Is that Tom Scott from the future?

leveraging their games to make people buy their console when those people just want to buy the game

That’s the whole point of exclusive titles and every console vendor does it.

And triple their price? I guess the Switch is priced the way it’s priced so people can actually afford buying one.

Just to provide some data on the radiation dose. It’s everyone’s own decision whether a ‘willy-nilly’ PET scan is worth it.

From the English Wikipedia:

FDG, which is now the standard radiotracer used for PET neuroimaging and cancer patient management, has an effective radiation dose of 14 mSv.

The amount of radiation in FDG is similar to the effective dose of spending one year in the American city of Denver, Colorado (12.4 mSv/year). […T]he whole body occupational dose limit for nuclear energy workers in the US is 50 mSv/year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron_emission_tomography#Safety

From the German Wikipedia:

Es ist bei einer Strahlendosis von 1 Sievert (Sv), der 100 Menschen ausgesetzt sind, mit 5 Todesfällen durch Strahlenkrebs zu rechnen […]. Man müsste also 100.000 PET-Untersuchungen durchführen, um 35 Todesfälle an Strahlenkrebs (nach einer mittleren Latenzzeit von etwa 15 Jahren für Leukämie und etwa 40 Jahren für solide Tumoren) zu verursachen, das heißt etwa eine auf 3000 Untersuchungen

If 100 people received a radiation dose of 1 Sievert (Sv), one would expect 5 deaths due to radiation-induced cancer […]. One would need 100,000 PET scans in order to cause 35 cancer deaths (after a median wait duration of 15 years for leucemia and 40 years for solid tumors), which is about 1 in 3000 scans.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positronen-Emissions-Tomographie#Strahlenexposition

A text editor that doesn’t assume that the keys on my keyboard are in the same order as yours.

Honestly, I find it great that Linus still manages the Kernel after all this time.

At the end of my 20s I can feel that I’m becoming stupider. Reading texts or just thinking about a problem take more effort than they used to.

There’s nothing to say about this

Damn.

There’s nothing to say about this. Just revel in memories, enjoy the moment, and upvote.

I haven’t. Thanks for the tip. This might come in handy when we need to create automated documents again.

I’ve come to that conclusion, too. If only printing support were better, I wouldn’t write anything but HTML.

Take a step back and reconsider. The reason the software is fighting you is because you are trying to make it do something it is not meant for or you’re actively asking it to do the opposite of what you stated earlier you wanted to achieve.

Wise words, and true most of the time.

But goddammit is it so hard not to write over the page border? This isn’t something I should have to specifically define as bad.

Thank you very much.

BTW I wrote my thesis in LibreOffice. That’s its own can of worms, but at least I knew how to wrestle it into submission – other than LaTeX. Set the font to Latin Modern Roman and no-one will know the difference.

Exactly my point.

Yeees, I forgot all about the non-existent module system.

– Professor: Here’s the template for your thesis.

– There are, like, 50 lines of macro imports here. Which modules does this need?

– Fuck if I know. You want my installation? It’s only 50GB.

LaTeX is soo great! You don’t have to worry about formatting ever again.

Puts image I’m talking about 8 pages away from the section that talks about the image

Writes not only over the margin, but over the goddamn page boundary because adding a page was not fashionable that day

Moves a table left by 1 cm on every other compilation, moves it back in the other compilations (happened to a colleague)

So instead of worrying about formatting you worry about learning the incantations that force LaTeX at gunpoint not to fuck up the formatting.

I used to think that at least the parts that are Fairtrade wouldn’t be affected as much.

Chocolate production is infested with slave labor, child labor and child slave labor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwHMDjc7qJ8

For long hair it helps with combing. Just like the old silicone spray for ballpoint mice, it reduces friction with the comb.