Stupid, sexy Spyro

Ah, but if it’s bad enough the Internet will remember it forever:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce_Homo_(García_Martínez_and_Giménez)

I hope you’re not judging Tom on his perspectives on bookshelves?

choco upgrade all

Not a built-in, of course, but chocolatey gets you Linux-like package manager behavior on Windows. With it you can run headless software installs and automatically update software. It’s great for remote/VM management.

It is much, much safer and simpler to generate hydrogen near where you’re going to use it, and to do so near the time you intend to use it rather than try to store it for long periods of time.

If you were planning to buy any electronic devices soon, do it now and be satisfied with the specs for the next 2 years.

Um… but you said:

“There is nothing broad about their questions”

The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation

And, if your curiosity goes beyond that basic explanation, check out this NASA page on rocket launches:

Chapter 14: Launch

If a spacecraft is launched from a site near Earth’s equator, it can take optimum advantage of the Earth’s substantial rotational speed. Sitting on the launch pad near the equator, it is already moving at a speed of over 1650 km per hour relative to Earth’s center. This can be applied to the speed required to orbit the Earth (approximately 28,000 km per hour).

Getting into orbit doesn’t just require overcoming the force of gravity pulling down. In order to stay up, you basically have to put yourself on a path that allows you to go around the Earth faster (or as fast as) you fall back towards it. When your movement around the Earth is balanced with the rate that you’re falling, you are in orbit. This means you have to go really fucking fast, not just up but sideways.

Maybe if we keep hitting it more money will fall out

What is that, like 1 minute’s revenue for Amazon?

Er, not really… for instance:

“…back in the day?”

Which ‘day’? Before digital mapping? Before cartography as a formal practice? Before the invention of the compass? Before the standardization of the meter? Before the printing press? Before Galileo? Before Eratosthenes?

The time period of the question is potentially the entirety of human history. That’s quite broad.

What methods were used to scale down in world, to paper distances?

In which part of the world? In which culture? For what purpose? (e.g. navigation? coastal, inland, international? crop planting? city planning? determining property lines? etc)

This is not a straightforward question in any way. A complete answer would be an undergraduate degree with a double major in history and geography.

Pee is stored in expelled from the balls.

Hmm, OK could be interesting…

O… K…

Um…

Yeah… that makes sense…

That’s intended behavior, right? Let me guess, you used the project to vibe code the web page?

Good show mate, off to a brilliant start.

Yes.

Came into the comments to ask the same thing, you already found it. You are awesome.

Why do those things cause cancer? Why do some smokers not die of cancer? The reason it’s so vague is because we don’t actually know what causes cancer.

Ah, I see the misunderstanding now.

Just because a natural process contains some inherent randomness does not mean that we do not know how it works. Knowing exactly how a thing occurs does not make the action of that thing deterministic. Just because it is unpredictable on an individual scale does not mean it is mysterious, or beyond our understanding.

Some people exposed to a carcinogen will develop cancerous cells. Some will not. Some of their immune systems will remove the cancer cells before they cause problems. Some will not. Some will develop tumors from those cells. Some of those cells will die and get filtered out by the kidneys or liver before they reproduce and form tumors. Some of those tumors will grow enough to be lethal. Some will become benign before they cause significant health problems.

The outcome depends on many factors like age, health, exercise, diet, exposure, genetic background, etc. There are more variables than we can possibly track for any given person. Even if we could get all of that information, we are ultimately talking about the interactions of certain molecules with proteins in cells - meaning that quantum effects are relevant, so there is some probability involved.

We know what is associated with cancer, but not what causes it.

We know what causes cancer. Genetic mutations during cell reproduction cause cancer. We don’t know every possible thing that can provoke genetic mutations (that would require infinite knowledge), nor do we know if a specific individual will develop cancer in response to a specific carcinogen. The outcome is probabilistic.

Again, just because there is some inherent randomness does not mean that we don’t understand how it works. Understanding something does not make it deterministic.

Star Trekkin’ - The Firm

Two Vics

The title is “git gud”.