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691.
by thriftwy 3y ago
You can divide year into halves, thirds and quarters. You do not have to negotiate boundaries every time.
692.
by thriftwy 3y ago
I wonder if anbody did steering wheels with angle magnifier, so that at small angles it will behave identically to conventional ones, but will require way less rotation to get into parallel parking position
693.
by thriftwy 3y ago
> Coal being used less for energy. I believe that 2023 saw a record use of coal for energy worldwide.
694.
by thriftwy 3y ago
My experience with winter forests is that almost all trees display shyness when without leaves.
695.
by thriftwy 3y ago
In ADOM you could wish for "seven league bootses" if you wanted to get multiple pairs.
696.
by thriftwy 3y ago
What if their format changes? The app will no longer work.
697.
by thriftwy 3y ago
What do you mean by "downloading maps directly from OSM"? OSM is a database. If it is downloading rasterized images from the web site, then the difference is that Organic Maps is a vector mapping app.
698.
by thriftwy 3y ago
"Application that is no longer developed and has been removed from PlayStore." Compared to that, Organic Maps work and is being actively developed.
699.
by thriftwy 3y ago
How do you spoil mainframe programmers? I don't believe they had sufficient passion and/or freedom to manifest spoiledness.
700.
by thriftwy 3y ago
What would that generation of programmers do their thing on? A programmable abacus?
701.
by thriftwy 3y ago
QBasic could do line numbers all right. It did not require them, that's that. It had labels and loops, so why bother.
702.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Pascal (the reference PL) is sooo clumsy and verbose that I just can't take Dijkstra's opinion at its face value. Maybe early BASICs were so-so, but QBasic already had all kind if procedural stuff.
703.
by thriftwy 3y ago
I want to stay healthy with very low level of physical activity and I feel that it won't work out.
704.
by thriftwy 3y ago
What if I don't want to have an excercise routine? It is not something I enjoy so I don't do that. I want to lie 12 hours straight under a tree and be reasonably fit, like a gorilla. Eating healthy makes sense but excercising, by
705.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Whole grain contains fiber which take up space, whereas starch and sugar is raw calories. Tomato also contains fiber.
706.
by thriftwy 3y ago
I am a human capable of editing its own genome, so theoretically I can be anything.
707.
by thriftwy 3y ago
I wonder what happens if we would break this protein, such as by erasing its start codon. Will we get gorilla strength (and appetite, which is also a good thing in XXI?) I bet somebody out there already has this mutation.
708.
by thriftwy 3y ago
> We've adapted to sacrifice mass and strength at times. Can we please find a way to un-sacrifice mass, un-fit to survive in less abundant conditions? Right now, the food is so abundant it is actively killing us. But we are fat and
709.
by thriftwy 3y ago
I've heard they're not that healthy. Gorillas on the other hand are. I wonder if there's some floor dosage which is far from affecting your health but already significant in affecting your well-being. Why aren't we all o
710.
by thriftwy 3y ago
They lay under a tree for 12. They aren't that physically active unless they must.
711.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Now, find a way to trigger that without excercise @ win your Nobel prize. Before anybody intervenes, I want to say that excercise is stupid activity and that gorillas don't excercise that much. Try wrestle with one.
712.
by thriftwy 3y ago
What would Czech have if not for Austria? Would it be Protestant or Orthdox?
713.
by thriftwy 3y ago
I live in St. Petersburg but my family and friends live in Moscow, in the South and elsewere. The last thing I desire is having a border with passport control and customs between them and me. No amount of kissing with your Swedish and Balti
714.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Frontier is not just a place which is cold and desperate. Frontier is an opposite of that - a place which is undeveloped yet it is at the beginning of strong growth curve. A place where it is dangerous and you will have to break your back,
715.
by thriftwy 3y ago
> Ukraine has turned into a rallying call for much of Europe, a vicarious way (dangerous, but not too dangerous) to experience once again the forward vector of time. I wonder if Europeans understand these wars around them are not fought
716.
by thriftwy 3y ago
What if they have to do one in emergency scenario, and they only ever did this in daylight?
717.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Russia - a history of crashes caused by rapid growth and weird aircraft park, followed by the war where the whole industry is now out of international law.
718.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Pilots are not going to be accustomized of visual landings in case of emergency, if you have a corporate policy that forbids them in controlled setting! This one is bizzare, not only European pilots on average have less experience than US o
719.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Hackers want not just hack for themselves but share the product of their craft with other parties without going through fences.
720.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Make Amazon sign up for compulsory customer protection insurance if they want to share the liability with somebody, otherwise it's all theirs.

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