Well, Mercator projection is most helpful for maps used in nautical navigation:

The Mercator projection was designed for use in marine navigation because of its unique property of representing any course of constant bearing as a straight segment. Such a course, known as a rhumb (alternately called a rhumb line or loxodrome) is preferred in marine navigation because ships can sail in a constant compass direction. This reduces the difficult, error-prone course corrections that otherwise would be necessary when sailing a different course.

That being said, is a bad projection for other purposes, and it’s probably better to use other projections in general education. That being said, any projection will have certain disadvantages under the right or wrong conditions.

Probably a good call to switch, though I refuse to believe it was kept so long for other reasons than “this is how it’s always been”

Unless you’re a registered Republican

Technically, the question was even easier (yes/no), but I agree with the sentiment

Well, but the question wasn’t “what is a hash used for”, but rather “what is a hash”

Just check their posts on phoronix

GPG is just a mess overall, only place I think it makes sense are DNMs

Rogue, rouge is French for red and usually refers to makeup

I don’t like companies framing non-physical as “digital”. It implies physical is somehow not digital. All optical discs that matter nowadays however are. The only non-digital (or analog) optical medium I know of was laserdisc

I’m pretty sure AI partners are not the primary reason people don’t have human partners. The issues are systematic and root very deeply. While I do think AI partners are a very toxic and dangerous way out of this, I highly doubt they were the reason people were single in the first place.

Yeah, you often hear stuff like “back then, we stuck together and helped each other!” Yeah because otherwise you wouldn’t have had anything. Also a lot of people were super wary of anyone else because of the StaSi and their IMs (think spies recruited from the general population, literally means unofficial employee) so the “we’re in this together” was often on a more superficial level

You know what’s also super woke? Phones that Russia can’t track. At least for migrants

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It should be noted that e.g. DeepL which is a very good AI translation service isn’t an LLM but rather falls into the category of “Neural machine translation”. So this would still be fine

Edit: I leaned it’s an LLM now, my knowledge is outdated.

No mention of bpfilter unfortunately, would have been helpful to get a rough overview

Not sure where exactly this was supposed to happen, but a country has the right to down any unauthorized aircraft in its airspace. When Turkey downed a Russian jet nothing happened because this is just how things work. A military aircraft in another country’s airspace can’t expect to not be shot. It’s rarely done but always possible.

What’s Anti-Data? The equivalent to Anti-Matter? And how does an Anti-Data Center look like?

Interesting enough, the ruble is actually quite strong, which does create problems for Russia’s exports, while they are capped on imports by the sanctions so they can’t really make use of that

They got a very nice beer brewery in return so it’s all fair

Germany did opium business with China? When?

the cost of basic necessities like housing and food are about 3x cheaper.

Depends. Newly built apartments will set you back $200k after conversion there, some years ago it could easily reach $500k.