On a tidally locked planet the polar region is effectively the terminator line. There is also a greatly reduced Coriolis effect due to the very slow rotation. The insolation of the day side is a lot higher as mentioned in the article and is continuous rather than intermittent. All of that would lead to increased convection. Imagine the difference between a kettle being heated on a burner vs a kettle being heated by a blowtorch that rotates around it. The behaviour of the fluid in each will be quite different. Not a perfect model by any stretch of the imagination but maybe more intuitive.
IMHO, with kettles as you described variability of temperatures with rotating blowtorch will be lower. I don't think convection will be much different between two cases.
I like this a lot. We need more hard records of personal correspondence. It would be cool to do this as a service.
Honestly when I read the title I thought it was going to be about using message history as a basis for generating a narrative account of the events using an LLM.
One of the great disadvantages of private emails (& texts) is the massive amount of correspondence that is lost to future historians. I have books of letters published by Feynmann, Feyeraband, Einstein, etc. Everything is now email that is behind a password, which means we'll likely never have troves of personal letters from which to contextualize modern people who become historical figures in the future.
I love it as art, but it's usefulness is questionable. If you want a hard copy, just copy it to a microsd. Or three if you are worried about losing it.
> I love it as art, but it's usefulness is questionable. If you want a hard copy, just copy it to a microsd. Or three if you are worried about losing it.
Hard copy means paper. Also microsd is a terrible for long term storage.
Flash memory relies on cells keeping charged, but the electrons can slowly leak and discharge the cells over time. It looks like the commonly claimed number is 10 years, but there's no clear answer. Hard drives also aren't great as a "set and forget" method. In either case you should refresh the data regularly (~yearly). Optical media is a great option for digital long-term storage, but paper is a very tried-and-true method, if stored in the right conditions.
Get a tape backup system and be happy. I rotate three tapes between offsite, my safe, and an active one in the tape drive. Don’t overthink “offsite”, your work office is good enough. Or your parents house. Or your neighbor on the other side of the neighborhood.
Or backup once and throw the tape in the back of the closet. At least you can restore the magnetic backup. I would not be happy with the error rate of transcribing data from paper :-)
"Hard copy" means "a collection of paper sheets bound in some fashion" in the context of books. So they probably didn't mean it in a way where microSD is equivalent.
With the EU's DMA law and the preceding GDPR, some services have to offer an API so that your hypothetical service can pull this data. However, iMessage was notably excluded from this law, and then there's the encryption thing where you can't just pull data from e.g. whatsapp.
The point is to not be some random person you’ve never seen before suddenly talking to you. You don’t start out talking to every person that walks through the door. First you have to establish yourself as “that person who’s always here on Tuesday at lunch”. You don’t do anything other than make eye contact and smile. If someone you see regularly seems friendly and has established a habit of smiling back or nodding when you do then make a point to talk to them if you find yourself standing in line with them or sitting near each other. Just comment on something ordinary like the weather or some nonpolitical event in the news. If you don’t strike up a conversation then don’t force it but be aware of their body language and if they seem comfortable with the interaction then do the same thing the next day you run into them. After a couple interactions you can make a point to say hi to them when you see them next and ask how they are if they don’t seem busy or in a rush. Eventually you’ll strike up a proper conversation and you can introduce yourself by name. After that it’s just a matter of saying hello and asking about the things they express interest in and finding things in common.
It sounds really weird to write it all out but this is just how it works. Familiarity leads to social interaction and you need to be consistent about it if you don’t want it to peter out.
It should also be said that if someone is not comfortable with any stage of this then it’s best to leave them be.
That’s still a shortsighted view, regardless of human activity or presence other species will continuously go extinct including mass extinctions. That’s the entire history of life, evolution and extinction. The only way to intentionally prevent extinctions is with human intervention but humanity has to be around and technologically advanced and rich enough to do such things. It’s one of those put your own oxygen mask on first situations.
He uses a few sentences to describe them but he says that he sees them as pictures on a calendar which he navigates as though he is standing on it, which is a key aspect because he is making use of the method of loci[0]. He then uses those images to start remembering the event pictured in them along with all the other sensations.
Can anyone explain in simple terms what the actual harm would be of allowing everyone to generate images with whatever racial composition they desired? If you can specify the skin colour one way you can do it the other ways as well and instead of everyone being upset at having this forced down our throats we’d probably all be liking pictures of interesting concepts like what if Native Americans were the first to land on the moon or what if America was colonized by African nations and all the founding fathers were black. No one opposes these concepts, people just hate having it arbitrarily forced on them.
