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AFAIK (which probably isn't that far) it's not any worse if you die from the explosion, but, unlike with a regular bomb, with these if you survived the blast you have to then immediately find air to breathe (probably while injured) because they're designed such that they consume all the oxygen in the immediate vicinity. So even if you're already outside, unless there's a stiff breeze you might not be able to crawl to where there's breathable air before you die.
What about the lives lost to the increased rates of suicide and drug/alcohol abuse that will accompany an economic collapse?
There's been some testing. It generally shows that _way_ more people have (or had) COVID-19 than we thought, and that most of the cases are so mild that people never even knew they were sick.
NYC Hospitals find that 15% of pregnant women have COVID-19: https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2020/04/20/new... That particular article doesn't mention it, but other reports I've heard of said only about 1 in 8 of that 15% were symptomatic.
In Chelsea, MA, 30% of 200 random people tested positive, 1/2 reported no symptoms at all: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/17/business/nearly-third...
Here's a general article pointing out that this is very likely to not be as big of a deal as we thought it'd be: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/how-many-people-h...
On the plus side, a catapult that could get the airplane up to cruising altitude in one piece would make for a heck of a ride.
I wonder if this means Boeing/Airbus/etc will have to move towards flying wings or other designs which might risk some degree of passenger comfort to achieve efficiency goals?
Because music theory doesn't know how numbers work. The interval of A(440Hz) to A(440Hz) is "1" in music theory even though it's 0 in literally every other context ever in the history of everything. I mean, if they're going to use a bunch of mathematical terminology, the least they can do is count right.
Excel is programming, it just doesn’t call itself that so people won’t get scared off.
It kinda depends on the context. If your machine isn’t on the internet and is dedicated to running like a large computational fluid dynamics simulation or something, security isn’t as much of an issue because there is no untrusted code running on the machine and there’s no way for hackers to access it. If your machine is Google’s public DNS server, security is critical.
Cool!
If you’re talking about losing the ability to recreate any particular relevant CPU, then maybe. But computers in general? No. I suppose we could be exceptionally unlikely and lose access to all the modern fabs, but the knowledge of CPU design is too widespread to for us to plausibly lose the ability to make new CPUs altogether.
I’m under the possibly mistaken impression that most computers already do everything in UTC and the “local time” which gets displayed is just calculated from that.
Don’t do that... it’ll knock wood particles into the air, which might settle in the butterfly mechanism and jam up a key.
I think it’s on tvOS and watchOS, too.
+1, would agree with again
My thoughts as well.
Unless the ladder is anchored to something, it’d probably just fall over backwards if you put any weight on such a rail. They get unbalanced if the load isn’t kept forward.
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I'm sure they'll reconsider as soon as someone develops jet engines capable of mach 2.2 that don't burn fossil fuels. In the meantime, since speed is their goal, they don't have much choice.
Or you could just decrement base.
Yeah, but that’s still an improvement over the current situation (at least as I understand it).
Yeah. The thing that blows my mind is that the guy who runs Input Club (they make/design keyboards with open-source firmwares) sent the USB consortium an email a year or so ago asking if there were any plans to update the USB HID spec for unicode, and the response indicated that he was the first person to ask! Really?!? Unicode was out for a few years before USB even existed, and nobody'd even thought about it before? You'd think at least the word processor industry (which wasn't nearly as homogenous back then) would've jumped on it.
I'd like to use it, but they turn custom operators such as "|>|" into an illegible jumble of characters (in this case, "▷|"). If I'd wanted my operator to be "▷|", I'd have defined it that way.
Now, if they can come up with a way to selectively turn the ligatures off and on, I'll give it another go. Until then, I'm perfectly happy to see the occasional "<=" or something.
Also, that "www" ligature is the stuff of nightmares. Never, ever, with I use that on my computer.