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- The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf] https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/library/UsefulnessHarpers.pdf 41 comments
- Useless Use of Cat Award (2000) http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html 42 comments
Lobsters
- Stop ‘using’ “useless” ‘“‘QUOTES’”’ https://medium.com/lambdax/stop-using-useless-quotes-1bba0a88406a 8 comments rant , web
- L2 is already here. It's the exchanges. Mostly useless for commerce now, single-use-case BTC is scaling off-chain by simply being swapped around within exchanges. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/760kub/l2_is_already_here_its_the_exchanges_mostly/ 12 comments btc
- Reasoning Using Fallacies is Useless at Best and Harmful to your Reasoning at Worst https://open.substack.com/pub/wonderandaporia/p/the-fallacy-fallacy?r=1l11lq 75 comments philosophy
- Function that can only be called a set number of times enforced at compile time using const generics. (Useless but fun). (Nightly only). https://play.rust-lang.org/?edition=2021&gist=45f165c0c0f6146cf3c7a1e0743f635e&mode=debug&version=nightly 39 comments rust
- “Magic links” can end up in Bing search results — rendering them useless. As of Feb 2017 Outlook scans emails arriving in your inbox and it sends all found URLs to Bing, to be indexed by Bing crawler. This effectively makes all one-time use links like login/pass-reset/etc useless https://medium.com/@ryanbadger/magic-links-can-end-up-in-bing-search-results-rendering-them-useless-37def0fae994 39 comments webdev
- Kurt Angle on his recent double knee replacement surgery: "It's a week later and I'm not doing much better...I also have a little bit of a back problem, so I can't use my legs and I can't use my back, so I'm pretty much useless...they found a screw in my left knee just hanging out in my knee socket" https://wrestlingnews.co/wwe-news/doctors-found-a-screw-in-kurt-angles-knee-socket-kurt-also-dealing-with-back-issues/ 37 comments squaredcircle
- Have you ever learned a theorem, thought it would be useless, then ended up using it all the time? Yeah, me neither... (A Tribute to Morera's Theorem) https://youtu.be/FIMkbFQL6XM 91 comments math
- Fun fact: YouTube uses over 250% the energy of bitcoin playing and storing endless useless videos. Add in tiktok & Snap and it's probably 700% the energy usage. https://thefactsource.com/how-much-electricity-does-youtube-use/ 229 comments cryptocurrency
- Australia's bushfire crisis is so big that it's useless trying to predict how blazes will behave, incident controller says | Scientific modelling used to predict how bushfires will behave is "not coping" with the current fire situation in south-eastern Australia because the fires are so big https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-03/scientific-modelling-not-coping-with-current-bushfires/11839356 11 comments worldnews
- A major insurer's ER denial policy may be completely arbitrary, finds a study in JAMA Network Open. The new research suggests that the criteria used to deny coverage is completely useless at predicting when someone is or isn’t sick enough to need the ER. https://gizmodo.com/a-major-insurers-er-denial-policy-is-completely-arbitra-1829867502 133 comments science
- /r/Bitcoin user essentially admits BTC is useless during argument about BTC and it’s likeness to a Ponzi scheme. “it has a very simple rudimentary use. [it is] a secure, reliable, immutable, decentralized store of value.” https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7jri98/comment/dr9fdew?st=JB76PYCX&sh=540ab09e 7 comments btc
- "I've used BTC for a few years now, like many here I actually use BTC as currency. Also like everyone here BTC has got to the point that it's basically useless to me. I am no investor and could care less what BTC is valued at." https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/7j68vp/rip_to_btc_for_use_on_dnmarkets/dr40zri/ 6 comments btc
- I recently got into an argument with a friend on the real world consequences of F1 research and we came to the grudging conclusion that aerodynamics is the least useful as that is something that is variable and virtually useless in everyday low-speed driving. https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/6u78zp/i_recently_got_into_an_argument_with_a_friend_on/ 63 comments formula1
- Screw useful mods, what are the funniest / most useless mods you know of? https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/6n1cg7/screw_useful_mods_what_are_the_funniest_most/ 54 comments factorio
- Batters who used a Drake walk-up/on-deck song hit .267/.328/.432 (.760 OPS) in 2016 (more useless information inside) http://mlb.mlb.com/fan_forum/ballpark_music.jsp?c_id=mlb 73 comments baseball
- [Blog post] VS 2017 + new csproj = useful or useless? https://stapp.space/vs2017-plus-new-csproj/ 7 comments dotnet
- oblitum/caps2esc: Transforming the most useless key ever in the most useful one https://github.com/oblitum/caps2esc 18 comments vim
- Plus minus (+/-) is a heavily maligned stat. Are there any solid arguments in favor of using plus minus to gauge a player's worth? Or is it just useless all the way around? https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/55l064/plus_minus_is_a_heavily_maligned_stat_are_there/ 21 comments hockey
- FYI: Using engines in WCCC is still allowed. When I played their strength was around 2000, useless for serious play. http://en.chessbase.com/post/better-than-an-engine-leonardo-ljubicic-1-2 27 comments chess
- How a useless feature contribution taught me how to use Go forks http://davidrallen.com/blog/using-go-forks/ 10 comments golang
- Microsoft doesn't verify the email address used for the Windows 10 upgrade before putting it on mailing lists. The initial email doesn't include unsubscribe links, and their Support center is useless. http://view.email.microsoftemail.com/?j=fe8c17757c62027c70&m=fed216717264067c&ls=fe261071736407747c1c71&l=feb71c7876610374&s=fe2d12737066067d761178&jb=fef611707c6c07&ju=fe6113757567067b7610 3 comments microsoft
- My first use of GPIO: my pretty useless digit display made with LEDs and paper http://youtu.be/DBAfgnOodMM 5 comments raspberry_pi
- I'm going to college and a old lady (mom's friend) thought that a Electronic Organizer would be very useful (like the one in the image), so she gift me one, BRAND NEW. Of course this is pretty useless now but it remind me how technology had advanced in 15 years! http://www.underwooddistributing.com/shop/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/el6800_sharp_org_5182bcd9c78f4.jpg 19 comments technology
- Nukes are useless because nobody dare use them – Ahmadinejad http://rt.com/news/ahmadinejad-useless-nuclear-arms-541/ 16 comments worldnews
- Bed bugs use range of tactics to render insecticides useless, study suggests "The study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, also suggests that some of the bugs are producing higher levels of enzymes that help to metabolise insecticides more quickly." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21778171#.uuhzyxpoly4.reddit 8 comments science
- Binary is the world's most useful useless skill http://blog.justsnake.com/how-to-become-a-binary-master/ 16 comments technology
- This is why I never use "All My Files." It is useless. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/569288/all_my_files.jpg 441 comments apple
- Git useless tips and tricks: Find the most used verbs in your git commit messages https://gist.github.com/2140115 4 comments git
- Useless use of cat http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/useless-use-of-cat/ 13 comments commandline
- Apps I actually use; because I was sick of useless top 100 app lists. http://northisup.com/blog/apps-i-actually-use-on-my-iphone/ 73 comments apple
- Cust. Requires I use VPN to RDP onto their server, but when I connect to their VPN my LAN is rendered useless. http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-67204-vpn-connects-but-no-remote-lan-access 16 comments sysadmin
- A device used by Iraqi forces to detect bombs and other weapons at checkpoints has been called useless by the American military. The device works “on the same principle as a Ouija board” — the power of suggestion — said a retired United States Air Force officer. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/middleeast/04sensors.html?resubmit=yes 6 comments worldnews
- New Haven government took land through eminent domain, then left it barren and useless -- Apparently, it's a better use to society http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/25/property-in-landmark-emin_n_300443.html 3 comments politics
- Flickr search, by color, on Creative Commons licensed photos. Useful for getting your desktop to coordinate with your surroundings in a hurry, and other "useless" aesthetic tasks http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=ea9225,4032e6; 53 comments technology
- Useless use of "useless use" http://blog.jrock.us/articles/useless%20use%20of%20%22useless%20use%22.pod 60 comments programming
- A Use for Useless CDs http://www.yousaytoo.com/user/tensionnot/4877 7 comments reddit.com
- "The Unexpected Usefulness of Mathematics" and "The Unexpected Uselessness of Philosophy." http://www.isteve.com/philosophy.htm 2 comments reddit.com
- The Useless Use of Cat Award http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html 6 comments programming
