I don’t see the need to bring values into this, this is about the naming of number systems. We really have no more claim to ten being this many (…) than hexadecimal people have to claim ten has this many (…)

Iodine in salt is a health measure, people were not getting enough iodine, so they added it to the salt

But that’s not going to degrade.

Every base has ten, but it’s made of two digits

Binary 0, 1, 10 Ternary 0, 1, 2, 10 … Decimal 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Hex 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F, 10

Each has the right count of digits for its base before you go two-digit - binary has two (0, 1), etc

I don’t know, 7 is a bit of a cannibal. π just is a little in the way

It was on a Russian Antarctic base, why would international waters be a consideration?

I suffered negative side effects as if it were a real meme, and a bad meme at the same time

I had to refrain from voting

Also it’s for loading web pages that don’t behave well otherwise

Ok, let’s use grain finished beef as an example. The carbon is still from a renewable source, it’ll be recaptured when the grain regrows

I haven’t yet been convinced that giving up meat can help. Specifically, I haven’t seen the question of what happens to the grazing land.

If it is left to burn, the carbon it contains cycles grass ➡️ fire ➡️ CO2, particles ➡️ grass, etc

If it’s left to rot it’s grass ➡️ methane, CO2 ➡️ grass

If it is rewilded the carbon cycles grass ➡️ meat, methane ➡️ predators, etc

If left as it is it’s the same, but with us in place of the predators.

I really feel like there is no way of preventing the carbon emissions of grasslands, but at least if they’re making meat for us we can work on engineering a way out of the methane release, and people are working on that

And at worst it’s not fossil carbon, it’s renewable, the carbon emitted is captured again when the grass regrows

There’s carbon in the farm equipment, but that’s the same in all farming

The convex ones are concave on the other side. The straight piece is generally called “the straight piece”

It’s not for me, though I don’t live in America

You’re nostrils do that as you sleep to keep the one closest to the bed/ground closed. Since people roll from side to side over the course of a night your nostrils swap which one’s closed

I had a team of contractors working on some code. They had learnt in their previous jobs to document everything in the work wiki (aside from the design documents which have their own repository)

And it was good they did, since the project was put on hold due to too much mismatch between backend and front, and all the contractors were fired (a day before Xmas) leaving the useless doco as the best reference for whoever needs to resurrect our code

We have never successfully done that. Nestle is still out there doing their stuff

The poor tropics are especially screwed. Also all the cities on the coast

And there’s optimism in climate change, zeroing our carbon burn is straight forward. It wouldn’t take a decade if we could agree on the sane path

But we have pushed so much CO2 into the air, and so much heat into the sea we need to do better than zero. I’m pretty pessimistic

The most likely way I can see the fall of America is through a breakup of the federation. If you’re in a bad state it could be bad

We haven’t had a world war since WW2. We haven’t got two likely sides now. China owns too much of the West, Russia is no longer credible

Nuclear war is no closer now than it was during the cold war. Everything then was on a hair trigger. Now it’ll just take a psychopath in charge, and no one willing to ignore the order in the command structure

Vegan restaurants are widely known to be super cheap

Ctrl+shift+k and u? I’m pretty sure it’s Ctrl+k and +u