Can’t you just mirror the data? You could even embed it in the javascript file itself.

There are two options in the file menu - you can export the originals, and there is an option to export them as .jpg.

From iPhotos (Photos) app to hard drive.

Subject is to download photos from iCloud.

When you first turn on iCloud Photos, it can take a while to upload your photos to iCloud. You can continue to use Photos while your photos are being uploaded. To have iCloud Photos sync photos to all your devices, sign in to the same Apple Account to turn on iCloud Photos on all your devices.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/photos/phtf5e48489c/ma...

Even before it exploded it would have been less dense than water. It just goes from a hot cloud of gas to a cold one.

As I understand it, a white dwarf is "electron degenerate matter," which is more dense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_matter

I don’t buy this hypothesis, because we’ve had complex life on land for 250 million years. Evolution is not a steady upwards path (especially when you take into account mass extinctions). There’s no reason an intelligent species couldn’t have evolved on Earth any time in the mesozoic. Just a single million year head start would be huge for a civilization.

Seems highly unlikely that the resolution to the Fermi paradox is just that we’re the first intelligent species in the galaxy.

I agree. My own suspicion for the resolution of the fermi paradox is that there are 4 steps that we have seen occur only once (or zero times) so it is difficult to measure their probability. If some of those probabilities are significantly lower than we think it could resolve the "paradox".

Those 4 steps are: (1) Formation of life (2) Formation of multicellular life (3) Formation of "runaway intelligence", where a species evolves enough intelligence to manipulate their environment in ways that supercede evolution. Parrots and dolphins, for instance, are both quite smart, but don't look close to getting a runaway benefit from that which would allow them to invent technology like agriculture and overpower all other species. (4) Technical civilization manages to manipulate their planet or spread beyond one star system in a way that would be detectable from elsewhere in the galaxy. (Hasn't happened yet.)

I don’t think these hypotheses are mutually exclusive. Low metallicity in the past might explain how we could be first even though the galaxy is very old. The conditions did not exist until recently, on cosmic time scales. If the probabilities are also low then you’re not going to get many even when conditions are right.

> Those monopolies seem so scared to "miss the next smartphone" that they invest heavily in whatever their competitors do.

Monopolies so scared of the competition?

If it was a graveyard you’d also expect many artifacts of different eras, not just Victorian era shoes.

Period specific mass graves aren't uncommon in the UK - plague, flu, killed in battle, etc.

I wouldn’t call those near perfect. Parts have clearly rotted away.

> everyone has their own preferred "consensus"

For some people choice of diet really does seem core to their identity. It’s literally all the OP ever posts about.

> Flags are... not text.

Neither is poop, and yet someone decided that was important enough to include.

Those early software character sets had their own complexities (i.e. there was more than one), compared to the hardwired (you get one character set, and you’ll like it) set that shipped with early display adapters.

Having earned thousands of dollars fixing old systems to deal with new character sets, I can’t really complain.