TIL the term Redneck likely originated from the sunburned red neck of those working in fields. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Not just a song that can be found in the archives, but one that almost everyone can hum, even today....
Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment which states that an otherwise benevolent artificial superintelligence (AI) in the future would be incentivized to create a virtual reality simulation to torture anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to...
(it’s not a solar system because Sol is our star, specifically; we’re the only Solar system)...
“Systematic reviews of controlled clinical studies of treatments used by chiropractors have found no evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective, with the possible exception of treatment for back pain.[8] A 2011 critical evaluation of 45 systematic reviews concluded that the data included in the study “fail[ed] to...
From Wikipedia: In 1958, while he was an airman first class, his commanding officer recommended him for an early honorable discharge. “In summary, this airman, although talented, will not be guided by policy,” chief of information services Colonel William S. Evans wrote to the Eglin personnel office. “Sometimes his rebel...
Alcoholic? Messiah?
The EFF soon created a crossword, overlaid it on top of the monkey, and featured it on their website....
aired from 1936-1937. if anyone has a copy pls lemme know
cross-posted from: lemmit.online/post/2659121
Scenario : I am in a crowd. My eyes are closed and not allowed to touch anything....
His notable works include The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), The Brooklyn Follies (2005), Invisible (2009), Sunset Park (2010), Winter Journal (2012), and 4 3 2 1 (2017). His books have been translated into more than forty languages.[1]
With so many variations of Lemmy and fediverse instances, are there any defenses against a malicious server running altered code? Is there a way to prove what code is supposed to be running on each instance?
“The bony-eared assfish may have the smallest brain-to-body weight ratio of any vertebrate”...
I do not support just calling that wiki "wiki" without including a crucial part of it.
And yes, TI calculators have indeed been improving, apparently....