I use SMS from time to time too - especially random people that call me, but I don't see much added value of having it unified in Signal. I just use the default SMS app on my phone (iMessage app in my case, which also works for SMS). For me Signal is about E2E encrypted messages with more features, SMS is a different much more limited platform.
I just want to share some stories with friends in my contact list. On Signal you don’t have “followers”, just people you are in contact with. This is an unobtrusive way to for example share something interesting, or some event happening near you and so on.
Modern biology is maybe able to fully disassemble the simplest living forms - but assembling these microstructures synthetically is still way beyond what our tools can do. It’s same like a microchip where a whole chain of small steps lead to factories and these produced the chips. And we don’t know how the original cell/life factories looked like, we just have the cells that are now self-assembling (they are now both the highly complex factory and the product). We can take a cell and modify the code, but it’s hard to do it from scratch because you would need to skip bilions of steps that lead to these microstructures.
I have been recently thinking what is actually life - could it be a manifestation of a fundamental physical law? And this article had an interesting take: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1620001114
“How nonequilibrium thermodynamics speaks to the mystery of life”
My wife is a GP in Slovakia and she has a device for a quick test (CRP) whether you have a bacterial infection in blood or not. So they don’t prescribe antibiotics if the test is negative. And she doesn’t recommend them if not necessary - unfortunately many patients demand them because that’s what they expect to get. But she is maybe an exemption who cares a lot about each patient and invests into better equipment even though you are not really incentivized by the system to do so.
Imagine giving a scientist in 1900 a modern CPU. He may be able to disassemble and study it, but it’s impossible to make it from scratch because it takes a chain of steps that lead to complicated modern factories that then produce the chip. It’s hard to skip those steps. We can swap DNA in living cells and produce modified cells, but we lack the tools to create such complicated and microscopic structures in a pure synthetic way.
This. And also - maybe something to add that could explain his behaviour of showing force / guns on purpose. He was bullied a lot at elementary school - he was also the smallest kid in class. He mentioned this in one of his recent videos.
(I am also a gun owner / concealed-carry license and located in EU).
Go and ask some countries that were invaded by Russia in the 20th century. They came to help us in the same special operation to Slovakia since 1968 and they finally left in 1989.
Fastmail - it has a one-click migration from Gmail. The web interface is good enough, but I prefer to just use Apple Mail client on both iPhone and Macbook.
It is also one of the few (if not only?) providers that support Apple push natively in Apple Mail app.
Not really true - France was the loudest voice but they were representing a lot of other EU countries. E.g. Slovakia (50% nuclear today, 70% nuclear production next year) was also a big proponent, or Czech republic...
I think the spikes behave a bit differently than original, but I haven't compared. You can't run through them because they will activate and kill you, but you can slow walk safely. But in this implementation I slowed walked right on top of them (they activated but didn't kill me - that's correct) and then I started to run and I was killed instantly.
A colleague is working on the same project with an Air 16GB and doesn't complain. It's crazy that it doesn't even have active cooling and can be used for serious CPU intensive work.
The 16" model was a big Apple failure. I had to use it in clamshell mode with an external monitor because having the macbook open with an external monitor would make the macbook run a lot hotter and the fans would spin much louder all the time. That was a pretty well known problem with the GPU and they never fixed it (probably some HW issue).