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If you watch it, there's an air of excitement and surprise given off by the person on screen that comes across even though their voice is heavily masked. Makes me think the dude was jacked to the tits when they finally saw it working.

It’s melting point is 85F, but I’ve found it difficult to melt with body heat. Haven’t played with it out of the vial yet though. Maybe it’ll be easier when it’s thinner.

That's a shit prank, and people like your nan don't understand how pranks work.

A good prank should allow the subject to join in the fun. Some stuff came up this year, so my plans have to be delayed until next year, but I bought a vial of gallium that I'm planning on molding with a cast of one of our kitchen spoons.

So my wife will wake up and see that her coffee melted her spoon. Little miraculous and inexplicable moment in the morning.

(Gallium is non-toxic)

For anyone struggling, lemmy web interface added the colon into the URL for the blog post link. Here's a clickable version without the colon:

https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/how-unix-spell-ran-in-64kb-ram

I think talking about it as a data throughput issue is a good take.

Like, I can ask siri to set a calendar event faster than I can scroll through calendar pages and type a description, but flicking a lightswitch will always be faster than asking a computer to.

A believed a guy who said he just got out of jail and needed $10 for a bus ride home. I was 17. Found an ATM, gave him the cash, saw him walking around the mall with his girlfriend 20 minutes later.

We bought a shower mat that reeked of plastic offgassing, so we left it outside to air out for a month, and it still smelled like shit, so we threw it away.

It adds that vidoes … should not be made for the “sole purpose of getting views.”

Now do the rest of the internet.

Yeah, and I see no mention of type-safety and concurrency.

“Hey photo department? We need a pic of a kid who totally looks like she’d swallow a penny”

To use your car metaphor, there was a time when you basically needed to know how a car worked in order to own/operate one. I'm talking like the 1910s-1920s. They were unreliable, simply made, manual transmission, hand crank start, and needed a lot of maintenance.

Millennials grew up at a time when you needed to have some understanding of how a computer worked in order to do basically anything.

I suppose the issue is that the car metaphor breaks down because a vehicle really only does one thing. Push pedal and go. Maybe worry about snow conditions if that affects you.

Meanwhile, computers can still be used to do thousands of different tasks and the only thread tying all of those tasks together is that they're done by the same machine. So knowing fundamentals about the machine gives you access to a lot of capability vs. just memorizing how to do a few tasks.

Sure. Either way, if the goal is to keep older cars on the road, I don't think EVs are impacting that. If cars are useful, they get driven. If there isn't a market for them here, they get shipped overseas to developing markets to be used there. Nobody is throwing away functioning or serviceable vehicles.