A small piece of paper you lose almost straight away. Sounds useful…
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ThomasWilliams@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What technologies are constant failures but we can't stop trying to make work?
26·9 days agoPrinter drivers.
Apparently sending data serially at glacial speeds is impossible.
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.worldto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that a child born out of wedlock to an American father might not get birthright citizenship, but a child born out of wedlock to an American *mother* automatically gets birthright citizenship.English
1·12 days agoafter he was born.
So he does not qualify for birthright citizenship.
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some non-mainstream foods or drinks from your culture that social media isn't aware of and hasn't ruined?
2·1 month agoI think Irish Stew is safe. No one’s touching that.
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•When/how frequently do you replace your phone with a new one?
2·1 month ago2006 - 2G Siemens
2016 - 3G Samsung (2G turned off)
2022 - 4G ZTE (3G turned off)
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.worldto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space
1·1 month agoThe MacIntosh did not have an eject button famously.
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What did you stupidly believe as a child?
2·1 month agoIts upside down you know. The rocket engine fires upwards and what you see is after it pushes back, Newton’s First Law and all that (equal and opposite reaction).
If it pushed down, it wouldn’t work in space cos there’s nothing for it to push against.
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What did you stupidly believe as a child?
2·1 month ago“Benny Hill owns Thames TV, he named it after his Thames van” (pronounced to rhyme with “frames”).
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.worldto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany
2·1 month agoI think the term “The Nethetlands” was coined after the Reformation and Counter-Reformation when the northern provinces ,which became Lutheran, separated from the southern provinces which remained Roman Catholic.
The country was usually referred as “Holland” (a northern province) before then.
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.worldto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany
7·1 month agoAmerica was originally just the name of South America, then the English lazily coined the term “North America”.
No I know. The stuff made in the 1970s was utter garbage.
Anything with moving parts, after about 6 weeks you’d hear a grinding noise then a snap and a puff of smoke.
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•5. just put a tax on leaving, duhEnglish
2·1 month agoChuck em out the window and there’s a thousand people behind them willing and able to take their place.
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.worldto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•All the "useless" things we learn in school are there to teach us to learn.
1·2 months agoyeah i dont know how i couldve survived without eigen vectors
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's some small, completely meaningless detail in life that you can never unsee?
1·2 months agodeleted by creator
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's some small, completely meaningless detail in life that you can never unsee?
2·2 months agoPrior to LED torches, the flashlights on films were turned off, and the light was painted in later, as the beam wouldn’t show up on film anyway. This is doubly true in that night scenes were filmed during the day and they just filmed through a grey filter.
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.worldto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated?
11·2 months agoRecommended minimum for Win 11 is 4 GB.
The system does not need to use RAM to run multiple programs, it can use secondary memory.
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.worldto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated?
2·2 months agoA ZX-81 had 784 bytes of RAM. And no secondary memory.
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.worldto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated?
1·2 months agoYou do know you would need more RAM in that case right ?
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.worldto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•Agriculture uses 98% of humanity's land usageEnglish
1·2 months agoWhat do you think the buffalo live on genius ?

Thats okay though ? I thought the idea was to copy the number anyway