See also: every other service Amazon has bought.
I miss when Goodreads had updates.
turmacar
joined 1 year ago
"Lets turn the Ionosphere and the Mantel into the halves of a capacitor! Free energy!" is Bond villain territory.
It's definitely at least "Internet Lore" at this point? I mean the car company isn't a namesake for no reason. I don't want to give The Oatmeal too much credit but it seems to have been the meme generator for a lot of 'the legend' on the web, though it's been kind of a counter-culture staple basically since he died.
IDK, just one of those things that I got interested enough to read actual books about awhile ago and it's kind of scary how much "common knowledge" is more "common mythology".
He wasn't.
The War of the Currents was Edison and Westinghouse. The elephant was executed by the ASPCA and filmed by the Edison Studios years after, that company had been sold by Edison years before. The payment argument was Tesla and a manager.
Tesla and Edison wrote each other personal letters and spoke well of each other in public years later.
Edison was an asshole. Tesla's 'legend' is weird.
Honestly 5 gb is thousands of songs, especially if they're not FLAC / mp3 320.
It won't be your entire library if you're a music buff but it's days worth of music.
One is probably the Disney River Boat movie.
Decently entertaining for what it was.
Also fun, they rely on quantum mechanics.
Individual "bits" on a SD card are electron buckets that are either "full" (they have an electron) or not. 8 bits to a byte ~1 trillion bytes to a terabyte.
That's how you can tell this is obviously fake, the RAM needs to be connected pins first.
If it were on it's side 100% legit.
I've tried bookwyrm and hardcover and a few others. In general I think they're getting there, but there's weird edge cases where it's not as smooth an experience. Partly because they don't have a critical mass of users, partly because Goodreads really was in a pretty decent place when it effectively froze.
All that's going to improve over time, but atm, for me, switching costs from the old platform aren't worth it.