Craig was more like the Bond books I thought? A few of the earlier ones like On Her Majesty’s Secret Service followed the books, but the rest were way out there. I don’t think I’ve seen any of the Craig films all the way through though. I saw part of one on TV.

Guilty of bribery = he accepted a bribe, not he bribed someone.

I wasn’t aware of much defederation from .ml. I came here from .world because .world was defederating from too many other instances. I think what we really need is a new client that connects to multiple instances and does its own tracking of read articles and stuff like that. The Lemmy federation model was well intended, but I would say it has failed. Even at the popular instances, the fediverse is fragmented, which wasn’t supposed to happen.

I would say look for a SIP carrier in Europe rather than someplace that makes you use a special app. Here in the US, twilio.com, voip.ms, and I think jmp.chat are popular. IDK about Europe or whether any of those operate there. I know you can get .au inbound numbers from Twilio but placing calls from there might be harder. What about getting an outbound VOIP service and phone number that’s actually in Oz? You’d then be connecting with a SIP client from Europe which could result in janky audio, but it’s something to try.

Wait, FOURTEEN? I thought you were going to say 19 or something like that. Either way just be honest, you’re taken, there’s too much age difference, and (apparently) she’s not your type. She should meet up with someone her own age.

In indoor crowded spaces, CO2 is often 2000 ppm or higher (background is now around 450). We might notice but just deal with it. In the past that meant getting sleepy at a lecture or that sort of thing, but today I’d consider it risky. I still wear an N95 mask whenever I’m in a public indoor space.

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1. there are plenty of shy or anxious people in the US too!
2. as you say, being outgoing is a skill. 21 is an awkward and transitional age where you’re still finding out things about yourself. As you get more comfortable it can get easier to talk to other people too.

CO comes from incomplete combustion and you’d usually only have detectors for it around gas heaters, generators, stuff like that. Maybe you meant carbon dioxide (CO2). I don’t remember ever seeing one around a voting booth. I’d consider them a good idea though, not because CO2 poisoning is a serious concern per se, but because high CO2 means that you’re breathing air that other people exhaled, increasing your exposure to airborne pathogens.

I’d say P vs NP is the easiest, Riemann hypothesis is understandable in the sense that its statement is not too technical, but understanding why it is important is another matter. NS smoothness is probably understandable to the average math or physics nerd who has seen some PDE’s. The rest require developing more machinery to even state the problems.

I’d expect Musk could get a phone call with Putin without the GRU’s help.

Yes, I can see your future. The good news is you become a starship captain. The bad news is you lose your hair.

Peristaltic, in fact that’s where the term comes from. You can type “peristaltic pump” into a search engine to see lots of descriptions and diagrams.

It takes a bit of practice. A few minutes of instruction can show you how it works, but then you will want to actually practice (maybe an hour or so) on some quiet roads before driving in traffic.

Cool, yeah, the digits themselves are at most 0.5 byte each ;). I don’t know enough about the higher level algorithm to say exactly how the rest of the storage is being used. There is a book called “Pi and the AGM” about pi computation and similar algorithms that is supposed to be really good, but it looks over my head mathematically.

Yes, that’s the idea, it’s just that the “spoiler” likely only revealed something that was already known (that specific digit), or at any rate, something that could be computed on a much smaller computer and in less time. Mostly though, that’s a bit of mathematically interesting info.

I don’t feel like watching a video but maybe there will be a more informative article sometime. I wonder if they used some existing software like Y-cruncher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-cruncher

Says they used a cluster with 2.2PB of flash drives (that was Kioxia’s contribution) and the calculation took 7.5 months. Article is otherwise sort of useless. I’d like to know more technical and mathematical details. It gives the “spoiler” that the 300 trillionth digit of pi is 5, but that was already relatively easy to compute using the Borwein-Bailey-Plouffe algorithm and was probably already known. The BBP algorithm lets you compute a specific digit like the 300 trillionth, using fairly little memory and much less compute time than computing all of the digits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe_formula

Silly. Agent 86 was Maxwell Smart.

Well ackshually…

Gluster? I don’t know much about it. As someone else asked, how much data are you talking about? Do you need a file store (mutable files), or are you ok with an object store (immutable)?