2MegaWhats t1_jdprik1 wrote on March 26, 2023 at 5:50 AM

Reply to comment by Dragmire800 in TIL, the placenta that forms with a fetus isn't created by the mother. It grows from the fertilized egg and some fetuses actually develop outside the uterus attached to the intestines in the body cavity. by darw1nf1sh

Baby Shark is darker than the cartoon would lead you to believe

2MegaWhats t1_jdkq4s0 wrote on March 25, 2023 at 2:29 AM

Reply to comment by National_Ad9265 in TIL that Barq's Root Beer was first created by Edward Barq in Biloxi, Miss, in 1897. In 1934, Barq and a former employee, who moved to New Orleans, agreed to each distribute their own version of the root beer, with the New Orleans version having a red label and the Biloxi version having a blue one. by jdward01

Never learned cursive writing?

2MegaWhats t1_j8xej6h wrote on February 17, 2023 at 5:10 PM

Reply to comment by brazzy42 in TIL that back in 2013, Xerox had scanners that would randomly change numbers after scanning a document. by COMPUTER1313

Imagine being in prison for 3 years and the scanner the office staff use randomly decides to turn your sentence into 33 years.

2MegaWhats t1_j1wxip7 wrote on December 28, 2022 at 12:29 AM

Reply to comment by nmarshall23 in This little-known firm with a weird website was central to the misappropriation of FTX customers' money, regulators say by RaiderOfZeHater

Libertarian-ism is the "Flat Earth Theory" of economics.

2MegaWhats t1_j1ws7uf wrote on December 27, 2022 at 11:50 PM

Reply to comment by [deleted] in This little-known firm with a weird website was central to the misappropriation of FTX customers' money, regulators say by RaiderOfZeHater

Imagine if your bank was run by know-it-all techbro libertarians. Really who needs regulations?

2MegaWhats t1_j17geze wrote on December 22, 2022 at 5:37 AM

Reply to comment by Lootcifer- in Microsoft-Activision deal: Gamers sue to stop merger by marketrent

I don't know why some people are still pretending like monopolies have ever worked to the benefit of consumers. Microsoft is a significant market player as the manufacturer of one of three video game consoles still being made and the owner of the predominant Operating System that is used by most consumers on their computers. Microsoft needs to be broken up not given even more shit to hold over consumers. Almost all tech companies need to be broken up at this point.

2MegaWhats t1_ixmd9oy wrote on November 24, 2022 at 3:23 PM

Reply to comment by allredidit in Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux just hit a major milestone by CrankyBear

It might be confusing because the term "subsystem" isn't something people are familiar with. On Windows NT (Windows' kernel) a subsystem is a set of APIs and an environment that software can run under. On Windows you typically use Win32, Win64, or WinRT but NT is not limited to those, it can support basically any software if the environment is written for it. In the past NT also supported OS/2 and it even had an entirely different *nix subsystem called Interix. WSL is basically the replacement for Interix because it was extremely obsolete and was barely used at all.

2MegaWhats t1_iue6caf wrote on October 30, 2022 at 5:29 PM

Reply to comment by c0d3s1ing3r in Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support by Tweho

Safari is Webkit which Chromium was forked from.

2MegaWhats t1_is6f3ng wrote on October 13, 2022 at 5:13 PM

Reply to Even Google's Own Staff Thinks 'Incognito Mode' Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be | Internal communications show employees joking about Incognito's abilities with one comparing it to "Guy Incognito" from The Simpsons by Hrmbee

It has never been advertised as a way to protect you from tracking, you can still be tracked as long as the browser window is open. It's basically the equivalent of clearing your cookies, cache, and history when you close your browser. It's basically a porn mode, so a nosy person using your computer can't just dig through your browser history.