splatt9990

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[โ€“] splatt9990@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The doomsday clock is symbolic with the minutes (or seconds) to midnight symbolizing how close we are to doomsday. Traditionally, that has meant nuclear war, but I believe more recently, they've factored in climate change

[โ€“] splatt9990@lemmy.ml 38 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Fun fact: it's pretty much impossible to get those bodies down and there's not really anywhere to bury them on the mountain so they're literally laying pretty much wherever they died. They call that section of the mountain "Rainbow road" because of the multi-colored winter coats of the corpses you have to walk past to get to the summit.

[โ€“] splatt9990@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

If anything was going to get Newton in trouble with the Church, it would have been his lifelong obsession with alchemy, not his three laws.

[โ€“] splatt9990@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

Malloc is a C function and wouldn't come around for another 15 years or so. They likely wrote memory allocation code directly in machine code/assembly which could and would just access raw memory directly.

[โ€“] splatt9990@lemmy.ml 26 points 9 months ago

"Do refrigerators still come in big cardboard boxes?" "Yeah, but the rents are outrageous"

[โ€“] splatt9990@lemmy.ml 17 points 11 months ago

they're saying that if the student was any dumber they'd be a houseplant

[โ€“] splatt9990@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FWIW, yt-dlp can do the ffmpeg part for you with the flags -x --audio-format mp3

[โ€“] splatt9990@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

ligatures are when you join two or more glyphs into a single one. For instance, instead of having the two characters = and > to form => if you had ligature support you would see โ‡’. Some terminals have support to recognize sequences like => (and others obviously) and turn them into their corresponding ligatures (only for display though, the actual file contents remain umchanged)

[โ€“] splatt9990@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

As a native, I can confirm that when you order a three-way (no I'm not kidding, that's actually what they're called) they will absolutely murder it with shredded cheese. Sometimes it's piled up like 3-4 inches high. They do the same with the coneys too but you can only really stack like 2 inches of cheese on a hot dog bun.