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Loss leaders only work if they can make the customer spend money to make up for that loss. Commodity hardware can't be sold as a loss leader, because companies will just buy it up …

"The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason." - Seveneves "All this happened, more or less." - Slaughterhouse-Five

Similarly, when I moved from the UK to Canada, people often didn't understand what I meant when I said it was "half ten", which is the common way of saying ten thirty, at least whe…

What was the game?

That's the chromostereopsis effect, that is caused by how our eyes refract different wavelengths of light https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udpEnJXVWEk

You said it wasn't from Synthet, but they did release a video ~2 weeks ago which talked about exactly that. Super interesting, whether it's the correct video or not! https://www.yo…

Click "Editor", then click "Add a brush".

That's an interesting one, because it's misused more often than not, to mean what you are suggesting. It's actually meant to say if someone provides an exception, e.g. "No parking …

267, I was going pretty strong and had about 2 minutes racked up, until I hit a wall, and couldn't think of anything else. Thinking in groups helped the most, e.g. reptiles, flight…

Is there any chance you'd be willing to share that tool? :)

A tool that uses face-api to find the movie character you look the most like. Everything runs in browser, without any data being sent to the server. https://movie.jammaloo.com/

Moore's Law roughly states that we get a doubling of speed every 2 years. If we're 6 orders of magnitude off, then we need to double our speed 20 times (2^20 = 1,048,576), which wo…

It seems to me that it comes down to how the day of the week was picked. If they picked a random day of the week, and there was only one boy, then there is only a 1/7 chance of a b…

Hell yeah, this is great. I made a similar, but much worse, thing a while back https://jammaloo.com/DealWithIt/ It uses face-api.js to find the face, and then move the sunglasses o…

Add the -n flag to echo echo -n "To begin with, for example, and to make sure your SHA-256 hash function is working, the hash value or checksum of this sentence, from capital 'T' t…

Not disclosing it to postfix is the biggest issue I'm seeing people talk about. From the article they reached out to three of the biggest individual vendors, but there's no indicat…

Worth noting, that the myhouse.wad file, at least for me, does not contain the full level. You instead need to use the myhouse.pk3 file.

As a heads up, the download links to the technical preview builds of Docker seem to be incorrect on that page https://docs.docker.com/desktop/wasm/ . The Windows, Mac OS Intel and …

There is a great youtube channel that tests out different energy storage and harvesting setups, a lot of them focused around water. This is one where they use solar to pump water t…

The icon isn't the photos app icon, although the general shape is similar. >Add details cautiously. If the content or shape is overly complex, details can be hard to discern. Icons…

On August 22, 1994, David Donoghue threw an egg out of a helicopter onto a golf course in the UK, from a height of 213 meters (700 feet). He now has the record for the longest egg …

That's a lovely site, the design really gives me e-book vibes.

I've been playing with this app for a few minutes, and it does appear to save everything in plain text files, so adding it to git would be straightforward. I'm currently saving int…

If you were born in August 1978, you would currently be 42 years old.

There's a good video on this event, by [LindyBeige]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6QhW5S8Gk4 ). Their videos are very informative and entertaining, but very focused on Britain.…