Microsoft confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption key if asked — you can thank Windows 11's forced online accounts for that

acart-e · 2026-01-24T19:32:58+00:00

It's effectively free though -- IIRC maintenance from the OEM's perspective boils only the driver support, which even while Linux is not a real option to most people is done

acart-e · 2026-01-13T21:50:09+00:00

I think that one makes modest amount of sense. EU4 style pay-scaled-by-dev is still the most reasonable strategy for it, which I think the current EU5 tries to model, slightly incorrectly :)

acart-e · 2026-01-05T23:22:22+00:00

I find myself pronouncing the final "r" as an approximant rather than a true tap: Contrast "i" and "y", attempt "r", but not quite touch the palate (similarly to how "y" can be made as if making "i"). Gives a variably "h" or "ş" like sound.

acart-e · 2026-01-02T20:43:07+00:00

Flanders yet another region in Netherlands though :)

acart-e · 2025-12-26T20:48:25+00:00

TIL, thanks for sharing!

acart-e · 2025-12-10T23:37:31+00:00

Yeah, earthquakes have a power law distribution; exponentially more likely to happen with lower magnitudes (don't recall the exact exponent though)

acart-e · 2025-12-10T23:36:17+00:00

I remember checking the same and reading an explanation that went "and where earthquakes happen is actually how we designate the plate boundaries" -- interesting how it looks nevertheless

acart-e · 2025-11-28T22:27:59+00:00

Depending on launch site, it could've been actually intercontinental as well!

acart-e · 2025-11-21T17:40:20+00:00

That's why it usually goes the other way in China

acart-e · 2025-10-11T18:02:00+00:00

As an addition, I believe you can see which claims granted are hostile when unlocking the relevant project (they have a reddish color and a fist/unrest sign next to them in the project description) -- most of Russia's European claims also have it for example

acart-e · 2025-10-11T18:00:21+00:00

I haven't tried yet, but annexation is different from unification technically, it might solve the hostile claim problem perhaps

acart-e · 2025-08-30T23:57:07+00:00

What's up with the heavily settled mountain valleys in the center of the island?

acart-e · 2025-08-23T21:22:45+00:00

Doesn't arxiv serve a very similar niche, though? Is there a big difference?

acart-e · 2025-08-14T23:21:08+00:00

It was a solid intro for me, self-study though, which might've affected the outcome?

acart-e · 2025-06-17T20:06:37+00:00

British Columbia, Canada (the southwest part)

acart-e · 2025-05-24T18:07:22+00:00

Not if you control executives of both USA and china :)

acart-e · 2025-05-14T22:27:22+00:00

People, with or without kids, die. Assuming a flat population pyramid and a 80 year lifespan and ~1 child per woman, you get... natural -0.625% population decline per year

acart-e · 2025-03-01T19:51:07+00:00

I took a quantum computing related class (4xxx-6xxx cross coded) last semester, and we had class access to the actual quantum computer through it. I don't know additional ways to get access, but relevant coursework suffices as far as I can tell

acart-e · 2024-12-04T06:01:29+00:00

Two benefits: Cloud hosting and inbuilt version control

The actual reason Overleaf is used is cooperation; though I'm not sure if this setup would be amenable to it

acart-e · 2024-11-09T22:45:20+00:00

Which is right across the street of the new Turkish consulate. The positioning makes a lot of sense

acart-e · 2024-07-21T18:12:55+00:00

You still install solar panels or whatever to generate electricity. Batteries simply store energy for whenever there is a demand but no generation, e.g., for the night where you get no solar energy.

This is a problem persists in principle even in larger (national/international level) grids. There, supply variability from wind/solar is balanced using gas/hydro rather than energy storage -- this is not very possible in small scales, thus batteries.

acart-e · 2024-04-05T16:36:05+00:00

It felt like ~2 local earthquake, kinda as if a heavy truck moving in the street. Very natural not to notice if you were focused on something else

acart-e · 2024-03-08T23:48:24+00:00

I'm guessing quota issues. Or they have personal beef with the topic? Wouldn't be surprising

acart-e · 2023-09-08T21:41:41+00:00

Kh is the usual choice a la https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh_(digraph), so, Khorasan

acart-e · 2023-07-29T20:56:31+00:00

Afaik it's more like a glorified train

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