The article offers some kind of explanation which may or may not answer your question.

I’m not sure what you mean by pattern based.

It’s a cube, where the sides can be rotated. It’s not possible to move a single piece without also moving other pieces, so you’ll need to apply algorithms in order to solve it. An algorithm is a series of moves that does something. You can use these to manipulate the cube back to the sorted state.

Despite YouTubers attempting to get clicks for showing how to solve it easily, there’s is no single algorithm that will always end up with a solved cube. You will need to observe the cube to determine which algorithm to use and how many times.

It’s not super difficult to learn though.

It’s however very difficult to figure out yourself without memorizing the seemingly random algorithms. The inventor once said it would probably have taken him months to figure out, but someone else best him to it and showed him how, so there’s really no shame in looking up the solution.

The vote goes to himself. No need for an online detour.

So my take is that the rich rebuild faster and then it burns again, while a poor mans hone only burns once. And also rich people do more insurance fraud, because it requires something worth insuring in the first place.

Don’t act like Trump’s illegal tarriffs and friendship with (subservience to) Putin are the norm.

It has very obviously been the norm for the last decade.

I don’t know how you can keep pretending it’s not.

You forget the important part: What color is the mouse? Which bathroom does it use?

And all your water, please.

I don’t a lot. Just all of it.

I’d choose kangaroo over single mother any day.

Because of the pouch.

the article doesn’t even mention what other choices the babies had.

I agree on your distinction. However, I don’t think that revenge-raping a rapist does any good to anyone or redeem any of the wrong doing. It only creates another rapist.

Punishment should be something that benefits the victims or society.

I paid my share by sharing.

Pro was not, but the earlier versions were technically crippleware. It was distributed freely with magazines and what not. There was no actual cripple though.

Back on in 2003 Adobe bought the freeware software called CoolEdit 2.0 and republished it as a paid product as Adobe Audition without changing a god damn thing.

CoolEdit was too good to be true. It’s only fair that the developers got paid, but I just wish they didn’t have to sell out to Adobe of all companies.

I hope this 2026 version of Audacity will finally be on level with what we had for free in year 2000.

Audacity is like a tape recording studio. It doesn’t support midi programming and VSTi as far as I know.

Everything is a DAW if you’re brave enough, and there’s no strict definition, but for something to be a full DAW, it should have both recording and virtual instruments IMO.

As of now, there’s very few free ones that does both and Reaper beats all of them as the cheapest paid option. However Reaper doesn’t do everything. Some paid DAWs still have features that Reaper doesn’t.

It already was unsafe for aircraft from most countries anyway. This is just a kind warning for Russia and China who still flies there. It’ll be interesting to see what China does. It was only yesterday that someone here wrote how he preferred the Chinese airlines because they flew the fast route over Russia. Guess you need to reconsider that.

Crowbar stocks is on the rise.

Take heat from homes

That’s the tricky part.

This sand battery works by offsetting the production of heat to be used in an already existing district heating system.

That system does not easily change into a district cooling system. It is simply not built to run in reverse. Every part of it from production through distribution, exchanging and in-house distribution are made with one purpose: To transfer heat in one direction.

It makes sense to use renewable energy to charge this battery, so they don’t need as much fossil fuel or whatever they use normally.

But, if we were to make a district wide hvac-system the same way, it would probably be better and more efficient to simply use individual airconditioners using the renewable energy directly.

I think AI could have a good tool for specific purposes and also a very lucrative business if only they had not thrown all that money at it.

The extreme investments forced them to roll it out prematurely over a much larger market that it could ever supply in a meaningful way.

They’re trying to force a camel through the eye of a needle.

I think fertilizer production is one of those things where we already have a solution that works on renewable energy, but it’s more expensive than the conventional methods.

It basically boils down (pun intended) to pressure cooking organic materials. This requires a lot of energy. In my opinion it would make sense to decentralize the production and make it smaller and closer to the also decentralized sources of renewable energy.

About 50% of the price of conventional fertilizer comes from the transportation anyway, so it would make a lot of sense to make it closer to where it’s needed. This is not economically feasible with the conventional production though.

I wonder how long it would take to rebuild society without oil, if we were to cut it from one day to the next.

I don’t think it would be long. Lots of solutions already exist but are infeasible only because oil is cheaper.