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> Taken into a climate wetter than Egypt (in other words, pretty much any other climate where people actually live) it begins to disintegrate very quickly and needs constant maintenance.

For example papyrus was massively used in the roman empire and all those records have disappeared, only what had been copied and re-copied since then reached us.

> Same in the US. Especially in the party that now lost.

I'd say it's the same in both parties

For Catholic churches, it depends on the period (for example roman-style churches have smaller windows because the architect of the time didn't really knew how to build bigger windows) and in how it got maintained since stone darkens a lot when exposed to the polluted air of our cities. But churches with big windows and that have been restored within the last 50 years can be very bright, especially once you add modern lighting in the mix.

I was born two years after you and I'm always using an alarm clock, which saves me from worrying about my phone before going to bed (I just worry about batteries once a year instead). Though it's a simple beeping model from 15 years ago, I've never tried to use radio as an alarm clock.

> If you gave a company over to only engineers, it would also fail, just in a different way

Do you have an idea of what would be the failure mode(s)?

> a military prevented kidnappings by killing the people who could be taken as hostages.

which events are you talking about?

>I don’t think Spain can handle Florida anymore.

I don't think Spain ever could handle Florida

I skimmed the post linked at [^1], but I have a doubt about that:

> Fandom is actually part of the for-profit arm of Wikipedia

Are you sure about this? Since Fandom got acquired by private equity in 2018, I don't think Wikipedia has any stake in Fandom anymore

I think for beer there's a reason of bringing the glass to a colder temperature, which (from what I've heard) should reduce the amount of foam (not sure that's the exact term) in the glass.

> how much stuff is still on v11 even?

We've had a potential client ask for a PoC in Java 8, to integrate with their current system... But yeah, our product is deployed with Java 11 and since some dependencies have issues with 18, we'll likely stay that way for a few more years

I read elsewhere that Hezbollah recently changed to this pagers to communicate, maybe it those who put the bombs bet on the fact their victims wouldn't have time to realize that the battery have shorter life than advertised

I heard it from my brother who visited one such company, where they use explosive forming to shape metal parts used oil refinery; if I remember correctly for the corrugation on the metal that separate the hot and cold liquid in an heat exchanger, with the idea behind using explosive forging was that it allowed them to shape a big sheet in one go.

> but the West had no paper to print them until it was reintroduced

Europe started using paper a few centuries before printing was invented there. And why do you talk about _re_introduction? I don't think paper was used in Europe before it was introduced by the Islamic world

the edit was made because of the size limit on titles on HN

True, I was mostly thinking of what I'm seeing here in France

It seems like some of the conversations in that thread went a little nuclear, no?

sorry I couldn't resist

Nowadays I'd wager most ditchdigging is done with small excavators and I wouldn't want to operate one without some form of training. But I can use a broom if needed...

> Booking.com -> Pretending the venue is about to run out of places and there are only "2 places left..."

I was buying train ticket in France yesterday (through the SNCF website) and I was shown that exact message...

> it was something that really interesting people were focused on as a platform for writing, design and creativity

I've been spending less time there recently, but these last few years I've been part of various communities which were all about sharing creative writing; so it's still there, but maybe not as visible?

> the Paris metro, which has a ridiculously dense stop network, is for long distances

I think it's interesting how the most recent line (n° 14) has way less stops, instead focusing on covering more distance

except the setting doesn't seem to work cf https://x.com/KevinBankston/status/1811194932931027298

> It's amazing how long it's taken, how does a train take over a decade ?

Honestly, as some living in France, with a lot of high speed train lines, I'm not surprised. For example one of the most recent lines [0] took more than a decade.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGV_Bretagne-Pays_de_la_Loire

A book like If I Did It by O. J. Simpson?

how is a communist society organized, absent of any state? Does it self-correct, like free market is supposed to self-correct, according to capitalism?

> These platforms [Grubhub, DoorDash, Uber Eats] are all losing money.

Has this changed? Do all these companies still losing money?

no, it should be the State's pickaxe, that the central committee might entrust to you so that you work your part in the 5-year plan

> an entryist trying to tank the Labour party on the behalf of some British spy-lord

I'm far from following current UK politics, but I've heard the same thing about Liz Truss...

> Once students can program, the best way turn them into developers is to make them build and ship something as a team.

I had a semester project like that, in a team of 7, though we didn't had the changing spec... But it was a really good learning experience

> probably the biggest event of the year

At least in France, the upcoming Olympics are a strong contender. That and the surprise parliament election our president dropped on us; because he apparently didn't like the result his party got at the latest EU election, but honestly I don't see how he imagine he's going to get a better result this time around.

what's the name of the Samsung line? I might be in the market for a new phone soon-ish