

Lots of international manufacturers skip model numbers 4 and 9 because of Asian superstitions. Silly, yes, but they affect sales and even birth rates.
At least in Japanese, 4 sounds like “death” and 9 sounds like “suffering”.


Lots of international manufacturers skip model numbers 4 and 9 because of Asian superstitions. Silly, yes, but they affect sales and even birth rates.
At least in Japanese, 4 sounds like “death” and 9 sounds like “suffering”.


It sounds like you’re internally associating Africa and the US with opposite “goodness” evaluations, but you never explain which way and I have no idea why you think your conclusion makes sense.


Doesn’t the decrease signal an improvement for Russia? (unfortunately)
I did skim a bunch of articles first, all with the same info, but they were too long-winded or paywalled to link to. This summary seemed just right…
From Google AI:
In 1990, the year the film was released, the actual house from Home Alone was purchased for $875,000. Economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago have determined that, at that price, the home was only affordable to the top 1% of Chicago households at the time.
To afford the house in 1990 (assuming they spent no more than 30% of their income on housing), the McCallister family would have needed a household income of about $305,000, which is approximately $665,000 in 2022 dollars.
The house last sold in 2012 for $1.58 million and again in early 2025 for $5.5 million.
How did you generates this? I’ve never seen this style before.
Frighten? Faze? Ftraumatize?


You’re just improvising bullshit now…


It doesn’t matter who’s right, it only matters who’s left.


Unpopular opinion, but the judge was right. There would be zero benefit to society to reward this absolute cybersquatter. There’s an almost zero benefit to reward a corporation. Both bad, but the corporation should get it in this case.

Abstract:
Since 2006, type 1 diabetes in Finland has plateaued and then decreased after the authorities’ decision to fortify dietary milk products with cholecalciferol. The role of vitamin D in innate and adaptive immunity is critical. A statistical error in the estimation of the recom- mended dietary allowance (RDA) for vitamin D was recently discovered; in a correct analysis of the data used by the Institute of Medi- cine, it was found that 8895 IU/d was needed for 97.5% of individuals to achieve values ≥50 nmol/L. Another study confirmed that 6201 IU/d was needed to achieve 75 nmol/L and 9122 IU/d was needed to reach 100 nmol/L. The largest meta-analysis ever conduct- ed of studies published between 1966 and 2013 showed that 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels <75 nmol/L may be too low for safety and associated with higher all-cause mortality, demolishing the previously presumed U-shape curve of mortality associated with vitamin D levels. Since all-disease mortality is reduced to 1.0 with serum vitamin D levels ≥100 nmol/L, we call public health authorities to consider designating as the RDA at least three-fourths of the levels proposed by the Endocrine Society Expert Committee as safe up- per tolerable daily intake doses. This could lead to a recommendation of 1000 IU for children <1 year on enriched formula and 1500 IU for breastfed children older than 6 months, 3000 IU for children >1 year of age, and around 8000 IU for young adults and thereaf- ter. Actions are urgently needed to protect the global population from vitamin D deficiency.


Went to the biggest theater in the country, fancy place, fancy people. Girl tried to open a puffy bag of popcorn by smashing it between her hands (like you’d do in a barf bag prank). Loud bang. Popcorn everywhere.
I didn’t really hold it against her, but she felt so bad about the embarrassment she hated the sight of me forever from them on (we had common friends so we kept meeting many years after).


Yes, and the highest point in this route was 230m above sea level, requiring 22.8x the uphill ‘push’ that atmosphere could provide.
But even if the highest point was below 10m and friction was not an issue, you would need hundreds of kilometers of perfectly airtight ‘vacuumed’ pipes. If air leaks into the pipes somewhere along their length, the flow stops.

This is kinda amazing. The AI only got wrong the part about “transmitted” being crossed out. That was just a splotch of ink on the page. Otherwise… unbelievably impressive.

Completely off-topic, but is anyone else getting flickering lines when the noisier part of one of the Samples images is on screen?
I think my phone is dying.

Damn. We’re already at almost 10000 qubits with a sustained exponential growth. Ten more years seems about right.
RSA-2048: ~4096 logical qubits, 20-30 million physical qubits
256-bit ECC: ~2330 logical qubits, 12-15 million physical qubits
RSA-3072: ~6000 logical qubits, 30-40 million physical qubits

This makes no sense. Salads really do have nuts sometimes, whilst I’ve never heard of bees having steak.

Mirror: https://archive.ph/AP7qY
Ehh, this is like saying “this million-dollar tank was unable to fire at a mosquito only one meter away from the driver”. There’s such a thing as a minimum engagement distance.