[-] drosophila 1 points 3 days ago
[-] drosophila 5 points 3 days ago

"Fine" might be overselling it a little bit.

I would say its 'comprehensible' if you've read the book, but its still not great.

[-] drosophila 8 points 4 days ago

Since you have expertise in this maybe you can answer this question for me.

Do brick or stone roads last longer than asphalt or concrete roads?

It seems to me like they should, given the higher hardness of the material and the presumably greater resistance to freeze/thaw cycles. I have also seen a few brick roads near me that I can only imagine have gone a very long time with no maintaince (as I think the government here would rather cover it in asphalt than try to work with the bricks). The ground underneath the bricks has shifted over time forming depressions in the path that car tires take, but it is still fine to drive over at low speeds, as the slopes are smooth unlike the holes that form in asphalt.

I've tried googling this before but haven't been able to find a straightforward answer as to how long a road like that can go between rounds of maintenance.

[-] drosophila 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The phone I'm typing this on right now has an audio jack and still gets updates.

[-] drosophila 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

This is an idea from the 1960s back when they thought solar panels would be like computer chips and remain super expensive in terms of area but become exponentially better at the amount of sunlight they could convert into electricity.

It makes absolutely zero sense to spend billions of dollars putting solar panels in space and beaming the power back to earth now that they are so cheap per unit area. The one thing you could argue a space based solar array could do would be to stretch out the day length so you need less storage, but that's easier to accomplish using long electrical cables.

[-] drosophila 3 points 6 days ago

What happened to it?

[-] drosophila 68 points 1 week ago

The british mind cannot comprehend the concept of high speed rail.

[-] drosophila 122 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There are actually some fossils of dinosaur mummies, a rare preservation of a rare preservation. For some species these give us direct evidence of their physical appearance beyond their bone structure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_mummy

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[-] drosophila 66 points 6 months ago

Since we strive for transparency, and the LEGAL definition of “sale of data” is extremely broad in some places, we’ve had to step back from making the definitive statements you know and love. We still put a lot of work into making sure that the data that we share with our partners (which we need to do to make Firefox commercially viable)

So in other words we sell your data and get paid for it, and some countries won't let us lie about it.

[-] drosophila 69 points 8 months ago

This is more psychotic than any of the dialogue in American Psycho.

[-] drosophila 107 points 11 months ago

It needs a port that you can attach your bag of caffeinated noodles to.

[-] drosophila 77 points 1 year ago

I don't think I would have brought a new person into the world during any of the other time periods you mention either.

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