I mean it makes sense when you think about how the circles arrange in an infinte square and e.g. 4r square. There has to be some fuckery between the perfect packing and the small square packing. You can see a triangle of almost perfect packing in the middle of the 49 circle square, surrounded by fault lines in the structure and then some more good packing, and garbage in the bottom.

slightly related Steve Mould video

sorry. 0-dimensional cat moving in 2-dimensional space.

I still use my external soundblaster to connect to my 5.1 amp. I have HDMI to my TV and then toslink to my amp, but it was inconvenient having to have the TV on for listening music.

Is cube a simple shape in physics? It’ 3-dimensional and It’s gonna do all sort of crazy flips due to aerodynamics and moment of inertia. I would prefer a 1-dimensional point like cat.

You can definitely hammer a screw, but why would you?

Minumum specs lists GTX 970. M1’s GPU seems to be about half as powerful, so it’s probably not going to be very smooth.

Yeah the left screen is in portrait.

I disagree. Time actually stopped around early 2010’s. Seasons change and shit, but stuff isn’t changing no more.

my man

Alkaline batteries can be safely disposed in household garbage.

female I think, at least spanish and french companies.

Why is bandwidth so important? The M2 is about half as fast as a DDR4 era x86 desktop processor with half the memory bandwidth.

What year?

wouldn’t plutonium production be a more viable use of the reactor’s transmutation capabilities?

In Finland low risk prisoners can even get (or keep) a job. They drive a loaner car from the prison to their job in the morning and then drive back to prison in the afternoon.

I used to monitor systems remotely from my home. On night shift I had an alarm going every 12 minutes to check the screens and emails. Shitty sleep, but slightly better than no sleep.

sprinkle some crushed palantir crystal to your pipe and you’ll be dancing with the others in no time.

Is there a Hebrew word for Lebensraum?

Are they going to criminalize prime factorization and elliptic curves? Or how do you prevent a group of people from encrypting their messages?

I think intestineal issues are the first symptom of your DNA being so fucked you can’t produce new cells. The cells in your guts needs constant replenishment and things go bad quick down there without new cells.