Sphks

Sphks , 12 days ago to world in Japan Runs on Vending Machines. It’s About to Break Millions of Them.

In Europe, we changed to the Euro not that long ago. I was a student and I used to use a shared laundry machine. It was the day before returning to school. I was barely alone in the dorms. Let’s do a laundry !

The machines were updated to get euros. There was another machine just to change the coins, especially since the washing machines only took one kind of coin (20 cents).

I put one fresh euro in the exchange machine, expecting to get 5 coins of 20 cents.

Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. <pause>… Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. <pause>… Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. <pause>…

What ?! The machine was buggy and would not stop. I grabbed a hoodie to put the coins in it. Soon, it was not enough. After what seems to be an eternity I was there with around 50€ and kilos of coins.

Sphks , 13 days ago to programmer_humor in Cupholder.exe

The thing is, harmful apps are now difficult to detect compared to years ago. The hackers prefer to get the control of your device without ruining it.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet

Sphks , 25 days ago to noncredibledefense in its coming

What am I seeing?

Sphks OP , 1 month ago to science_memes in Being courteous [Off the Mark]

Thanks!

Sphks OP , 1 month ago to science_memes in Being courteous [Off the Mark]

I don’t get it

Sphks , 1 month ago to games in Suicide Squad Cost Warner Bros. $200 Million In Revenue

And Barbie. What a spin-off !

Sphks , 1 month ago to patientgamers in What's your favourite era for video games?

LAN parties. I remember the first time I could connect two PC together. It was Doom, with a serial-to-serial cable. We were two players on the same fucking map. It was awesome!

Then coax cable networks with friends. We used to have two or three different networks during a LAN party since you could not disconnect the coax cable to add a player without stopping the current games. The players arrived later would plug a new network just for them, and launch a game waiting the first players to finish theirs.

Sphks , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to science_memes in Number 1 Student

Made with a AI ? The style is the same of what could be drawn by an AI.

Edit. Strange. There are multiple versions of it. One is not cropped with the tomato becoming a monster. I can’t link it since it’s on google image and I can’t access the source.

Sphks , 1 month ago to science_memes in Experiments

Imagine the future with megafishs, having evolved… fish nets ?.. and lasers!.. and and barbecues…

Sphks , 1 month ago to science_memes in Peer review can be fun

I bet it’s a form with multiple entries, each entry is not different enough of the other ones:

How is the subject of this paper ?
What about the style ?
You checked to reject it, why should it be rejected ?
What’s the overall comment ?

Then it’s all concatenated into one blob of review.

Sphks , 1 month ago to science_memes in Petroglyphs

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux

Sphks , 1 month ago to science_memes in Funding

patents.google.com/patent/US8967029B1/en

Sphks , 1 month ago to science_memes in It's a trap!

Looks like someone tried:

Uranyl salts are toxic and can cause severe chronic kidney disease and acute tubular necrosis. Target organs include the kidneys, liver, lungs and brain. Uranyl ion accumulation in tissues including gonocytes produces congenital disorders, and in white blood cells causes immune system damage. Uranyl compounds are also neurotoxins. Uranyl ion contamination has been found on and around depleted uranium targets.

Sphks , 1 month ago to lemmyshitpost in Field Guide

This is a full book and not just the cover for fun and giggles!

In The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America author Julian Montague has created an elaborate classification system of abandoned shopping carts, accompanied by photographic documentation of actual stray cart sightings. These sightings include bucolically littered locations such as the Niagara River Gorge (where many a cart has been pushed to its untimely death) and mundane settings that look suspiciously like a suburb near you.

Working in the naturalist’s tradition, the photographs depict the diversity of the phenomenon and carry a surprising emotional charge; readers inevitably begin to see these carts as human, at times poignant in their abandoned, decrepit state, hilariously incapacitated, or ingeniously co-opted. The result is at once rigorous and absurd, enabling the layperson to identify and classify their own cart spottings based on the situation in which they were found.

Sphks , 2 months ago to science_memes in tremendous

I don’t know if he has really said that or not. It saus long about the man.