lambdabeta

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[–] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 42 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (13 children)

My favourite part has to be the fact that a box of poptarts contains 8 poptarts...

[–] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I feel like everyone is underestimating 5. It's any toaster. Make a killer robot that happens to have the ability to make toast and you've got a remote control death bot.

I'd make a whole set of devices that happen to also be toasters. Why not add some heating elements and springs to an elevator, a car, a plane?

[–] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

I was thinking the same thing. Although the graph does have some taper to it and maybe "most" schools end around the 6th?

[–] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

The Cluefinder series, Minecraft beta from 1.4 to 1.6, BOTS, Secret of the Solstice, Realm of the Mad God, Skyrim, Mindustry, FTL, and currently CS2 and PokeRogue. Though I'm sure I'm forgetting at least one.

[–] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

500km... About 4 hours. Was never home though.

[–] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Honestly not necessarily the worst idea. I don't know about Iran, but I have family in Israel. The general consensus (backed by recent polls) is that Bibi is just keeping war going so he can stay in power. The average Israeli is not as genocidal as their leaders. They just have to choose between mandatory military service where they will likely just patrol a border and not let aid through but probably not die or directly kill anybody, or commit a major crime by dodging military service and risk their lives. At 18 years old I don't know if I'd have the courage to take that risk. But Iran is different, they can actually cause risk to "important" (read: wealthy/powerful) civilians. Could sour the public on Bibi enough to oust him. Maybe.

I'm honestly worried mango Mussolini might try the same thing in 2028. Maybe he'll get food poisoning from eating a Danish, call it an assassination attempt and declare war on Denmark. "We can't have an election right now, we're in the middle of the GREATEST war we ever fought against the MEANEST nation in the world. We're gonna WIN. MGAA (make Greenland America again)!"

[–] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago

How is #6 not specific to IDEs? I've never had vim, np++, or any other dedicated editor freeze; and I've used them to edit multi-gigabyte log files before.

[–] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, what is the original?

[–] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

Any of the cluefinders games, or gizmos and gadgets. Plenty of other edutainment classics do it too. Outside of edutainment, only NHL2000 and Halo: CE come to mind.

[–] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

Dvorak with caps lock as a dead key here. No programmer's Dvorak despite being a programmer... Never quite made the leap

[–] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I grew up in Durham region (Bowmanville specifically). This absolutely checks out. Luckily some of Bowmanville is somewhat walkable-ish (about all you can hope for in Durham), probably because of the sizeable Dutch immigrant population of old Bowmanville I'd guess?

[–] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 12 points 7 months ago (8 children)

This is always my thought when I hear that kind of response too. "Replace US hegemony" great. With what? China? Russia? India? Iran? Maybe the EU would be better, but I don't see an EU hegemony replacing US hegemony successfully any time soon. I feel like in a lot of ways the US dominated world order is/was a lesser of 2+ evils... We might be about to find out what the greater ones are :/

 

Maybe here we can draw the leaf without corrupting it. For reference I scaled the wikipedia picture to 100 pixels wide and anchored the 8 corners of the side borders. Hopefully we can make it look good!

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