Error correction helps a scanner account for portions of the code being obscured/unreadable, whereas a bad background can make a code not even recognizable as a code in the first place. (depending on the algorithm used, how bad it is, yadda yadda)

The COFA states are very strongly aligned with the US and pretty much always vote with them. I don’t know much about, say, Tonga, but I’m guessing it’s a way of signaling cooperation to the US as well.

The resolution has declaratory power only but provides international backing to those countries that want to take additional steps against Israel.

Actually, those benches are kinda uncomfortable. Still a nice rest after you’ve been walking for a couple hours, but not suitable for anything else.

Source: grew up going to the Columbus Zoo

Apparently it ended up being 12. You can look them up here:

• Don Bacon, Nebraska
• Brian Fitzpatrick, Pennsylvania
• Andy Harris, Maryland
• Jaime Herrula Beutler, Washington
• Richard Hudson, North Carolina
• John Kakto, New York
• Nicole Malliotakis, New York
• Daniel Meuser, Pennsylvania
• Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Iowa
• Bill Posey, Florida
• Christopher H. Smith, New Jersey
• Frederick Stephen Upton, Michigan

This is from 2022. It’s worth noting that in this vote it was bundled with a Marijuana decriminalization bill, which is probably why the Republicans voted against it.

Git is not a blockchain. Most importantly, it’s not distributed. There’s a singular git server that all git clients for that repository connect to and use as a source of truth.

No, it’s a status symbol. iPhone users look down upon the green bubbles, or so they say.

LLM is a form of AI, specifically the text AIs like ChatGPT that have suddenly made “AI” a dinner table term. AI in some form or another is almost definitely being used in your device - even for things like filling in gaps in low-quality voice calls, and probably has been for a while. But the problem is that unlike those “old” AIs, LLMs require some significant power to run, so running them on phones will probably require meaningful trade-offs. But the increased security is also a meaningful benefit.

I think they mean gamesindustry.biz

Where did you read that? I can bet it wasn’t the TOS, because that’s not in there. The TOS allows Adobe to review anything you create with its products using manual or automated means, and maybe restricted to normal screening for CSAM and such (although it’s really ambiguous about what they’ll actually do with it).

On Windows, it’s easy! Unfortunately, on Linux, as far as I know, you currently have to use a non-standard client.

You can actually use Zstandard as your codec for 7z to get the benefits of better compression and a modern archive format! Downside is it’s not a default codec so when someone else tries to open it they may be confused by it not working.

It’s really not though? The Chinese government has a 1% stake in ByteDance. Meanwhile ~60% is foreign investors – believed to be mostly American.

On the other hand, spontaneous generation was very much still a thing at this point, so a lot of the basic rules of the world around us were really not worked out yet

The difficulty of sending patches or reporting issues to the Linux kernel is a feature for them, as it keeps less-experienced devs from wasting maintainer’s time with garbage requests. For most projects it’s a bug.

This isn’t KYC, it’s “prove you’re a human”.

Then why are 2012 and 2016 included? It’s extremely confusing to have a line graph over time where intervals of time are missing, even if you clearly call attention to it, which they don’t here.

Which comes out to about 1/7 of a person in that room being shot per year.

Likely only Reddit can say. I don’t think Reddit was ever trying to make money off Community Points directly (in contrast to their NFTs), but rather to boost engagement. Whether or not it did, and by enough to offset the costs of starting and maintaining the system, we’ll likely never know.