“Birds fly south for the winter” was the second example I remember of my classmates having only learned things with northern hemisphere bias after moving to the northern hemisphere.

The first was my classmates not grasping that while it was spring here, it was autumn back home.

This is why we should be ranching echidnas.

Can confirm. I once ate in my lab and accidentally ate a capacitor I absent-mindedly thought was a piece of broccoli.

My favourite Euphorbia

Apple is (rightfully IMO) far more notorious for taking something that’s been around for years already, adding it to their product line (or as a feature in a product), and then pretending they invented it. Almost every company will copy features/products from other companies, but they don’t usually pretend to have invented the whole thing.

Example: Gmail. It was revolutionary, but not because Google really invented much (or indeed claimed to). Rather, it was revolutionary because it provided features that already existed in paid options (e.g. full IMAP support, large mailbox sizes) for free, with a good web interface.

Plague Inc was one of the things that kept me sane during lockdown.

In case you missed it, it’s an xkcd reference

At a previous job we had an unholy combination of the last two:

HTTP/1.1 200 POST /endpoint 
{
  "data": null,
  "errors": ["403", "unauthorized"],
  "success": false
}

That’s the idea of those “which pictures contain bikes?” ones and the ReCaptcha (where you had two words from books). In the book one, one of the words is known and the other is not. They’ll present the same unknown word to people until they get a clear answer from many dozens or hundreds of entries, using the known word as a control. Then that other word goes into the known words category.

In astrophysics it’s even easier.

Hydrogen, other.

Chemistry fans: And obscurium is really cool, because it has three stable isotopes right near each other, but it’s not really useful for anything…

Chemists: why are my results so weird? Oh, right - hydrogen can have a neutron sometimes.

I’m mad that Android is developed behind closed doors and then dumped out there for us rather than being developed in the open.

My sister overcools her house so she doesn’t have to run the AC at night (but she lives somewhere hot enough for that to matter - I can just open windows most nights).

I charge my electric car on it (which I guess is stacking a bunch of batteries). I’ll also cook during that time to use the energy on that.

It really depends what one’s doing, also. For many things, including many games, 30fps is fine for me. But I need at least 60fps for mousing. Beyond that though I don’t notice the mouse getting smoother above 60fps, but some games I do have a better experience at 120fps. And I’m absolutely sold on 500+ fps for simulating paper.

If someone’s saying that about 30fps they should just set their refresh rate to 30 and move their mouse.

This is the opposite of the time my friend posted a link to my personal site on Digg. It was running on a Pentium 1 with 128 MiB of RAM on a home internet connection.

Around me the main current use case of these rooms is for landlords who have broken up a bigger detached house into multiple units to separate these units with 2-3 doors leading off into different units.

Carrying the body of a smaller plane in a larger plane isn’t an antipattern either. Airbus does this between body assembly and attaching the wings.

Yeah, it’s easy to do. I just wish for once that this particular app would do it for me automatically

Yeah on my Linux machine I’ve had like 2 apps want to run on startup, and both of them had little checkboxes in their tray menus to disable that behaviour. If anything the bigger struggle has been that every time I change machines or distros I have to manually get yakuake to start on login again.