wumpus

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Grind up one of every official state bird, and make it into a hot dog.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Gottingen University

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Employers love it because it gives them plausible legal cover for two essential freedoms:

If they like you anyway, they can hire you and defend any discrimination claims with the fact that you had the strongest resume.

Whenever they stop liking you, they can expose the lie and fire you on the spot for good cause.

So really, it's a win-win situation for both you and your prospective employer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A Braille-to-speech app. Point the camera at the Braille part of a sign, and be told what it says.

Intended user base: Users who can't read due to sight impairment, can't read Braille directly either for whatever reason, and couldn't find a general-purpose OCR app capable of reading the ordinary text.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Regardless which lossless compression algorithm you prefer, it makes most files bigger.

*where "files" includes all bitstrings of a given length, whether or not they've ever existed