RIFTS is set in the future, 300 years after an apocalypse brought magic back to earth
It’s fantasy + sci fi
RIFTS is set in the future, 300 years after an apocalypse brought magic back to earth
It’s fantasy + sci fi
I see zero subscribers, zero posts. I’m not breaking that streak
Although dictionaries will show words that significant parts of the population say are wrong, I’m still going to say octopuses is also correct because octopus is an English word and English usually pluralises like that
Octopusen is not common since octopus is too new to get that style of English plural
Of course significant parts of the population spell “than” with an e, or “then” with an a, and/or don’t know the difference between it’s and its
Would you care to pluralise octagon?
Internal combustion cars are about half as efficient as big fossil fuel powerplants. The big ones waste a third of the energy as low grade heat; cars waste two thirds of the energy as low grade heat
Don’t forget that big batteries can react in fractions of a second to large power demand spikes or dips, stabilising the grid far better than spinning steel can
There are workflows using LLMs that seem fair to me, for example
That seems like more work than doing it properly, but it avoids some of the sticking points of the proper process
LLMs can’t cite. They don’t know what a citation is other than a collection of text of a specific style
You’d be lucky if the number of references equalled the number of referenced items even if you were lucky enough to get real sources out of an LLM
If the student is clever enough to remove the trap reference, the fact that the other references won’t be in the University library should be enough to sink the paper
Legal eagle has a video spelling out which laws are broken. Note that there are specific laws against paying people to vote
Use a throwaway email, drop it as soon as the promotion is over
I can’t say I have ever considered myselfgender fluid due to my gender perfectly fitting the shape of its container (ie me)
And goatse gave us the ability to laugh at that Micky Mouse clock
His parents were not all that well off. They invested $300,000 in his new company. That’s within the ability of many middle class workers
His parents were employees, not business owners.
Amazon: people like books; people like next day delivery of stuff; people and companies like making stuff and running stuff in Amazon web services
Minecraft: Marcus Persson owned the game studio (and wrote quite a bit of the game) that made Minecraft, lots of people like it, Microsoft was willing to buy it for billions
Kiran Mazumdan-Shaw made beer, people like beer. They then used beer making processes to make biotech medicines - people like being alive and will pay a lot to stay alive, or even just a bit healthier
There have been a couple (or maybe one or a few) that started with very little. A lot more had a gift or loan from a parent for enough to buy land or start a business, often that was less than $100,000
As much as Musk’s family had money before, his initial big money came from his share of his brother and his city guide software “zip2” which they sold to Compaq for a few hundred million. Lots of people have made more complex or bigger programs with no more wealth than an average middle class family.
Then x.com (the 1999 one, a bank) which became part of PayPal which sold to eBay for $1.5 billion which Musk got a share of
Then he made SpaceX then Tesla* and Tesla made him a billionaire through his ownership of a large part of it
*Tesla was made of Musk’s money and A/C Propulsion electric vehicle conversion system. It was incorporated with SpaceX’s incorporation papers with the company name changed. A/C propulsion’s drivetrain was replaced by a new system after a year of production of the roadster
Having listened to ‘good bad billionaire’ for several episodes the formula is
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Index funds are pretty incredibly safe. Pick one of the big US indexes and look at the graph since before the global financial crisis
For safety.
When you back in you have good visibility on your way in - you see in and behind the spot you’re taking as you drive past it to line up
When you leave you have excellent visibility ahead as it’s on front of
Also the car is easier to steer into the spot in reverse
I guess some people are really bad drivers
It’s funny that they went out of fashion at the same time people started getting fat
High rise trousers belt above the hips, giving no chance of showing a plumber’s crack, holding them up solidly