Chang’e-6 samples contain iron oxides, previously thought to be absent from moon, which may have been generated by impacts, scientists say

We had mostly 8s, but somehow a few 4s got added in. Here I am now, 30-ish years later, and my roommate has 4s in her kitchen, too.

Holy shit it just gets better and better.

I’ve got bad news for you; those may have been sharts.

I used to work as a PQI contractor at Nest, and we actually had test setups like this in the office that were just a circuit breadboard mounted on a plate behind the thermostat. The thermostat doesn’t really “communicate” with the HVAC control system at all (all it does is just send ~3V along the circuits based on its current mode), so as long as you have the circuits routed properly on your board, the thermostat will think it’s connected to a real system.

The stock firmware doesn’t let you go above a certain temp (like 80F or something, I forget the exact limit). But if your custom firmware allows it, the only thing that would realistically happen is that it just runs a 3V circuit to what it thinks is the heater, infinitely, since nothing is actually causing the ambient temperature to raise at all. The ambient temp reading comes from a sensor on the thermostat, itself.

“Having” is not the same as “owning”.

But we don’t actually have ownership rights any more, do we?

When it comes to video games, we’ve never had ownership rights. Buying a game has always been just buying a license. The only thing that’s changed is that now publishers have a mechanism with which to enforce it.

An AI wouldn’t have made as many grammatical errors as OP.

I had a teacher in 6th grade who told us that God placed the earth the perfect distance from the Sun; a few inches closer and we’d all burn, and a few inches further and we’d all freeze. I got detention for standing on top of my desk and asking why I wasn’t on fire yet.

That kinda shattered my view of teachers being arbiters of knowledge.

Mopeds are motorbikes.

I think the canted touchpads are a nice touch, and inline sticks are the way to go (I can’t believe Nintendo and Microsoft continue to get this wrong).

Yeah but two weeks from shore and it’ll feel like the most appropriate song.

Huh, weird. So the thing that everybody said was going to happen, because of a documented history of that exact thing happening, happened?

Who would’ve guessed?

New Amazon uniforms just dropped.

Why do you say that? Looks normal to me.

The wild part about it is that this technique required a very specific prism in the camera in order to work properly, and the tech behind it was completely lost to time and nobody else knew how to make that work, which is why we’ve primarily had blue/green screens with chunky matte lines ever since. The guys at Corridor Digital managed to recreate the effect pretty authentically, and it’s awesome to see the results of their work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQuIVsNzqDk

Feeding the ducks

No community guidelines violated

soldiers shooting civilians, including children

I mean, it’s right there. YouTube ain’t LiveLeak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO3cFz53vs8

Eat the rich (neighbors’ candy)