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A man from the Soviet Union wants a new washing machine, but he can't afford to buy it. Fortunately he works at a washing machine factory, so he decides to steal one part every day until he has everything he needs. A year later he finally has all of the parts and begins assembling it in the evening. By the next morning, he realizes he's built a T-34 tank.

It wasn't uncommon for Soviet military installations to be disguised (poorly) as civilian buildings. They lied to everyone, even the workers themselves, but it was an open secret. I wouldn't be surprised if they brought the practice back.

It's the Rankine. Some Scottish dude wanted to use Kelvin without using Kelvin. It's basically the Fahrenheit scale but with 0˚R set at absolute zero.

0˚R = 0K and 1˚R = 0K + 1˚F

It was school work. All I needed was some proper visual indentations and a monospaced font.

I once wrote C# code in MS Word because the only other option was Notepad.

Revelation is one of the most quoted judeo-christian texts, and I recently learned that it was written as a fanfic and it took the fandom a surprisingly long time to recognise it as part of the official lore.

Exhibit one: Aussie wanker yells at tech.

change button bindings

AntiMicroX. Simple graphical application to rebind controller inputs to keyboard and mouse actions. You're welcome.

Modern, performant computer graphics is an incredibly complex topic full of hacks, workarounds, and edge cases. It's possible that an update to DirectX/OpenGL/Vulkan caused some edge case interaction between the application and the graphics pipeline to fail somewhere. Updating the GPU driver (mesa, nvidia, amdgpu, or whatever Windows equivalent) could mitigate that failure.

I remember having to update the Nvidia Windows driver when Cyberpunk 2077 was released to fix an issue related to transparent foliage (transparency is always a pain in the ass to deal with).

If you consider gross misuse (i.e. mixing up "theory" and "hypothesis") to be a valid form of etymology (e.g. making new words), I have a question to axe.

(I apologize to linguists' families who now have to clean up bodily fluids and/or arrange a funeral.)

In addition to the other comment - "Sappho and her friend" refers to the unfortunate practice by historians of portraying queer relationships in a callously heteronormative way, like referring to Sappho's female lover as "her friend".

Do not touch The Coconut!