mr_toad

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541.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
It’s about 4x the price of a man purse, even a brand-name like Nike.
542.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
> And conventionally conventionally, fonts were bitmaps in the first place! Bitmaps in ROM on early machines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_6845
543.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
I know I’m a terrible driver. I just think everyone else is worse.
544.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
LLMs are just graphing calculators for the humanities.
545.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
I don’t think that modern Turkey thinks of itself as an empire. They overthrew the Sultanate themselves, seems they were glad to be rid of it. I doubt any sensible modern country wants a physical empire, they’re much too much trouble to ma
546.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
That would be extremely difficult to defend against unless you have enough ships to defend every single convoy. WWII showed how helpless big surface ships were against u-boats in defending shipping.
547.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
The decisive battle of WWII, as far as the defence of Britain was concerned, was fought in the air. Invading an island nation without air superiority is a non-starter. I actually doubt the value of modern navies for anything other than gun
548.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
Whenever I’ve heard the term américain it’s been used to refer to a US citizen, not a mexicain or citizen of some other American country.
549.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
Ask two different people and get three different answers.
550.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
So few devices have Ethernet ports these days.
551.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
Travel advisory: possible disruptions on the road due to armies of vandals.
552.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
Fords and ferries were pretty common in Roman Britain, perhaps it was common to the provinces.
553.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
> We do test, a lot. Our testers are called endusers. Maybe they should read bug reports posted by the end users, and not have half-baked solutions posted by Very Ignorant Persons.
554.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
Compared to the torrent of actual spam this is just a drop in the bucket.
555.
by mr_toad 11mo ago
Bourgeoisie or Burgher in English, Bourgeois in French or in German Bürger, all from old Frankish burg, for town. English has both words, but they now have different meanings, and the term Burgher is mostly obsolete. The divide (or percept
556.
by mr_toad 1y ago
The route less travelled.
557.
by mr_toad 1y ago
> you can just tell the AI (with a voice command) what you want to do Hard no. Not happening.
558.
by mr_toad 1y ago
Carry-on complaining you mean. There is lots of political discourse, but no-one has any solutions (unless you count blaming immigrants).
559.
by mr_toad 1y ago
They’re probably assuming that anyone who would pay for Facebook has a large disposable income, which means that they’re a juicy add target, and they are worth much more than the average Facebook user.
560.
by mr_toad 1y ago
There are theoretical designs using antimatter (pion rockets, or beam core engines) that could reach 0.4c - 0.7c, which puts Alpha Centauri at decades away, not millennia. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.2281 https:/&
561.
by mr_toad 1y ago
The distance to andromeda is only about 20 times the width of our galaxy. And there are dwarf galaxies than are much closer.
562.
by mr_toad 1y ago
> You can cross the galaxy in a second as far as special relativity is concerned. Sure, but the rest of the universe will keep on changing. In 90 billion years it’s going to be a very old universe. Galaxies will become consolidated and
563.
by mr_toad 1y ago
> I think the bigger thing was that the Internet just wasn't that big a deal at the time. Maybe I’m just getting old, but it seems like nothing was such a big deal at the time. Everything seems to have gotten more uptight in the l
564.
by mr_toad 1y ago
What sort of formation are you thinking of? They’re all going to be hugging the terminator, like a big merry go round.
565.
by mr_toad 1y ago
> among other issues Those words are doing some heavy lifting. The EU cares more about their commitment to democracy, and their dubious economic policies. The last thing the EU needs is another Hungary.
566.
by mr_toad 1y ago
> The only way to rectify our reasonings is to make them as tangible as those of the Mathematicians, so that we can find our error at a glance, and when there are disputes among persons, we can simply say: Let us calculate, without furth
567.
by mr_toad 1y ago
Don’t threaten me with a good time!
568.
by mr_toad 1y ago
What if reading this comment is the life flashing before your eyes?
569.
by mr_toad 1y ago
If there’s an afterlife, then doesn’t it trivialise death? Maybe that’s the point.
570.
by mr_toad 1y ago
“ If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other

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