techno156
techno156 t1_j9oszh4 wrote
Reply to comment by AnExoticOrange in [WP]You're a software engineer who is a communications geek. You learned Morse code. One day, on a whim, you blink "console" with your eyelids. A translucent overlay over everything appears, highlighting items of interest. A realtime programming loop prompt blinks eagerly by livebeta
> Edit: I’m not sure if morse code supports “-“
It does, surprisingly. But as -....-, at least, in international Morse.
Minor nitpicking, but rm -rf won't do anything as it is, since there's nothing to tell it what to delete. The -r tells it to go through each folder in the specific location, and the -f tells it to ignore non-fatal errors/safety protocols (such as the file being marked as something not to be deleted), and proceed anyway.
techno156 t1_j0od4dr wrote
Reply to comment by ShikakuZetsumei in [WP] Your super power is preventing collateral damage. While the public thinks you're useless, all the other heroes really like you because they can go bonkers all out while you're around. by Time_Significance
It could also be a case of his powers not being flashy, so if he's not there, people complain about why he doesn't do anything, and if he is there, people complain about why he doesn't do anything.
For the public, even if they did know, they might think the heroes can just control collateral damage themselves, and Null is just riding on their coattails by being there for the media presence.
techno156 t1_iylqg4w wrote
Reply to comment by bootymix96 in Vaccine prompts HIV antibodies in 97 per cent of people in small study by tonymmorley
Interesting that electroporation works on people. I only expected it to work on bacteria, or to be unsafe for humans due to the whole heart and brain thing.
techno156 t1_ixgt7w5 wrote
Reply to comment by boomchacle in [WP] The ritual calls for 100 sacrifices, but after reading it carefully you realize that it never specified they had to be human. Deciding to be the smartass that you are, you got a petri dish full of bacteria and sacrificed them instead. by Prompt_Dude
>I wonder why they couldn’t just sacrifice individual cells if it works like that. How does the power scaling work here? Is it one second of bacteria equals one second of human life? Millions of bacteria seconds would absolutely blow everything else out of proportion. (Which to be fair does seem to happen a bit, but not as much as I would expect if it was a 1:1 ratio)
Maybe they didn't think of it before, or thought that there was something special about an animal/human that powered the sacrifice?
techno156 t1_ix2yx5z wrote
Reply to comment by deepserket in Super-hot salt could be coming to a battery near you by Apart_Shock
It's also in bones and seashells, the former of which is almost certainly a byproduct of the animal agriculture industry.
It might be a good way to reduce waste.
techno156 t1_itp5j6y wrote
Reply to comment by currentscurrents in The cutting-edge cellular therapies aiming to ease America's organ shortage. Major transplantation surgeries could one day become outpatient procedures. by Sariel007
>Right now xenotransplantation is much more promising - just this year, a genetically-altered pig heart was successfully transplanted into a human. We are going to see a lot more clinical trials in the very near future.
Unfortunately, he died shortly after, so it might not be quite there just yet.
techno156 t1_jccy2t0 wrote
Reply to comment by Falling--TearofStone in [WP]The Wishmaker's Key. It's like the Monkey's Paw, but instead of just flat out granting your wish (and doing it in the worst way possible), it only opens up the most reasonable opportunity to get what you wished for. by xxDubbz
Either that, or they'll put it down, and "lose" the magic key, finding the one they were looking for.