Then Cortez finished the job when he explored from Florida to Texas. He also introduced wild hogs to the continent, which introduced trichinella parasites to native fauna. Truly one of the most ecologically destructive events in the past thousand years.

My experience is solely as a tech worker in urban areas. It’s hard to break out of that bubble.

The Netherlands is a special case because everyone knows English and “helpfully” switches when you struggle with Dutch.

Magnetic tape can last multiple decades. There’s no telling whether THIS magnetic tape lasted that long, but the medium is pretty hardy.

I literally quit playing botw and totk because of weapon durability. It adds nothing to the game except to make it possible I’m in an unwinnable boss fight because I forgot to bring more than five weapons. If I could use weapons for 5x as long it wouldn’t have made me quit; I’d just not like that part of the game. But some weapons lasting only 3-5 hits is fucking ridiculous.

Where

For as long as Reddit has been available there have been places that would scrape it and mirror deleted/edited comments. I don’t remember what any of them are so people would use them all the time to figure out what someone said before they were banned.

What about doing grpc / protobuf stuff

If you want to design and build large-scale industrial plant infrastructure like pressure vessels, piping, pumps, turbines, etc., most of the codes and standards you have to meet cost money to even see -and they are NOT cheap (in the tens of thousands of dollars for a full set).

In several jurisdictions, the standards are incorporated into law by reference. Most people think that you should have free access to read the text of the law that you’re beholden to, but what happens when a copyrighted work is incorporated into the law?

archive.org asserted the law should be free to access. However, they lost a copyright lawsuit brought by the American society of mechanical engineers because they were hosting copies of these standards.

So, to read the law you are beholden to in this sector of manufacturing, you must either pay a private organization ($$$) or memorize it (impossible); you cannot make copies for yourself to reference at your leisure

Yeah they cater to the woo-woo crunchy people because that’s the demographic that is likely to discover “alternative” footwear. I met one of these people on a hike, which is why I even knew they existed.

I saw that they looked comfy and that you could run in them, so I got some.

I’ve worn these sandals pretty much exclusively for the past ~7 years. I’m on my third pair.

Sometime between 2005 and 2008, someone from explosm (the cyanide and happiness guys) did a thing in the forums where they’d draw a comic panel and the forum decided what happened next by voting in the thread. It’d go on for a few days, and by the end the stories were always wildly off the rails. They did it ~3 times. Sometime later, they lost all of their forums, which included these threads. I’ve always wondered if there’s an archive of those things somewhere. They were absolutely legendary.

This is the deepest discount I’ve ever seen on Rimworld. Still not at the right price point for me but it’s darn close.

My wage doesn’t have a cost of goods sold line item. If I take in $5b and make $5.5b in revenue, $300m is > 1/2 of my net profit

Yeah in my first playthrough I arrested all the kids at the church (I was trying to impress Kim) which locked me out of a pretty significant part of the story

Woah how???

Mormons are Christians in the same way Baptists and Catholics are both Christians. It’s not different enough to be considered a whole new religion.

I’m about 3 hours in and the benches are far more generous than in the first game. Also corpse runs aren’t required; you just lose your money.

Command and conquer, then Clue, then home alone 2.

Fun fact, an exploit in the Lumines save file is how the original PSP jailbreaks worked