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Voyager 1 loses contact with NASA, turns on retro transmitter not used since 1981 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think for the Voyager launches the planets and the sun were aligned in such a way that the probes could be slingshotted around them to gain speed. I think such an alignment is quite rare?

What's a technology that was cooler in its older iterations? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

My friend's dad had one with a remote that when you changed the volume on the remote the volume knob would move. I thought it was so cool

He Is Not Ok in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

When Trump gave his inauguration speech there were lots of articles about translators saying it was impossible to translate.

It ain't easy being green in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

What's green and smells of pork?

! Kermit's cock

Which fictional character comes to your mind first when someone says strong, independent woman? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Why do phone apps update all the time but nothing seems to change? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

It's a number of reasons. One I don't see already mentioned is that Apple and Google require apps to target the latest versions of their OSs and libraries. For example Google released a new version of the Google Play Billing Services library. All apps were required to update to the newest version by mid August (you could request a two month extension). So to the end user it seems like nothing has changed. But under the hood the app is now using the latest apis. This could also apply to non-Google/Apple apis. Maybe a change of the developers own api was necessary.