Hey, hey, that’s freedom-units to you.

That said, the difference in scales when it comes to doubling is something I never really considered. Very informative!

Also the sheer amount of sets WoTC is putting out nowadays, it’s insane! A new release used to be a big deal and worth looking forward to, now it’s just exhausting.

Asphalt is laid somewhere around 300F, so if it truly got twice as hot it would melt the road and everyone’s tires.

Even with accelerators it still needs a few days (usually about a week) to harden to 80% strength, and it will never be quite as strong as it would be without an accelerator.

I think that’s part of the reason we don’t use concrete pavement more often. It certainly lasts a lot longer, but laying it is way more time consuming. Asphalt is ready to go within a day, just needs to cool off.

That’s not true at all. We may not be 100% accurate, but there is lots of evidence of how Latin or ancient Greek may have been pronounced. The most obvious example is comparison to languages descended from them like Italian and modern Greek.

One of the defining traits of NPD is a lack of empathy, which you are exhibiting in spades right now. Do you think personality disorders in general are made up?

And they are no better than answering machines for customer service. Sure, they can answer basic questions, but so can the automated phone systems.

This is what drives nuts the most about it. We had so many incredibly efficient, purpose-built tools using the same technologies (machine learning and neural networks) and we threw them away in favor of wildly inefficient, general-purpose LLMs that can’t do a single thing right. All because of marketing hype convincing billionaires they won’t need to pay people anymore.

This is absolutely blatant corruption, why is this something an Attorney General can unilaterally do? Charges were already brought by the DA, it was going to court, and he intervened to dismiss it. The power to shutdown any criminal case is an extremely dangerous power for anyone to have.

It opens the run dialog, which I’m sure the vast majority of Windows users have never heard of. This would trick a lot of people who just trust whatever their computer asks them to do.

Most digital animation done by hand isn’t done in the stop motion/frame-by-frame way, It’s done with key frames that are interpolated between. That’s not to say it isn’t still super time consuming (especially when done well).

He didn’t say that the government won’t go after Maersk, just that the federal government is fronting the cost. If the bridge had to wait for Maersk to pay up it could be years before they begin rebuilding.

The craziest part about McCarthy is that (I would argue) he still choose party over country but the crazy members of the party couldn’t see that. He knew a shutdown would have been devastating for their image, but all the extremists could see was working with the enemy.