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There was a guy who made a forum bet he could land a Cessna 172 - first try - with nothing but MS Flight Simulator experience. Here: https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/34/other-oth…

Huh, it's pretty good at lassoing the intended subject. Even picks out a computer rendered vehicle well: https://xhroot.s3.amazonaws.com/roci.png Original here: https://steamcommun…

So if I go down the IOT aisle at Best Buy and say "Ok, who is reading a city in Montana a letter?" everything will light up?

Seems temporary: > Amazon Europe has requested we temporarily shut down operations in order to lighten their burden while they try to get necessary products into peoples hands. > S…

Maybe they should have gone with a slight tweak of the 1963 version https://cdn.bmwblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/BMW_logo_... and scored retro-nostalgia points with the older…

Heh, the icon is named "audible": "displayName": "Dynamic command execution", "detectedIcon": "fab fa-audible" It's probably unintentionally used by an engineer unfamiliar with the…

> IronPython, IronRuby "IronRust" would be amusing

I-1000 is literally called "Affirmative Action and Diversity Commission Measure" https://ballotpedia.org/Washington_Initiative_1000,_Affirmat...

Javascript in FF/Chrome: > (-80538738812075974n)**3n + 80435758145817515n**3n + 12602123297335631n**3n 42n https://caniuse.com/#search=bigint

And my favorite: Coloring CD edges with a green marker to improve sound https://www.stereophile.com/reference/590jitter/index.html

Yeah, I filed https://github.com/google/boardgame.io/issues/9 . The source in github does check if the cell is filled [1] but the demo code must be from an earlier version that did…

As were the originally proposed names "Cadabra" and "Relentless" ( http://www.relentless.com still redirects to Amazon).

https://s3.amazonaws.com/xhroot/world.html Happy?

Presumably, one could download the eBook to every book they've purchased on Amazon, even if they no longer own the print version (e.g., resold or lost). I'm hoping O'Reilly, Mannin…

It's because Firefox doesn't support mp3 via the HTML5 tag due to licensing IIRC. IE supports mp3 but not ogg. Chrome supports both.

In The Selfish Gene, Dawkins proposed that grandparents - obviously well beyond child bearing - can affect their gene propagation by caring for their grandchildren, at least indire…

http://ssl.gstatic.com/gb/js/pwm_377e54339fe6909b01c5d023b52... uses goog.structs.SimplePool, so you know at least that part uses Closure, http://closure-library.googlecode.com/svn…

What's supposed to trigger this sound? http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/static/punch-go.mp3