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Good luck finding enough wood for that ! Energy was reaaaally expensive back then.

They had sewage and toilets since Roman times. It wasn’t affordable to many (and you couldn’t make it affordable) but they definitely knew how to make it.

I’d just like to interject that while traveling was rare in medieval times, it did happen. People usually didn’t get thrown in jail for it, even if they didn’t speak the local language.

Regular people didn’t really speak Latin beyond a few bits of prayer. The lingua franca was a mix of various coastal languages (think of the belter patois in the expanse), but even that was only known to traders.

You’d have a tough time for sure, but wouldn’t necessarily get in trouble.

You made me check the average density of earth and, yeah, good is 4x denser than that. I’m not sure about the black hole thing, though. Would it be enough mass to collapse or would it just sit there?

Minitel was a text only early internet that popped up in France in the 80s. You connected to it through a small terminal connected to the phone line, and had access to various commercial services such as phone book, train booking etc…

Most of those services have been shut down a decade or two ago but some hobbyists are operating new services on the network.

Never heard it used. Maybe it’s regional or a family tradition? A common idiom is “mon chou” but I’d guess it comes from the pastry and not the vegetable.

No it’s not even sexy, and it’s the only idiom I can think of that uses shovel in this context. It makes absolutely no sense

snogging

In French the slang term for that is “rouler des pelles” , which means literally “to roll shovels” and… I mean what the fuck is up with that?

I think the real shocker was the step change between 3 and 4, and the hope that another step change was soon to come. It’s pretty telling that the latest batch of models was fine tuned for vibes and “empathy” rather than raw performance. They’re not getting the next a-ha moment and want to focus their customers on unquantifiables.

It seems logical that this would negatively impact performance and, well, looks like it did.

Nah the 500B$ is for building data centers. Well, it would be if that money existed but the truth is it was just an empty announcement.

The companies involved don’t have that kind of money, even pooled together.

I am looking for a solution for a ~1TB collection, and the Glacier Deep Archive storage tier is barely above 1$/m for the lot. You may want to look into it ! If I remember correctly, the retrieval (if you one day need to get your data back) was around 20$ to get the data in a few hours, or 2$ to get it in a couple days.