T156 @ T156 @lemmy.world

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Yes, it's that thing what 4-chan hackers known as Anonymous use, isn't it?

It does make more sense if you consider that it is part of a line of Hedgehog genes, all of which make Fruit fly embryos look like hedgehogs (spiky) if they're inactivated.

They didn't just go "Let's name a gene with bad outcomes if mutant in humans after a video game character! Yipee! Hooray!", at least not for that.

Though they did name SHH's inhibitor Robotnikin.

A SHH mutation is generally not considered compatible with life. So it's less the kids who'd find out, and more the parents.

It's particularly bad now that it's forcibly embedded into every computer, and at the forefront.

You can't hit Win-C by mistake any more, since Windows will instead open a window to "chat with friends and family" by trying to install Teams. (Which makes it particularly bad on my end is that the install broke, so it will randomly pop up later with "Cannot install teams at the moment. Please try again later.")

And never try to deal with dates and timezones.

Or anything that looks like dates.

Gene scientists had to revise their whole naming scheme because Excel would see MARCH1 (Membrane-Associated Ring-CH-Finger Type 1), and 'helpfully' convert it into a date, rendering it useless (since it uses timestamps on the backend).

It's bad enough that my data science course recommended against opening CSV files in Excel, because it would edit the file to do the conversion, even before you explicitly saving, mangling your data before you could process it.

Why is this ad weirdly sexually charged?

Is Donald trying to make another duck?

You can turn it off, but the fact that you have to go into the settings and toddle about is ridiculous.

It's a notepad, why does it even need settings to twiddle?

Enterprise would riot if they did.

They might do it later, but as it stands, this isn't the old notepad, and gets used by a good bit more than just Enterprise users, so they can stick their AI into it.

Good luck!

That'd be worrying.

You expect to fill the bath, and come back to the tub being full of pasta.

Yes. He's like plastic-man, in that he's stark naked, and only looks like he's wearing clothes.

This way when the country bursts into flames it won't bring the rest of the world with it.

The interconnected nature of the world these days means that it would be inevitable that everyone else would be embroiled in whatever it is that happens.

People also forget that YouTube ran at a loss for well over a decade.

And any new start up would have to compete with YouTube and their massive audience, and all the other sites. There's a reason that Vimeo never made quite the same height, for example.

Or reprise their old assistants from XP.

At least a "computer Wizard" would make them stand out compared to ChatGPT in a funny box.

That was the original intent. That it became a measuring contest is separate.

Also a way to spoof the input.

If the app is so paranoid that it refuses to work after detecting a different keyboard, I should be surprised if it allowed screenshots.

Got a huge nosebleed on the train, so that was fun. Spent a few minutes looking like I'd come fresh from the exorcist.

Forgot to take a photo, but a bee landed on me and started cleaning herself, which was cute. Had to relocate her with a spare tissue so she didn't get on the bus, but was otherwise the highlight of the day.

Excel definitely has its flaws though. For example, in science, it will mangle your data in its attempts to be helpful by reformatting the file if you so much as open it.

The genomics committee had to change their naming scheme for some genes because excel kept converting them into dates (for example, you had a MAR-10 gene, it'd be converted into a timestamp or 3/10) and destroying the names, even if the file wasn't saved.

CPUs have multiple cores now? Amazing.