The phrasing of “First actual case of bug being found” definitely sounds like it’s a reference to an existing term. Nowadays maybe people would say “a literal bug lol”.

Edit: to be fair, OP doesn’t say that Hopper invented the term

I had a “T-Mobile MDA Vario II” (HTC TyTN 300) which was similar, and also had a collapsible stylus which lived in a little hole on the bottom. It was Windows Mobile, but it was great having the keyboard fully accessible (without that extra bottom bit the G1 had).

It looked like this, just less German:

That’s the first Android phone, the HTC Dream (or TMobile G1). I loved this phone, even if it was chronically underpowered.

Mirror for NYTimes article: https://archive.ph/C7Z6g

The first thing to happen is that any liquids (saliva, tears, blood) will start to boil in the very low pressure, but your body won’t explode like in some films. This boiling will pull heat from your body causing your nose and mouth to nearly freeze.

Another film trope is that you freeze over, but you’ll often overheat first since you can’t radiate your heat away quickly enough (depending on if you’re in sunlight or not).

Why are you quoting a US site for a case in China?

Conversely, if the pricing is due to an error, the company can petition the court to annul the purchase contract, allowing it to refund customers without the necessity of delivering the goods.

Surely, this will apply.

There’s kroki as well, which includes Mermaid, Excalidraw, GraphViz, PlantUML, etc.

For me it’s the Intellivision with its controllers that were attached with phone cords and those plastic inserts that would customise the controller for each game.

I think we only had one game, Triple Action (although only the tanks and biplanes were worth playing).

My parents’ house still has more vintage tech than most computer museums.

Looks to be riffing on this story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4ngyely232o

It’s good to see the Beeb join the hallowed ranks of The Onion and The Daily Mash.

Ah bollocks, another trusted voice silenced. Now it’ll be that slight bit harder to find a review that isn’t just parroting stuff from the press release.

Ukraine have destroyed three bridges in Kursk, which will affect Russia’s ability to get supplies to their invading forces, but they’re also over rivers where it’s fairly trivial to set up temporary bridges (unless they are destroyed by drones).

It’s saying modern marshmallows are made with corn syrup, starch, sugar and gelatin but originally it was made with mallow plant.

Now I want to try the mallow version - has anyone here tried them?

Including English: æppel meant any kind of fruit, which is why you have names like pineapple and elephant apple.

Makes sense - the article says it’s just a regular piece of plastic, but it’s printed and clearly isn’t just a copy (unless you can photocopy onto plastic?)

Yeah, the article says

What transpired in the nearly 30 years since the story unfolded is bittersweet

and I was waiting for the sweet part. Turns out, apart from his mum’s good intentions, everything in the story’s pretty much on the bitter side.

I was reading through hoping they’d show they’d considered the impact on life, but nope. Two to three volts doesn’t sound a lot, but if you’re a small creature living half in brine it might be a big deal.

Plus the change in the sand that is the whole point, as you say.

Patrick Delaney’s salute:

I know News Corp are evil, but this pic looks more mocking than heartfelt.

Ah, I didn’t know that - thanks