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Except wolfram alpha is able to correctly explain step by step solutions. Which was an aid in my education.

Just draw the triangle the other way for DD/MM/YYYY. It makes sense that people want to know the day first, that is the most important part tbh

That would be highly unusual

The effort required to keep increasing resistors in a chip is just too high at some point. And the power required to run all the chips is becoming unsustainable. Besides that, hardware companies are way over valued if you look at earnings / market cap

Pretty creative problem solving!

Nice bonus that the hole you needed to drill was sized similarly to the central hole for the bar.

Sometimes making things is not about the most fancy stuff, just making something fit for your purpose can be great too.

That’s only really true if your salary would grow at the rate of inflation. Which is definitely not the case.

Cern has produced quite some interesting systems for software and data management. I am sure the added value of the work is beyond just understanding particles.

Its a mass produced bearing type. Most likely the cheapest option for both devices. Optimizing a bearing for a gerbil wheel seems like the real overengineering in my opinion.

In Dutch: ant football

My understanding is that in a true vacuum light will not be reflected or bent by particles. However, due to gravity bending space time itself, light will follow the curvature of space. It would depend on the observer if the path if light is straight. If you look at the light passing by, it would not be straight under influence of gravity. If light itself is the observer, it will travel in a straight line :)

In the case of gravitational lensing the observer is looking at light coming in. An outside perspective.

Reminds me of the joker from Christofer Nolan’s Batman. If things go according to plan, nobody cares. Even if its clearly fake, keeping up the resemblance of a working system raises less concerned citizens.

The true power of any country always lies with the people. For example, every previous chinese dynasty ended due to civilian uprising.

Well, chances are pretty low. There is not so much out there except the oord cloud. Even if something does hit, it would only punch a hole in the craft. Most of if would continue on.