That's sure can't be true for "modern" (as in 1960s+) books? Bookstores normally allow to look inside hardcovers without being instructed on proper handling first

If you can find a book with a sewn binding (or better a pair, as-yet unopened), if you open one per the instructions, then open the other haphazardly as one reads it, you will find that over time, the book which was not opened with care will develop a directionality to its binding causing it to be cocked, while the other, so long as it is read carefully will remain square.

Typical glued texts are more prone to this, but depending on the state of the glue, may go back so square if pressed when square to correct.

Would definitely try next time I buy a hardcover :) But I think this first opening rule must be some US quirk. I only see US sources for it on internet, and can't find German or Russian one

It gets mentioned in British texts on hand bookbinding.

This will take compatibility FARTER

Can this stuff autorotate? You could also take emergency parachute with you (~5kg), would require flying at least at 500ft or something to be able to deploy it

YouTube playlist linked on DARPA site: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6wMum5UsYvbuxFAptr9LYCnd...

Wow, there were a bunch of very interesting designs, Probably telling the winner was a very tradition design, but I love seeing wild stuff being tried.

The kite copter was my favorite, but the large rotor powered by small tip rotors was a close second.

Kite rotor?

Can be seen here at 1m30s: https://youtu.be/2x2W3mwERiU?si=ySQh_-QMCetehasK&t=90

Interesting. What’s the kite supposed to do?

My guess is act as a wing in a forward flight mode, Sort of like a hang glider.

I think trains are ok with trees. I checked satellite view - there are a lot of rail tracks in Chicago going directly along tree lines. The rail yards indeed look like tracks on concrete with nothing else, but when I look at German ones - there are trees and bushes.

Same with dentists

Can't wait to be killed by my toaster because some sexy mossad agent seduced it.

Have you ever tried to indulge an all-consuming urge to kill when you don't have opposable thumbs? Or hands? Or anything other than a bread slot?

Fire!

This made me laugh out loud :)

> suffer endless corporate memos

I think classic russian literature can be everything, but not an exercise in formal double-speak incantations.

True. But reading low density, dry material that you don't want to and feeling mental and physical exhaustion from the process sums up both war and peace and corporate communications.

Pokémon Land/Factories

> Different LLMs executions take different branches, but eventually the possible branches based on the code possible states are saturated

With LLMs even the halting problem is just the question of paying for pro subscription!

The proof of halting being unsolvable usually uses a specific "adverserial" machine. In practice it's incredibly likely for the halt question to be answerable for any specific real life program.