…,And Cloudflare will request using it for 5 seconds every time you visit a website hosted with them. I wonder how much crypto they’ve accumulated this way already.

Radian-only chad

The Earth is not infinite though. If the walls are smooth and indestructible and there is no air resistance, you’d reach the other side in about 40 minutes and briefly stop, allowing you to climb out on the other side with some agility.

By this logic, the Earth would move at supersonic speed below me whenever I jump. When I start falling, I keep my momentum with the surface of the Earth.

Anyway, of course there will be lateral movement because it’s hard to control one’s aerodynamics precisely enough. But theoretically, if you had an indestructible smooth pipe and there was no drag, you could safely travel to the other side of the world in under an hour.

Why fear? When falling into a pit, it’s not the fall that kills you, it’s the bottom.

bober gryze

I know, I’m Czech and I can somewhat understand Ukrainiann or Russian.

The alphanumeric mode does not support lowercase though, it has 5.5 bits/char (pairs of characters are encoded as a base-44 numbers in 11 bits).

You Slovak??

This applies to device-tied installations (PCs that come with Windows 11 preinstalled). Microsoft will not allow manufacturers to sell a laptop without a webcam this way. It needs to be HD at 15 fps, too.

Why Base64? QR codes can contain pure binary data, no need to use this inefficient, not-error-correcting 6-to-8 encoding.

Oh, I forgot Microsoft does not care jack shit about saving people’s computing resources. However, Windows 9x installers on floppies used custom formatting except the first bootable one, allowing them to fit nearly 2 MB of useful data per floppy.

Windows 11 laptops are required to have a webcam but not a punch card reader. (Bummer, right?)

So that’s why Windows 11 laptops are required to have a webcam but no optical drive.

…One day, we might see the technique become so common that people will explain astral projections by comparing them to remote logins.

I miss r/MoeMorphism…

Congratulations! The pronunciation of “bicycle” is confusing because it imitates the way French say it, as opposed to rhyming with “motorcycle” and “unicycle”.

Lieblingsschildkrötefütternpartymachen (Inside joke my classmate did in first year of German)

Well, the chapter 54: Snowball in Randall’s book What If? 2 contains the following, semi-related graphic:

(Maximum diameters of spheres of various materials before collapsing under their weight, which is about the same as the material’s free-hanging length)

To be honest, I’m a single man and thus know nothing about them in practice, I just checked that all the scales use AA (and who knows, maybe AAA or smaller)

I am annoyed that “A” isn’t literally flat. Scales using the first few numbers or letters should consider leaving enough headroom to avoid atrocities such as PH000 (screwdriver) or A+++ (pre-2021 EU appliance rating).