"As the majority of the population advances into their 50s and 60's someone thinks tiny books with tiny type is a good idea."
Indeed.
When I don't have my glasses, I just use "End Of The World" font on my kindle.
And also, when I was in high-school we used Reklam books, which were really tiny with very thin pages and very cheap. After one school-year, you just threw it away. But good enough to use in school and read on the train. They had book-vending machines in 1912 already.
"Hell, i"m wondering how small the damned text would be on these.....getting hard enough to read regular type without having to whip out the 'readers'....lol"
Exactly, books where you cannot change the font-size is so 20th century.
"Can it display, for example, all the characters of a newspaper in Chinese, as well as right-to-left cursive text in Arabic or top-to-bottom text in Mongolian?"
This government has 'an instinct for science.' It will suggest that 'when you take the coal and clean it' as POTUS has said, you could just remove the carbon from the coal before burning it. That way it can't bind to the oxygen. Easy as pie. Just ask a stable genius, duh!
"Calling "literature degrees" worthless is not the same thing as saying you need a STEM degree to make a decent living. You forget that there is a third option. Forgo college and instead go into carpentry, plumbing, electrical, or some other trade."
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"This dude is a beast. I've been to prison. It's hard to get one phone in let alone multiple with good encryption."
It's hard to cram an iphone8Plus up the ass.
You'll catch cheaters but the sociopaths and psychopaths will beat this easily and those are the ones that you need to catch.
If one woman needs 9 months to create a baby, just put 9 women on the job and it will be done in 1 month.
"Musk's Martian Mart"
You must be new here. It's called 'Elon's Emporium'.
"But ultimately no business can entirely prevent fraud,"
They care about preventing the kind of fraud where they don't get their money.
This is not that kind of fraud and so they don't give a shit.
"As the majority of the population advances into their 50s and 60's someone thinks tiny books with tiny type is a good idea."
Indeed.
When I don't have my glasses, I just use "End Of The World" font on my kindle.
And also, when I was in high-school we used Reklam books, which were really tiny with very thin pages and very cheap.
After one school-year, you just threw it away.
But good enough to use in school and read on the train.
They had book-vending machines in 1912 already.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"I've been using more audiobooks lately for this reason. I usually want to give my eyes a rest."
Don't close your eyes though, you're in the car right now.
"Hell, i"m wondering how small the damned text would be on these.....getting hard enough to read regular type without having to whip out the 'readers'....lol"
Exactly, books where you cannot change the font-size is so 20th century.
"Apparently these problems can be overcome as the dwarsliggers are reportedly "wildly popular" in the Netherlands."
Students use it for cheating if they haven't read the book.
I'm an old fart, I read 1-2 books a day (retired) for me kindle unlimited is the way to go.
Sheesh! We old hippies would have held a sit-in instead of a walk-out.
At least there's a cafeteria with free stuff inside.
"The Linux Kernel Is Now VLA-Free: "
It was already DDT-free, BPA-free and now also VLA-free, so it can be safely used at last?
"Can it display, for example, all the characters of a newspaper in Chinese, as well as right-to-left cursive text in Arabic or top-to-bottom text in Mongolian?"
Slashdot can't for sure.
"Then why is life expectancy in the US going down compared to Europe?"
It's called 'health insurance for everybody.'
You have to actually pay taxes for things like that.
"organic produce uses general toxins such as that produced by Deadly Nightshade. "
So? Potatoes are 'deadly nightshades' as well, beans are toxic if eaten raw just as lots of other vegetables, organic or not.
... would we do with 160 elephants in space?
They also don‘t know how a car or a locomotive works and if they are from the South, how Evolution works.
This government has 'an instinct for science.'
It will suggest that 'when you take the coal and clean it' as POTUS has said, you could just remove the carbon from the coal before burning it. That way it can't bind to the oxygen.
Easy as pie.
Just ask a stable genius, duh!
'Or just cut all forms of modern communication with the outside world.'
I wish.
IOW we don't have to wait for long now before a couple of millions lawyers are sacked.
A good beginning.
I sincerely hope that the same AI will write the new laws in the future instead of the lobbyists.
It's hard to admit to yourself, after the last account removals of Nazis, that you were one them.
Even if you didn't know it, the rest of us did.
"Its just an applied dataset. Nothing magical. Nothing world-changing."
You have no instinct for science.
"Estimate 1% annual maintenance cost, 3% cost of capital. "
As the infrastructure of the US tells us, you can ignore that for decades.
"Calling "literature degrees" worthless is not the same thing as saying you need a STEM degree to make a decent living. You forget that there is a third option. Forgo college and instead go into carpentry, plumbing, electrical, or some other trade."
I thought Uber drivers all studied literature.
"America doesn't build great infrastructure like this anymore."
This is not about infrastructure, this is a political dominance game.
Those 2 islands are islands no more.
If they overstretch the liberties they were accorded, these bridges will be used to send tanks and troops very rapidly.
"I've never worked on a car, even a newer luxury models, where stuff was merely glued together "
You mean the ones where you have to go to the shop and dismantle half the car to change a bulb?