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  1. ..I used translator and still have no idea what you said to me.. Google Translator did not know how to convert from "Tamarian Language".. yet.. The thing with my neighborhood saleswoman is that she claims that even if she gets many millions in the lottery, she will still work in a grocery store.. which I highly doubt..
  2. Sorry. I don't understand. How government knows (and can count, and share online) who is "actively seeking for work" if people don't register at their office.. ? Didn't read about US officials ability to mind reading.. so.. ps. In the North Korea, I guess, there is very little unemployment rate.. Let's see: https://www.google.com/search?q=north+korea+unemployment+rate "Unemployment refers to the share of the labor force that is without work but available for and seeking employment. North Korea unemployment rate for 2021 was 2.59%, a 0.33% decline from 2020. North Korea unemployment rate for 2020 was 2.92%, a 0.33% increase from 2019." Do you believe these data? How come they have issues with foods? Or it's US propaganda against NK (and they are full of happiness) ? In Western countries during the medieval period, it was customary to place homeless people in prisons.. I said it pretty clear - it is easier to measure employment rate of the country.. i.e. how many people pay PIT every year.. ..all these unemployment rates are bull-shit worth trashes.. You start to sound like pro-politician propaganda.. regardless of the wing.. please be more objective/open to the world (i.e. your country != entire world).. Do you really believe so? Let's give them $1 mln on the lottery and see what happens.. I joked about it with my neighborhood saleswoman at store, that if she will get millions on the lottery she will continue work at her store (she claimed so)..
  3. If wages are raised, the employer must 1) increase productivity or 2) raise the prices of the products. Which means inflation, an increase in the cost of living and reduced competitiveness in the global market. People see higher prices in stores and that their increased salary is not enough anymore, so they demand a raise and the cycle repeats itself. Meanwhile, another country with lower wages can create the same product at a lower price. In the open global market, the product is imported and sold to people who want a lower product price. That's when populist politicians step in and demand increased import tariffs to "save their hard-working fellow citizens" and "save the domestic market from countries that produce their products below the cost of production"). That is, they want to raise the price of the product for fellow citizens. Subsidies to farmers are needed to keep farms operating, otherwise they would sink. Many branches heavily dependent on workers' wages have sunk, unable to deliver product at an acceptable price to their customers. How social welfare spending has evolved over the years? Are welfare recipients counted as unemployed? How homelessness rates have changed over the years? Are homeless counted as unemployed? How have crime rates changed over the years? Are criminals counted among the unemployed? And so on, so on.. Here, if you don't go and register as unemployed, you are not counted as unemployed, but as employed. The only reason people register here is for unemployment benefits, but they are only granted for a few months (depending on how long you were previously employed). Thus, it is easy to bend the unemployment rate, as there is not just one way to calculate it.. It would be easier to count the employment rate, not the unemployment rate, because the employed pay PIT. "The unemployment rate is, for example, 5%..." What does that even mean? 5% of what? If it were 5% of the country's total population *), it would give a meaningful comparison between countries. *) in some countries children and teenagers work, in others, mainly Western countries, they do not.
  4. But that way you won't have the smell of freshly cut grass, which is nice.. I have a brilliant idea - rotating laser and mirrors on the edges of the field.. Actually, this would also work well on a regular farm if you need to quickly cut an entire flat field.. Advantages 1) quick 2) noiseless 3) jobless lawn mowers..
  5. ..it's still too early to get the lawn mower out of the garage.. Let the grass grow.. One of the most annoying things here in spring and summer is mowing the lawn. Design a quiet/soundless lawnmower and you will become a millionaire. Apart from changes in the engine etc., I was thinking about (recording and) emitting anti-sound. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_noise_control
  6. It's larvae. Photo is not sharp enough. It looks similar to biston betularia. https://www.google.com/search?q=biston+betularia https://www.google.com/search?q=peppered+moth+larvae
  7. There are just three vowels (e, i, i). There are not many words made up of consonants alone... If each row and column must have at least one vowel, they cannot have the same x and y index (which simplifies their search procedure). If one word has two vowels, then some word will have be made of just consonants..
  8. There is not just one answer.. Dunno why, Linux has built-in English word dictionary with 100k+ English words in /usr/share/dict/words (and a couple other locations). So: $ cat /usr/share/dict/words | grep -Eo [redlining]{9} | wc -l 48 $ cat /usr/share/dict/words | grep -Eo [redlining]{9} Unfortunately, this method will also include repetition of some letters.. Do you see the word wanted by you in this list?
  9. A related, similar HR question is "where do you see yourself in five years?”".. I searched the net to verify how to spell it and got this: I don't believe that people honestly answer such stupid questions.. "If I win the lottery, I will buy this company, just to fire you..."
  10. "Elon, with me on board, we will reach the sky!"..
  11. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=cube+root+of(+7%2Bsqrt(50))%2Bcube+root+of(+7-sqrt(50))
  12. Such math puzzles make little sense in the age of Wolfram Alpha. It solves them right away. An opportunity to try handmade Latex: [math]\sqrt[3]{7+\sqrt{50}}+\sqrt[3]{7-\sqrt{50}}[/math] [math]\sqrt[3]{7+\sqrt{50}}+\sqrt[3]{7-\sqrt{50}}[/math]
  13. @zapatos Ten years ago+ I bought a video camera with selfie feature and found that it didn't have a built-in timelapse feature. So I started poking around how to send commands to the camera via USB (WiFi/BT unavailable) and wrote an application for the computer that sends these commands by wire and then automatically downloads the photo and deletes it from the camera's memory. A cool project in the C++ .NET Framework for a weekend with a beer (or ten).. These days people merge 4x 2TB NVMe drives (RAID-0) to have one continuous 8 TB drive (600 USD investment), to be able to edit lengthy videos in UHD resolution (3840x2160). The better input source resolution, the better final quality on-line.. If you're doing timelapse, the sound/voice is added post-factum, so you'll tell what you want to the people watching it. They would have had no idea of the error if you hadn't said so.
  14. It would be funnier, and self-paying, if you set up a couple of cameras around you on tripods while you work, and create a "how I did it" timelapse and then upload it to YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok, FB and IG..
  15. The optimal brewing temperature for coffee is 88-94 C. If it is unnaturally too hot, maybe it is damaged? https://www.google.com/search?q=percolator+coffee+espresso+maker+brewing+temperature "This temperature is controlled by the thermostat of the espresso machine and should be 190 to 196 degrees Fahrenheit. The temperature of the brew in your cup will be between 160 and 165 degrees Fahrenheit." This is two to three times lower than the temperature at which breads or cakes are baked in the oven in the bakery. And it takes 90 to 180 seconds for each cup, instead of 3600-7200+ seconds for roasting/baking.. Maybe someone should do experiments on how much aluminum is deposited in food over some period of time, at some (different) temperatures? 3D graph with quantity, time and temperature on each axis. You don't buy bread from stores/bakery and just bake your own? Every day? Anyway, I listed what a "typical average person in this world" has. I do it every day if I have enough to pay for it. This saves me time. And no matter which restaurant is used, it comes in typical Styrofoam boxes and the meat is in aluminum foil. This prevents the meal from cooling down.
  16. ..aluminum foil is used to 1) bake cakes and bread 2) keep food warm (restaurant dish delivered to your home) 3) cover a large amount of food bought daily in stores.. 4) drinks in aluminum cans.. etc. etc. In the grinder, the coffee has only a few seconds of encounter with aluminum. In the roaster, oven, it is one or several hours at high temperature..
  17. You did not take into account many details, for example, a daughter may be adopted, a mother may be a stepmother, a daughter-in-law often speaks to her mother-in-law per "mother"/"mom".. Maybe they taught ChatGPT about time travel,parallel Universes, simulation and virtual reality, etc It would complicate things even more.. You might as well ask about the sex/gender of someone - in some rare circumstances it can be complicated really.. 10+10 may be 20, but 10+10 may be also 100..
  18. Imagine what a time saver it is to buy a second monitor.. you don't have to switch active applications so often.. AutoHotkey https://www.autohotkey.com/ application allows you to create scripts to perform repetitive tasks. It can simulate mouse movement, simulate keystrokes, execute applications, perform simple mathematical operations. It is used e.g. to pull data from websites that have a control whether it is done by a human or a bot. Instead of going to website X and downloading page by page, thousands of times, you make a script which "clicks"/"enters data" in web browser. For the casual user: you can create email (or forum message) templates or sentence templates that repeat to multiple recipients, and assign them to different hotkeys.
  19. You should start saving money by analyzing your expenses. Sort them from largest to lowest. There are regular expenses and one-time expenses. There is little sense in saving pennies (e.g., ballpoint pens, or other things above mentioned) if at the same time you spend thousands more on other, much easier to optimize things.. I used to have a rather high IMHO power consumption. After buying a wattmeter I measured literally all devices. Within a month it went to 40% of the previous consumption. The cost of purchasing a wattmeter paid for itself within 2 weeks. I purchased power splitters with separate on/off buttons for each socket and only have them on when using the device. You should start saving labor time by analyzing your daily schedule. Sort them from the biggest time eater to the smallest. There is little sense in saving time that lasts seconds or minutes when, for example, you have to drive an hour to work and another hour coming back from it.. Buy a high-speed modern computer that has an NVMe drive, instead of an HDD, and it will read/write data 70 times faster than an HDD, or 7 times faster than SSD on SATA, meaning you won't be staring at your monitor all day for a web page to show up, or any other lengthy task completed.. Rearranging the equipment around you can save time (see McDonald's movie "The Founder" with Michael Keaton). I saw a documentary about some farmer who produced methane from crop residues from his farm. It was used to heat the cow barracks and his house. Visited neighborhood restaurants to buy used dirty oil from frying dishes and convert it into fuel for his tractor. Restaurateurs had to pay for taking used oil (garbage), so were happy to have someone pick it up from them for free.
  20. Maybe A.I. is mocking from you, thinking behind "humans are idiots, you should know it!"..
  21. ...my questions to ChatGPT required logical thinking - lookup database with not precised by me directly records, take them, do some non-trivial maths, convert physical units, and so on.. A.I, might have problem, as any human, with different zero-point notations in different countries.. So 4.1 in one country is 4100 in the other country..
  22. ..just give pornhub's link.. !
  23. The most appropriate way would be an ionization energy table. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionization_energies_of_the_elements_(data_page) ..but the higher the atomic number, the less data is in this table.. Here is yet another but requires conversion from kJ/mol to eV: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molar_ionization_energies_of_the_elements ps. It is clear from these tables that non-valent electrons require much higher energies..
  24. I asked someone to ask ChatGPT, IMHO a pretty difficult question in the fields of quantum physics, chemistry, mathematics, and ChatGPT gave, more or less, an acceptable answer (the experts on this forum could not give an answer right away, without searching the web and/or using a calculator - who among you has a database of stable and unstable isotopes of all elements in memory?)..

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