Tesla is not claiming that FSD is Autonomous FSD, so FSD doesn't mean what the average Joe thinks it means.

Twenty thousand years ago, the place where the Great Barrier Reef is located was above sea level. So the Great Barrier Reef is fairly recent in terms of the earth's history.

Obviously it would be better if the reef was not threatened, but I wouldn't be surprised if it creeps southwards. It might die off at the north end, and extend itself at the south end, in response to changing temperatures.

Reefs form quickly around scuttled ships or sunken tires, if they are at the right depth and with the right currents.

Fortunately, there are app stores. On my Android phone I have a text editor app called Ted, which meets my needs nicely. There's no reason why a text editor should be be pre-installed on each phone.

Yes, I got that completely wrong. Sorry about that! I don't know what I was thinking.

And thanks to those who replied in order to correct my unintentional misinformation.

The article conveniently ignores Python, a 100% tabbed language.

Airships of the past were much bigger. The Hindenberg was 803 feet long (245 meters), more than twice the length of this midget.

From any Google search results page, click "Search Tools", "All Results", "Verbatim".

Larry Page says to Sergey Brin: "Hey Sergey, did you know that Orkut has ten million Brazillian users?"

Sergey looks puzzled, then says "Larry, remind me again how many is a brazillion..."

A bitcoin is a unit of measurement. It's no more meaningful to ask what a bitcoin looks like than to ask what a centimeter (or an inch) looks like.

The global shared ledger of the Bitcoin system, the "block chain", holds transactions. Each transaction contains inputs and outputs. All inputs must be valid outputs of a previous transaction. Inputs and outputs have a size specified in bitcoins (with the base unit being 0.00000001 bitcoin, also known as a "satoshi"). All outputs are labelled with a bitcoin receiving address, which is the hash of a public key. The receiving address was generated by the holder of the corresponding private key, who can spend the corresponding output as the input to a new transaction.

A miner collects unprocessed transactions and attempts to get them accepted into the block chain. By consensus (enforced through software), each block is accepted if accompanied by a valid hash whose value is less than a certain limit. Miners compete against each other to be first to find a suitable hash for a new block, because each block is allowed to include a reward for the miner. The reward is a freshly minted output.

The consensus (enforced through software) is that the block reward halves approximately every 4 years, such that the total bitcoins issued will asymptotically approach a fixed maximum of 21 million. Currently the reward is 25 bitcoins per block.

The threshold for a valid hash adjusts approximately every 10 days to ensure that new blocks are produced approximately every ten minutes. This is expressed as the "difficulty factor", and will rise as more hashing power joins the network.

You are right of course, and I stand corrected. The universe is seriously big!

Diameter of the observable universe is 10e26 meters.
Planck length is just over 10e-35 meters.

Therefore, 61 bits per dimension is enough to represent everything we can see. Add a few bits for various flags, and it fits nicely into a 64 bit register.

They were amazing times. I remember having my mind blown by a demonstration of the Apple Lisa in 1983.

In this video, when they show the Paint program, listen to the gasps of wondrous amazement when the "eraser" tool is demonstrated.

An easy way to get bitcoins is to sell your second-hand stuff for bitcoins at http://bitmit.net/

When will Wikipedia accept Bitcoin donations?

When I was in my teens, I was watching a circus. Between every act, a cleaner with a broom and a garbage bag would clear any detritus from the ring.

After a few acts, I clapped this guy, just for a laugh. To my surprise, everyone else joined in. From that point on, until the end of the show, the cleaner got rapturous applause every time!