And the explanation for 26 is that it’s the version for 2026. Seems like a good choice when settling on a common number for all the operating systems. Similar to MY26 in cars etc.

A period is only 1 byte, so a CD can hold hundreds of millions of them.

You can remember it because it’s the letters from the four nitrogenous bases in DNA: adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine.

It’s great! You always have full confidence in yourself, your actions and your convictions.

Nice. I hate that. I know my ideas suck and insincere praise just pisses me off.

Not until news media starts quoting posts on Bluesky as much as, or more than, they do Xitter.

There’s still the force of habit and larger engagement on Xitter for many established names.

And that’s fine. Bluesky is in its last phase of proving the important point. Once all the regular journalists move away from Twitter, it will have been proven, that migration away from a defacto “standard” platform can happen, even though it’s a pain in the ass.

But Ben didn’t have the spine or brain to stand against Putin.

I learned recently that there is such a thing as nontheist Quakers.

Well, if they didn’t care about being flooded with machine generated trash, they wouldn’t have set the limit to books you can self publish down to a mere three per day.

Here’s a basically fully automated service where you can generate a shitty book for $200. You can even have it printed as a paperback for more useless waste or have it AI narrated as a shitty audiobook.

https://www.bookbud.ai/

I hate everything about it.

This can only mean that Google is about to axe a product that people like and instead introduce a new chat app.

I assume by “fail” you mean “didn’t succeed in preventing California from building an efficient high-speed rail system”, right?

You probably underestimate the amount of effort Apple puts into not doing this, to maintain user privacy, and for a good while their services have suffered for it.

As an example I’d highlight the year in review feature between Apple Music and Spotify. “Replay” is significantly worse than “Wrapped” and I believe the difference is data handling is the key differentiator. However, there are some advances in balancing privacy 2ith utility, as highlighted in this post from Apple ML research: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/scenes-differential-privacy

There’s been talk multiple times of turning the Matthew Corbett series by Robert R. McCammon into a series.

I could see every book being turned into a maybe 10 episode season.

A microwave already freezes when you set the time to a negative number.

And it would have a great collaboration, but also a friendly rivalry, going with my robot butler.

I’m no good with kids, but basically turn the things on and off a few times, to make sure they don’t get stuck from mineral build up or something. If you need to change your faucet, you need to be able to turn the water off and this is what these valves do.

I bet with time you could just hold the pill flat on your hand, reach back and your asshole would gobble it up like a horse.

Invent a language, then teach it to a stranger against their will.