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what makes him/them a war criminal?

send an unending chain of them and you solve the transmission problem _and_ they don't have to slow down as you'll always have another on the way past whatever you're targeting

couldn't it be different when scanning becomes very cheap and quick and it's the delta over n scans that gives signal?

Could you explain more? It appears economically self evident to me that it would improve the situation but I'm not in the industry and there's probably much I don't understand. I w…

it is insane to me that they rejected moving to zonal pricing. zonal pricing would give incentive to move power demand closer to production, create costs to nimby-ism, and give the…

0 based is much simpler for any mathematical calculation done with the indexes. only reasons I can think where you need to handle it is when getting the last index from the length …

I will always have a case that has a cut-out for the camera so it still lays flat and it's otherwise thinner (or the case is thicker and thus more protective) than it would be if t…

yeah I had a deep fake Kier Starmer tell me about some investment opportunity with guaranteed returns.

the best author-read audiobook I've listened to recently has been Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky[0]. He did a really good job and I would never have guessed it was the author …

it's 2 hours

I had a joint account with an ex who now lives abroad and I no longer have contact with. I talked to the bank and there was no way to close the account without both of us present. …

"if you multiply by 1 it's always the same so that's pointless - I should remove that"

Dual failure of the locking mechanism is extremely unlikely. These are not switches that are regularly used so a muscle memory issue also seems very unlikely (but is still the most…

I played this a few years ago. Despite being born in the UK to a British father my character wasn't previously British due to parents being unmarried and being born after 1983 but …

pretty sure it's just a hash of some text they can reveal later, to prove that they had something at this point in time. not referring to any release or commit

Very nice but I keep losing my progress on a game with swipe gestures on android accidentally triggering back functionality when I pull a card from right to left, even with install…

I'll stick with my hoverbarrow, don't need all this AI stuff. https://youtu.be/OmJ-8JMw_l4

it took me a moment to remember where I knew that name from. I only knew of him from his science fiction, co-authoring the Rama sequels with Arthur C Clarke

I always thought that desalination of sea water was too energy expensive to be worth it but apparently it's only about 3 kWh/m^3, meaning for an average water consumption of 150l/d…

I remember convincing my dad to get a 3dfx voodoo2 because I really wanted to run UltraHLE. That was a seriously impressive emulator

I think it's just the "s" that got added: "the air is unable to [...] stay attached"

surprisingly there is a very similar precedent: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiter_(simulator) something about space fight simulators perhaps

Nice rogue-lite, got to level 10 before dying multiple times and giving up

Some of the earliest experiments in this area were for the US army in the 1950s: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiller_VZ-1_Pawnee https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Lackner_HZ-1_…