Players were gobsmacked when a "stampede" of kangaroos was filmed bounding over a golf course, with players capturing the marsupials in action on video as th...
Unfortunately, they also deprive land use for everyone, being exclusive to club members, they consume huge amounts of water and pesticides too. I'd much rather either leave them wild or use them for much needed affordable housing and walkable infrastructure.
Earth planning date: Tuesday, June 25, 2024 As documented in a previous blog last week, we continue to juggle power constraints as we focus on analyzing our newest drilled sample on Mars: “Mammoth Lakes 2.
Upon the rover’s arrival at Bright Angel, it was so exciting to see all the interesting features in the rocks of this interval! In particular, these rocks contain an abundance of veins and nodules.
okay this is an very minor pet peeve of mine but i can't stop thinking about it for some reason and i HAVE to know if anyone else thinks similarly.
my parent's LG smart TV has a "gaming mode" that, among other things, reduces latency. every time it's activated - that is, every time a game console is used - the TV shows a notification saying "The Instant Game Response is launched." you can find a reviewer's screenshot of the notification here.
to me this seems like a very weird use of passive voice. like, it would make way more sense to say "Instant Game Response launched" or something like that.
it's different to almost every other computer-based UX interaction i've had - windows/xbox/etc says "updates installed", not "the updates are installed". android tells you "updates are available", not "the updates are available". a delivery app will tell you "order received", not "the order is received". and so on.
i thought that it was wei
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okay this is an very minor pet peeve of mine but i can't stop thinking about it for some reason and i HAVE to know if anyone else thinks similarly.
my parent's LG smart TV has a "gaming mode" that, among other things, reduces latency. every time it's activated - that is, every time a game console is used - the TV shows a notification saying "The Instant Game Response is launched." you can find a reviewer's screenshot of the notification here.
to me this seems like a very weird use of passive voice. like, it would make way more sense to say "Instant Game Response launched" or something like that.
it's different to almost every other computer-based UX interaction i've had - windows/xbox/etc says "updates installed", not "the updates are installed". android tells you "updates are available", not "the updates are available". a delivery app will tell you "order received", not "the order is received". and so on.
i thought that it was weird the first time i ever read it, and now whenever i see it, i can't help but notice it. it just sticks out to me.
do you find the phrasing of the message "The Instant Game Response is launched" to be unusual?
the phrasing is unusual. it doesn't bother me. (47%, 10 votes)
the phrasing is unusual. it bothers me. (42%, 9 votes)
Julia Evans (@b0rk) dives into creating Wizard Zines (wizardzines.com/) on strace (wizardzines.com/zines/strace/), Bash, and Git, making complex tools accessible, and community-driven knowledge sharing.
The DRM leasing protocol, the requirement for VR under Wayland has been long implemented across the Linux desktop except for one, it's one thing if nobody wa...
I'm a long time GNOME user and a huge fan of what they are doing UI/UX-wise.
I mean damn, it's literally a pleasure to use, it's almost like they have a design language going. A thing unheard of in the most FOSS world*.
But - and I mean it with love - boy do they love the smell of their own farts when it comes to technical discussions, especially Wayland implementation.
Leadership from NASA’s International Space Station and Commercial Crew Programs, as well as Boeing, will participate in a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT
NASA has awarded a contract to Leidos, Inc. of Reston, Virginia, to provide mission support for the agency’s International Space Station Program, Artemis
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A new custom virtual reality flight simulator built by NASA researchers will allow them to explore how passengers experience air taxi rides and collect data
A team of seven NASA Kennedy employees was recognized by the White House for charging ahead with the expansion of the agency’s sustainable electric vehicle
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Here it is once again. It's that time of the year. Valve have opened the floodgates for you to throw money at your screen during the Steam Summer Sale 2024.
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Experienced spacewalkers, university students, flight controllers, and NASA team members at all stages of their career recently came together at Johnson Space
A newly redesigned NASA Ames Visitor Center at Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, California, reopened to the public June 22 at the NASA Fest at
While every month Valve has been posting a fresh set of the most played Steam Deck games for the previous month, they've now added a dedicated Steam Chart for it.
The 23-year-old orbiter is taking images that offer horizon-wide views of the Red Planet similar to what astronauts aboard the International Space Station see
On Saturday, June 1, 2024, thousands of community members attended the Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM) Community Day hosted by Christopher Newport University in partnership with Newport News Public Schools in Virginia.
Turns out Perplexity, the AI company that has been ripping off journalism, started by posing as academics and using those fake credentials to scrape Twitter 404media.co/perplexitys-origin…
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NASA’s Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission has revealed unexpected C- and X-shaped formations in an electrified layer of gas high above our heads called the ionosphere.
Distance is a name I've not heard for a while. A really good fun sci-fi racing platformer from developer Refract that released in 2018, and they're bringing it back for v1.5: The Kinetic Update.
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“Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.” - Kurt Vonnegut, in his letter to students at New York's Xavier High School in 2006 #art
Whenever I’m feeling down or scared by the world, I look to Vonnegut for words that are if not comforting at least insightful…and I come away most of the time with a grin and my field of view expanded.
Star Trek: Resurgence released on Steam back in May and Dramatic Labs have continued to put up improvements, with the latest being a good update for Steam Deck players.
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