I’m going to give you the only name you spelled right on this list! Max Power
I’m going to give you the only name you spelled right on this list! Max Power
The little aquatic drone that could
With my first prepaid phone in Germany texts did cost 0.49 € per text. So I did not use them super often. Years later around 2011 that price had decreased to 0.15€ and I was texting friends a lot during uni. Around the same time me and my friends got our first smartphones with contracts for 30-40€ per month that included a small bit of data (below 1Gb). Texts still did cost 0.15€, but the data for a WhatsApp message was in the low kilobytes. So a lot of people switched to WhatsApp
I was a strong e-reader user for a few years around 2012, but have gone back to paper books. I like the feel of them and also like having books as physical objects in my big book shelfs in my living room. It’s a bit of the decoration and signaling aspect of it too. Yet from pure practicality the e-reader was way more convenient.
Shitty-Drawing LoRA enters the chat
This looks like a regression discontinuity design in the making
How many Duncan Idahos can you need
But starving for information?
It also inspired Schwanzus Longus as the accurate translation of Biggus Dickus in the life of Brian
European Technology firms also fucked this up really hard. Philipps created ASML, NXP and had a founding 25% share in TSMC, but managed to win nothing from it. Due to Philipps short-sighted management none of these great wins in the semiconductor industry benefited the company at all and all three firms are now completly spum out and worth way more than Philipps. The TSMC share alone is now worth much more than Philipps Market Cap.
Protip: If they have a lava lamp instead, you can take the lava lamp bottle out, unscrew the bottle cap and drink some lava lamp fluid.
The chord was exactly the right one to evoke the “Oh shit, there’s a bear in my house”-vibes
Roll over Bearthoven
What a friend we have in cheeses
Oh that is just the smell of a good gruyère
Yeah. I grew up near one of Germany’s largest open-pit lignite mines. Had a tour of the mighty Bagger 293 as a kid and was allowed to touch some coal.