Why stop there? 128 or 256 sound much nicer. Actually, while you’re at it, 4096 should be enough to fit a short story.
I’ve once had a password that was over 200 characters long. That was in a custom email server where the admin either didn’t know or care about limitations. I mean, if you can have a super long password, then why not. I just kept on going until I felt like it was secure enough.
I used a randomly generated character soup, so there’s no way I’m ever going to memorize that nightmare of a password. Even if I print it on paper and hand to you, there’s a pretty good chance that you wouldn’t be able to type it correctly without restoring to OCR.
That’s roughly how open pit mining works. In some mines, you start with a pit, but later make a mine shaft if you need to go even deeper.
A pit is relatively cheap to start with, but it becomes more expensive as you go deeper. Eventually, a traditional mine shaft becomes cheaper than continuing with a pit.
If you have a ridiculously deep mine shaft, you begin to run into various problems like walls collapsing and the temperature increasing. There can also be lots of water you need to pump out constantly.
Eventually, the shaft becomes so deep and the problem so large, that continuing becomes a nightmare. That’s why even the deepest mines aren’t really that deep considering how thick the tectonic plates are.
If you did come up with an alternative explanation, you would have to reinvent just about everything. Ever seen what it would take for the flat earth idea to hold water? Yeah, that level of reinvention plus some more of that vibe.
But let’s say that in this alternate universe those wild models are actually true, valid and they end up producing a universe that looks like ours. Since it’s based on completely different physics, there will also be some strange differences. Even if those galaxies look like ours, it doesn’t mean that biochemistry or life would be possible.
Zeno’s cookie.
You only eat half of however much you have available at the time. This way, you’ll never run out.
Governments could slap a hefty emission tax on those engines. The cruising companies will soon realize, that if they want to stay afloat, they need to switch to sails, kites, or something like that. Just don’t expect USA to do that sort of ting any time soon.
With many chemicals, we just don’t know.
Usually, it’s pretty easy to run some tests to find what it takes to kill 50% of the test mice (LD50), but that value will only give you a very rough estimate, because toxicology is hard. Besides, you’re not really trying to just prevent 50% humans from getting killed. You don’t want people to get sick either.
Many chemicals also have limits that are considered safe in an occupational exposure setting. If it says that you can safely be exposed to a specific concentration for 8 hours, it’s not the same as having that same chemical in your food for 20 years.
Studying acute toxicity and mortality is much easier than studying chronic toxicity and illness. We also tend to use mice instead of humans in these tests, which opens another can of worms. Figuring out what’s safe for you to eat for the rest of your life is just next level stuff, which is why we usually don’t know how much is still safe.
I prefer to stick to lighter roasts because they taste better IMO. The resulting cup tends to contain more caffeine too, which is good or bad depending on your relationship with it.
BTW, what do you mean by “forcing extraction”?
That was an interesting article to read, and it looked pretty scientific too. Using Fahrenheits and splines totally sticks out, but the rest looks pretty good to me.
Which is about 1.2*10^17. Makes me feel very young now that I see how old some Lemmy users are.
Just for reference, the age of the universe is estimated to be around 13.787 *10^9 years.
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30! ≈ 2.7*10^32 according to WolframAlpha
Now September has about 6.2*10^23 days, which is several orders of magnitude longer than the age of the known universe.
I’ve noticed that the search results are getting less and less relevant to what I’m actually looking for. I guess one day the search bar will disappear like the headphone jack of the iPhone.
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Can we please just use a space for thousands and something else for decimals? Use a comma, point, hedgehog emoji 🦔 or whatever happens to be traditional in your country, but please make sure it will never ever be confused with a thousands separator.
In my case, there are 95 packages that depend on zlib, so removing it is absolutely the last thing you want to do. Fortunately though, GPT also suggested refreshing the gpg keys, which did solve the update problem I was having.
You gotta be careful with that psycho!
This is getting so stupid, it’s beginning to sound like The Onion. Why don’t they just start charging for reading posts.
Here’s an idea: Every day you get 5 Reddit Emeralds for free, and you can use them to read 5 posts. If you want to read more, you can get more emeralds from Common Reddit Loot Boxes. You can buy those boxes with Reddit Rubies.
You can get Reddit rubies from Rare Reddit Loot Boxes, and in order to get those, you have to use Reddit Diamonds. If you have 19 Common boxes you can also craft 1 Rare Loot Box. Doing so will also require 10 rubies.
You can also buy Reddit Diamonds with Superior Crypto-Augmented Money (SCAM), and getting those coins requires real world money.
Ok, so now that you have all these gems, you can put them to good use. Emeralds are used to read posts. When you comment, there’s a 50% chance that it will be deleted within 30 minutes, but you can improve your odds by spending 1 Reddit Ruby. For each Ruby, the odds improve by 10%. Posts have the same mechanism, but you need to spend Diamonds instead.
Our current “forcefields” are super picky. They refuse to work with anything other than that one thing they were specifically designed for and the list of options is very short.
If you want to deflect things with a magnetic or electric charge, we already have the right kind of “forcefield” for that. However, it’s not exactly the kind of shell you put around a space ship to keep it protected, so even in this limited sense we still have a long way to go. The magnetic field of the Earth directs some of the incoming particles to the poles, which isn’t really ideal if your goal is to deflect all incoming fire.
If you want to protect the ship/planet from physical projectiles, we have no forcefields at all. That sort of stuff is just pure sci-fi at the moment.