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Today I Learned @lemmy.world
Jessica @lemmy.world

TIL Kowloon Walled City existed and is the real world origin for many visual representations of oppressive urbanization in cyberpunk media

I came across a video on Youtube discussing it (there are several), and Kowloon Walled City is just endlessly fascinating. A few notable videos I found on the subject were:

The Densest City on Earth

Kowloon Walled City: Hong Kong's City of Darkness

Inside Hong Kong's Kowloon Walled City

There is also a book on the city called City Of Darkness Life In Kowloon Walled City, which I found on archive.org in high resolution. It is full of photographs and detailed accounts of the comings and goings within the enclave.

  • I mean the man is directly responsible for blocking several Supreme Court justices from being appointed while Obama was president, which led to roe v wade being overturned so uh, Moscow Mitch couldn’t drop dead any faster in my opinion.

  • Lemmy Moderators @lemmy.world
    Jessica @lemmy.world

    User profiles need a sort by controversial

    I don't know who needs to hear this where, but being able to sort a user's comments by controversial would be a quick way to get a gauge on how generally inflammatory a user is when moderating one of their comments.

  • Am I on your blocklist? I’ve done some cross posting of my own content. Things have settled down now, but I know for awhile there it wasn’t really clear which communities were going to take off.

  • If I had a nickel for every post I’ve seen asking this question in the last 60 seconds, I’d have two nickels.

    Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice. Check out Voyager because it just got this feature today.

  • A bunch of generic Concerta drugs were removed from the market awhile back and several more sprung up. They’re nowhere near the same and the quality is garbage. I was on one in college while on state insurance. They use some older release mechanism from like the 80s using a pinhole on one side and half of my true generic pills didn’t even have a visible hole. I ended up in the ER because one released all at once at like 7pm, and I thought I was dying due to excessive adrenaline.

  • I have no clue what out of pocket is these days, but my insurance only charges me $12 for name brand Concerta. I know at one time there was an authorized generic sold by Janssen I believe was their name, but it’s still the same patented pill. That might be what my prescription is filled as.

    PSA for anyone who cares: Authorized Generics are the name brand sold cheaper. True Generics are a completely different pill sold as “bio-identical”.

    Don’t quote me on this last bit, but I believe bio identical only has to be like 80% similar, which is why so many generics cause so many problems for so many people

  • Sounds like you’re on Ritalin? You might try name brand Concerta (NO GENERICS!!). It’s just extended release Ritalin in a fancy patented delivery mechanism that all the generics can’t copy. It lasts all day and I just have to remember to take it before noon once per day.

  • The last comma should have been a period. For some reason on that particular font the period showed up in the center of the line instead of at the bottom and it looked really weird.

    Edit: for what it’s worth, the original meme had a comma too for some reason

  • This was surprisingly interesting! Thanks for posting it. I didn't think there was anything noteworthy to glean from it, but @Contramuffin@lemmy.world mentioned down below that USB doesn't have interrupts, which I was unaware of. I especially liked how he covered different types of USB keyboards running at different speeds, and he briefly covered n-key rollover, or the lack thereof on the two keyboards he had on hand as well as why some key combinations fail due to shared wiring in the keyboard. The latency discussion between PS/2 interrupting and USB being polled for data at the end of the video was also fascinating.

    Edit: Ben Eater did a follow-up video on how n-key rollover works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lPzTU-3ONI

  • No worries! Usually the memes here aren’t so technical. I only got the joke because I was required to take a class on operating systems for my degree, and we covered interrupts.

  • I don't know if everyone here is just a galaxy brain or what, but I'm surprised nobody has asked or explained the joke. The red bird is a CPU running lines of assembly instructions and the crow is user input causing an interrupt to press the e key. This particular type of interrupt exists because it would feel really bad if you were typing, and the text didn't show up until several seconds later when the CPU felt like processing the (hopefully) buffered input.

    Quality meme op

  • Games @lemmy.world
    Jessica @lemmy.world

    With the Steam Summer Sale ending, what are your favorite Co-Op games?

    I am looking to make some last minute purchases to play with one or more friends, and I have poked around Steam's Co-Op page. I'm curious what new co-op games everyone on Lemmy is playing.

    I just picked up Raft and Deep Rock Galactic the other day, but you can never have too many new (never played) games!

    General Discussion @lemmy.world
    Jessica @lemmy.world

    For all the chocolate lovers out there, careful because effectively all dark chocolates have lead and cadmium in them. Lead is especially dangerous and some brands have alarmingly high amounts.

    Nintendo @lemmy.world
    Jessica @lemmy.world

    Exploring Nintendo of America's Employee-Only Museum - Redmond, WA (2006)

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1182769

    This is possibly never before seen footage of the employee-only museum at NoA in ridiculously high quality thanks to Noclip. There is no narration, and the video is uncut.

    Gaming @lemmy.ml
    Jessica @lemmy.world

    Exploring Nintendo of America's Employee-Only Museum - Redmond, WA (2006)

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1182769

    This is possibly never before seen footage of the employee-only museum at NoA in ridiculously high quality thanks to Noclip. There is no narration, and the video is uncut.

    RetroGaming @lemmy.world
    Jessica @lemmy.world

    Exploring Nintendo of America's Employee-Only Museum - Redmond, WA (2006)

    This is possibly never before seen footage of the employee-only museum at NoA in ridiculously high quality thanks to Noclip. There is no narration, and the video is uncut.

    What is this thing? @lemmy.world
    Jessica @lemmy.world

    Found this on my toe after swimming in a lake

    It was in a small lake in Washington, and I noticed it as I was about to drive home.

    Videos @lemmy.world
    Jessica @lemmy.world

    Army of Crabs Protect Spy Robot From Stingray | Spy In The Ocean | BBC Earth

    Videos @lemmy.world
    Jessica @lemmy.world

    Make Your Renders Unnecessarily Complicated

    Gaming @lemmy.ml
    Jessica @lemmy.world

    Hammerwatch 2 released a demo that ends on Sunday

    store.steampowered.com Hammerwatch II on Steam

    Gather your heroes and journey beyond the dungeons of Castle Hammerwatch to explore a pixelated world like never before. Aid King Roland’s resistance while helping villagers along the way. Battle beasts, finish off hordes of the undead, and face the forces of evil.

    Hammerwatch II on Steam

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/511090

    If you liked Hammerwatch 1 or Heroes of Hammerwatch, it's more of the same, but better!

    Videos @lemmy.world
    Jessica @lemmy.world

    Pill Bugs (Poly Polies) are actually crustaceans and still have gills!

    Today I Learned (TIL) @lemmy.ca
    Jessica @lemmy.world

    TIL: Pill Bugs (Poly Polies) are actually crustaceans and still have gills!

    RetroGaming @lemmy.world
    Jessica @lemmy.world

    Vintage game animations were weirder than you remember

    RetroGaming @lemmy.world
    Jessica @lemmy.world

    Full Quiet for the NES (and modern systems) is releasing in full soon and is easily the most ambitious NES game ever made

    RetroGaming @lemmy.world
    Jessica @lemmy.world

    The Jim Power NES Demake is insane! Does this look like an 8bit game to you?

    Here's a 2 minute video showcasing it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ZPg3RODGZ48

    The graphics blow Kirby's Adventure out of the water!

    Reddit @lemmy.world
    Jessica @lemmy.world

    So r/Apple just opened back up. This didn't age well...

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/180455

    Seems there are plenty of Reddit bootlickers lined up ready to oust all the protesting moderators. https://twitter.com/aaronp613/status/1668683335718035457

    Worse still, the mods at r/Apple caved and voluntarily reopened instead of letting Reddit replace them: https://web.archive.org/web/20230616040715/https://libreddit.garudalinux.org/r/apple/comments/14al426/rapple_blackout_what_happened/

    They also have no intention of moving their community anywhere else... https://libreddit.garudalinux.org/r/ModCoord/comments/148ks6u/indefinite_blackout_next_steps_polling_your/jo6k0ox/

    General Discussion @lemmy.world
    Jessica @lemmy.world

    Does lemmy.world allow criticism of the CCP?

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/98323

    Apparently there's an issue with some instances banning users for criticizing authoritarian governments. Is lemmy.world a safe place to criticize governments?

    Lemmy.World Announcements @lemmy.world
    Jessica @lemmy.world

    The blackout is starting to have a financial impact on Reddit, but we must stay dark!

    If the performance weakness continues for a week or two, the agency would start recommending decreasing spend with Reddit or directing it to other platforms.

    After the blackout, we will be closely monitoring user behavior on Reddit and guide clients when we can unpause,” said Freddy Dabaghi, managing director at Stagwell-backed Crispin Porter Bogusky, which has asked clients to stop campaigns, depending on their client goals.