Yup, and they didn’t even try to hide it. The etymology is literally bra + vixen (female fox)

…PC meaning Pokémon Center, not Personal Computer?

Edit: Apparently not. Wtf

A slightly less dumb idea would be to tax food by calorie content. In ages of famine, that tends to be the main factor in its cost, after all, and when obesity is rampant, it could make people more aware of their diet. Artificial sweeteners and other low-energy alternatives would become way more viable. Of course, this is impractical as it would inadvertently cause massive misrepresentation of calorie count (even if the <5 cal/serving ≈ 0 cal loophole is closed).

USSR bartered machinery for bananas or sugar with Vietnam and Cuba because they lacked hard currency. I heard rumors that the rate was 1:1 by weight but I haven’t been able to find evidence. It’s probably just a widespread myth making fun of how dumb the USSR’s policies were and the banana scarcity.

Amazing how we (or any organism complex enough to have organs) are just a pair of cells that underwent a sequence of protein-controlled division, folding and diversification. And excretion and consumption that formed and maintains non-cellular parts like fluids and bones. Plus the microbiome but arguably that’s not you, much like mites.

Yup! Also, “please read my work” vs “please don’t read my work” filters out paper mills and other low-effort garbage

And they WILL send you a DRM-free copy of their paper for free if you ask nicely

LMDE

I think one could be made without the need to keep touching a common electrode (with capacitance only) but would require good calibration

Probably not, considering I was allowed to attend

Depends on the country. I’ve been to one in Germany and the cops did their job.

iGPUs vary by feature set a lot. A fully-featured GPU can sit on the motherboard and use the same cooling system as the CPU but most are bare-bones, maybe just with video codecs.

Looks like he’s having a dark chapter in his life. I don’t know what caused the burnout initially but AI is part of the doom cycle. He could use mental healthcare.

13 again, and flag-accurate (assuming Hawaii is part of Floxas and Alaska part of Maintana). Why print maps on flags (Cyprus, UN etc.) when altering the map to a more flag-friendly design is an option?

Your GPU has 128 MB of memory? What for? Mine just pushes framebuffer contents outta the VGA and DVI-D ports, with some features like I²C to determine supported resolutions and VSYNC to prevent tearing.

VMs with desktop Linux or Android are technically possible but you won’t enjoy the performance. Better dual-boot with those specs.

Damn, 1 GB of RAM in cca 2003? That was really a high-end machine. But 4 GB is enough for a Linux computer now with not too many browser tabs or workflows with large files.

TIL, thanks

Whatever, I’m not convincing anyone with my use of metric and username. I’m avoiding some other weird phrases though, for example you won’t usually see me type “14 days” in English although Czech speakers prefer it to “2 weeks” (idk why, it’s the same number of syllables).

UST UCKING GOOGLE IT

FTFY