NACK-ing rust at version 8 of the patchset is kind of a dick move. The 7 others were fine before? Ridiculous that Linus didn’t step in in a definitive way.

Chapo.chat has the same access problem that led to the current state of hexbear.net so it is to be considered temporary.

Industrial diamonds are pretty useful for cutting.

We are in “free fall” around the Sun so that’s why we don’t feel its pull of gravity.

You would similarly feel weightless if you were in an orbit around Earth.

Remember having to use (a modified version of?) quincy for C. Trying to paste anything would put random characters into your file.

Still beats programming on paper.

Ice crystals can and do rupture cells. But it’s not a good method to disinfect as a lot depends on the freezing rate resulting in different crystal sizes.

No, you just get a new set growing in the gums.

After the failed nazi coup in Austria, a referendum was organized to democratically decide whether to join Germany or not. But one day before the referendum, German troops marched in. The referendum was changed and postponed a month. Threats and coercion were employed to manipulate the vote, resulting in 99% approval for the Anschluss. While the population’s true opinions are unknown, it has been estimated that about 70% of Austrians would have voted to preserve Austrian independence.

In hindsight it is obvious to us what was going on.

Anschluss (2025 American edition)

Space is emerging faster than it can transmit changes. This is why no light can reach us beyond the observable universe.

As much ignorance and ill will there is behind this process, I’d guess Mexico.

There is a scaling factor for the GUI (by default it checks your monitor’s DPI).

But adblockers don’t enable unlawful enrichment. Or do they?

In GN’s video the law firm mentioned there are 3-4 cases already and they are probably getting combined or go to the same judge. (IANAL; IDK the specifics)

😢 <–

DPI scaling of the regular steam GUI can also be wonky if you have different monitors. For example, I mainly use steam on my lower DPI secondary monitor, but it wanted to scale based on my 4k main one. Could be fixed with an override though.

Anecdote from my first job (software engineering): New manager wants to know what our team does and how our process and software works. Like, he really really wants to know it!

Okay, I book a timeslot and prepare some slides and an example; we have a meeting. I go over the high level stuff, getting more and more specific. (Each person on our team was responsible for end-to-end developing bootloaders for embedded HW.) When I got to the SW update process and what bit patterns the memory needs to have and how the packets of data are transmitted, he called off the meeting and I’ve never seen him since.

I guess, he didn’t want to know THAT much after all.

As hard as it may be to believe, I can’t eat metaphysics for put a roof above my head with it. Even Plato didn’t sit on perfect abstract chairs or ate abstract apples.

Here’s another argument I thought of in the meanwhile:

1. If we accept that the rule of golden mean is universal, then it necessarily applies to itself. Thus, the correct use of the rule is somewhere between the absolutes of not applying it at all and applying it to everything. There are circumstances in which it shouldn’t be used.

2. If we don’t accept the rule as universally true, then there are circumstances in which it shouldn’t be used.

QED

Hey, don’t forget the addiction and self esteem issues. Social media does much more!

If I mix water and cement there is a distribution of the two, a ratio if you will. Just because statistics deals with distributions (of probabilities for example) doesn’t mean all distributions are in the field of statistics.

I’ll leave it at that.