oh_fiddlesticks

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Comment · 15 days ago
They had to down tools because they found roman ruins or something and consult archeology to proceed.

Whats interesting is that this bridge build effectively partitioned the city. You had to drive to the city limits to the ring road, drive around the edge to access that area. The local council found this agreeable, and they rolled out an entire traffic policy, which also reached international attention, that effectively splits the city into sectors, forcing drivers to drive around the crust to get into their destination slice.

Comment · 2 months ago
A bit of an unconstructive, unwarranted jab, if I may say so.
Comment · 5 months ago
Gib probably has a handful of servers scraping, but the place is so small, it almost it eclipses normal traffic
Comment · 5 months ago
Go nad or go home
Comment · 5 months ago
We've never seen randon mutation and selective pressure ever really build anything, only trigger and exploit existing adaptive rulesets... pushed to extremes mutations may often yield a benefit in a narrow situation but at some greater cost, like throwing the backseats out of your car helps you accelerate faster, but reduces the overall utility and flexibility of the use of the vehicle. Im sure if we started honestly looking at organic systems as the product of thought, it would yield a greater understanding of them that we would be able to leverage in industry.
Comment · 5 months ago
If you're interested in poly phasic sleep, the book "Life Time" by Professor (of circadian neuroscience) Russell Foster goes further.
Comment · 6 months ago
It doesn't really matter, because their target audience does not care about that.
Comment · 6 months ago
"This is the one thing we didn't want to happen"
Comment · 6 months ago
Its a nice start, but there is a certain irritation in that the popup text is directly over the puck. I felt like I was losing more because I couldn't see the puck under the combo counter than anything in the game.
Comment · 7 months ago
> Fortnite "Usage"

I like this choice of word, it seems fitting.

Comment · 7 months ago
This is just advocating being lazy in communication. Which is entirely expected and in harmony with our time starved work environments.
Comment · 7 months ago
So a company decided to send cold outbound to a targeted audience from a dataset they gathered from a public social network... so what?

> "Scandalous behaviour" really? In the same year as the Epstein files?

Wishing a companies total demise over such a trivial matter? Honestly?

All this prissiness about some unwanted emails...

Comment · 8 months ago
My favourite was a search result based ai digest suggesting that during storms large cargo ships could survive for days until eventually 'disappearing'; Perplexed (intended), I followed the citation, the source actually said that the storms themselves would persist for days until disappearing.
Comment · 8 months ago
Seems like Ecclesiastes 5:12 playing out, once again: "Sweet is the sleep of the one serving, whether he eats little or much, but the plenty belonging to the rich one does not permit him to sleep."
Comment · 9 months ago
After almost a decade of upheaval and change in the world around us, it's almost of comfort to see that the use of weasel words on OoL science headlines remains a reliable and permanent fixture.

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