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I've done this even with CDs.

50% figure for vinyl sounds plausible to me, considering cost of turntable and hassle of actually using it (unless you enjoy the ritual and experience of physical media). And vinyl makes great merch.

Single file + CUE sheet solves lead-in thingie problem, by storing both timestamps (time when player should start showing 'Track 2', and time which servers as zero for track-relative timestamps)

It pretty much mirrors actual CD structure of TOC (containing all necessary timestamps and metadata) and continuous sequence of frames with audio data

At least globbing should return fully qualified paths (not sure there is an established term for `(<directory>/)+<file>' paths, as opposed to `<file>` ones).

>Some things you need to hide from the end user. De-emphasize - maybe, hide - no. Garbage pile that is average Linux home directory is pretty much result of 'out of sight - out of mind' practice, enabled by dotfiles being hidden. I wish Linux settled on single `~/System/` directory, mirroring `/` structure.

On the other hand, dotfiles convention is useful for meta/"parallel" data, `.git` being prime example - something tighly linked with abitrary file structure.

Intelligence (in a metric, "this is intelligent way to do X", sense) implies some purpose. But life is just one big 'systems that survive and grow - grow and survive' tautology.

Only if you are designing another TempleOS. Thing for it's own sake, unaffected by any external requirements and completely specified, designed and implemented by one person.

GIF compression is lossless, codecs used in WebM and MP4 are not.

>These days

HashCash is older than Bitcoin, and Bitcoin sybil-attack protection is basically HashCash.

It can be also tied to bespoke equipment, hard-to-transfer expertise and experience. If consumption grows relatively slow, it makes sense to expand single installation, rather than duplicate it with 'copy exactly (which might take too long to pay off).

Promise is not disputed. There are no signed papers - there is no promise.

Whenever it was discussed at all is 1% a purely academic dispute and 99% demagogy.

You can exploit it do distinguish whenever script is `curl | bash`'ed.

Add `sleep 1`, and detect pause on server. Then, if pause detected - serve attack payload. If not - somebody is careful enough to download and audit, so serve just the script.

Most other languages would require `eval` and having incorrect code as syntactically correct string literal.

But because Perl is parsed as it is executed, incorrect code raises syntax error only when it is reached by execution.

Somewhat related:

Perl Cannot Be Parsed: A Formal Proof (2008) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5770531

News at 11: greater fool pyramid scheme collapses.

Putting Unicode everywhere is great.

Turning Unicode into clipart collection is not.

Yes, it is.

It's less than 'final nail', but rather sign that government has no better topics, than crude mix of chauvinism an and emotional manipulation. Cf. Russian progression from 'ignore politics, look at economic growth' -> 'ignore politics for economical stability sake' -> 'ignore politics or homos will diddle your kids'

Lack of private banking is pretty minor aspect. Comparing to, say, having de-facto scrip instead of proper currency.

>You should be more open minded that different people and cultures have different values.

So I can start owning slaves, if I claim it fits my values? Or I need to gather some minimal number of fellow slave owners, so I can declare it 'culture'?

Not really, if you consider that X is not 'ensure quizzes work', but rather 'how do we cover our asses'.

Or just nobody did care. Contractor's main expense are kickbacks and actual product is made by cheapest subcontractor.

>a bit of nightmare to sanitize

The fact that mail has to be sanitized at all is already a nightmare, and a perfect example of where inappropriate reuse of existing standard can lead to.

>there’s no natural way for it form on Earth.

'Naturally forming' elements on Earth are limited to uranium fission products.

Lithium (also aluminium, magnesium, sodium) distribution is due to it being light and chemically active, thus ending up in crust, while heavier metals (iron, nickel) end up in mantle and core. It takes specific geological circumstances to bring mantle material into crust, so there are 'hot spots'. Lithium is already there, so it is spread somewhat evenly.

Doesn't even need to be 'wealthy', just be above payday-to-payday survival and have savings.

Because it confuses and pushes users toward wrong mental model of surrounding world.

You miss hobby you do for entertainment with work you do for survival.

Once it's no longer choice between 'apt usage of your senses and body' and 'insufficient stimulation', but between maximum performance and starvation, it stops being fun. Just read the happiness on faces of homeless.

Because it's good-old trick of making vague and overreaching rules, so anybody could be declared guilty and thus maximizing power of people who apply these rules.

But history repeats as comedy, so thankfully no firing squads and killing fields this time.

>is part of a distasteful part of history

...of one of the english speaking countries

When people "just believe" the physicists, it's shortcut. If you dig beneath all the turtles, there are facts there. Yes, there is great possibility and space for manipulation and distortion, but it is rooted in the reality, which percolates through all the layers of human interpretation.

Religion lack that root, there is nothing but human culture in it, which is then mistaken for objective truth about environment.

AGI can find their own purposes in addition to one it was created for. Same way people find life purposes beyond maintaining and propagating germline.