I had this toy robotic arm called Armatron and the thing chewed through D-cell batteries.

I wired it up to a modern USB power supply

If you get fined in Vietnam, you have to take out your dong in front of the police.

None of them got any bans except from the Awful instance they weren’t even using.

This is just some guy yelling into the ether about posts that rustle his jimmies.

Penalty is a million dongs

Of course it does. Automated decision systems simply automate discrimination. Nobody does the hard work of sanitizing biased data from the inputs. They just feed biased data to “neutral” algorithms and act shocked when the computer decides men who like baseball are “better” candidates than women who like softball.

In this case I’m sure it picked up that the plaintiff was from a historically black college, and based on discrimination baked into its inputs, decided to reject him.

Pocket is basically a chumbox, but it’s a pretty good chumbox.

The admin of a small Awful instance is handing out bans from their instance to people from other instances who make posts on other other instances which offend the Awful admin.

Basically some cranky person is publishing their personal block list and the appropriate response is to ignore the Awfully-run instance.

Look at this guy trying to act like a wise referee handing out meaningless bans with zero effect. It’s like if I shout “red card!” at a TV soccer match.

You’re comparing moving 100 cubic meters of soil, so 200tons+ 10-15km away versus paying $20.

One of these is vastly more expensive than the other.

Governments would rather use eminent domain than literally move mountains.

No. Lemmy removed that feature because it leads to gamification that is unhealthy for the community.

Can’t have karma farming bots without karma.

48v is the obvious fix because it would let them piggyback on all the design work already done by the auto industry for its own 12->48v transition.

“Nobody died in Tiananmen Square”

Better connectors cost more money, as do DC transformers.

Changing either one requires industry consensus.

Oh, I assumed the mesh was for defense. Thanks 👍

So how is this mesh helping in any way?

If it misses, it still misses. If it takes a hit, it still goes down.

We should help him go to Mars.

I’ve had top taskbar auto hide since Win95.

MacOS got it right back in 1984 but Windows insisted on doing it wrong like an edgy teen wearing their baseball cap to the side.

It’s the Windows taskbar. They used to let you move it to the top but had to remove that feature to support CoPilot.

Half barrels make nice planters.

Otherwise no.

I’m not sure a cope cage is going to save the propellers from shrapnel.

No