I wonder what kind of concentrating optics they use. Simple Fresnel lenses won’t do, unless you closely follow the sunlight to stay in focus.

Absolutely. If they don’t care to actually read the texts, they have to accept the risks of not reading it.

Of course a rubber band reaching to the edge of the atmosphere most likely exceeds its own tensile strength by far. And even if it was short enough just not to, it would simply be pre-stretched by it’s own weight, you would not even need to hold it down.

Thanks!

Oh yes, Loderunner. And Castles of Dr. Creep!

I burned so much time with those games. Where will it be published, and how much will it cost?

My coworker likes it and wants to know where this can be found.

If you believe that your local bakery can survive without those chemicals, think again. There are a handful of specialized bakeries that actually work on “clean” recipies, but they are rare and much more expensive.

Yes, even in Germany, the country of bread, rising agents and acidity regulators are common. Whenever you see a “bakery” put prepared rolls into the oven, you can be sure that chemistry is the bakers best friend.

Of course nobody needs it. But >99% only know it that way.

I’ve read it and it just confirms that this idiot is not mentally capable to hold his office. They should A25 him stat, and put him in a loony bin.

The first step with bread is grinding the corn. This a basic way to make it edible for the tribe. Have you ever tried to bite on a corn of wheat or rye?

Mix it with water and cook it to make it softer, and you get a kind of porrige. Leave it warm over night, and you have a sourdough. Rekindle the fire on the next day, and you’ll have a proto bread.

From there to the white bread made with a dozen chemical stabilizers, acid regulators and raising agents as they are sold in the supermarket is just the result of refining the process.

No image here nor in the linked article?

“Accidentally”

Booting Emacs…

Loading Linux.el

Took her quite long to come to the conclusion that X is not worth working for.

Thanks! I hadn’t noticed!

I fondly remember regularly logging into simtel20.wsmr.army.mil back in the days (WSMR=White Sands Missile Range). No issue, just used “anonymous” as the username, and your email address as the password. And even the email address was just a convenience…

In nearly forty-ish years on the internet (yes, I was around before the web), I have not seen someone expressing an internet address in octal (before this discussion), although I remember that it is legal. Using hex, yes, but not octal.

But it does not work by definition, it is non-routable. That some systems use it as an alias is a different issue.

This is a special case. This resolves to 0.0.0.0, and technically cannot be routed. Some(!) systems use it as a kind of alias for all local network addresses, but it is not a given.