stankmut

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[–] stankmut 11 points 2 months ago

The difference would just be how you think of the process. I sometimes shuffle around the numbers to make math easier, but the shortcut for adding 9s just feels different. Instead of 9+7 = 10 + 6, it's more like 9+7 = 17-1. It feels less like solving it with math and more like using a cool trick, since you didn't really use addition to solve the addition problem.

[–] stankmut 17 points 2 months ago

They are running a 2004 week, looking back at tech from that era.

[–] stankmut 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What do hackers have to do with cruise control? The article is talking about the adaptive cruise control feature that can fully stop the motorcycle when traffic stops and then start moving again when traffic begins to move. The motorcycles don't even necessarily have an internet connection.

[–] stankmut 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was just reading about the Red Bull case the other day. It seems like they settled in order to make the stories all about how they 'lost' the 'red bull gives you wings' case, which sound like a stupid lawsuit, rather than go to court and have the media write about how Red Bull doesn't do anything that a cup of coffee won't do. They even still use the 'gives you wings' slogan.

[–] stankmut 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's a play on a format of post that goes:

I asked my crush out on a date x years ago.
Last night I just asked them to marry me.
They said yes both times and I'm so glad I had the courage to speak up.

As you read the story, you generally assume that they were dating and eventually got engaged. The picture shows a couple that you assume is them before you finish reading. Then you get to the line about how they said no both times and realize it's not the typical boring engagement post, but a joke about being a creep.

[–] stankmut 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The poorly designed feature itself isn't about showing ads, it's just showing the top item of the news feed. The news feed can have ads, depending on what the developer publishes to it, which is why I never scroll down to that section.

[–] stankmut 2 points 3 months ago

This was a survey. They weren't gathering data without consent.

[–] stankmut 4 points 3 months ago

It's hard to imagine police officers not backing their boy.

[–] stankmut 1 points 3 months ago

Luckily builders would set aside space in buildings just in case someone had an idea for how to move between floors without a ladder. Made retrofitting stairs a breeze. You can't even tell that they were added later most of the time.

[–] stankmut 2 points 3 months ago
Strands #196
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[–] stankmut 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

By drop-off, they mean the top two countries have over a billion people and the third country only has 330 million.

[–] stankmut 2 points 3 months ago

There are benefits to them being enchantments. They are permanents, so can bounce it back to hand and replay. They can also be flickered and there are creatures that can relock/reunlock the rooms. Being an enchantment instead of something new allows you to interact with them with spells like disenchant and you can splash them into enchantment decks instead of them being stuck to one Room deck forever.

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