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  • Just say "pfft, you believe in the government?"

  • That's the keepalive message for when there's a delay in the data query to prevent the passengers from closing their connections.

  • Didn't they already try with Conrail?

  • Mph would actually be slightly above km/h according to my thought process while making this. I wanted to express that 1 m/s is way faster than 1 km/h, but seems like everyone took it as me saying m/s is just "better" lol. I think I picked a bad title.

  • Or, for your slowpokes, parts per million or billion of “c”.

    cc, or centiC

  • Helium is rare on Earth and is not renewable.

    The reason Germany had the "best" blimps? They used hydrogen which is a fraction of the cost while having even more lifting force than helium. It's what allowed them to build airships as big as they did. It's also why the Hindenburg exploded.

    We haven't solved the first problem, so the prospect of succeeding a second time is, while not inconceivable, very limited.

    More importantly, most people probably wouldn't want to spend several days crossing the Atlantic or Pacific when a plane gets you there in 12 hours or less. Even if the experience on a plane sucks, saving multiple days worth of your time is extremely hard to compete with. What really killed airships was airplanes, not the Hindenburg disaster. Airships had already been in decline when the Hindenburg blew up, and the decline was proportional to the advancement of passenger airliners.

  • I'm on Linux which isn't able to control the RGB lighting so it's rainbows forever.

  • I'd argue that the fact that it's even possible for the executive branch to gain this much power means it had too much power to begin with.

  • The home, back, and switch app buttons on Android being replaced with that bar like on the iPhone.

    I especially miss the back button, swiping from the edge of the screen is nowhere near as ergonomic. It also replaced the ability to reveal the side panel by swiping from the left edge, so now you have to tap the hamburger menu way up at the top left corner of the screen for it, which requires either your other hand or you have to shimmy the phone down your hand until you can reach it.

    Also, when you have a full screen video playing, you have to swipe up once to reveal the bar, and then again to actually close out of the app. That made sense with buttons but why the hell is it still the case with the bar?

    Double tapping the switch app button to switch between the two most recent apps was also more convenient than swiping up to reveal the app manager and dragging the window to the right, and when you want to go to the previous app, whether it's on the right or left side of the current one seems to depend on how long you've been on the app for, which means you can never build up muscle memory since it changes all the time.

    Another case of Google trying to imitate Apple's UX but seemingly not actually doing any of the usability testing and polishing that Apple does, and generally making it both worse than Apple's implementation and worse than what was there before.

  • What use is testing in a development environment if you can't be sure production will behave the same way?

    Imagine how ridiculous it would be if space agencies rehearsed their missions on land, like in a pool or something, before trying it in space.

  • Yo dawg I heard you like acceleration so I calculated the acceleration of your acceleration

  • If my city gets nuked, I hope it goes off right above my head. I don't want to live through a second that shit.

  • No, Acme products are cost effective. The US military industrial complex is anything but.

  • He's also never looked in a mirror before.

    Some may say that's because he's a wild animal in the Savannah, but I still find that suspicious

  • Winnie the Pooh for the irony

    You know, cause they keep calling some other head of State that

  • There are things that happen every day:

    • The sun rises
    • The birds sing
    • Israel acts like a disgusting piece of shit
    • The grass grows