You would have to have an incredible grindset to become a decent engineer without actually enjoying any of it. You could become a shitty one just by passing tests, I guess. (And probably many people do)

That would make more sense. I imagine it would also be good just to wear down their teeth if there’s nothing else available.

Yeah, sand definitely is much harder than teeth (which in a normal vertebrate are based on apatite, at a Mohs hardness of 5). If it’s abrasion, that explains a bit, although it’s going to be much slower than an actual cutting action. A quick search indicates cement is at Mohs 5-7, so you theoretically could chew through an unusually soft sample.

You could also go with metal or stone, like an actual vault, but we both thought of tupperware. Go figure.

Honestly, when your whole organisation is hardened criminals <10% grift is pretty impressive.

No way. Really? That can’t be much softer than their teeth.

Shit, I wrote that wrong. Trying to do too many things at once.

Ah. I’m surprised there’s any calories in that for a non-ruminant.

Bro, get some Tupperware or something. Sure you’re still unimaginably rich, but there’s a principle to it!

What got eaten by rats? Were those rats living on pure cocaine somehow?

The name might well have come from the community, since the whole app store model is as old as the modern smartphone, and downloading a different way is new, while possible, was always for power users.

If there had been a more normal software ecosystem from the get-go that would have been nice. Actual regulation to enforce device freedom would also be good.

Ah yes, the old “I own a book” defense. Or maybe the “I’m also vaguely non-Western” defence (maybe you have Tatar heritage?). Either way, you are what you pretend to hate.

So I know the root cause of what happened to western Rome is still debated, but what about Byzantium? What theories are there for why they started to have these problems after a few more centuries of prosperity?

To add to that, once the title did pass to one of those guys, after he’d basically been locked up his whole life. It did not go well.

Sounds like a woke Biden policy that might get rolled back.

You could in theory make a channel with a bunch of different stable whistle frequencies, and add some other aerodynamic feature that kicks it through them. I doubt you could reasonably do more than a few notes that way, though, and you probably have to hit them in order.

More likely it’s just multiple bullets, as the other reply said.

I’m going to guess the military wasn’t the main audience here, but rather your typical gun nuts.

Come for the jokes, stay for the unprompted washing machine reviews.

So not off-grid, exactly. (Although the grid in any poor country’s cities will not be up bougie, Western specs on reliability)

Yeah, an actual African would use wood for the replacement stock, because why not, and they have enough practice fixing their own shit with hand tools it might look exactly like the original.

Plus or minus some uninhabited ocean it (as in the two continents) comes very close.