Magic flying camera.

Yo momma’s so fat, she sat on a binary tree and squashed it into a linked list in O(1) time.

What’s funny is that it works even when people know the initial price is bullshit.

A study at MIT had people participate in a silent auction. They were asked to list the last two digits of their social security number and then asked if they would be willing to pay that many dollars for each item before placing their bid.

On average, people with higher SSN digits bid more.

How about the ad for Ai.com which basically said “the future AI. Sign up now to get a short username. We will not answer questions.”

For two minutes until they just fallback to their cell phones probably.

Also, you might be interfering with EMS with that strategy.

Police radio is largely encrypted these days.

My favorite take I heard today is that Kid Rock is just another name for Epstein’s Island.

It’s called empathy my dude. Put yourself in the shoes of an athlete who has maybe one chance in a lifetime to perform on a global stage what they’ve been training their whole life for. They’re not harming anyone by competing, and their withdrawal from the event would accomplish absolutely nothing.

Sweet. All the astronauts working for NASA should probably quit too.

I’m not super well versed on how this works, but many of them depend on sponsorship deals to be able to train and compete and the level they do. Those deals probably depend on them at least appearing pro-USA.

We can all talk about how we’d like the protest what’s going on in this country, but asking someone to give up the opportunity to compete on a global stage at the thing they’ve trained literally their whole life to do is a very tall order.

Yeah, it would have to be defined as a one-sided limit.

Just missed Bandcamp Friday. Also, get u some flac.

zip bomb

What’s fun is how often this principle is used every day. For example, when you upload a video to YouTube, you’re assigned a unique URL, but it would be too slow to simply add your URL to a list to make sure nobody else uses it. There are millions of videos uploaded every day, and thousands of servers spread all over the world.

Instead, YouTube just generates a truly random URL and depends on the odds of two videos having the same URL being effectively zero.

The same is true for Bitcoin. If you could guess a Bitcoin private key for any currently used wallet, you’d have full access to the funds within that wallet. This can even be done offline. Even if you could guess trillions of private keys per second, the odds of you hitting even one that’s already been used is low enough to be totally secure.

Yeah, that happens fairly frequently. I don’t have an Amazon account, so I personally roll with the punches.

What’s really fun is when you have to return one of those items and they don’t know what to do.

Seen here after a tragic fire juggling accident. Still at it.

Was just in Silver Platters in Seattle. They still have one. Touch screen to boot. But it looks like it’s been broken for quite a while.

They are well aware of their brand.

Interesting. Didn’t know about the google books case. I agree that it applies here.

Try eBay. You’re much more likely to find a small business selling whatever widget you need.