DDE

"...is this a robbery?" "No, but I need a bunch of lightbulbs in the forty-watt range"

Meanwhile in Russia the people calling the harddrive 'winchester' aren't extinct yet.

Same here: kosmicheskiy musor. A more suitable fun fact: before directly borrowing 'skyscraper' (neboskryob), Russian featured the term 'cloudslasher' (tucherez).

Back from before 1.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Flatbed

Find a Russian proxy server. Might get region-locked out of some videos, but the entire Youtube will be ads-free. ...not sure if you can on a PS5, though.

A Kiev electric vehicle plant KTZ-1 trolleytruck that needed its crew capacity expanded by 1.

"We need to build a statue of a notable goalkeeper" * a few months later *

Allow me to interrupt this discussion to bring forward an absolute sensation (not). https://t-me.translate.goog/s/kpnauka?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

LOL, there was MCC codes for liquor stores and nightclubs but not for gun stores? I know the former were there because AkBars of Tatarstan has recently rolled out a debit card that can't be used to shop at confirmed haram outlets.

Do you like the new murals in P&P? I don't. Thus far I've located a save from a sufficiently early construction stage that I can save myself an evening or two.

Because if you expend fuel, you also need to decrease lifting force. This usually means venting the gas. Which, in case of methane, is bad, and in case of helium, prohibitively expensive. Helium blimps used to have exhaust condensers to recover at least some of the mass of the fuel burnt in their ICEs. I'm not sure that was on anyone's mind but my own, though.

OTD in 1996, the Bird of Prey made its first flight.

As another DLC for Cities: Skylines is about to drop, I'm fighting the impulse to rebuild the same city for the twelfth time.

Wind is a bit problematic on an untethered platform that is heavily affected by wind. Solar is the obvious example for "standby power" with batteries, fuel cells or flywheels for storage. And I don't think you'll get away without an ICE of some sort for the active segment of your positioning work.

"Not to worry, we're still driving half a boat!"

The amount of extra costs arising from failed attempts at economy is astounding. N1 has been holding SLS's beer...

"I'd volunteer my genitals for a papercut rather than give clickbait to Forbes" - unknown, as retold on Twitter by a Forbes journo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_project#High_gain_antenna_problem While the huge crawler shouldn't be as shaky, I wouldn't be surprised that there's still appreciable vibration.

OK, jokes aside, that seems quite accurate, despite all the "X-ray cave paintings" indicating quite a bit of observations on mammalian anatomy. I believe it's the grooves and not the volume that affect "brainpower". Anyway, because we need to get some fun facts going, Vladimir Fyodorov, who semi-accidentally developed something resembling a modern assault rifle all the way back in WWI, is attributed with the following quote:

First Pion-NKS completes on-orbit commissioning. First RORSAT in years. https://ria.ru/20220908/tekhnologii-1815295799.html

Elizabeth II, 1926-2022 https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britains-queen-elizabeth-is-dead-buckingham-palace-2022-09-08/

I think they'll basically have to do what they did for text - have to teach the AI to understand the connection between design elements of each and every object you want to emulate. Right now... remember how in Solaris, the first time the girl "spawns", her dress is just a continuous tube, and the buttons are non-functional? That's what the AI is doing with buildings.

I think the fear is that the old canard of polygenism could rear its ugly head. Anthropologists seem to have collective shell-shocked from what their field used to propagate, reaching the peak of toxicity around WWI (sic). It's a shame War of the Professors: The Humanities 1912-1923 only seems to be available in Polish and Russian.

To be fair, with the kind of adaptations we've geen getting, they can't doo much worse. The real threat is recursive apocalypse: neuronets being trained on material predominantly from other neuronets.

Oldest deliberate amputation, oldest deliberate burial https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05160-8

Secret backdoor? True story right there... https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-crypto-encryption-machines-espionage/