Sure, but doesn’t the outer surface diffusing apply to the friction of water against a submarine’s hull too? No clue about theoretical quantum bubbles, but it doesn’t seem like anything that would affect spaceships in particular.

We’ve got base 64, though it doesn’t quite follow the convention of starting with digits and following up with letters:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64

Tommy Tallarico must be devastated

Do Italian professors know their students’ names? Over here, two countries to the North, no professor knows anything about their students.

Accordingly, universities in continental Europe usually translate “informatics” as computer science, or sometimes information and computer science, although technical universities may translate it as computer science & engineering.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatics

That’s why informatics is by far the superior term. Computer science is such a boring terms anyways, you don’t call maths “number science”, biology "living beings science " or chemistry “atoms science” either.

IEEE 754 floating point numbers have a signed bit at the front, causing +0 and -0 to exist.

Placebos work even when you knows it’s a placebo though. Pointing out something is a placebo is important because many are at best overpriced scams (homeopathy) and at worst actively harmful (chiropracty). The culture behind many placebos is also rife with pseudoscience and advocates against seeking out genuine care, so you should ensure nobody gets invested into placebos past a certain point.

One can make an informed decision regarding taking placebos if and only if one knows it’s a placebo, else one will be scammed and/or harmed.

It means your translation is wrong

They are saying they’d rather be Bernd das Brot, a German cartoon character:

Just look how happy he is!

I will only ever give you nilpotent matrices

Germany isn’t any better though, in fact, Germany has even more restrictive and absurd copyright law than the US.

Here:

The manufacture, import, distribution, sale, rental, advertising with a view to sale or rental and the possession for commercial purposes of devices, products or components as well as the provision of services which:

1. are the subject of promotion, advertising or marketing with the aim of circumventing effective technological measures, or
2. have only a limited economic purpose or benefit other than the circumvention of effective technological measures, or
3. are primarily designed, manufactured, adapted or provided for the purpose of enabling or facilitating the circumvention of effective technological measures. \

is prohibited.

And I’m certain that Nintendo will choose the correct court to argue any modern emulator is violating this to sue in. After all, one court in particular is notorious for ignoring all reason when it comes to copyright. For instance, it ruled that you are violating copyright for publishing photos of your home if your walls have a photo wallpaper. After all, making and posting an image of the copyrighted design of the wallpaper on your website, even if the wallpaper is just in the background, constitutes an illegal copy.

He’s not wrong though.

But wait… wasn’t he silent during the Holocaust as well? Oh no… Ben Gvir is antisemitic :(

Yeah, it’s just the triangle inequality.

across the US

Ah, that explains it. Over here in Germany, presumably the entirety of the EU and likelu most of the world this is not allowed:

Any business offering goods or services to consumers or advertising goods or services to consumers by stating prices must state the total prices.

§ 3 (1), PAngV

Of course, this isn’t nearly detailed enough. That’s why, for restaurants etc. the following applies:

The price lists must either be clearly legible at the time of the offer, displayed on tables or presented to each guest before orders are taken and upon request when the order is settled. A price list showing the prices of the main food and drink on offer must be displayed next to the entrance to the restaurant. If the restaurant is part of another establishment, it is sufficient to display the price list at the entrance to the restaurant section.

§ 13 (2), PAngV

Just listing the menu with “market price” would violate both these paragraphs. The following exists as well:

The prices listed in the price lists in accordance with sections 1 to 3 must include the service charge and all other surcharges.

§ 13 (5), PAngV

Israel has been bombing Iranian targets outside of Iran for a while though. It’s largely the reason they try to keep positive relations with Russia - to be able to continue bombing Russia aligned nations: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/us/politics/pegasus-israel-ukraine-russia.html

It’s “just” a continuation of the Israel-Iran proxy war which has been going on for some time. I don’t think this is a meaningful, if any escalation.

Not really, wages make up a large portion of military expenditure and I don’t think there are major differences between the individual “strength” of a soldier/engineer/whatever.

Also RCS which I am basically obligated to mention

A sprint in agile software development is simply a relatively short time period (a few days to a month) in which a set amount of work is supposed to be finished.

You’re probably referring to a ‘crunch’, although the overtime is (supposed to be) paid.

Honestly? As terrible as it sounds, it can be almost arbitrarily high if you look at the Geneva convention.

For example, a hospital can be targeted after nothing more than a warning if the hospital isn’t used for humanitarian purposes only. There is no minimum duration specified between the warning and the attack.

Not that the Geneva conventions are a guide for morality. They solely limit the maximum of cruelty during war.