Try playing n-back games to improve your memory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-back

Memory is a skill and can atrophy over time, but you can also improve it over time with the right practice.

That’s not the same thing, though.

You didn’t overpower your own bad technique.

You overpowered her good technique, and presumably did so using good technique of your own.

You can’t overpower bad technique.

IQ tests are pseudoscientific B.S.

They don’t measure intelligence; they measure your skill at taking IQ tests.

Sam was a ring bearer, though.

I think people in general need some sort of mid-winter holiday. Especially near the winter solstice, people need a distraction and something to feel excited about.

Moreover, I think that’s all Christmas really is. Any religious connection it has is just a tenuous excuse to have a holiday; it’s widely accepted that Jesus would have been born in the spring, but if you give people an excuse to have a holiday they won’t nitpick it… they just want any excuse.

I think that’s also why there are so many holidays during the winter. People want to distract themselves from the weather and reduced sunlight.

I don’t think it’s ever been tested*, but arguably no, the president can’t pardon war crimes.

They can only pardon “offenses against the United States”.

A war crime isn’t just an offense against the United States but also a violation of international law.

So, a future administration could try to go after these people for the international law violations.

As others have noted, the chances of that actually happening are nil.

*Trump has pardoned war crimes, but no one has yet tried going after the war criminals for the international law violations they committed.

Absolutely true.

It’s even more surprising when you realize that all you have to do to know the most common letters is just watch a single episode all the way to the end.

For the last puzzle they always start with “r, s, t, l, n, and e” revealed.

100% This.

Also, being an evolution of sundials is the reason all analog clocks move their hands in the same direction.

The problem is that rational numbers can be mapped (1 to 1) to the integers (e.g. just encode each rational number as an integer), so there are not more rational numbers than integers.

I feel silly now for not realizing that was a stage name.

I straight up thought her actual name was “Whoopi”.

Yes and no… with a real (not digital) piano it actually does matter how you hit the keys. If you don’t press quickly enough the hammer won’t have enough momentum to actually strike the strings.

I believe this effect is more pronounced with a grand piano, but the same thing can happen with an upright piano too.

EDIT: It’s not as finicky as with other instruments, though, so your core point is still a good one… just with caveats.

Technically, “bail” is a word… it’s not the right word but it is a word.

“Great” meaning “very large”, not “very good”.

Gatsby turned himself into a larger than life character.

That is what I think the title is trying to get at.

Yes and No.

Yes, everything increases in difficulty but the increases in difficulty are asymmetrical.

The difficulty of reversing a computation (e.g. reversing a hash or decrypting an encrypted message) grows much faster than just performing the computation (e.g. hashing a message or encrypting one).

That’s the basis for encryption to begin with.

It’s also why increasing the size of the problem (e.g. the size of the hash or the size of a private key) makes it harder to crack.

The threat posed by quantum computing is that it might be feasible to reverse much larger computations than it previously was. The caveat on that, however is that they have a hard limit of what problems they can solve based on the number of qbits they have.

So for example, let’s say you use RSA for encryption and someone builds a 1024 qbit quantum computer. All you have to do is increase your key size so that it would require 1025 qbits to crack, and then that quantum computer wouldn’t provide an attacker any benefit at all.

(Of course, they’d still be able to read your old messages, but that’s also a fundamental principle of cryptography; it only protects you for a period of time)

The problem is that you’re eating too many bears. You need more variety in your diet.

Your compost bin should be mostly green vegetables, followed by smaller amounts of fruits and grains. Keep the bears as just an occasional treat.

Also note that subsequent cooking doesn’t prevent food poisoning.

That will kill off the microorganisms that are the root cause, but it won’t remove the poison that they already produced.

It wasn’t being marketed and sold as a meme product. It was being marketed and sold as critical safety equipment.

On top of that, it was being sold during a pandemic when such equipment was being used continuously by large segments of the population.

It shouldn’t be surprising that large numbers of people bought it; the company selling it lied to those people to trick them into buying it.

The perfect material for Tesla’s new cyberboat

I was in college in Texas when it happened. I don’t remember anything closing.

All of my classes kept to their regular schedules.