Laser tanks are impractical. What if the enemy wears mirrored shades? That laser goes right back and kills you instead. You don't want your 100 million dollar tank to be taken out by a pair of Ray-Bans.

"One of them is responsible for unspeakable atrocities and the loss of millions of lives. The other made some tweets that negatively affected stock prices. It's hard to tell which is worse."

I still remember when we started doing data science in school and I was held back by my CPU's lack of enterprise remote management capabilities. If only I had a vPro-enabled CPU back then!

I also got an F in eSports class that year but that was for unrelated reasons.

(Just how much coke did Intel's marketing department do to come up with this presentation?)

Also, we load the JavaScript from five different CDNs, some of which are horrifically slow today. We also make sure to only load some of the scripts after others have been successfully loaded so uMatrix users have to refresh the page a dozen times.

monkey's paw curls

Okay, nicotine is now a Schedule II drug. You need a prescription to buy anything with nicotine in it.

40 yo you embracing the name again because you realized that agonizing over what random people think about a perfectly fine username isn't worth your time.

(I could've made a picture here but I'm also not agonizing over what random people think about my laziness.)

Notable for being a class of substances that freaks out Erowid, a website that otherwise thinks that just about every drug can be used safely if you know what you're doing. If it freaks them out it freaks me out.

has dust changed

Dust. Dust never changes.

Also, Ubuntu is moving towards using snaps for everything so they're pretty much the successor to PPAs.

It depends

some people

don't even send

whole sentences

sometimes

just single words

gotta find

out

where the sentences end

no punctuation either

y'know

so

that's kinda annoying

Süddeutscher: Hui! Hahaha! Heut ist eine Gaudi und alle sind dabei! Party Party Party!

Norddeutscher: Ich sitze mit meinem Kumpel auf einem Deich, niemand sagt etwas und wir sehen der Sonne beim Untergehen zu.

Beide: Das ist Lebensfreude.

An sich ist deutsche Bierwerbung gar nicht so uneinheitlich.

Ah, good old Book of Erotic Fantasy. It's so gloriously stupid that everyone should own a copy. That table is by far not the silliest part of the book.

It's only bested by the official sex rulebook for The Dark Eye, which is an April Fools joke that spiraled out of control and has actual rules for intercourse – deliberately bureaucratic and unsexy ones included purely as a "you asked for it" joke at the reader's expense.

The second amendment is nominally there to allow people to form state militias in case the United States get invaded. With that in mind (and ignoring the many ways in which this kind of militia is completely irrelevant for defense purposes these days) we can come up with a reasonable compromise.

Anyone is allowed to own any gun they want. Access to ammunition is strictly regulated; only the state and shooting ranges are allowed to own ammo at all and the latter are under very strict supervision. Unlawful possession of ammunition is a felony.

In case the US Army is overrun each state will conscript all gun owners and issue them ammunition from the stockpile so they can go out and engage any enemy forces susceptible to infantry attack.

I'm sure all fans of the second amendment are going to love this plan. /s

That image doesn't look AI generated to me. GANs are typically terrible at keyboards.

Ah, comic book subtlety.

Obviously untrustworthy person: "Hey, kids whom I've never met before. Wanna go do something obviously stupid and not in your own interest? Something transparently harmful to you with no stated benefit? For no other reason than because I said to do it?"

Kids: "Do we?! C'mon, let's go already!"

Narrator: "The alien commie nazis were so clever and subtle that nobody could see through their devious ploy!"

CUDA was there first and has established itself as the standard for GPGPU ("general purpose GPU" aka calculating non-graphics stuff on a graphics card). There are many software packages out there that only support CUDA, especially in the lucrative high-performance computing market.

Most software vendors have no intention of supporting more than one API since CUDA works and the market isn't competitive enough for someone to need to distinguish themselves though better API support.

Thus Nvidia have a lock on a market that regularly needs to buy expensive high-margin hardware and they don't want to share. So they made up a rule that nobody else is allowed to write out use something that makes CUDA software work with non-Nvidia GPUs.

That's anticompetitive but it remains to be seen if it's anticompetitive enough for the EU to step in.

Rehabilitated? Her resistance movement won the war and they just promoted her. She was not a rehabilitated rebel/terrorist, she was a successful and proud rebel/terrorist.

You don't need to; the Brussels effect has you covered.

It's cheaper to sell phones with replaceable batteries worldwide than to design the same phone twice for different markets. So most major manufacturers will probably just sell EU-friendly phones everywhere just like when the EU required USB charging ports.

You can use a regex to do basic validation. That regex is .+@.+. Anything beyond that is a waste of time.

True, but those are not the people the men's is making fun of. It makes fun of perfectly healthy people who decide they need gluten free everything because they heard that gluten is bad and they can't do any research on how and why. Same with vegans who are only vegan because it's trendy (and who probably cheat every other meal because a vegan lifestyle actually requires a fair amount of effort and learning about nutrition).