If you watch it, there’s an air of excitement and surprise given off by the person on screen that comes across even though their voice is heavily masked. Makes me think the dude was jacked to the tits when they finally saw it working.

It’s melting point is 85F, but I’ve found it difficult to melt with body heat. Haven’t played with it out of the vial yet though. Maybe it’ll be easier when it’s thinner.

That’s a shit prank, and people like your nan don’t understand how pranks work.

A good prank should allow the subject to join in the fun. Some stuff came up this year, so my plans have to be delayed until next year, but I bought a vial of gallium that I’m planning on molding with a cast of one of our kitchen spoons.

So my wife will wake up and see that her coffee melted her spoon. Little miraculous and inexplicable moment in the morning.

(Gallium is non-toxic)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf1xR2kX3rU

For anyone struggling, lemmy web interface added the colon into the URL for the blog post link. Here’s a clickable version without the colon:

https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/how-unix-spell-ran-in-64kb-ram

To use your car metaphor, there was a time when you basically needed to know how a car worked in order to own/operate one. I’m talking like the 1910s-1920s. They were unreliable, simply made, manual transmission, hand crank start, and needed a lot of maintenance.

Millennials grew up at a time when you needed to have some understanding of how a computer worked in order to do basically anything.

I suppose the issue is that the car metaphor breaks down because a vehicle really only does one thing. Push pedal and go. Maybe worry about snow conditions if that affects you.

Meanwhile, computers can still be used to do thousands of different tasks and the only thread tying all of those tasks together is that they’re done by the same machine. So knowing fundamentals about the machine gives you access to a lot of capability vs. just memorizing how to do a few tasks.

Yeah except one is a private entertainment establishment, and the other is a public transportation service.

The perfect consumer-facing example of this is Clear at the airport.

Instead of waiting in line to have your ID checked by a TSA agent, you let an iPad take your picture and then have an agent walk you to the TSA agent and vouch for you.

The whole iPad thing is marginally faster than just checking your ID by hand, so really they just found a way to monetize cutting the line. This provides zero net benefit to society except for extracting money from people for something that’s supposed to be free.

Also, when everyone has Clear, we’ll be back in the same boat with long lines and they’ll probably charge more for Clear+ or some shit.

Vodka is renewable

Isn’t the whole DOGE thing to remove people and replace them with AI or something? Isn’t this kind of a bad endorsement?

Thank you for the information. This meme always bothered me, so glad to have the info.

It’s refined. It isn’t found like that.

Silicon is extremely common. I wouldn’t call it a rare rock.

Unfortunately the hunt for some of these eggs is ongoing.

Took me 5 minutes to learn spoiler tags, hope I didn’t ruin it for anybody.

We can’t keep sucking Chell back into the lab. Let her be.

Oh huh. I just remember him winning the new shareholder vote for which I believe the stakes were “gimme money or I leave” despite there being no legal requirement to pay him.

Yep. There was another shareholder vote and he won it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_law