I’m using my old Nokia to this day. And why? Because “suddenly being stopped even after a few feet” wasn’t “difficult to mitigate” for Nokia. In the last 15 years this thing must have survived more than 100 drops, sometimes down a staircase. When I pick up the back cover, the battery and the SIM card, it’s as good as new.

You transport the dishes, sure, but do you eat from them while standing? I was specifically referring to handheld devices.

Uh, not really what planned obsolescence is.

You’re right, but I couldn’t think of a short term for this. I found ‘bad’ design too broad, and it’s not ‘hostile’ design either.

Thank you very much for your kind words, my dear sir.

I used to have trust in the peer review process, thinking this is why it takes months or years for a paper to get published. Are you telling me it’s not real?

Sadly, I cannot remember which YouTube video featured this: But a guy basically speedran the description of how to solve a quadratic equation the Babylonian way, that is, drawing squares and circles and shit. It took quite a while for him just to list the steps. All that disappears once you learn the formula with the bad, scary letters.

Why the fuck would they name it PRISM?

I didn’t know there was a comic series. I guess I’ll read that since Amazon pulled their animated series off of Prime.

In Germany you can always tell if a historic thing was good or bad by whether it started or ended in 1933.

If a child was 6 when Yu-Gi-Oh came out (1996), they’re now 28 and may have been on duty for 10 years.

Thanks for introducing me to Bortle classes.

White people said it’s racist to call Indians Indians, but Indians said they don’t want to be called ‘Native Americans’, so we call them Indians again.

By „we” I mean you. To Germans they’ve always been Indians.

It would be nice if they actually taught you something useful in that degree. I say that as a B.Sc.

I didn’t expect sparkling rainbows, but I saw literally nothing. Just a regular starry night. :(

What was the time when you took that image? I was out yesterday at 22:00 UTC, but didn’t see anything, despite good weather conditions. I’m wondering if I was too early.

When did you take this image? I was out yesterday at 22:00 UTC (in the dead of night here) and didn’t see jack shit. I wonder if I was too early.

It takes trust to give all your password to a piece of software. With all the leaks on the news can you blame them? For people with multiple devices an offline password manager is unwieldy. And self-hosting an online password manager is beyond the capabilities of most.

no or fewer children

So… they killed other people’s children?

Remember, kids, that pet’s names are often used for passwords. Don’t share sensitive information.

I feel like I should’ve spotted that… they’re the same units. 🤦