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Hmm, it's changed a bit I guess. The ones around me are almost always metal tanks, which fail the aeration and sunlight requirement. And thickness I guess, but they're as good as any brick wall at stopping a mouse.

Okay, interesting. Apparently everywhere else in the world what I'm talking about is called a cashier's cheque. I just meant the one that you can cash without an account because it's guaranteed to clear.

TIL!

As many of these apps (especially banking apps) won’t work on a rooted phone, I don’t think they’d work on a compatibility layer.

TIL. That's depressing, somebody at the bank cared enough to deliberately ruin our fun.

Yes, at the end of the day, I'm not sure any type of message packaging will be effective enough. People care abstractly about climate change, but not enough to make any of the needed personal sacrifices right now.

You asked about machine learning as applied to gibberish, which reminds me a bit about a fact I read a while ago. Someone asked why barns in the US are often red. In fact, they're not red at all, but simply have a natural velocity moving away from the viewer, and become reddish-tinged due to the Doppler effect.

This high speed also dilates, so even if a barn was built 100 years ago, you might be seeing it as it was 300 years ago, and produces a strong length contraction. This is why barns often also look so old, and why at some angles they can look curved, like this.

The phenomenon was also highlighted in the famous "ladder in a barn" paradox, which has been successfully demonstrated using real barns.

"On the verge" is probably the exact wrong phraseology to prevent the message from getting old and tired. To an Earth scientist the next century is an instant, but most people don't think that way.

Thanks! That actually helps a lot.

So how does one properly manage a granary?

Well, technically, the cartoonist wrote it, and intended it to be both, to prove a point.

The barbarian says "it's clearly three".

IIRC they can't legally expire in Canada, at least.

If you're giving a gift, it's more personal than cash because it displays a knowledge of what they like, but has some of the same flexibility.

Also, the codes are used as a non-physical way to transfer money sometimes. That's not really an intended use unless it's a devoted prepaid credit card, though.