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A single typo in an Open Street Map entry caused an ordinary 2-story building in Melbourne to become an eerie 212-story pillar.

The Melbourne Monolith is now the most famous landmark in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. A successful completion of the Monolith Challenge is to land neatly on its roof.

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apparently my 2015 MBP might be one of the last devices to include it

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wait what, macbooks used to have optical audio integrated into the headphone jack?

just had to download the mpeg codec from the Microsoft™ Store

oh right, I completely forgot about stat.ink

who knew, motion controls don't work in a moving vehicle

it's 20°C outside and I'm like "dang this is nice and cool"

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Sometimes when I'm helping a non-techie with computer issues, and the best advice I can give them is "did you try turning it off and back on again," I wonder if they think I'm not really trying to help them, or that I'm withholding some secret computer science knowledge from them. But no – this is the big insight! When you're a programmer, you realize that programmers don't really know what they're doing. All software is terrible. And our collective misfortune, as users, is to do battle with it

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it's the exact kind I'd expect at two in the morning but that's exactly what I needed

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covid 

they have these comically small just-the-mouth face shields here and wow they're a load of shit

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