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1985 documentary about the restoration, rebuilding, and modernization of San Francisco's entire cable car system. Nearly a century old in the 1980's, thanks to this effort cable cars have lasted into the 21st century.

Code monkey think maybe manager wanna write goddamned login page himself.

He also wrote "Still Alive" and "Want You Gone" from Portal and Portal 2, respectively.

Like, everywhere I go (home, work, the fucking checkout line at the grocery store), I always seem to end up being the sane, rational voice / mediator.

I just want to be the crazy one for once.

(Pushing it at a bit since it was recorded in 1999 but didn't release until 2000)

Digital streaming is displacing the last remnants of physical media.

In a disappointing turn of events, FlatpanelsHD reports that LG has ended production of its Blu-ray player series, which includes the UBK80 and UBK90 models. With limited stock available, prospective buyers should act quickly to secure the last remaining units before they are sold out.

After Samsung and Sony's departure from physical media, LG was one of the last major manufacturers of Blu-ray players

Edit: Fuck some of these comments Y'all sick in the head. I'm out.

Eleven months after the Ingenuity helicopter made its final flight on Mars, engineers and scientists at NASA and a private company that helped build the flying vehicle said they have identified what probably caused it to crash on the surface of Mars.

In short, the helicopter's on-board navigation sensors were unable to discern enough features in the relatively smooth surface of Mars to determine its position, so when it touched down, it did so moving horizontally. This caused the vehicle to tumble, snapping off all four of the helicopter's blades.

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An international research team has for the first time imaged and controlled a type of magnetic flow called altermagnetism, which physicists say could be used to develop faster and more reliable electronic devices. Financial Times:

A groundbreaking experiment at a powerful X-ray microscope in Sweden provides direct proof of the existence of altermagnetism, according to a paper published in Nature on Wednesday. Altermagnetic materials can sustain magnetic activity without themselves being magnetic.

The team from the UK's Nottingham university that led the research said the discovery has revolutionary potential for the electronics industry. "Altermagnets have the potential to lead to a thousand-fold increase in the speed of microelectronic components and digital memory, while being more robust and energy-efficient," said senior author Peter Wadley, Royal Society research fellow at Nottingham.

Hard disks and other components underpinning the modern computers industry process data in ferromagnetic materials, whose intrinsic magnetism limits their speed and packing density. Using altermagnetic materials will allow current to flow in non-magnetic products.

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Cross-posted from "5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV" by @MicroWave@lemmy.world in !health@lemmy.world

Edit if you see this after I deleted it (or if the delete doesn't federate): Didn't see this was from 2023 when I cross-posted it. It's still uplifting news, just not recent enough to merit posting.

Summary

A 53-year-old German man, known as the “Dusseldorf patient,” has become the fifth confirmed case of an HIV cure.

Researchers announced that he has shown no detectable virus after stopping treatment four years ago, following a stem cell transplant performed to treat cancer.

This high-risk procedure replaces the immune system and has previously cured four other HIV patients, all with donors carrying a rare HIV-resistant mutation.

While not a viable option for widespread use, these cases provide valuable insights for developing safer and more accessible HIV cures.

It's like school picture days all over again. Rather than live with that in my license photo for the next 4 years, maybe I "lose" my wallet after the zit clears up and get a replacement/retake the photo.

ENT 4x20 "Demons" and that's the actual line from the scene.

Having a penchant for cheap second-hand cameras can lead to all manner of interesting equipment. You never know what the next second-hand store will provide, and thus everything from good quality rangefinders an SLRs to handheld snapshot cameras can be yours for what is often a very acceptable price. Most old cameras can use modern film in some way, wither directly or through some manner of adapter, but there is one format that has no modern equivalent and for which refilling a cartridge might be difficult. I’m talking about Kodak’s Disc, the super-compact and convenient snapshot cameras which were their Next Big Thing in the early 1980s. In finding out its history and ultimate fate, I’m surprised to find that it introduced some photographic technologies we all still use today.