imagine such a weapon would be more of a suppressing fire tool than something intended to shoot accurately.

There are also coil guns, which present a different set of benefits and challenges than railguns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coilgun

Was your character an orc?

As someone who used the ability to setup custom piece arrangements in Battlechess to see all the animations: Place the enemy king in middle. Use four rooks at the edges of the boar…

If he can get DOS installed and CDROM drivers working he should be able to install at least windows 95a. Windows 95b preferred to use its own drivers (or drivers loaded from a flop…

They also mention reduces ventilation needs; if mines don't have to handle diesel exhaust in confined underground spaces that's another win.

From memory setting a UID to 0 was a way to effectively have multiple root accounts on a system. sudo is a much better solution to the same problem so using uid 0 in this manner is…

I buy glasses online from Zenni optical, who make them in China. (there are other companies that do this, but Zenni is the one Iv'e used) They start at $6 for frames and prescripti…

You also become responsible for any unpaid property taxes, because they are attached to the property rather than to the person who owned it when the debt was incurred.

3D-printing ranges from fragile resin pieces to metal durable enough to use as rocket nozzles. This article was about 3D printed titanium, so the resulting piece is likely stronger…

If the victim doesn't laugh with you afterwards then it's not a prank, it's just being an asshole.

Some storage systems work by holding a charge, and electrons have mass. In practical terms it night as well be 0 but in silly discussions on the internet terms it's a very small no…

Some weather maps added purple to Australian heat maps a few years ago to fix that lack of range.

> Quartz crystals used to be hermetically sealed. Are they sealed against helium though? It can get through a lot of materials that more common gases can't.

My family's first Pc has an LED to show turbo mode was on, and the second had a big green LED display that changed from 16 to 33. Even without that the difference was very obvious,…

Tanks are called tanks instead of "Caterpillar Machine Gun Destroyers" so the initial design could pretend to be a project related to mobile water tanks which gave an excuse for ne…

States have the right to make laws that agree with the ruling party.

I'd be much happier with 5 high quality megapixels instead of pushing megapixel count as an indicator of camera quality.