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@EOEboh There are lots of sensors up ahead, embedded in everyone's phone.

As a developer, have you ever wondered: Google Maps tells you there's traffic ahead in real time There are no sensors on the road So how does it know?

@_trish_xD Frameworkless is the future.

i used to roll my eyes whenever senior devs said "just use the standard library." i was wrong. they were right. so much third-party stuff is genuinely unnecessary.

@kmcnam1 Wrong. It's a microphone.

@MakeAugusta Not true. I don't believe it.

Please do NOT plug space heaters into extension cords! Plug them directly into the wall outlet!!! Extension cords/ Power strips are not able to handle the high current flow that a space heater can put out and can overheat causing a fire. 🔥🔥🔥

@KurtSupeCPA Daughter's first mistake was to have a kid out of wedlock. That's bad parenting.

Couple comes in for their annual review. $2.8 million. Well invested. Solid Pension. Completely on track. I ask the question I ask everyone. "How is your daughter doing?" Mom's face changed first. Their daughter is 39. Hasn't asked for anything. Never complained. But she's been in the same apartment for six years. Daycare alone is $1,800 a month. Down payment feels impossible. Dad said "we always figured she'd get it eventually." I pulled up a simple chart. Statistically they live to 88. She inherits at 56. Maybe 60. At 60 her own retirement is eight years away. The money that could change everything at 39 arrives when her finish line is already close. Neither of them had ever seen it framed that way. The annual gift exclusion is $19,000 per parent per child. They can move $38,000 a year to her. No gift tax. No estate implications. Over ten years that's $380,000 transferred while they're healthy enough to watch it matter. Dad looked at his wife. "Why are we waiting?" Most families leave everything at death because nobody showed them the math of giving it while they're alive.

@rushicrypto It's like "The great war".

If the last one was named “The Great” Depression, what’s this one going to be called?

@olekolekoleks @i2cjak Now grow up and use punctuation.

@i2cjak now do that a thousand times per second now make a system of mirrors to focus that light now add hydrogen gas so the mirrors clean themselves now point it at your homie

idea: vaporize a small perfectly spherical drop of molten tin (>232C) with a laser, thus creating "extreme" ultraviolet light. this can then be used for various purposes.

@AuthorGFAllen I would DNF long before the end.

Have you ever finished a book and thought, “Yeah… I’m NEVER reading anything by this person again.”

@NatHalberstadt A working printer is the Holy Grail. I don't think it exists.

I really need a printer that has zero screen, wifi, or bluetooth connection. I just want to be able to plug a usb cord printer --> computer Hit print, and have it actually work every time

@straceX As a developer, I know how card numbers work.

As a developer, have you ever wondered: You type a 16‑digit card number and the form instantly says “Invalid card number”. There are billions of possible numbers. How the hell is that check that fast?

@arrington They plane lumber now to get rid of splinters. 1/4 inch on each side. Everybody knows this.

Something I've learned the hard way is that a 2x4 isn't actually 2 inches by 4 inches. It used to be, but not anymore because of course.

@TheVixhal You're not that bright, are you?

We exist because the universe made an arithmetic mistake. By every equation we have, the Big Bang should have produced a universe of pure light with not a single atom left over. Matter and antimatter should have formed in perfectly equal amounts and annihilated each other completely. But that is not what happened. There was a tiny asymmetry. For roughly every billion pairs of matter and antimatter, there was one extra particle of matter that did not get cancelled. Everything you see, every galaxy, every planet, every person, is the leftover rounding error from an almost perfect cancellation.

@RCcurse @stats_feed The worst countries in the world to live in are Atheist countries. There's no religion in North Korea.

@stats_feed Religion. It divides people.

If you could erase one invention from existence, which would it be and why?

@HayMan7140 @ChristianPunsOG Sometimes the natural consequences might be the wrath of God.

@ChristianPunsOG God doesn’t punish sin. He does let us experience the consequences of it though.

@MemeStrider @ChristianPunsOG Language

@ChristianPunsOG Christian denominations bickering over stupid hair splitting is what's allowing our enemies to close ranks around us and destroy the world. Get your sh!$ together and quit whining like babies. You worship Christ, yeah? Good enough for me. Get in line and pick up the sword

@DanXAura OK boomer.

Elon Musk tried hard to rename it 𝕏, but we still call it Twitter. Accept it.

@mrmikeMTL Agree

Abolish tipping culture. Agree or disagree?

@NobodymrRobert What went wrong is that you didn't end your question with a question mark.

What went wrong.

@maryarchived No, but your bad grammar will make me block you.

i ate all of the vitamin c gummies am i gonna die

@em_Lazzy For our family vacation last summer I tried buying mp3s or even a CD of music. It was basically impossible.

You know what really bugs me these days? We can't own anything. Everything is a subscription service, like literally everything. You can't buy Microsoft Office, you have to purchase a subscription for a year. You literally have to pay for everything FOREVER. Isn't anyone else bothered by this?