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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frog's Gift⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Moon landing line is a pretty important thing to study, actually, since we know what the rehearsed line was: “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Without that “a” it’s a very silly line.

  Armstrong for years claimed he said the line right and that it must’ve been garbled in the radio transmission, and in recent years has been vindicated as better signal:noise algorithms processed the recording and found the missing word. Researchers aren’t blowing money to find out if Armstrong was a liar, they’re using it to develop more sensitive receivers, better transmission protocols, and more advanced algorithms to parse signal out of noise, all of which have massive impacts in other domains. An algorithm that’s better at parsing data out of noise in particular is going to be useful in loads of places like MRI machines where improving resolution will take billions in research but improving parsing is just updating the software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know thy enemy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, there’s a significant amount of oil infrastructure locally. They’ve even got a colonialist extension with Canada: crude oil crosses over to be refined and sold back to Canada

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norway to increase minimum age limit on social media to 15 to protect children⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technical aptitude is born of need. Of course this will limit most, but at least some will figure out bypasses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Schools to teach children how to spot fake news and ‘putrid’ conspiracies online⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s two kinds of conspiracies:

  1. Ultimately antisemitic nonsense

  2. Admitted to by the government thirty years after the fact

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ISS astronauts on eight-day mission may be stuck until 2025, Nasa says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but the iss has dedicated exercise stations that help slow down the loss

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does it matter if the processor is faster, I’m not watching videos at double speed anyways

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The government is entirely on her side

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe overhauls terms of service to say it won’t train AI on customers’ work⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know adobe has particularly smooth brained execs but this seemed like a blatantly obvious bad idea. Adobe software is used by every big company and they do not have the resources to field five thousand lawsuits from everyone in the Fortune 500 simultaneously

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For sure they know, it’s just cops are lazy and aren’t paid to solve crimes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bro pls⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, those dicks definitely could be doing better with their money and we should take it away from them for societally useful things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Netflix's One Piece good?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just how anime is shot I think