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We know the recipe for Roman concrete, and we have better concrete recipes. This absolutely can last longer than Roman concrete.
It's self healing because of the poorer mixing, undissolved quicklime (calcium oxide) would remain in the concrete, and water getting in cracks would dissolve it and produce calcium hydroxide, which then combines with carbon dioxide to form more limestone aggregate (calcium carbonate) to heal the cracks.
There's a survivor bias when it comes to really old buildings of course so it's likely we're only seeing a small portion of the surviving buildings from that era.
We could make concrete that lasts multiple times the amount of time as Roman concrete, but we usually don't because it's more expensive (and modern construction seems to be about minimizing costs as much as possible and not worrying about anything more than a few decades out)
I wish degoogling were simple. I mean it's mostly fine on PC, pretty much impossible on flagship Samsung phones though and on Google phones you have some important missing features (like not being able to use the tap-to-pay with a custom OS).
Also for both PC and phones, the Google IME for Japanese is just far better than any other Japanese IME. The other ones are far more clunky. There are alternatives, namely Mozc on PC, but they're just not even close in quality. I don't know any good alternatives on Android – I hope florisboard will be able to reach that point some time after it gets a dictionary/suggestions feature in a month or two (which I'm excited to start contributing to) but we'll have to see.
I imagine it's a similar story for Chinese and Korean.
Or Floorp (with Betterfox) if you find the ultraparanoia features and website breaking of Librewolf annoying. I think that'd be the option most people who use Chromium browsers are willing to transition to
There are more tax cuts left for people who could benefit. They're just all also going to go to the 1%
his brain is fluid, we know that for sure
It's hard for Republicans to argue against... but I imagine that would make environmentalists and people who want universal healthcare pretty annoyed. I mean most of those people will probably go out and vote Harris either way
The character is Miyako Hoshino, the protagonist of Wataten! An Angel Flew Down to Me (Watashi ni Tenshi ga Maiorita!), a yuri romcom about a college student falling in love with an elementary schooler, written by a guy
Yes, lesbian pedophile is a subgenre now, and it's mediocre as fuck at best
You can get the same effect with Floorp. I mean it technically still has Pocket built in but it's 1 click to completely disable rather than all the hoops you have to go through in normal Firefox.
Based and customizationpilled
is this what terry davis used
You've got to be fucking kidding me, they're making ads look like comments now???
bicycle lanes are usually death gutters. they're better than nothing but it can be safer to not use them depending on where you are
there should be separated bicycle paths/lanes separated by barriers that motor vehicles can't... y'know... easily go into or open their door in front of
also I have legitimately never seen people on bicycles disrespecting road laws unless those road laws enforce something that is unsafe. like disallowing rolling stops. car drivers violate road laws all the time though, not including speeding but i'm pretty sure almost every driver sees speeding as normal too
They're a troll who posts a bunch of pseudointellectual/pseudophilosophical comments saying stupid shit mentioning quantum physics or lambda calculus or euclidean geometry or other fancy looking math words
That sounds like a terrible decision to make considering 50% of Israelis live in the 30 most populated cities, cities which are all clustered together and very bombable... then again, I don't think jets from the late 70s would fare well against Israel's very modern air defenses. An ancient F-14 or a MiG-29 would probably spontaneously collapse at the sight of a Patriot SAM operated by Israel.
Twitter. Or, Twitter is its deadname. I think it's ironic since Musk deadnames trans people intentionally because he's a mega-transphobe. X will never be anything other than "Twitter".
A surprising amount of speakers of Spanish have an ř sound, usually in place of the normal trill. Specifically, it's present in New Mexican Spanish (spoken in New Mexico & Colorado), Amazonic Spanish/"Jungle Spanish" and influenced dialects (spoken in Ecuador, Peru, parts of eastern Bolivia, Paruguay, northern Chile, northern Argentinia, the Colombian highlands, and I think south Venezuela), Guatemala, and Costa Rica.
Specifically, the sound is called a voiced alveolar fricative trill. The IPA symbol is [r̝].
It's said to be due to imported influence from northern Spain (Basque Country, Navarra, La Rioja), where the same sound is also present, and varyingly from the influence of various local Native American languages, some of which in the areas have/had the sound.
In some of those dialects, a pronunciation like [ʐ] may be used instead, which I think is similar to what's spelled ż/rz in Polish. The pronunciation can weaken further into [ɹ̝], which might be hard to distinguish from the r sound of some English speakers, or even more to [ɹ] which is similar to the r sound in some English speech.
Fun times ahead!
I'm choking on my previous words right now
Web bloat in a nutshell and why we need to switch to things like Web Assembly more than ever. It's not WASM, but I used Laminar which is a Scala.js library, and it's the absolute pinnacle of (frontend) web development. Scala in general is just really great for idiomatic web code, its flexibility is unbeatable.
Another amazing alternative would be anything Rust. In fact I've used that much more than Scala for web. I've mainly used Leptos for full-stack and and Actix for backend, but I've seen Dioxus and Axum in good use and they both seem really great too.
Apparently Lemmy uses Leptos for its UI so... that's a +1.
40°C here in my corner of the US. I have to walk an hour in that surrounded by asphalt most days because of our shit infrastructure 😐
Edit – Heat index, 100°F is about 38°C and 112°F is about 44°C (they didn't have it in celsius for some reason):
Temperature:
pain
This will be Europe during spring and autumn in a few years. In 2070 I bet we'll be missing the good ol times when summers were only 40°C. And we'll miss when most of Africa still existed
What? Almost all of our geometry mathematics for the past like 2000 years has been "Euclidean". You're just spouting nonsense trying to sound smart lol.
Edit: Took a look through this guy's profile and wow... I can't tell if he's a pseudointellectual who actually believes that the random bs with pop-sci buzzwords he's throwing out actually mean anything, if his responses are all AI generated, or if he's just a troll