BGA, like in the photo, isn’t the only option. There are options only slightly larger with hand-solderable packages (if you’re good at soldering)

How did you calculate that? The question didn’t even mention a specific speed, just “near the speed of light”.

The kinetic energy for a grain of sand near the speed of light is somewhere between “quite a lot” and “literally infinity” (which is, in a sense, the reason you can’t actually reach light speed without a way to supply infinite energy).

It was pointed out to me a while back that the paradox of tolerance is only a paradox if you consider tolerance to be a philosophical position.

In fact, we don’t treat it like that. We treat it as a social contract, in which context it is no paradox at all to say that if you aren’t tolerant then other people aren’t obliged to tolerate you in turn

I bet he’d quickly become less busy if he was the supreme commander of the US armed forces

For once, I don’t think that particular charge is entirely inconsistent with the dictionary definition.

He’s accused of killing a member of the public in the hope of frightening everyone else in that person’s position into taking some kind of action.

I think the law says something about killing for a “political purpose”, with the goal of changing some kind of public policy or behaviour. That’s not an unreasonable interpretation of what happened, I think.

Unfortunately that means they get to use the laws which were written to deal with mass murder and bombing public spaces, which I don’t think is particularly appropriate but doesn’t seem out of line with the law

The ISS has enough spacecraft docked to take everyone home at a moments notice, always. Nobody needs to launch anything.

They broke that rule briefly when the Boeing capsule was deemed unfit for use, but they quickly fixed that.

In principle, yes. It depends on your Linux distribution though, I’m not familiar with the one you’re using

It’s asking for the ability to take screenshots, which is definitely suspicious unless there’s an in-app screenshot feature, and for the ability to launch discord and interact with it. The thing is it’ll be interacting using your discord account, I expect. That means it’ll be able to see your conversations and all the servers you’re in. It’ll also be able to post as you. Again, that’s the sort of thing which is very suspicious unless there’s some way in the app to have conversations over discord for some reason (maybe a bug report button, or a social feature).

Basically, I’d consider both of these alarming but not necessarily evidence that they’re spying on you to collect personal data or training data for an AI

I’ve heard it’s actually really difficult, because a good translator doesn’t do it literally.

They’re supposed to say something which gets the same meaning across, which often isnt what you’d get just by translating each word.

That leaves people translating trump with a problem: you can’t generally turn his long rambling speeches into something with a clearly understandable meaning without putting words into his mouth, or summarising so aggressively that you’d only say a couple of sentences for every few minutes of speech

Technically, perhaps, but it’s far less likely.

It’s also possible to be run over even if you’re following the rules and being careful, but that doesn’t make safe behaviour around roads irrelevant

I disagree. It’s perfectly possible to hold an internally consistent view that it’s wrong to execute a prisoner, both because there’s no reason to do so (the prisoner already being imprisoned) and because courts get the decision wrong too often (and/or because the courts aren’t trustworthy), while also believing that it’s acceptable to kill under other circumstances

The vast majority of people celebrating the death of the United Healthcare CEO would have been perfectly happy with him being stripped of power and imprisoned, but that wasn’t ever an option so the only thing available is death. There’s also some evidence that his death has actually made a difference, in the form of other health insurance companies chickening out of unethical policy changes.

In the case of these prisoners, they’re already safely behind bars. It’s also, broadly speaking, much more likely that they aren’t guilty of what they’ve been convicted of (although I don’t know anything about these particular cases). We also have evidence that the death penalty doesn’t have the effect on crime rates which proponents claim it does, so it’s different in a whole bunch of ways

You understand that they were at war for a long time before they managed to sweep Assad and his forces away, right?

The final sudden advance may have come virtually overnight, but they’ve been fighting since the Arab spring in 2011

Stories about events we can identify in the archeological record, probably. Forest fires, major battles, geological events, things like that which can be used to line the stories up with specific real-world events

Thanks. I think I have some history of art to read before I understand much of that, but I know where to start now :)

I’ve been seeing these comics for a while now, but I still feel very out of the loop.

WTF am I reading?

Do you imagine that everyone posting things like this just hasn’t thought it through, or that they believe killing that CEO will save any specific person?

If so, I think you’ve misunderstood something quite fundamental. The overwhelming majority who are celebrating this assassination are doing so because they hate that CEO and everything he stood for.

You don’t get to brush them off as idiots for failing to realise something you consider obvious when you’re the one who seems to be missing the point.

Beside which, if you interpret this business with the other insurer suddenly cancelling their plans to limit what they’ll pay for anesthesia as suddenly fear of reprisal then this assassination will absolutely save lives in the long run, and save others from life-long financial ruin

I’m not specifically saying that this particular case isn’t murder, but if the quote we’re all responding to is accurate then there’s explicitly a way it could be considered “not murder”. I know absolutely nothing about the relevant law, but legal definitions not quite matching common sense definitions is the case more often than not, I think

On the colloquial sense, sure, but it’s entirely possible (and would be hilarious) for the legal definition not to agree

Theoretically it also requires any company which is subject to GDPR not to send any data to third parties who aren’t, but I honestly don’t know how well enforced that is