Why “keep” is being discussed
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I bought a cup of coffee for ~10.5 Bitcoin back in April 2011. Where did it come from? Well, I was curious how Bitcoin worked, so I set up a little mining rig and let it run at…
by dbg31415 · Sep 28, 2026
Most of the people in these regions would rather have a vehicle they can keep full of fuel because stations are plentiful and carry a shovel. I'm not saying this because I don't…
by kube-system · Sep 28, 2026
> because the judge in the Anthropic lawsuit bent over backwards to keep AI training legal - or so it seems. How so? His reasoning to me seemed consistent with decades of case l…
by tpmoney · Sep 28, 2026
Hopefully it’s better than the second gen. Gas engine front only puts power to one wheel and electric rear only puts power to one wheel while the other two sit idle. Bad state f…
by instagib · Sep 28, 2026
That is very surprising to hear, as one of the primary claims I keep hearing is that the US labs are making up these incidents in order to claim that AI can cause harms that hav…
by no-name-here · Sep 28, 2026
I'm not an engineer, but this is how I was taught to use digital search back in my elementary school's library in the second or third grade (it replaced the card catalogue) and…
by helterskelter2 · Sep 28, 2026
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A keep is a type of fortified tower built within castles during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars have debated the scope of the word keep, but usually consider it to refer to large towers in castles that were fortified residences, used as a refuge of last resort should the rest of the castle fall to an adversary. The first keeps were made of timber and formed a key part of the motte-and-bailey castles that emerged in Normandy and Anjou during the 10th century; the design spread to England, Portugal, and Southern Italy and Sicily. As a result of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, use spread into Wales during the second half of the 11th century and into Ireland in the 1170s. The Anglo-Normans and French rulers began to build stone keeps during the 10th and 11th centuries, including Norman keeps, with a square or rectangular design, and circular shell keeps. Stone keeps carried considerable political as well as military importance and could take a decade or more to build. Read more on Wikipedia