I did not go to the tenth or twentieth. I can’t imagine how they’d even find me for the thirtieth in the 2030s, I don’t really do any social media these days.
I’m an introvert and haven’t kept up with anyone from high school. Seems like it’d just be awkward.
Mostly because of cost and aesthetics. It’s actually still a great dental repair material in terms of durability. I have a gold capped molar that I elected and pushed my dentist for after doing research, had a good conversation about trade-offs in materials vs going blindly with a default. My mother in law also has most of her fillings done with gold. But obviously it’s expensive and you need a dentist that is used to working with gold which is less common. Most people do not want front facing teeth in gold.
Checks out, there is clearly more IQ under the middle of the graph.
Project sounds interesting. The company website is profoundly strange. https://meanhamster.com/products The active products seem to be this and 3d printed pet sculptures from photos.
Clicking through and looking up on Wikipedia, Mean Hamster has been a niche game studio for decades (pocket pc, amiga, retro Atari cartridges). Also it’s now purely a family operation with all people who don’t have the same last name as the CEO marked as former team members.
Dude is in his 50s now, so maybe he’s working with his family on a cool project and living his best life, I like that interpretation.
Double bun! I was in the backyard with my son and these two popped out of the brush nearby to graze.
Jesus Christ, man. There's just some things you don't talk about in public.
Caught this one having a good sun bath.
I hate this timeline.
the AC now runs for up to 10 minutes after a driver exits the vehicle, ensuring a cool cabin when they return. The timer resets at every stop. The AC only shuts off if the driver sliding door is left open for more than 30 seconds — a battery conservation measure.
Context from the article.
As I heard many times during childhood: “Close the door you’re letting the cold air out!”
Closing the door is something that seems like an obvious should-but-won’t-do for most drivers, so I could see this being a good thing to get people to actually do the thing, seems less evil than the headline initially portrays.
I only understand this reference because I worked for a company at one point that had a large number of NeXT and Solaris hosts that only had vi installed with letter key navigation, so my muscle memory does not use arrow keys.
Pretty good super villain idea, tbh. (I have to assume villain, he’s handing out tootsie rolls after all.)
The Sega Channel was an online game service developed by Sega for the Sega Genesis video game console, serving as a content delivery system. Launched on December 14, 1994, the Sega Channel was provided to the public by TCI and Time Warner Cable through cable television services by way of coaxial cable.
By June 1994, 21 cable companies had signed up to carry the Sega Channel service. US fees varied depending on location, but were approximately $15 monthly, plus a $25 activation fee, which included the adapter. The Sega Channel expanded into Canada in late 1995, with an approximately $19 monthly fee.
The service would go on to garner as many as 250,000 subscribers; however, Sega had anticipated having over one million subscribers by the end of its first year, and had made the service available to over 20 million households.
In late November of 1997 it was announced that the Sega Channel would be shut down on June 30, 1998, but it ended up staying on for another month, finally being discontinued on July 31, 1998.
We had this when I was a kid. It came strangely late in the console's life, but it was cool. This was before cable modems were a household norm and it felt like the future in a way that console gaming didn't recapture for another couple generations. In retrospect that monthly fee was over $30 adjusted for inflation and it's wild that my parents were actually willing to pay that.
Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll consisted of the detonation of 23 (or 24) nuclear weapons by the United States between 1946 and 1958 on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Tests occurred at 7 test sites on the reef itself, on the sea, in the air, and underwater. The test weapons produced a combined yield of about 77–78.6 Mt of TNT in explosive power.
Authorities had promised the Bikini Atoll's residents that they would be able to return home after the nuclear tests. A majority of the island's family heads agreed to leave the island, and most of the residents were moved to the Rongerik Atoll and later to Kili Island. Both locations proved unsuitable to sustaining life, and the United States provides residents with on-going aid. Despite the promises made by authorities, these and further nuclear tests (Redwing in 1956 and Hardtack in 1958) rendered Bikini unfit for habitation, contaminating the soil and water, making subsistence farming and fishing too dangerous.
The female population of the Marshall Islands have a sixty times greater cervical cancer mortality than a comparable mainland United States population. The Islands populations also have a five times greater likelihood of breast or gastrointestinal mortality, and lung cancer mortality is three times higher than the mainland population. The male population on the Marshall Islands' lung cancer mortality is four times greater than the overall United States rates, and the oral cancer rates are ten times greater.
I watched a documentary on it some years back, it's fascinating and horrifying how cavalier these tests were.
Mechanical television or mechanical scan television is an obsolete television system that relies on a mechanical scanning device, such as a rotating disk with holes in it or a rotating mirror drum, to scan the scene and generate the video signal, and a similar mechanical device at the receiver to display the picture.
Mechanical scanning methods were used in the earliest experimental television systems in the 1920s and 1930s.
In the U.S., experimental stations such as W2XAB in New York City began broadcasting mechanical television programs in 1931 but discontinued operations on February 20, 1933, until returning with an all-electronic system in 1939.
The article doesn't do much to give an idea of what mechanical television was really like but you can see something similar in action here.
Here’s an another shot from a more neutral perspective.