Bubs

I believe it's a really well done needle felt

Apparently, this is the code for a Hello World program in Malbolge:

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A scrap/repair shop could probably get a few useful parts out of it. Not for $800 of course.

Don't know much about the internals of that Mac book, but I imagine you could salvage some keyboard key parts, internal cables, ports on the side, or maybe even the ram or hard drive if it's out of the way.

"utilithing"

The app name is actually an X followed by four zero-width characters.

I read it that he was intentionally singing bad. If he sang it well, then the sirens would have never been interrupted. Plus, the lack of anyone reacting to his bad singing makes it feel like they were in one it being intentional.

You're welcome! I honestly had a fun time looking this up. Such a random but interesting thing to delve into.

Who could have seen that coming? /s

An industrial grade robot is no joke. I hope whoever set up that robot got sued.

You either need a weak enough robot that it can't really harm you, or you need several measures to prevent exactly this from happening. Either make all the joints compliant or set up PSD's/invisible fences to prevent the robot from operating when hands are near the boards.

First off, I absolutely hate the diamond industry. So I by no means am saying natural diamonds are better than lab grown ones.

That said, the article does have some point. Based on a quick look online, diamonds actually require a lot of energy to form. The range seems to be between 300 and 2000 kWH per carat. Here's just one site:

A modern larger multistone cubic HPHT press will use 75–150 kWh per rough ct., which would end up around 350–700 kWh per successful polished ct.

[A CVD producer] told me [it used] around 60–120 kWh per rough ct. and 1,000–1,700 kWh per polished ct. There is more unused rough from CVD since they are cube shape, which is why those ratios are higher.

According to the EIA the average monthly household power usage is 900 kWH.

That means a one carat diamond can likely require more power than your entire house uses in one month.

Coal power plants in the US operate art an avg of 33% efficiency. Therefore, your one carat of diamond requires at least 3000 kWH of coal.

1 kWH requires 1.14 pounds of coal. So then your one carat consumes 3,420 pound of coal.

I'm no expert, but I imagine that is a lot of emissions for one diamond. Plus, none of that accounts for unregulated countries which could make any of those numbers so much worse.

Once again, I'm all for lab diamonds. There's still a point to be made that they require massive amounts of energy and that we can do better to make sure that energy is clean. Renewable power is the best way to make diamonds for sure.

It's a mushroom:

Mycena subcyanocephala is a species of fungus,[1] which has its habitat in the tropical parts of Taiwan. It has been spotted eight times. Mycena subcyanocephala is one of the smallest mushrooms in the world, with buttons about 1 mm tall. The species belongs to the Mycenaceae family, with Mycena interrupta being its closest relative.

From Wikipedia

Exactly. Like, how hard would it be to reverse engineer the poison and create a reversal tool that applies the exact opposite modifications. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if it could be defeated by something as simple as a little image compression or noise.