So I checked the article and it's bizarre.

https://archive.is/36wRB

I guess the trend is...surgery?

Chairs and chairs and chairs and chairs

The most reliable way to communicate bases would probably be using unary. Now if your alien is using unary, that might not work, but it should for all higher bases.

I am just as confused as before.

Ohhh, so this is what "if you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you first have to invent the universe" means.

I don't get it :(

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_pattern

If you do a task daily, and you can shave one second off it, you save 30 minutes in 5 years. So as long as you spend less than that developing whatever tool or technique making it more efficient, you end up saving more time than you spent optimizing.

Fair point. I'm not eating more cheese to spite you, I'll just eat any extra unwanted cheese you (being any hypothetical vegans I might eat with) got served that would have to go to the trash otherwise.

But I respect your cause, and while I'm not fully vegan I do try to eat animal products mindfully and reduce my consumption of them.

UwU

The 2020s were very important (and very rough) in Star Trek lore, too. Slightly different, but the similarities are striking...

TIL