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Voyager 1 loses contact with NASA, turns on retro transmitter not used since 1981
  • I think for the Voyager launches the planets and the sun were aligned in such a way that the probes could be slingshotted around them to gain speed. I think such an alignment is quite rare?

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    He Is Not Ok
  • When Trump gave his inauguration speech there were lots of articles about translators saying it was impossible to translate.

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    Why do phone apps update all the time but nothing seems to change?
  • It's a number of reasons. One I don't see already mentioned is that Apple and Google require apps to target the latest versions of their OSs and libraries. For example Google released a new version of the Google Play Billing Services library. All apps were required to update to the newest version by mid August (you could request a two month extension). So to the end user it seems like nothing has changed. But under the hood the app is now using the latest apis. This could also apply to non-Google/Apple apis. Maybe a change of the developers own api was necessary.

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    Humble Bundle - Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld
  • I've always wanted to get into the discworld series but the number of books is a bit intimidating. Where's a good place to start? Is there some overarching narrative or can you read them in any order?

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    16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs
  • Because there are two types of mac users:

    • People that are buying them with their own money because they're trendy and just using them as glorified Internet browsers. 16gb is plenty.
    • People using them professionally so their company is paying and Apple can over charge for the necessary memory upgrade
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    ‘The new normal’: work from home is here to stay, US data shows
  • It's not even about profits. If companies don't have to pay for expensive office buildings they can save money. It's all the middle management realising their jobs are are unnecessary.

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