marcos @ marcos @lemmy.world

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It's easy to check in Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_bulge:

The planet Earth has a rather slight equatorial bulge; its equatorial diameter is about 43 km (27 mi) greater than its polar diameter, with a difference of about 1⁄298 of the equatorial diameter.

It's not something so outwordly small that people couldn't do better, but it's better than bearing balls or a spherographic pen tip. It's way, way smaller than any deformation you will find in a game ball.

I have to say, mirroring that image improved it greatly.

Many people on lemmy has some ideology that either consider others insufferable, or is considered insufferable by most people.

That doesn't mean that you can't organize something on social media, you just need one with freedom of expression (so, no overseeing algorithm), and a clique of people capable of organizing themselves. It may even be possible to get that here.

Well, some times Ukraine is on the way.

Oh, let's be fair here...

He had to hire a guy to count lots and lots of steps too.

Unless you go in an advanced metrology laboratory, or look at Jupiter with a telescope, it's the most spherical object you will ever see.

Well, when that finally happens the car will be fine, far away from Earth.

That "most likely no one is bothered" part is correct, though.

Mint fixes a lot of the problems with Ubuntu.

It will still break given enough time. But in my experience, it mostly works when recently installed. (I still don't use it, but it's better.)

Linux is clearly inferior to Linux. Have you tried Linux? It beats Linux in every single dimension!

Honestly, it has been working perfectly fine to me for a couple of decades. With games and everything. But that's not the same Linux that everybody uses. Each person that installs it lives in a different universe from everybody else.

But anyway, if we could just stop the Ubuntu propaganda and avoid people starting with that piece of shit, a lot of the problems would disappear.

I dunno. I imagine he would be just as much pro-rebellion.

If they are Perl regexes, like all regexes are supposed to be, you can have non-semantic whitespace and comments.

But if you are using some system that enforces something different, you are out of luck.

If you eat only a couple of crumbs, that checks out. The OP didn't say how much of bread he's eating.

I always though it was amusing that many communities would only let new users post if they already had enough upvoted posts...

If you do it sitewise, you end up with the modern Stack Overflow!

Refuse the call for once. Keeping it ringing won't help you in any way.

And add the number to some kind of "refuse" list for the time you don't want to receive the calls.

Most of the energy does not come from fusion.

The majority of the energy comes from nuclear fission

Yes, from an extremely inefficient fission reaction that can be improved by an order of magnitude by doing it slowly in a reactor.

who will keep the shipping lanes free of piracy?

You know the US isn't patrolling the shipping lanes they don't use right?

Also, no, they never managed to keep the shipping lanes free of piracy.

Of course. The name written on the map is what was keeping that huge inflation there on the US at 2%/y.

You either spend a truckload of resources during decades to make a bomb that explodes releasing the same energy humanity spends in two months, or you spend a truckload of resources doing the end task at a slower pace for decades.

The later is guaranteed to require a smaller truckload.