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[–] doggle 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The stylus on a surface pro 7 uses one.

[–] doggle 12 points 1 year ago

Just wait for Windows 10's service life to run out. That's when I'm switching full time

[–] doggle 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Many places actually do pump water uphill into reservoir lakes for hydroelectric dams. In that case it is a form of energy storage, a literal water battery.

Unfortunately, it's not always a feasible option. For instance, in the great planes there's not much of an uphill to pump the water to.

[–] doggle 10 points 1 year ago
[–] doggle 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Computers are dumb and need to be told how to take the data of an image (stored as a long series of 1s and 0s in memory) and draw it on the screen so you can see it. The people writing the software to do that needed an image to test with, just to make sure everything was working right.

Either because they were a bunch of lonely geeks in the 70s or they didn't have any other good photos to scan in, they used a headshot of a PlayBoy model. They couldn't have known that it would effectively become one of the first digital memes, meaning it's still semi-frequently used by graphics programmers (professionals and enthusiasts).

I can't claim to speak on the model's motives, but it's not hard to imagine that having their headshot used in perpetuity without consent would make someone uncomfortable.

[–] doggle 17 points 1 year ago

I wonder who's fault that is fucking BlackRock

[–] doggle 20 points 1 year ago

Huh. Maybe we should have some kind of safety net to prevent that. Makes you think.

Ah well, too bad. Good luck finding a park bench without a useless arm rest in the middle to sleep on, Rudy.

[–] doggle 14 points 1 year ago

I went to college for a stem degree... IDK if it's a scam, but I'm extremely far from happy with the value proposition. And my school was relatively affordable.

Of course, that's not a problem with colleges but with policy, imo

[–] doggle 9 points 1 year ago

Not exactly. In this context "possibly causes cancer" translates to something like 'we have no credible evidence that it does, but we can't prove that it doesn't.'

[–] doggle 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

We need to remove the word 'slammed' from the public lexicon

[–] doggle 21 points 1 year ago

Extremely volatile, as anyone expected. Since they started the IPO at $34 things aren't going bad at all so far.

Give it a year, and we'll see what the company's actually worth.

[–] doggle 77 points 1 year ago

Many parts of the Internet has become functionally unusable without one. And given online advertising's history as a vector for malware, as blockers are just the sensible choice.

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