thatoneguy

TIL there are player pianos that don't require pedaling and paper rolls like mine does

"American" is a poor demonym because "America" is both North and South America. USian would be a better fit and "Native USian" would naturally include all indigenous and non-indigenous people in the US.

Yeah, I remember. I still have Usenet postings about the genetic algorims conference back in the '90s and some magazine clippings about researcher from the University of Sussex where I first learned about genetic algorithms back in high school.

Yeah, I remember it being a fourth option alongside the others but I quit just before Google lost its serifs and its soul

Methamphetamine was invented in Germany in 1937 and the German military at the time was very quick to adopt its use.

How does that matter? It's doing a thing already done nearly 70 years ago but at its own pace.

I bet it will get to the moon cheaper, too, and the Muskonauts will use less expensive lenses than Hasselblads to take photos.

Reality has an anti-Elon bias

You forgot to add "yet" unless you can predict the future will 100% accuracy. Only once it's sold to someone else can you really say he didn't do it.

The data's longevity was probably helped by being a potent source of hate to power Musk's AI

Is it fair game to just return fire and sink the crawlers? A few thousand connections via a few dozen residential proxies might do it.

It doesn't take a lot of juice to send signals straight up. Iridium has been using transceivers to do similar IoT things for decades and my old Inmarsat satphone used a fraction of a watt to get my voice up to geosynchronous orbit just so someone standing next to me on an outdoor landing could hear a message from space.

Film worked for a long time (and still works) despite the availabilty of film printers.

Amazing! Literally the premise of the HBO show _True Blood_ from the 2000s. Japanese scientists invent artificial blood which allows vampires to "come out of the coffin".

OK, I guess we'll wait and see about the vampires. But the blood substitute and Japanese scientists thing was spot-on, at least.

In Soviet Union, university education free but came at cost of living in Soviet Union

- Yakov Smirnoff, probably

My-not-much-better-than-placebo sertraline sure has been working its placebo-like magic for 30 years next year.

How long are these double-blind studies? Surely they're not years long to show that the placebo effect is maintained over a decade or something.

I've owned a Leica Q2 and Q3 and the former was what finally got me to ditch my phone's camera and get back into photography. Leica's color science is some of the best out there, even if their technology stance is a bit like Apple's in that they're not the first to do anything but often the first to do it right.

That said, I outgrew the Q3, sold it for pretty much what I'd paid for it and bought two Sony cameras and some lenses. I got tired of "zooming with my feet" and the Sony 70-200mm GM II shoots like it's from the future.