Why would you make it harder than it is?

libre office and you got an open source Office suite

I believe that’s very regional, if there’s a local hiking club you could try to reach out to them.

There’s often forums dedicated to hiking, which have all sorts of hikes mapped out.

But a map service like mapy.com (formerly .cz), has the official marked routes as part of their mapping data

And best of all, it’s based on an American average

Gravity walking is the missing link, lift your foot and let gravity pull it down. You’ll be going down almost running and it takes barely any energy.

It’s best in places without other humans, as you’re basically a locomotive and it takes time to slow down

Only ISBN’d books, so anything earlier than 1965 is currently not requested by them

Now we just need to proof they’ve copied the files onto a second hard drive, so they own two copies

If we’re gonna keep it as a copyright issue, I think people are mostly mad they’re not able to reprint the books themselves if they wanted to. We’re not speaking from a copyright position

The incentive is literally that it’s cheaper to scan, that’s all.

But given they’re only interested in books with ISBN’s, I recon they’re already scanned and available in digital forms. If they’re newer than the 80s, they’re most likely in a document file in a server related to the publisher.

Honestly surprised they’d rather source physical books, than just request various publishers for a price for their combined works - Only reason I can think of, is the physical scan makes other scans like a mobile photo easier to recognise and respond correctly to

If a big company needed a lot of something specific, they’d probably pay a pretty penny and let people going to small lot auctions accumulate a sizeable amount and then buy it from them.

It’s not impossible to buy stuff from small lots at scale, as long as you’re willing to pay a premium

They’re way more negative in regards to AI on Lemmy than they are on Reddit

I think the reason is as simple as flamboyant outfits being easily available.

Two hundred years ago, a flamboyant outfit indicated you did minimum manual work. As that’d destroy the drip, and it was also quite expensive. While commoners would wear often brown/grey work outfits.

It’s the same reasons for why it used to be in to be white/pale, as that indicated you’d stay inside all day rather than working the fields. Now it’s in to be tan, as that indicates you’re able to sunbath rather than work in an office all day long

A summer cape, a pair of undies and nothing else?

Rocket launch, Twitter and xAI is roughly a zero valuation.

Starlink the worlds fastest growing ISP, while having an enormous profit margin is the bread and butter. From a serious perspective, also what you should aim the valuation for.

Did their IPO launch at a fair valuation? Hell nah

Do you get dry or how do you feel the pain?

Normal is between once a month to multiple times a day.

For males there’s some health benefits related to unloading the balls twice a week, reduced risk of prostate cancer. I’m not aware of studies focused on the topic for females, so that’s more of unknown ground today

because the AI industry is “building AI-agent integrations into production infrastructure faster than it’s building the safety architecture to make those integrations safe”.

How dense are some people? No they don’t build integrations to your prod environment, you hand them the access willynilly. I was in an AI related greenfield project 2 years ago, there’s several reasons why communication with our db happened through an API. The primary one, control.

Statistically speaking, then immigrants and refugees, commit more crimes.

It’s not so much the first generation (the immigrants/refugees themselves) but second and third generation growing up in the country of destination, well and often origin for 2nd/3rd.

Even when factoring for socioeconomic factors, they’re over represented statistically speaking. But it’s still missing a lot of factors.

There’s more reported crime in areas with closer population density, most immigrants aim for the big cities; As they’re often more diverse and have better job opportunities, but they’re often ending up in below median pay jobs. Combined with living in the most expensive areas, they often end up living in some of the roughest neighbourhoods of the big cities.

While a lot of the poor people among the natives tend to live in rural locations, which sees less reported crimes and tends to have no/few turf wars.

Looking at immigrant workers going to Europe during the worker shortage of the 70s, lots of Turks and Persian folks migrated for jobs and a lot of new cheap housing were built at the edges of city centers. These areas full of people not speaking the native tongue, under median pay. Was the perfect storm to ensure slower than wanted immigration/assimilation - Ideally you’d want to spread migration across the entire country, so Ibrahim, Jiao, Radoslaw, Brian and whatever else their names are would immediately interact with natives from day 1.

Which is exactly what several countries did for Ukrainian refugees, we have examples of countries paying their citizens to house them in their homes and the results are obvious. It worked really well. Although we still have to wait another decade, before we can spot whether or not their children still end up in crime statistics.

There also tends to be rules that disfavours non citizens, an example from Denmark is the fact you can be forced to live with your parents until you’re 21 if you’re a non EU citizen. Even though you were born here, went through the Danish school system aced high school and the likes. You might be forced to stay at home, rendering university impossible for a subset of bright people for a few years of life.

These systematic rules, is something that will turn people against the system and is also a part of the explanation

Flushing may present a new issue after the fact, but I can’t see a way around flushing

There is one, embrace the sink. Become a sink pisser, it’s just like a pissoir which you wash your hands and face in!

It’s the green guy from monsters inc

They’re probably just annotating within a common topic and in a language which is easy to find cheap workers within.

If you’re easily replaceable, they’ll use people from the third world for the job