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I still think it's cool that the Google Maps zoomed-out sattelite "globe" view has live* cloud patterns

*probably with like up to 30 mins delay, weather radars don't update that often

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"Toner cartridge is close to life" thanks, printer

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the virgin hyperloop vs the chad literally any high speed rail system build in the last two decades

they even look cool

and they run super smooth (they have to, they go 200 mph) like holy shit check that hyperloop video it's bumpy as heck

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the hyperloop test is hilarious to me because Europe has had way faster and super comfortable intercity trains for ages

like, a scanner is big and expensive and I don't actually want one? and my phone even does whiteboards and stuff like that

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it's wild to me that unless you're scanning a lot of things (or things other than b/w text) a good smartphone camera replaces a scanner while being a lot more user-friendly, just point it at the page and it'll scan automatically, and you immediately get a pdf you can send to people

I guess instead of building a cooling system that could handle an Intel chip boosting Apple built a cooler chip

Apple should move back to PowerPC tbh

today I learnt that WebSQL exists (basically SQLite for websites) and also that Apple removed support for it with Safari 13
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_SQL_
caniuse.com/sql-storage

It's so nice to be able to look at github without jagged edges everywhere

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in case anyone uses the flatpak version of Firefox (i.e. to get a current version of Firefox on Debian), the config change in this bugzilla comment just made Helvetica render properly for me: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.

gbpol 

most attempts to make the badly retouched text visible in Boris Johnson's tweet congratulating Biden/Harris aren't super readable so I'm posting mine here, feel free to share

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