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Yes but both the Maurya and Gupta empires have been estimated to have reached over 30% in their time.

But were you trying to learn CSS in the first place?

it may not be meaningful for you (the user), but usually has benefits for the provider, from binding arbitration clauses in the ToS to deeper commercial suveillance. https://plural…

the museum is small but excellent; it has a wall covered just in Dire Wolf skulls found there

Interesting collection but mostly focused on western world and mixing different eras so feels incoherent, like a low-effort ‘content creation’

Can someone come up with a conversion factor for context window sizes to glacier depletion?

> So it seems like Apple was looking to build their own processors even before the iPhone became huge (the original iPhone only sold around 7M units while iPods were selling around…

The acquisition of PA Semi was announced in April 2008, so it is possible discussions were already in progress by the time of the first iPhone launch

> The third AR thing I saw was the loading screen of Super Fruit Ninja, which allows you to throw a strawberry at a pig that’s running around on your floor. This seems slightly les…

embedded systems/firmware where the same code may need to be built for multiple HW platforms/cpu architectures.

Gruber had a fun take on this https://daringfireball.net/2023/07/translation_yaccarino_x

Does this have anything to do with decline in public education?

> you could assume that people of color simply didn't exist back then Places where people of color have been making art for a few thousand years would beg to differ.

There are also multiple issuings of the same recording, sometimes from multiple remasters, or from different new labels for historic recordings (like Furtwanger’s pre-1945 recordin…

> well it can’t do my dishes or clean the house the correct response would have been "yet"

Yeah that was weird. How were we using vim for 20 years before that book ?

vim has had these keybindings/controls as primary features for decades, and people that have these in their muscle memory the benefits have accrued over a long time and a number of…

Banff has quite a few of them so sounds like LA should be able to afford more than one https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/as-banffs-famed-wildl...

Agreed. A related point: it is often hard for someone who’s not into some specific interest, to know which attributes make something better. Like most people don’t have the same st…

A similar dynamic seems to play out for apps of health insurance companies, where the typical user with employer-provided insurance doesn’t get to choose the provider

There are Japanese curry places in SoCal that charge extra (~25-50c per level IIRC) per spice level. Since I couldn’t handle any more than 2/10 I found that a win-win :)

From the Atlantic profile of MBS earlier this year: “What struck me was that Neom’s vision is really an anti-vision. It is the opposite of the old Saudi Arabia. In the old Saudi Ar…

Yes there was an extract in NYT comparting the issues with baby formula in 2008 China with 1850s New York https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/opinion/30wilson.html

> The police officer who visited Kuppalli after a second death-threat call suggested she should get herself a gun. Welcome to the South