I think it is a free diver sitting on the edge of a blue hole.
Bytemeister
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Who touched my gun!
It's doesn't get your exact voice. Your speech gets compressed into digital "steps" that closely mimic the continuous "analog" output of your voice.
It doesn't get encoded in to plaintext. First, the microphone picks up the sounds, and outputs values for frequencies and intensities. Recording software takes those values, and compresses them down into binary data. Then that binary data is saved onto storage. Depending on your storage, it's then stored magnetically (cassette, floppy, HDD) or as a "lockable" logic gate (USB, SSD) or as laser etched dots and dashes (CD/DVD)
It's not getting turned in to rocks, it's getting written on media.
Also, some number for scale...
My computer has 3.5ghz processors. It can run 3.5 billion instructions every second. To put that in perspective, the smallest unit of time humans can perceive is ~13ms. That processor can run ~270,000 instructions in that time frame. Computers perform very simple tasks, extremely quickly, and it gives the impression of intelligence.
Russia can't even dominate a non-nuclear state on their border.
If they landed in the US, the gun nuts would absolutely fuck them up.
Seemingly innocuous activity. I was changing the band on my watch.
Watches have a little spring-loaded pin that goes through the band and in to the bezel. I had the spring compressed with some needle tweezers and I was removing the band when the tweezers slipped. One side of the pin was still seated in the bezel, but the other side was free, and pointed right at my face as I was leaning over this watch to work on it. The pin shot straight into my eyeball.
Or at least it would have if my vision was better. It hit my glasses instead, with enough force to leave a dimple in the polycarb lense. Lesson learned, wear safety glasses when working on anything that could possibly get launched, sprayed or blown into your eyes.
AVD, because broadcom fucked up VMware good.
That was my thought too.
Born here, stuck here.
Anyway, how well do you think American political awareness compares to political awareness of other countries? I honestly haven't looked yet.
Passed that one. It was a little harder than the practice test, but I think it's about a middle-school level difficulty.
Interesting article. I would agree that most Americans are politically unaware per that article, because most Americans aren't economists or historians. It was definitely an interesting read, but what I really noticed is that the article failed to compare American political unawareness to a global baseline, or at least provide some comparable country's numbers, like England, France, Russia, China, Australia, Mexico and Canada?
Makes me wonder if I could pass the US citizenship test...
Edit: 95% on a practice test...
Maybe. I'd expect the sediment and rocks to be settling down instead of of up. I'm in the 80% sure range that this is right-side up.