I'm assuming that's like pure alcohol (as alcohol related stats usually are to negate the difference in drinks), so if he only drank beer of around 5% he would have drank 8700 beers. Say he started drinking alcohol at the age of 16 that averages out to somewhere between 7 and 8 beers a week (or the wine/booze equivalent). While not exactly alcoholic levels, this is above average (depending on where he lived) and an unhealthy amount.
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Plants actually use O2 themselves a lot of the time, so we would still need to truck in a whole bunch of that stuff in. Also the amount of plants needed for just a single human is huge. Most plants are rather bad at producing O2. Most of it actually comes from algae living in water, not potted plants. The YouTube channel Joel Creates did an experiment with how much algae you would actually need to breathe. It's like a lot, a lot a lot really. Building some place on Mars or even in orbit that such a large amount of algae could happily live is pretty hard. Hell it's pretty hard on Earth, where you don't need to worry about temperature and pressure going out of spec or stuff like radiation. These days we do have pretty effective LED grow lights that prevent the whole thing from becoming too hot. From movies people think space is cold, but getting rid of heat is a big problem. With that much light blasting into the water, the temperature rises and the algae will die from that at some point. So radiating away all that heat is a must. On Mars or the Moon this is easier as the surrounding rocks could be used as a heat sink. The actual real hard part is not just building this, but building it in a way that can support human life for a long time. Systems such as these are chaotic in nature and often suffer from cascade failure modes. If a little thing goes wrong and some of the algae dies, it often cascades into a full failure where all of it dies off. So there would need to be many smaller systems, isolated as much as possible to prevent cascading failures. The system would also need to be modular enough so it would be easy to disconnect a module, completely clean and sterilize it and put it back into use. With staggered phases applied as to not have large swings in output. As these systems would be rather large in scale and have many different complex parts, a high level of automation is required. And we haven't even touched on getting all of this constructed somewhere and have it bootstrapped with enough water, with the right stuff in it and none of the wrong stuff. Enough reliable energy and nutrients to feed it all and transport living algae there to kick it all off. As far as I know nobody has ever gotten close to anything like this on Earth, let alone in space or on a place like the Moon or Mars. It would be a project that rivals the original Moon landings.
It might sound like a simple enough concept and it is how we are currently living on this planet, so it should be possible. However keep in mind our planet has had huge swings in temperatures and atmospheric composition. There were many many times in Earth's past where humans could not survive the conditions and we evolved here.
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I don't know where you live, but where I live weather reports have gotten insanely accurate over my lifetime. From just a straight up guess in the 80s, to almost perfect temperature predictions within half a degree C and shower forecasts accurate to hours or even sub-hour. This is partly because of much more and better data and partly because of better models to analyse that data. Of course the predictions get worse the further into the future you try to look, as the weather is a chaotic system, meaning very small variables can have a huge effect on the output. Constraining those variables is hard or even impossible, thus constraining the end result is hard and basically impossible.
But another thing often overlooked is the communication around the weather which has greatly improved. From a simple map with a few icons and a short story, to full on live satellite feeds to our phones. I can open up an app and get extremely accurate live weather data. But the way the story is told is also much more nuanced. Instead of saying this is what the weather is going to be where you live, they explain about a front between two pressure areas. Depending on how those fronts develop you can be on either side of the line and that means you get rain. They explain this in the weather report and you can see the development in real time on a map in the app. So when its predicted to rain a day in advance, but it doesn't, you can see the front shifted a bit and missed you, so you can understand why the prediction was "wrong".
Alas a lot of people don't want to take the time to actually learn about those things, even though it's super easy these days. They just like to complain when the weather is bad, which is a pretty human thing to do. But sometimes I get pretty annoyed, for example some time ago there was a huge wind storm, which was pretty dangerous. Alerts were sent out for people not to be outside during some hours, as it might get dangerous. Then you get the flood of people saying those alerts are bogus and they'll do what they want, it's just a bit of wind, who cares? Or them shouting they went out during that time and it was totally fine, just overblown hysterics. At the same time you read in the news about someone who ignored the alert, went for a walk with his dog in a park, the wind knocked off a big branch which fell on his head and killed the man. Then everyone is all sad and outraged, how could this happen.
Computer, generate an interactive diagnostic matrix in the form of a sexy woman. I mean really fuckable, hot and sexy kind. My kink is talking about engines like I want to fuck them, so please incorporate that. Also make her attracted to me and make her give hints she's into me. Please include full fucking capabilities, use libraries 9 through 11, 16 and 84 in my personal directory.
Meanwhile Worf on the bridge: Captain, I've detected an extreme energy surge on the holodeck! Wait it's gone now, I'll file a Jira ticket with engineering so they can check it out.
Later: Luitenant Commander Worf Chief Security log stardate 48751.247. I recorded a brief power surge in the Holodeck systems and created a Jira ticket with the Engineering department. The ticket was closed shortly after by Lt. Commander La Forge stating it was the result of routine diagnostics and not an issue. He emphasized it was not an issue and should not be reported to the Captain or Lt. Commander Data for some reason. I have no time for these trivial things as they do not lead to either honor nor glory, so I did not pursue the matter any further. Hopefully I get to fire the phasers tomorrow as I will be taking another duty shift on the bridge. Personal note: I need to inform daycare about my extra shifts this week so they can take care of Xander.
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Usually back then cases had retention slots to hold on to the cards. This was a hold over from back in the days when computers were just card cages. So if the card didn't need any connectors, it simply wouldn't have any backplate. Another reason for no backplate was smaller computers, more in the style of earlier home computers. They often had stuff like a disk controller put somewhere flat, to keep the size of the case down.
The early XT and AT times were wild with all sorts of weird and fun form factors. We've become so accustomed to standards these days. But that primarily due to IBM becoming really dominant so people would make software, hardware and accessories compatible with IBM to target the biggest market. That in turn lead to other companies copying IBM into so called clones which were mostly compatible (and a real pain in the butt when the compatibility wasn't quite there). For a long time the standards were just do whatever IBM does.
This in turn hurt IBM, because it limited what sort of things they could change. If they broke compatibility, the new product wouldn't sell as well. We've seen the same thing later with Intel attempting to get away from x86 and the market refusing. For years ISA would still be on the motherboard, even though slots for it and things like IDE had gone away. I think some super IO controllers these days still have some parts of ISA in them, although I might be wrong on that.
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I remember back in the day we had ISA cards without a backplate. These were 8-bit cards, so just a single connector without any keying. You could easily put these in backwards and doing so would short the motherboard. Often this killed the motherboard, even though it was relatively easy to repair (most of the times). Most motherboards had small resistors or capacitors that did double duty as a fuse, so when the short happened those would blow and would be replaceable. However that meant taking out the motherboard and replacing components with a soldering iron. Luckily there were repair shops that could do this for you, or replace the motherboard if more damage occurred.
Computers weren't always easy to work with, a lot of time and effort went into making it as simple as it is today. Or was I should say, as computers have been killed off by Nvidia.
The more you wiggle, the bigger it gets. Not like on Mac where the max size is capped. The cursor might be capped on KDE, but it freaking huge at that point
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Holy shit, are you wilfully stupid? Or just a bootlicker?
Obviously whomever put that in the Epstein files implicated Bill Clinton and Michael Jackson of raping little kids. With the "proof" being a photo of them together and children with their faces redacted.
The reality is, those people were together because of a fundraiser and photos of them being together are public. They show the exact same people in the exact scene taken within moments of each other. The context is clear, the people present are being named and their purpose of being there is explicit. This totally refutes the story of whomever tried to put that picture in the Epstein files.
No it isn't the exact same picture. Because one was taken by a photographer that ended up in possession of Getty and made public. The other was taken by another photographer and did not end up in possession of Getty. It might have been public in some sort of publication, or it might have been in some kind of private collection.
Either way, the picture refutes the story being spun and casts doubt on the entire narrative. And further more casts doubt on the actual release of the Epstein files which should have been a factual release and has now shown to be partly fictional. It doesn't matter that it isn't the exact same picture...
Asking for a friend: A high score is good right?
AI mostly learned it from programming tutorials and things like documentation and Q&A forums like StackOverflow. People often add comments in those cases to explain to somebody not familiar with code what is happening so they can learn from it.
In actual code written by people who write code for a living I'd hope the comments are much more useful and usually not as prevalent.
// 🤦 You are totally right! Simply logging the 🚨 error to the console isn't proper error handling. 🫣 We now throw an exception instead. throw new ApplicationException(error);I took the cocaine and within minutes saw the ghosts leaving my stomach. They spent hours flying around me, tormenting me and it scared the shit out of me. Stomach did feel better tho, 5 stars, would visit doctor again
He could do it in really unique and interesting ways, he is fully functional after all
I'm going to have to second the Qt documentation assessment. They have very good documentation and there's also a lot of books available about Qt. I always prefer a good book as opposed to online docs. But I learned to program before the internet was a thing, so reading books for documentation was the norm for me for a long time.
I was reading this post apocalyptic book, where the women were expected (but not required) to at some point make lots of babies, because they needed more babies to prevent from becoming extinct. That seemed sort of reasonable, especially because the author made a point of stating it wasn't required. He made a point that the women did all the things the men did and would not be forced to make babies if they didn't want to, but everyone saw it as a good thing if women did have babies. However it was also full of remarks like: Wow you're a good fighter, you must have children so we can have more good fighters. Which was kinda annoying.
Then there was a whole separate group of people, who had to limit their population size due to constrained resources. But they had access to a whole stock of frozen eggs and sperm and would use IVF to have children when they needed to. Also reasonable, with some caveats, but I'll allow it. But then they would look at the parents and select which eggs and sperm to use, in order to get the most useful additions to their population. So they would take good mathematicians and combine those if they wanted to have new good mathematicians. The main character was the child (via IVF) of one of the most famous and important generals and of course also very good at being in the air force. This is when my eugenics alarm was going off.
There was also this whole other group of human like aliens, and wouldn't you know it, genetics played a big role in their story as well. With eugenic themes all over.
I don't know if the author actually believed in eugenics or just didn't understand how genes work at all and went with his flawed understanding. But holy shit this book rubbed me the wrong way. I didn't finish it obviously and will probably avoid that author in the future.
Oh no I know I'm crazy, the hard part is figuring out if that's a positive or a negative given the situation at hand.
Many many proposals have been made in the past to utilize waste heat, some with success, others not so much. One of the few that have worked is taking waste heat from industrial processes, connect that to a regular heater (usually gas powered) and connect that up to tens of thousands of homes as a central heating source.
One of the big issues is waste heat is usually in a very low energy high entropy form. The way we normally use extract work from energy is by moving it from a high energy low entropy state into a low energy high entropy state. This is due to the laws of physics and can't be worked around, so extracting anything useful from waste heat is very hard. Most projects involve simply transporting the heat and using it as heating, that way no transformation is required for it to be useful.
I don't know if this dude is onto something, but with the laws of physics being what they are, I would be surprised if what he has actually works very well. Like enough that it's worth doing.
It's for example very easy to plop a tec (peltier) device onto something a bit warm, cool the other side with the surrounding atmosphere, and out comes electric energy. Useful energy and with a lot of devices you get out a lot of power. However it is not worth doing, those devices cost money to produce and install and would need some maintenance. This makes the power it produces more expensive than what we get from even expensive regular power sources. And the power is only there locally, transporting electric energy is pretty hard. So it isn't all that useful and not economically attractive. So it's never done. Usually it's better to put that time and money into making the thing producing the waste heat more efficient, that pays off a lot more often.
He also points out that there are many ISBNs that are "wrong", but are actually correct in the real world. This is because publishers don't always understand about the checksum and just increment the ISBN when publishing a new book. In many library systems there is this checkbox next to the ISBN entry field where you can say something like "I understand this ISBN is wrong, but it is correct in the real world".
So just flagging wrong ISBNs would lead to a lot of false positives and would need specific structures to deal with that.