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The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending
  • An AI trained on old Internet material would be like a synthetic Grandpa Simpson:

    "In my day we said 'all your base' and laughed all day long, because it took all day to download the video."

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  • I had a Kia Rio. They sent out a safety recall warning that an ABS leak could cause a short and it could catch fire (this is after the big problem of them being easy to steal).

    They're was no fix at the time. The only advice on the recall was "avoid parking near structures" in case it set fire to buildings.

    Months later the fix was available: a smaller fuse that would blow before the short got hot enough to burn.

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    European iPhones are more fun now
  • Phones used to have a round charger socket, a USB socket that could also be used to charge, plus the headphone socket and SD card slot. I'm sure they could have found room for both USB C and Lightning, with all the other things that were removed.

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    Turin Shroud may actually be Jesus’s burial cloth, new study suggests
  • Why does it look more like an image projected onto a flat surface than something unwrapped? It should look more like a flat texture map used in rendering if it was from a cloth wrapped around a body.

    https://www.3dscanstore.com/textures/face-texture-maps/male-053-albedo-map-1

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  • I grew up knowing a fishcake as being fish sandwiched between two slices of potato covered in batter.

    But when I ventured out into the wider world beyond Sheffield, fishcakes were strange breaded minced-up fish things.

    Was my whole childhood a lie?

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    Ft. David Goyer & Chris MacLean from the vfx team. Includes several clips from episodes throughout season 2.

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