The patent for the safety can opener, US5289638A, filed on February 19, 1993, expired on February 19, 2013, due to non-payment of maintenance fees. Google Patents

Regarding the long crank mechanism, US7574808B2, filed on August 10, 2005, is set to expire on December 12, 2025. Unified Patents

Therefore, a combined safety can opener with a long crank could be produced without infringing on these patents after December 12, 2025.

i don’t know but at my funeral i want to be fired out of a cannon with confetti

…cops?

A bag of white sugar thrown into a cement mixer will prevent the cement from ever setting

I refuse to watch it

Yeah this l me too. it depends on the context

so humgry

To get started with programming, find a hobby project that you absolutely love working on.

For me it was making websites about pokémon.

Then websites with dynamic content, that players could sign up for and change.

Many years later I started working on game engines

You don’t need Linux to do programming. There are plenty of professionals and hobbyists that use only Windows, or only iOS.

Wait what why

What if the pins are imaginary too

If I do a google search for “pictures of hiroshima” and get a bunch of pictures of a famous drag queen named Hiroshima, is google hallucinating, or do I need to refine my query?

ChatGPT and other LLMs used to perform tasks like data gathering and code generation are tools exactly like google search. If you’re not getting accurate results, it’s not because the technology is bad, it’s because you are.

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Again, the attitude comes down from the top. Volunteers whose ethics (contempt and superiority) align with the executive staff are rewarded, and those that don’t are let go. I don’t know if you’re ignorant or being deliberately obtuse? Please think about what I wrote.

the culture of contempt comes down from the top. it’s owned by Prosus, acquired for $1.8 billion in 2021.

it’s owned by Prosus, acquired for $1.8 billion in 2021.

Yes. Stack overflow was a cruel, selfish, horrible emperor and now the dynasty of technical knowledge is crumbling.

If everyone moves to LLMs then there will not be a central repository of knowledge. That is the fault of stack overflow. Their self-centered behavior directly caused this fracturing of knowledge.

If they had been decent human beings we would have had a library of information kept current with today’s trends and technologies. Instead we’re going to have to rely on paid AI models or fucking grok.

This is their fault. I blame them for it. And I celebrate their downfall because they were shitty humans.

Managing all that data was never a problem for them. They had the technical expertise, paid staff, and plenty of volunteers.

The challenge was not being shitty to people, and they failed. That’s why this news gathers so much attention. We are vindicated to see such a horrible group of people brought down.

the premise is freezing yourself with passive income. “so you can retire” is bullshit. OP means become wealthy. you’re a billionaire apologist and you should be ashamed. banned from my instance.

being rich is not the solution to rising ocean waters, fascist dictatorships and weapons stockpiling.

stop idolizing billionaires. they’re garbage human beings.

it’s only going to get worse from here. in another millennium all this will be under water.