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There was a guy who made a forum bet he could land a Cessna 172 - first try - with nothing but MS Flight Simulator experience.

Here:

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/34/other-other-topics/pro...

And outcome:

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=35915547&p...

Huh, it's pretty good at lassoing the intended subject. Even picks out a computer rendered vehicle well: https://xhroot.s3.amazonaws.com/roci.png Original here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=86940...

So if I go down the IOT aisle at Best Buy and say

"Ok, who is reading a city in Montana a letter?"

everything will light up?

Seems temporary:

Amazon Europe has requested we temporarily shut down operations in order to lighten their burden while they try to get necessary products into peoples hands.

So, as of now, and likely until the end of the COVID-19 crisis, we will not have a working website in Europe.

https://twitter.com/camelcamelcamel/status/12421791057154539...

Maybe they should have gone with a slight tweak of the 1963 version https://cdn.bmwblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/BMW_logo_... and scored retro-nostalgia points with the older crowd, too.

Heh, the icon is named "audible":

    "displayName": "Dynamic command execution",
    "detectedIcon": "fab fa-audible"

https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInspector/blob/08c91...

IronPython, IronRuby

"IronRust" would be amusing

I-1000 is literally called "Affirmative Action and Diversity Commission Measure"

https://ballotpedia.org/Washington_Initiative_1000,_Affirmat...

Javascript in FF/Chrome:

    > (-80538738812075974n)**3n + 80435758145817515n**3n + 12602123297335631n**3n
    42n

And my favorite: Coloring CD edges with a green marker to improve sound https://www.stereophile.com/reference/590jitter/index.html

Yeah, I filed https://github.com/google/boardgame.io/issues/9. The source in github does check if the cell is filled [1] but the demo code must be from an earlier version that didn't.

[1] https://github.com/google/boardgame.io/blob/master/examples/...

As were the originally proposed names "Cadabra" and "Relentless" (http://www.relentless.com still redirects to Amazon).

https://s3.amazonaws.com/xhroot/world.html

Happy?

Presumably, one could download the eBook to every book they've purchased on Amazon, even if they no longer own the print version (e.g., resold or lost). I'm hoping O'Reilly, Manning, and Apress get on board with this, but I can see why they'd hesitate.

It's because Firefox doesn't support mp3 via the HTML5 <audio> tag due to licensing IIRC. IE supports mp3 but not ogg. Chrome supports both.

In The Selfish Gene, Dawkins proposed that grandparents - obviously well beyond child bearing - can affect their gene propagation by caring for their grandchildren, at least indirectly.

What a true scientist; most people are content to think we dote on grandchildren as a civilized people with innate appreciation for new life. Rather, our genes will eradicate those who fail to help their offspring's offspring survive.

http://musingsofscience.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/book-review...

http://ssl.gstatic.com/gb/js/pwm_377e54339fe6909b01c5d023b52... uses goog.structs.SimplePool, so you know at least that part uses Closure, http://closure-library.googlecode.com/svn/docs/class_goog_st....

What's supposed to trigger this sound? http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/static/punch-go.mp3