[-] mykl@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

We stayed in Sheerness (where this flight took place), and when my girlfriend saw this she immediately asked “Did pigs fly before women did?”. And the answer turned out to be no, women beat pigs by two weeks: “Sarah Van Deman … was the woman who flew with Wilbur Wright on October 27, 1909” source

[-] mykl@lemmy.world 42 points 11 months ago

Isn’t every video game just moving colourful blocks?

(Except Quake obviously)

[-] mykl@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Dad mode activated

[-] mykl@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure that this link really helps your case, given these key points from the description:

The resolution by the British representative, Ambassador Sir Anthony Parsons

demanded an immediate cessation of hostilities between Argentina and the United Kingdom and a complete withdrawal by Argentine forces

Resolution 502 was in the United Kingdom's favour by giving it the option to invoke Article 51 of the United Nations Charter and to claim the right of self-defence

[-] mykl@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

“Hey baby, are you a compelling new novel? Because I’d love to lose myself in your sheets. Like sheets of paper, you know, pages. I’m sorry, I’ll leave now.”

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mykl@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

Hi all,

As many people here may already know, Advent of Code is an annual programming challenge that runs from 1st to 25th December each year where each day a new puzzle is published for you to solve. The puzzles ramp up in difficulty during the month and can test your familiarity with core computer science principles and algorithms.

As the title says, I'm currently going through my entries (written in Dart) to last year's challenge and rewriting them to run in your browser using DartPad. I'll be posting one a day until 25th November to the Advent of Code community on lemmy.world.

It's fairly quiet there at the moment, but I hope that with enough awareness of the community, it will liven up enough over the coming weeks that I don't have to go back to the other place for interesting discussions and hints next month!

Cheers, Michael

[-] mykl@lemmy.world 93 points 1 year ago

Really, radio communication is about creating and transmitting those radio waves. Sign language relies on reflected light waves so it’s actually a form of RADAR 😀

[-] mykl@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What, this Emad Mostaque?

The AI Founder Taking Credit For Stable Diffusion’s Success Has A History Of Exaggeration

[-] mykl@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Since light bounces off walls and is thus confined to individual rooms, there is less interference and higher bandwidth, and traffic is harder to intercept from outside.

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Too old to be a meme (ualuealuealeuale.ytmnd.com)

I’ll be amazed if this even works.

[-] mykl@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You forgot: uses dark mode.

[-] mykl@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

That is the style at this time.

[-] mykl@lemmy.world 132 points 1 year ago

You never wash your belt? I bet you never wash the poop-knife either.

Sheesh.

[-] mykl@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

IBM buys companies because it wants something the company has and it's happy to throw away (sorry, divest) the bits it's not interested in. That's it. The people in the bought company, or their customers, may feel that the things that they valued and that made them precious have been destroyed, but IBM didn't value them enough to preserve them.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mykl@lemmy.world to c/lemmydev@lemm.ee

This happens for me on a small number of posts, and is generally repeatable, even when the website shows comments.

For instance, running on lemmy.world, GetPost(id: 290602) tells me the post exists and has 7 comments, as does https://lemmy.world/post/290602

But GetComments(postId: 290602) returns an empty list.

If I run against the original post on 'programming.dev', GetComments(postId: 99912) does show me the comments, but I don't think I'm supposed to be second guessing the federating logic :-)

Has anyone seen anything similar or can confirm they see this same behaviour for this post?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mykl@lemmy.world to c/whatisthisthing@lemmy.world

It's about 10 cm (4") long. Metal and plastic.

~~Hopefully this will stump people a little longer than the other challenges have managed.~~ What a naive fool I was! < 1 minute again...

If you do find the answer using Google Lens, hold onto it for a while to see if unaugmented humans can work it out :-)

Please add spoiler tags to any guesses to add to the element of suspense.

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Sorry for the quality of the pic. Beer had been taken.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mykl@lemmy.world to c/whatisthisthing@lemmy.world

Two white plastic discs that rotate freely, each with two semicircular arms which again rotate freely.

More pictures:

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mykl@lemmy.world to c/whatisthisthing@lemmy.world

Just while the sub (group? community?) finds its feet, I thought it would be fun to post a few challenges. I'll be searching through my house for obscure objects, to see how obvious they really are...

So, what is this thing? Springy metal, about 5cm across, with rubbery sleeves on the two arms.

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A local farmer pens their sheep up at various points along the meadows by the river over the summer, and yesterday they were enjoying having some access to the beach for a change.

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