ColeSloth

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. The average NES game was only 200kb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Old school coding and game programing was magic. The clever tricks that nes game programmers came up with to work around hardware limitations was phenomenal. It went way beyond the bushes and clouds in mario being the same thing but in a different color.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hamster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  How many magnets you think there are that would just be lying under a fridge not stuck to anything, but small enough to fit in a hamsters mouth and powerful enough to hold a hamster in place without even getting to directly contact metal. Let alone that like 99% of hamster cages are plastic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Automatically Crack Safes With This Autodialer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Locksmiths have had these for years. They’ll typically show up, attach the device, and then come back in a couple of days after it’s racked through all the possible combinations and unlocked it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hina releases sodium-ion battery solution for commercial cars, able to be fully charged in 25 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not for any of the above. Grid systems will have many batteries and not need excessively fast charge/discharge rates. Evs still can’t really use them because they’re simply too heavy for the energy density. Longer range evs already need beef8er suspensions and chew through tires from the weight. Going even heavier with even larger batteries isn’t very feasible compared to the alternatives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hina releases sodium-ion battery solution for commercial cars, able to be fully charged in 25 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re far more useful as stationary power supplies, so really, it doesn’t matter much in most cases that it can fully charge in even 2 hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FL wants more child labor⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’ll cause them to drop out and become permanent cheap labor that can be exploited due to not having a highschool diploma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Advice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Don’t worry. I won’t point out that you spell ‘a lot’ as two words, not one.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tough choices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like college.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If the public got to hear first hand all the black humor that goes on in the EMS field, society might further collapse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I enjoyed the fighting simplicity of the original pokemon games. I could recognize and know the names of 151 pokemon and their weakneses/strengths. Now there’s too many pokemon and too many counters and hybrids. Too much work to keep track of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tough choices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can already speak to every animal. It’s them speaking back that’s the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Back at my school in the 90’s you just bought a 10 pack of the cheap black Bic mechanical pencils for like $3 and you were set for the year if you didn’t lose too many. They never really broke and you didn’t have to refill them if you didn’t want to. They also never clogged and if you weren’t an idiot you didn’t try to use too much lead length to where it would break off.

  They were simple and easy and always sharp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg is about to be rebooted. Thoughts?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gods no. Why bounce between corpo sellouts?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their cases - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except cds had better audio quality, you could shuffle or skip, they didn’t where out or get “eaten” by the player, there was no rewinding or having to flip the tapes over, you could install cd changers in your car so you wouldnt have to swap discs around, and there was still no preventing you from recording a cd onto a cassette if you wanted. My old boombox could bootleg that shit easy as could be.

  No one in or out of the industry wanted to keep cassettes. By comparison, they were trash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suspicious Tesla Sales Surge Triggers Canadian Government Investigation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yall got reading issues. It says one of the dealerships sold 1200 in a single day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🐸 time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Autopsies always find that they have defective hearts or heart valves if it isn’t an aneurysm. Healthy athletes never really drop dead without a pre existing cause.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You guys have to end it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can use one foot for the gas and brake at the same time. I’ve drove manuals for over 20 years. Including split shift commercial trucks that didn’t have hand brakes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🐸 time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh. I got ya. Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You guys have to end it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Handbrake start is only if you sucked at driving a manual ;-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🐸 time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. Very much so. Same for cold and high altitudes. Our bodies really are extra badass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weeb⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Such a weeb thing to say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's easier to shoot, a bow or a firearm?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I never had much trouble with it. No harder than a slingshot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's easier to shoot, a bow or a firearm?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bows are not “incredibly hard to use”. There’s a reason 8 year old cub scouts get to shoot them and manage to hit a target. Weaker draw bows, obviously.

  However, for an adult man a 40 pound draw on a compound bow is pretty easy. That’s also the bottom end of draw strength for hunting. In fact, most teens could pull it back. Typical is about a 60 pound draw.

  Now aiming takes a bit of practice with a bow or a gun or a rifle. Also, if you’re using a compound bow or a traditional bow.

  All of them are not too difficult to learn, but accuracy wise you can learn to be accurate with guns and rifles faster than with bows. Bullets have a much flatter trajectory than slower moving arrows, so if you aim at something you think is 30 yards away, but it’s really just ten yards further out with a bow, you’ll miss. A bullet has almost no change in trajectory over such a small change of distance. Rifles also seem more intuitive to aim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meow⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meow⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have one cat and a doggy door so it can go in and out as it pleases. A stray cat figured out it could use the doggy door.

  I have two cats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another relapse... (again)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in my day, that family size box was about what the size of the regular box was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This used to be peak commercial humor⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Taco Neck Ssyndrome commercials were also great, but then whiny people with “tension neck syndrome” got all cry baby about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So...you can buy a magnetic wrap that makes your Xbox look like an old PC case⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s really awesome for the 10% of gamers who have an Xbox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI whistleblower’s deemed suicide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The point is like Russian point. It isn’t just to silence you so trouble goes away that the whistle-blower was involved with. It’s to silence other potential whistle-blowers. It’s too send a message.