gnatman

I’m guessing this is the source paper?

> https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/5/1087

>> This study challenges the perception of such structures as being purely defensive, revealing the Gobi Wall’s multifunctional role as an imperial tool for demarcating boundaries, managing populations and resources, and consolidating territorial control

Looking at his career and production credits, it’s probably more accurate to describe him as a journalist who’s covered some sensitive subjects.

I find it hard to believe that these peoples had no social organization at all, and even harder to believe that you could state that with such conviction given how little we know about these sites. I’m definitely curious though! Can you share any links or reading recommendations?

Whenever people argue for the general usefulness of the 10 commandments they never seem to mention the first 4 or 5.

OP you are going to love the g/ board on 4chan

“Cache of Devices Capable of Sending Millions of Spam Political Texts”

“Many hard problems are, to me, quite easy”

I know you have boomeritis, and I’m sympathetic. But! In the US, no-show rates for medical appointments can exceed 20%. In practices that have a waitlist, which is also common, that’s a lot of unnecessary waiting for folks further down the waiting list, and a lot of money off the table for the practice for that day. Appointment confirmation messages, while annoying, are practically a necessity.

It’s mentioned in the article, but there’s been a product on the market already for almost 5 years that does the same thing, with the same mechanism of action. That product, Vuity, has not been popular. The article makes it seem like the reason for Vuity’s lackluster performance is the incidence of side effects but I think it’s just not something people want to pay money for long term.

If you think that's bad wait til you try Outlook.

But when you have so many customers buying and using both, seems like it'd be bad business for them to fully merge those lines.

I recently learned about “bookmarklets” — browser bookmarks that execute javascript on the current webpage.

I don't think that commenter is irritated-- they're making gameplay comments just as you are, comments that you too are free to ignore.

Might be a telescopic handler, basically a giant forklift

1 for 3, 2 for 5

Yikes. Why are they deprecating those features?

“That’s nice little idea you have there. Be a shame if it turned out to be incomplete…”

- Kurt Gödel

Simple: additional context.

There’s a video posted elsewhere in this discussion [0].

Looks like the plane landed incredibly hard and the gear buckled. Extreme wind shear?

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1is1qoy/video_of_...

I disagree, and perceived it as a fun invitation. Come on- it was blinking!

This is writing of someone steeped in "alpha male" youtube & podcast ideology.

You used to see this argument come up frequently in defense of smartphones, but it's fallen off recently. In my personal experience, scrolling through short-form videos is 100x more soul sucking than reading a book, magazine, or newspaper ever is. They're just not the same.

If you're coming for a 2000 year old technology like GLASS you best come correct.

I went looking for information about Sennheiser's wokeness, and found a picture of Martin Luther King Jr. using one of their microphones in 1965. Is that what you're talking about?

We can send James Cameron to the bottom of the Mariana Trench and yet technology has been unable to create even a single star. Something that even 10^55 of the dumbest hydrogen atoms you can find can easily do.

high-torque 20v impact wrench from harbor freight, came with battery & charger, probably $175 after tax

i do the occasional maintenance on my high-mileage car including, recently, a front-end suspension rebuild. having a portable impact wrench with some juice made that job 1000x times easier!

>> The banking system printed every dollar out of thin air

what is the alternative exactly? money created by god?

like no duh the economy & money system was created out of thin air. we created all this shit out of thin air.

>> The IBM Roadrunner was the first supercomputer to reach one petaflop (1 quadrillion floating point operations per second, or FLOPS) on May 25, 2008.

$100M, 2.35MW, 6000 ft^2

>>Designed for AI researchers, data scientists, and students, Project Digits packs Nvidia’s new GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, which delivers up to a petaflop of computing performance for prototyping, fine-tuning, and running AI models.

$3000, 1kW, 0.5 ft^2

Viewing this image has less value than someone reading the parent comment and imagining the snow globe for themselves.

There's a video on the product page here, plus dimensions.

https://timestoptech.com/products/d-20-steel

Case Width: 37 mm Thickness: 10 mm Lug-to-Lug: 41 mm Lug Width: 20 mm Weight: 48 g