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gruber, 11 days ago to random

I know I've mentioned this before, but one of my favorite features on the Mac that has no equivalent on an iPhone or iPad is adding new words to the system-wide spelling dictionary. The feature dates back to Mac OS X 10.0 and I'm pretty sure was in NeXTStep a decade before that.

And, even better, the custom words you add to the dictionary are stored in a simple text file, one word per line, at:

~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.AppleSpell/Library/Spelling/LocalDictionary

RickiTarr, 1 month ago to random

Here's my Ma'am, This is A Wendy's Rant:

Cleaning videos that involve mixing together baking soda and vinegar to clean things, you're just creating a Neutral liquid that takes away the degreasing power of acid, and the scrubbing power of baking soda.

arstechnica, 1 month ago to random

Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal cover

This time there's no over-the-air software patch.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/tesla-recalls-all-3878-cybertrucks-over-faulty-accelerator-pedal-cover/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

foone, 15 days ago to random

The only cyborg I've seen get it right is Inspector Gadget.

Because I can probably name ten people right now who would go for the "motorized screwdriver in the finger" surgery, yet it so rarely shows up in fiction.

But that's the transhumanist future I'm waiting for

nixCraft, 2 months ago to random

Why did the Tesla Robotaxi driver get fired?

He was fired because he kept going on auto-pilot.

hildabast, 1 month ago to random

TIL that the author of Planet of the Apes was also the author of The Bridge On the River Kwai.

Pierre Boulle (1912-1994) was born in Avignon. He was in Malaysia when WW2 started, & joined the French Resistance. Then he spied for the British & was captured.

His war experience was, he said, "the spiritual substance" of his writing.

The Planet of the Apes was inspired by watching the frenetic & seemingly mindless behavior of Stock Exchange brokers... 1/3

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-05-10/pierre-boulle-the-spy-who-invented-planet-of-the-apes-a-world-with-intelligent-gorillas-and-humans-with-lazy-brains.html

bruces, 2 months ago to random

*The MONIAC fluidic economic analog computer. Built in the 1940s, some of them still work

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Machine

arstechnica, 11 days ago to random

What kind of bug would make machine learning suddenly 40% worse at NetHack?

One day, a roguelike-playing system just kept biffing it, for celestial reasons.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/06/what-kind-of-bug-would-make-machine-learning-suddenly-40-worse-at-nethack/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

arstechnica, 3 months ago to random

Deadly morel mushroom outbreak highlights big gaps in fungi knowledge

Prized morels are unpredictably and puzzlingly deadly, outbreak report shows.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/deadly-morel-mushroom-outbreak-highlights-big-gaps-in-fungi-knowledge/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social