I think the most offensive detail is the tray. In the books the meals are teleported directly onto the tables so you can stay put with your plate and just get whatever you like. No need for a tray to carry your food to your seat at the table

I think it’s crazy that his life seems forever ago, but if he was still alive today, he’d be 91 which is well within the realms of possibility.

That reminds me of the old story where they positioned a PC opposite from the server and taped a pen to the CD drive so that opening the CD tray presses the reset button of the server. The PC would automatically detect when the server freezes and open the CD tray. Probably just a legend but still a great example for how a silly and simple solution that just works can often times be as good if not better than a sophisticated but over engineered solution

Not really. That bar was 62.5g while modern ones are 40g. So to offset shrinkflation you’d have to eat about 1.5 modern bars, not 3-4.

Maybe not any other book. Well, thinking about it, if they’d read the bible instead, at least there’s a good chance it stops them from becoming religious. So maybe ANY other book is correct after all

I’ve been injured by kitchen knives far more often than by nuclear warheads, so clearly kitchen knives are far more dangerous

Professional pizza ovens do reach temperatures between 350°C and 500°C. So 420°C isn’t unreasonable for a pizza, your oven at home probably won’t get that hot though.

While pulling teeth is still quite barbaric, replacing teeth uses quite a lot of modern technology. For example 3D scans and 3D printing are common tools in creating dentures these days

When the dot com bubble bursted, the typical internet speed was 56k modem speed and cellular internet practically didn’t exist. At that point the internet still needed years of exponential technological advancement to allow for stuff like streaming amd mobile services. The difference with the AI bubble is that they try to brute force their way out of infancy by throwing ludicrous amounts of money, energy and other recources at it instead of waiting for the much needed technological progress

So if Musk had 500kg of gold lying around in some vault and I’d manage to steal it in some heist of the century, he’d be only left with 99.99% of his wealth. Imagine: a whopping 0.001% of his wealth gone in an instance, how would he ever recover from that?

dO yOu gUyS nOt hAvE pHoNeS?

Maybe I’m gonna be bashed for this but isn’t this a good solution?

No, it’s an absolutely horrible solution. It’s yet another tax to the average Joe, playing out people with and without children against each other, while the rich continue to hoard more and more wealth, draining everyone else dry. The government is planning to reduce the benefits of parents at the very same time, so their goal is most certainly not some fairness or balance between parents and non-parents, they just fuck everyone over for the benefit of a few rich elites.

Additionally:

• if you’re severely overweight, some cardio routines can be a serious health risk. If you’re way too heavy, your joints won’t be able to sustain long walks or jogging
• slow and steady wins the race. Don’t expect yourself to lose all the excess weight in a matter of months. That’s almost impossibly difficult and even if successful likely no healthy. Instead develop healthy habits and let the results come in naturally over time

Nah, I’m 100% with you. I love riding my bike outside, the fluidity of movement, leaning into bends and corners, the breeze of fresh air and so much more that’s simply lacking on a trainer.

@grok What does this image mean?

/s

My desktop PC is already significantly more powerful than my Steam Deck, yet I game on my Steam Deck significantly more. I don’t see any point in upgrading my PC when indy games that run on a potato are more fun than poorly optimized AAA slop that somehow manages the lag the fuck out of the best hardware money can buy.

Is Meta even active in China or are they blocked by the CCP? If so you can remove 1.4 billion people from the list of potential users, meaning an even crazier market saturation

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I think the specific hash algorithm used doesn’t matter much, except that MD5 is quite fast to calculate. A modern hash algorithm would buy some time by being more expensive computationally, but wouldn’t change much otherwise. From how I understand the article, they effectively did a sophisticated dictionary attack on the passwords in the database, not brute force attacks on individual hashes. Probably starting with all the known common passwords and then continuing with some generator based on common password patterns. Otherwise I couldn’t explain how they cracked 48% of the passwords in under 60 seconds and needed the remainder of an hour for just another 12%.

Regardless, that’s no excuse for still using MD5 hashes today. The problem is that a sizeable chunk of IT professionals have no fucking clue what they’re doing. They might have heard that storing passwords as plain text is a bad idea, so they use the first hash algorithm they come across which happens to be MD5, unsalted of course. Unittests pass, everyone’s happy, software gets shipped, black hats are happy.

Win 10 being murdered is the important distinction. It’s not the first time Microslop released a shitty and unpopular Windows version, but previously you always had the option to stay on an older still supported version.