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by vesinisa 4y ago
> bought 40kg online You are aware that roasted coffee is a perishable product? After roasting, it is at its best for just a few weeks. After just two months it has lost the best of its flavours, but for "bulk" coffee the taste
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by vesinisa 4y ago
Connected dots - with a MIRV, right?
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by vesinisa 4y ago
Given that he recommends "at least 16MB" of RAM .. I would wager quite a few on a modern gaming PC :)
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by vesinisa 4y ago
This is brilliant. Highly recommend watching the video - it is well-made and funny.
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by vesinisa 4y ago
You should watch the video! It is really informative, well-made and even funny. But to answer your question: no, it boots a completely separate instance of Doom.
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by vesinisa 4y ago
From the URL I provided as source (Wikipedia)? On the "oldest trees" Wiki page it also says that there had been previous aging resulting with much older estimates, but these were invalidated by newer results with lower estimates.
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by vesinisa 4y ago
Assuming you mean this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah_(tree) It says that its trunk is about 5,000 y.o. as counted through growth rings. I would think most people would understand this to be the proper age o
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by vesinisa 4y ago
While its true that most cells in our body replace once about seven years, humans do have e.g. neuron cells that are about as old as the individual: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/does-body-replace-itself-s...
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by vesinisa 4y ago
That title is rather clickbaity for a "science" magazine. Crucially, the tree prominently featured in the large picture is not 10,000 years old and only its root system originates from that period: > Today Old Tjikko’s tree tru
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by vesinisa 4y ago
How do you plan to independently verify storage retrieval? A neutral party? How many?
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by vesinisa 4y ago
Apparently that does not include data redundancy. You must take care of that yourself by buying the same storage from multiple vendors: https://docs.filecoin.io/about-filecoin/faq/#after-i-made-a-... Also, the nex
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by vesinisa 4y ago
Thanks. The actual license for the data files is MIT-like and seems to require attribution: https://www.unicode.org/license.txt This is better indeed. It is explicit in what it allows (anything) and under which terms (no wa
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by vesinisa 4y ago
I meant that Turkey and turkey are homophones. Apart from the capitilization they are also homographs. Turkey and Türkiye are not homophonic. The BBC article I linked has a pronunication guide towards the end: https://www.bbc.com
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by vesinisa 4y ago
You write like you can know how and where the code will get executed in the future . :) Do you think that the authors of Windows 95 ever imagined the system would one day get ported to an obscure subset of a functional scripting language (
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by vesinisa 4y ago
Oh, that's new information to me. Now I can not wait for Japan to finally change its name (perhaps to Nippon?) to avoid the terrible and vulgar connotation with the Japanese tit..
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by vesinisa 4y ago
Hmm I think you miss the point. In some programming environments (like C# and Java) .toUpper() is always incorrect in code unless you are displaying the resulting string in a UI, as it uses the "current locale", which is whateve
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by vesinisa 4y ago
It would be much better if they simply dedicated this database to the public domain. In the "clarification" they indeed seem to consider that the database is covered by their copyright, and any free use is subject to their conti
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by vesinisa 4y ago
Yes, but if you actually try to download the collection (link right above that text), you are presented with a form to pay CHF 300 for this data. Now I am not a copyright lawyer but this is how I understand it: this entire database is a cop
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by vesinisa 4y ago
Most people will likely see this only on online forms that lazily just populate their country dropdowns from (pirated copies) of the official ISO database.
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by vesinisa 4y ago
Exactly. It's politics, which can take a completely new direction on a whim of a dictator or a regime change. But language, as used in practice, changes much less rapidly.
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by vesinisa 4y ago
I presume that might be rejected on the grounds that it is a completely different writing system. But my point is that even if it was accepted, the true common name of China in practical English would still not change. Or did you know there
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by vesinisa 4y ago
Practically, yes, but Turkey is a sovereign country and it can ask the UN to call it in English whatever it likes. And indeed - they have requested that their official English-language name be now Türkiye. One of the stated reasons is that
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by vesinisa 4y ago
Not sure if "Asdfgtyuhijokl'" is easier to memorize than #33-51-B5 .. :) https://colornames.org/color/3351b5 The problem with anything crowd-sourced is always that without moderation the results are garb
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by vesinisa 4y ago
Might work as a joke but several of those colors will be indistinguishable to human eye, yet have completely different crowd-sourced names. Or - could you ever tell the difference between "Amateur Rockstar Bright Pink" (#ff1aab) a
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by vesinisa 4y ago
This is most unfortunate but in proper district heating systems the scalding hot district circulation water never touches your house's heating / warm water. A heat exchanger is employed to insulate the different circulation system
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by vesinisa 4y ago
> Bitcoin has actually done much better then most of the tech stocks, especially if you look at a 2 year chart. Only if you look at the 2-year chart (or longer). That includes the tail end of the Tether-fueled market manipulation drive
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by vesinisa 4y ago
Wait, they actually have only one terminal open but call a separate airport "terminal 5"? That's clever ..
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by vesinisa 4y ago
This podcast is outdated, right? It talks about the Brandenburg airport as if it had not finished. The deeply troubled airport is in fact open and in full service since 2020.
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by vesinisa 4y ago
I think I managed to talk out my mother-in-law from investing into cryptocurrencies a year ago. Her friends were already in big time and she was having a fear of missing out. I told her that the market has been artificially pumped high and
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by vesinisa 4y ago
Yeah, I wonder how their pricing compares to e.g. S3. The Filecoin website claims "hypercompetitive pricing" but does not actuall dress that to numbers: https://filecoin.io/store/#decentralize It sure is a ne

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