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
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
Outlines are fine, the tell is the utterly different lighting (could have been solved with a non-lightbox photo)
“Cheaper” means “less expensive”. 2x cheaper means 2x less expensive, or less expensive by a factor of 2, or 0.5x as expensive. I can say 2x shorter, 2x slower etc. and I don’t see a problem. The adjectives “cheap” and “expensive” don’t relate to a number quantity called “expensiveness” or “cheapness” but “price” or “cost”, which is what the factor applies to, and the word specifies if it’s an increase or decrease. Everyone I know would understand that it’s the reciprocal of the original price, although I get that in a country whose president can say he slashed proces by 500 % without instantly having to resign, fractions and percentages might have to be specified but that’s longer to say for the same number of significant figures.
Yes, I can find people debating “two times cheaper” (English) but not “zweimal billiger” (German) or “dvakrát levnější” (Czech), in fact the phrase is often used in promotional material. The only results suggesting it’s wrong are English Reddit discussions’ automatic translations to German or Czech, and Google’s AI summary that cotes them.
I won’t stop using it just because people with inferior education sometimes don’t get it. Similarly, I provided the metric value and conversion rate, it’s Americans who need to practice mental math.
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).