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So? You are not drinking crude oil, yet you are not (I presume) reluctant to drink from a cup made from crude oil? Most plastics (although not all) are made from crude oil.
Anyway: My response was aimed at your "I have no idea what you're talking about". I tried to explain what I was talking about. I wanted to point out that even though you, as I understand it, are reluctant to drink from a "sperm cup", in other cuisines, eating fried fish sperm is perfectly OK. So why wouldn't we drink from a cup made from "melke" as a raw material? Anyone who has seen "melke" from fish will know that to make a cup, it must has been subject to heavy processing, similar to the processing of crude oil into a plastic cup.
(And, I'd be happy if anyone can tell me the English term for "melke" - if there is one. It refers not the individual sperm, but to the entire sack of not yet spawn sperm as a whole.)
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In this context, I think melke is milt in English.
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Thanks a lot.
But be cautious of "false friends": "Milt" is a Norwegian word as well, referring to the organ called spleen in English. Translating "milt" to "milt" could cause some problems.
Google Translate has the bad property of presenting the source word when it can't find a translation, with no indication that it is untranslated, so it suggests that "milt" (English) translates to "milt" in Norwegian! If you pull down the list of alternatives, GT presents "melke" as a second alternative, but you won't see it unless you get suspicious and look for alternatives. (GT won't do the translation the other way around.)
Now that you know the term, may I ask: Do you also know milt as something edible?
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I've also noticed that problem with Google Translate. And no, I never thought of milt as something edible.
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Over the last few months, Microsoft appears to have become pretty desperate in trying to make people use its Edge browser more regularly. "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means"
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Nearly 3bn people, or 37% of global population, have never been online despite rise in use during pandemic When told about Twitter, Facebook, and Elon Musk, a remote tribesman heard to say, "Glad I'm missing that"
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Lucky them.
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Mozilla has addressed a critical memory corruption vulnerability affecting its cross-platform Network Security Services (NSS) set of cryptography libraries. Beware of hackers with big signatures
That John Hancock fellow is a prime candidate.
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When developers lie awake at night, they’re likely not thinking that they didn’t turn around enough tickets that day, or write a certain number of lines of code. kLoC/fortnight?
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Forget "simple". I don't even think it's possible in any quantitative sense. At best it would be qualitative, and much like trying to define pr0n: I'll know it when I see it.
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Greg Utas wrote: I'll know it when I see it. For many years, I honestly believed that what this Potter Stewart said, was "I'll recognize it when I see it".
It is a pity that he didn't phrase it that way, considering the double meaning of "recognize".
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Maybe the original quote did use recognize. I don't know.
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Greg Utas wrote: I'll know it when I see it.
trønderen wrote: the double meaning of "recognize".
"know" in this context also has a double meaning... :evil grin:
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Microsoft, Linux Foundation-backed QIR has a chance to make QC source code portable across different systems Maybe make one quantum computer before you're worried about cross-compilation?
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Or it will be a chicken-and-egg problem, because the cross-compiler will need to run on a quantum computer.
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Climate models are usually run on supercomputers. But Amazon has donated cloud computing time to run a model—with a twist. Stack up all the empty Amazon delivery boxes to block the sun?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Stack up all the empty Amazon delivery boxes to block the sun?
Shooting them into LEO would probably do a better job, as long as you can ignore the astronomers' complaints...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I thought all the smoke stacks from coal powered plants were already doing that? We clean that up, and now the sun is too bright?
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Send the politicians up into space. Oh wait, that'll just add to the solar radiation, but certainly not the brightness.
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What could possibly go wrong? When I was in high school, the Chicken Littles and World Improvers were warning that an ice age might be imminent. What if things head in that direction?
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Get Jeff to build a large disc to block out the sun[^], so that everybody has to buy electricity from his nuclear power plant?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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More than 50 executives sent a letter to Congressional leadership Wednesday urging the passage of billions worth of subsidies for the semiconductor industry. I just bought a bag last night and they weren't that expensive. I'd have thought CEOs could afford them.
All-dressed, if you're curious
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So they are saying that our capitalist system isn't working, because the richest of our 'capitalists' aren't willing to invest it themselves?
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Capitalism no longer exists except in black markets.
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Yeah, I probably should have put a sarcasm tag on that. People paying higher taxes just so the rich can get richer without any financial danger to themselves is getting very old. I sure hope our representatives tell them to go stuff themselves, but I doubt they will.
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