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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 immed…

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…

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 hist…

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…

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…

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.

+1, would vote for

+1

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 mu…

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 ask…

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…