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901.
by mr_toad 1y ago
Does Apple care about third party use of the ANE? There are many iOS/iPadOS features that use it.
902.
by mr_toad 1y ago
I’ve never heard of anyone calling it a kiwi bird, in NZ or anywhere else.
903.
by mr_toad 1y ago
He had to; a large part of his audience would have been unable to read. A lot of European literature was poetry for the same reason. Its only because literacy rates have risen that prose has become more popular.
904.
by mr_toad 1y ago
Newton intentionally made it difficult because he didn’t want to be bothered by questions from lesser minds.
905.
by mr_toad 1y ago
> build quite a profile on someone based on their past order history That’s small potatoes. Think of all the corporate and government data stored in 365 and other cloud services.
906.
by mr_toad 1y ago
Is this just a fancy name for (re)starting the application in the background?
907.
by mr_toad 2y ago
No lossless algorithm can compress all strings; some will end up larger. This is a consequence of the pigeonhole principle.
908.
by mr_toad 2y ago
My current AirBnB has only cellular backed WiFi which would struggle to download 250MB at peak times.
909.
by mr_toad 2y ago
If you’re into hard SF I recommend The House of Styx, and The House of Saints by Derek Künsken.
910.
by mr_toad 2y ago
> I recently used Gemini for some tax advice that would have cost hundreds of dollars to get from a licensed tax agent. That’s like buying a wrench and changing your own spark plugs. Wrenches are not putting mechanics out of business.
911.
by mr_toad 2y ago
The energy involved is enough to turn the both projectile and the armour to liquid. Once the projectile penetrates the armour it sprays out aa a jet of hot metal and solidifies as dust. (Depleted uranium also burns at high temperatures, so
912.
by mr_toad 2y ago
Probably hydrogen sulphide, the active ingredient in stink bombs.
913.
by mr_toad 2y ago
Oil is usually considered fungible. Fungible is a word that sounds weird and I don’t get to say often enough.
914.
by mr_toad 2y ago
And truckloads of data.
915.
by mr_toad 2y ago
> the idea of microservices for humans is nightmare time. Works for supermarkets, department stores etc. Companies employ too much red tape in their acquisition processes. I’ve seen organisations pay way over the going rate for cloud s
916.
by mr_toad 2y ago
> Comte argues that the sciences can be categorized into a hierarchy beginning with the natural sciences up through the social sciences, similar to other attempts to explain the unity of science. His hierarchy is almost the same as Randa
917.
by mr_toad 2y ago
Probably not much. There’s already an estimated 48 tons of material falling into the atmosphere every day. https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/meteors-meteorites/fac...
918.
by mr_toad 2y ago
This seems to be proposing that the surface of the Moon could become a giant computer. Drexler proposed that the entire mass of the Moon could be converted into a computing substrate.
919.
by mr_toad 2y ago
> Isn't it fascinating that people judge accents harshly? After all, if we can understand one another, what's the problem? Two populations in close proximity separated by social differences will develop accents and use those ac
920.
by mr_toad 2y ago
The weirdest one to me is the English suddenly referring to police as "feds". https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/37256/police-in-... It's not like they didn't already have dozens of sl
921.
by mr_toad 2y ago
> OP does not literally mean the same people but the same type of people. Same question really - aren't you most likely to find the same type of people at home?
922.
by mr_toad 2y ago
Also royalty. The instability of some European monarchs has been attributed to inbreeding.
923.
by mr_toad 2y ago
There are proposals to use the solar gravitational lens. Failing that, you’d need thousands of optical interferometers larger than the Hubble spread across a distance wider than the Earth.
924.
by mr_toad 2y ago
Statistically prediction and description are two sides of the same coin. Even a simple average is both.
925.
by mr_toad 2y ago
Our energy production grows exponentially. For a type I civilisation, producing that kind of energy would be possible. For a type II it would be trivial. In any case the timescales involved are measured in centuries.
926.
by mr_toad 2y ago
The only thing that could make a nerd happier than detecting alien life would be detecting alien robots.
927.
by mr_toad 2y ago
The idea of floating mats of life reminded me more of Wang’s Carpets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang's_Carpets
928.
by mr_toad 2y ago
Some people living in the 13th-14th century in Europe considered the people who lived prior to the fall of the Roman Empire to be more civilised and advanced, if not actually more intelligent than they were. From their perspective the wo
929.
by mr_toad 2y ago
> America needs to increase manufacturing capacity if it wants to maintain hegemony and possibly world peace. This argument is based on experiences in WWII, i.e. the previous war. You need to be cautious about basing military doctrine o
930.
by mr_toad 2y ago
> You can’t handle VAT rebates on your own Individuals (sole traders, contractors etc) can claim VAT rebates. You don’t have to have a lawyer or an accountant if you’re prepared to figure out the rules yourself.

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