Yeah, it seems silly to use different names for "astronaut" in English, depending on the nationality of the person (e.g., "cosmonaut" for Soviets/Russians; "taikonaut" for Chinese). "Astronaut" should be for anyone.
Worldle: https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/
Guess the location of a Degree Confluence Point: https://www.confluence.org/gue...
...Why Do Printers Still Exist?
Whenever I read about efforts to try to stop teenagers from seeing porn on the Internet, I'm reminded of this Dilbert cartoon from 1996: https://dilbert.com/strip/1996...
They've already tested the helicopter/drone at mars atmosphere here on earth at 1G (earth gravity 9.8m/s) and it flies.
Actually, they've sucessfully tested the helicopter (on Earth) with a simulated Mars atmosphere *and* simulated Mars gravity (by suspending it beneath a spring to make it feel lighter). It likely wouldn't fly by itself under Earth gravity.
That's not a rhetorical question; I genuinely want to know.
How can the US hold another country at fault for a business practice that is a global standard when not dealing with the US?
When the company (not "country") does business in the US. As the article notes, "The company's headquarters are in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, but ZTE's U.S. subsidiary is in Richardson, Texas."
...the moment that he decided to name him "Khobe".
"Maybe it would be better though to just have an app that clearly gave you GPS coordinates with only two digits after the decimal point" That would give you a resolution of only about 1km. You'd need at least 3 digits - and ideally 4 - after the decimal point. At which point the GPS coordinates become harder to read/remember. (But personally, I prefer GPS coordinates.)
"Finlayson's Law of Industry Consortia": To understand the real purpose of an 'industry consortium', note which prominent member of the industry is *not* a member.
I have a longstanding policy of boycotting any event that uses the spelling "Faire". I'm glad to see that I've helped speed the demise of this organization
A warning: Recent versions (not just the latest version, but at least the one prior to this) enable DNS-over-HTTPS (to a Cloudfare DNS server) by default. This has the side effect of completely bypassing the local "hosts" file. So, if you have modified your "hosts" file (e.g., to redefine tracking and/or malware domain names as 0.0.0.0), you should turn this off (via "Preferences" -> "Network Settings").
What I've never understand is why - after all these years - Google Maps and Waze still have not merged their databases and routing systems. It's frustrating, because Google Maps is much better for searching and routing, whereas Waze is much better for warning about police/speed traps, and for sudden rerouting to avoid congestion. It's annoying to have to use both apps.
But much of the remote land in Australia is still used for cattle grazing - in which case it won't count as "untouched".
But I'll bet that even in most of these remote desert areas, you'll find roads (or remains of roads) not far away. For fun, I like to visit Degree Confluence Points (http://www.confluence.org/), and I've been surprised at how easy most of them are to reach, even in supposedly remote patches of desert. I rarely have had to hike more than a couple of miles from a (admittedly, often 4WD) road.
In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain. -- Pliny the Elder
