Synaesthesia

It's very important. Every time you launch an app or open a file it's critical for performance. Also when memory runs out and the OS swaps to disk it makes a huge difference.

Incredible website. Really one of the dreams of the internet realised, the ability to access all knowledge at your fingertips.

At the same time hundreds of thousands of children die annually from diseases which would cost pennies to treat. From starvation.

The world is still a horrible place for many people, and there's no real reason why it has to be that way.

Because it's never been observed.

They were a part of computer graphics for a long time before that, 2D and 3D.

The performance and stability with lots of tabs is actually outstanding.

It's quite striking to note how media coverage of climate change and pollution have gone down so much. I remember in the 90's it was very much in the popular mileu.

What's more we are living through an actual green revolution. Solar power and batteries have never been so cheap - and still promising to get cheaper and better with sodium ion batteries.

Einstein did a lot, he not only published the special and general theories of relativity, he also contributed to quantum physics and was the first to deduce the size of an atom using statistical arguments, essentially proving the existence of atoms.

One measure of democracy is how much say you have in issues which affect you, the running of your neighborhood, your government etc.

If you look at decision making at high levels, the general population usually gets ignored. Instead, powerful special interests dominate the government.

Particularly with regard to foreign affairs of the USA, the oil lobby and weapons manufacturers. And look who's benefiting from the current state of affairs in Ukraine, Iran and Venezuela: US arms manufacturers and oil companies.

On the other hand in many ways people in the USA are extroardinarly free, there's pretty good protection of freedom of speech.

Remember that Chatgpt and other LLM's don't think. They just return the most likely next word based on a statistical model.

3.2" display. Weighs 100g. Cheap (presumably)

I think it will be like the 90's collapse but bigger. It must be noted that the financial markets have been awash in cash for some time since companies have been making huge profits since the 90's. So the money that will be lost will mostly be that of rich investors and large companies who were sitting on a bunch of capital they didn't know what to do with.

It was the greatest war in history, and made the Western front look small by comparison. 26 million people killed. The Soviet Union fought the Wehrmacht alone from June 1941 until July 1943. They made by far the largest contribution in defeating Nazi Germany.

A while back I opened a bank account for my daughter. All that I needed was to scan my face, then the bank got everything from the department of home affairs (South Africa)

That means my goverment already has my face, with all my details associated with it. Bit Orwellian but there we are.

I'm glad Iran is teaching the US and Israel a lesson. Their aggression and attacks have gone unchecked for far too long.

The entire rest of the world is not just 3rd world countries.

Maybe the point of the Iran war was to boost the US economy, relative to East Asia, which is dependent on Middle Eastern oil and gas, while the US is an exporter.

I mean look who benefits from this, arms companies and oil/gas companies are having a bonanza.

Now I really want to read Middlemarch.

Buy some other crypto like Litecoin then exchange it for Monero, there are quite a few exchanges around that do it anonymously.

Africa sadly just gets ignored. But one day it will unite and develop itself, so I hope anyway.

It's a business selling trinkets, I doubt it's going to make money.

Guernica shocked the world. It was the start of aerial bombardment of civilians, something which we have sadly normalised since WW2. but which I regard as terrorism.

Picasso also painted another great work titled "Korea" in the same vein.

War is an abomination, something we should all fight against.

It was wrong, and yes would likely be seen as genocidal in the current day, rightly so. You can't just randomly kill innocent civilians, no matter what. It didn't even meaningfully accelerate the end of the war.

Pentium is a bad processor? It's way faster than 486, especially on FP it's not even close.

Immediately after the ceasefire Israel attacks hundreds of sites in Lebanon, what the heck is that! We are tired of this bloodshed.

Land-mines, particularly anti-personnel land minds are just horrible weapons. They should be banned.

When I was young they talked about a green revolution. Now with low solar panel costs, as well as batteries and inverters we really are living in a green revolution.

The amount of people still on less than 8gb of memory is really small.

Ricing = making your linux desktop look pretty. arch = a 'techy' flavour of linux.

Because as the article explains the US ships cannot even approach the straits due to the threat of anti-ship missiles.