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@futurebird I have no idea who to follow for anything else finance-related.for anyhting crypto related, I follow
Molly White
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@futurebird imagine, all the delicious silkworms they could have raised with all those mullberry leaves. But nope, they chose ants.

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most of the time, it's just a big flat rock in the wilderness, but on special occasions, it is table.

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I have horribly mixed feelings about this, because I have long loved SF and fantasy art, and I've seen some great SF insect-inspired aliens, and fantasy insect-inspired fantasy creatures which this "ant" shares much with, especially the human-torso-like aspects of the prothorax (for want of a better term), but from now on, it will always represent the nuance in AI discourse.

@futurebird Platybelodon. https://chasmosaurs.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/20-Platy.jpg

@futurebird when were these functions added? The TI-34 goes back to the 1980s, so it's possible they were added long ago for reasons relevant to that distant era, and kept for backwards compatibility. (Something similar applies to the behavior of int() on the TI-84)

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in most cases it is the world-building that I am most interested in. Wally Broecker's _How to Build a Habitable Planet_ is my idea of a great SF novel ... although he wrote it to be a college textbook.

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a gothic coup?

look, I get that some people love gothic cathedrals, and some people love their chickens, but that's an awful lot of trouble to go to for some chickens ...

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well, oilbirds roost in caves, they echolocate (like bats, but not as precise), and as they feed on oil-palm fruits and tropical laurels, they are so oil-rich they are flammable, especially when young. And there are historical accounts of cave explorers using them as torches.

@futurebird potentially related to the big deal bigfooters always make about the stink of bigfoot. If bigfoot didn't stink anymore, they'd be extinct and thus a ghost.

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the really weird part, is that Potoos belong to a group of birds that contains several other nocturnal bird families - the nightjars, the frogmouths, the owlet-nightjars, and the oilbird ... and swifts and hummingbirds. As a bonus, the swifts and hummingbirds are most closely related to one of the nocturnal groups, the owlet-nightjars, and deeply nested among nocturnal birds.

@futurebird wasn't there a movie in which darth vader built a robot whose entire job was being polite?

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I had a professor who would routinely say "read the FINE manual" (note emphasis).

There was a rumor that he didn't know "fine" was not the customary f-word used in that acronym, but he was always careful to emphasize "fine".

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there's probably a rule against the alcohol stove in the park, and that's what makes it taste so good.

@futurebird your brother, an unsung hero.

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I wonder if it would be more effective to get blank 45 45 90 triangles and label the hypotenuse in terms of √2 ?

Unfortunately that's probably harder.

That said - I think I've seen circle and a matched tape labeled in terms of π . A choice of radiant beauty.