[-] d00ery@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I work in a country with fairly stringent health and safety laws, still when we were young, it didn't stop my friend and colleague from mixing chlorine bleach cleaner with an acid based cleaner for "extra" cleaning power, and consequently getting us all sent home early from work! 😂

[-] d00ery@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

MegaWars was a series of real-time online multiplayer space empire building games which were hosted on CompuServe in the 1980s and lasted well into the 1990s. The original MegaWars I was a port of Decwar, originally developed at the University of Texas at Austin. A port using a basic client/server protocol and a basic graphical interface on the TRS-80 Color Computer as MegaWars II was never released. MegaWars III followed, based on an entirely different engine originally developed by Kesmai.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MegaWars

[-] d00ery@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Gold is used as a store of value but at least some of it also has practical use in industry, electronics and as jewellery.

https://www.gold.org/about-gold/gold-demand/by-sector

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Can't park there bun!

[-] d00ery@lemmy.world 99 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"People have already tasted the drug of welfare."

States the 30 year old American-educated "heir to a business empire".

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Cheesy chips could be banned from competition venues, H&H can reveal, as research has found they can have a performance-enhancing effect on riders and horses.

The equestrian centre cafe staple has been found to improve concentration and memory in riders, owing to the effect of the combination of ingredients on the hypothalamus area of the brain. But there are also indications they can increase stride length and flexion in horses.

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As the UK, Australia, and other countries appear to be introducing ID requirements and banning anonymous access, Russia reveals it has the ability to block VPN access.

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A happy sleepy cat moments after some good head scritches.

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Before in main image. After below there's still a bit to clear on face of the steps but I didn't do it yet. Also cleared a bunch of brambles from around the Pampas grass but there's loads to go.

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The primary contractor for the Space Launch System rocket, Boeing, is preparing for the possibility that NASA cancels the long-running program.
On Friday, with less than an hour's notice, David Dutcher, Boeing's vice president and program manager for the SLS rocket, scheduled an all-hands meeting for the approximately 800 employees working on the program. The apparently scripted meeting lasted just six minutes, and Dutcher didn't take questions.

Here it comes, the big payoff. Elon's lost the Tesla EV subsidies but will instead get the NASA contacts

[-] d00ery@lemmy.world 140 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I use AI to apply for job. The recruiter uses AI to sift the applications.

Who needs humans.

[-] d00ery@lemmy.world 100 points 2 years ago

Muskyness aside; it is pretty impressive to watch, almost looks like the footage has been reversed.

Audio is really annoying.

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The Fen Raft Spider is roughly the size of an adult male’s hand, and can spin webs as big as pizzas (25cm).

They are also semi-aquatic and can run across the water’s surface to capture their prey.

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I personally have a huge backlog of games I'm happily playing through on the deck. And, having been burnt a few times (Cyberpunk, No Mans Sky ..), I very rarely buy new full priced games anyway (better to wait for a discount and some patches!)

But according to this rather clickbate article ...

In the last month alone, we’ve seen three disappointing examples of games that are too demanding for the Deck. Star Wars Outlaws is unplayable on Low settings, even with FSR set to “Ultra Performance.” Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 can’t reach a steady 30fps at the lowest quality setting. And based on the demo, Final Fantasy 16 is unplayable without FSR and Frame Generation, and afflicted with stuttering and horrible frame pacing with those scaling features enabled.

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I'm not sure I remember the part where Indy is buried chest deep in sand with one fist defiantly raised ... It looks more like a character model glitched under the map!

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/indiana-jones-and-the-great-circle-devs-say-an-indy-game-could-never-be-a-shooter-should-never-be-a-shooter-so-they-re-embracing-his-signature-whip-improvised-brawls-and-disguise-based-stealth-instead/

[-] d00ery@lemmy.world 71 points 2 years ago

It's an old joke updated for new technology .. that's part of what makes it clever.

It references the original joke (albeit in very small text)

The Asterix books frequently did something similar. https://cloud.wordpress.com/2022/02/17/asterix-and-the-historical-interpretation/

[-] d00ery@lemmy.world 100 points 2 years ago

As a fan of both authors I'd just like to point out the quote is from Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

I've never really thought about it and I don't have the vocabulary to describe it, but they have similar humour in the way they look at humans and social interaction.

[-] d00ery@lemmy.world 81 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Upon leaving the EU any laws that were in use were 'enshrined' into UK law. In order for the UK to remove EU laws we'd need to actively remove them through an act of parliament. (At least that's my vague understanding..) https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eu-legislation-and-uk-law

I'm happy to keep the EU laws, it'll save time when we rejoin.🇪🇺🇬🇧

[-] d00ery@lemmy.world 104 points 2 years ago

I think the guilty party could only be more obvious if he'd fallen out of a window...

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