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Agree that at 1/32 and beyond it was mostly a feeling. Only one of the 1/64 I felt like I just had it locked in and it wasn’t guessing. 1/32 maybe half and half felt like I didn’t have it at all vs felt it strongly.
ALT Screenshot of a tone differentiation listening test. Text reads: You listened to 32 sounds. Of those you guessed 30 correctly! You did better than 94% of people. Your average speed was 1.4 seconds.
This is your friendly reminder that the internet is unusable today. SO gives you this unreadable visual mess by default right now. 🤬
The shots people are doing with cinematic FPV drones just keep getting better and better: youtube.com/watch?v=oIoBwLK8…
Ah the summer uptime problem... Found this photo from a room in the EC basement one summer. Note the masking tape with the floor they came from.
ALT A few dozen computers haphazardly scattered on utility shelves in a basement utility room with a box fan zip-tied to a shelf for cooling along with window A/C units.
Haha I had no idea Apple did this. Nintendo (youtube.com/watch?v=ix5yZm4f…) and Sega (youtube.com/watch?v=-aLfKnJA…) both did a similar thing but with trademarks. What a lulzy protection strategy. 😂
TIL DNS over HTTPS was a thing, but mainly I am loving reading the Wikipedia page in my head as Homer Simpson.
