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Still have a cd-rom with copy of minix3, from when he had a talk in my university. His books on OS and Networking are very approachable and fun read!

Can't answer your immediate question, but in my experience, the enshitification of UI is usually a result of layers and layers on top of the user <> product connection. It's everywhere

And somehow related I think, but the lab grown meat industry is nowhere near feasible

Was just thinking out loud, as a layman, along the lines of how not to wait for top down regulation, but still going around the practical problem of avoiding in both senses, the actual collision and the authorities eyes on you :) I don't even know the acronyms you gave, going on a rabbit hunt now

I would think some sort of mesh beacon network on all flying things to enable auto-avoidance protocols, would be a logical technology solution?

You might be interested in guidepup then! I am in the process of integrating it into our playwright tests. Not affiliated, just a user: https://github.com/guidepup/guidepup

Beyond semantics though, russia would have been in much worse shape without iranian drones, nk ammo and chinese everything (no pure military gear yet, but plenty other material)

Maybe because russia has repeatedly signed then broken border agreements? What goes around comes around, there were statements about Alaska being rightfully russian too.

russia word vs ukrainian word, which do you believe? https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/04/27/7453276/

Godel and Heisenberg say no, in the most generalized case. Our universe is not deterministic

sAuce? If it is the AP article, this got debunked by units from ZSU

That was how NBA league pass used to work, I have watched my team for many seasons, modulo a decent VPN ;) With their recent change of CDN provider, I had to cancel my season subscription, which was a very reasonable $120 or so for all the games of all the teams, including the playoffs. Now I stream, and pay $0 :)

I think the most pertinent change is the H1-B visa holders being able to come over, would be interesting to see how this pans out.

I converted a large Protractor suite to Playwright and am very happy with the result. Top notch product, and the pace of development and addition of new features is great too.

On your last note, I felt Heinlein tripped on something similar while writing Time enough for love[0]. I haven't read Island, I'll put it on my list.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love

Yes, trade-offs all the way down :) Physical damage of the nature you described affects many forms of digital storage too, though I doubt vermins will find them very palatable. And there could be many copies of a book, to your second point. There is also the question of the specialized equipment needed to read the digital media. As I said, trade offs. I try to maintain a personal book library just because I was an avid reader growing up, in the pre-internet days, and I don't want to see the future generations go pure digital, but maybe it is inevitable.

A little on a tangent, but I've been thinking that it might be valuable to keep this offline knowledge infra around for backup, afaik properly stored book has lifespan that is still an order of magnitute longer than any digital storage.

Ilium/Olympos by Dan Simmons is very good, also anything from Alastair Reynolds.

The dose makes the poison. Everything in excess is detrimental.

Doing things together in groups, which leads to almost by definition having to build relationships, including romantic, seems like the best way, and that's how things were before Internet. Some commenters above hit kind of the same notes, and I wonder, maybe an app that builds a mixed group of men and women to do some activity together offline, would result in better outcomes. Of course this will be gamed in no time by the bad intentioned. I think the truth is, that finding a mate has always been a crapshot, and largely random, through out history of life itself. Internet does not seem very successful as a mating platform, I have never been a user of dating apps so what would I know, but maybe on average it's just a little better than randomly stumbling on potential life partners. Still, going out and meeting people instead of staring in screens feels more natural to me.

I've heard of cross-border drug trafficking: https://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/narcodrones-1809749...

Canada certainly does not allow anybody in, but still more than a quarter of a million people are in each year.

I'd say both, and it is failing at both counts :). The federal government is actually thinking of imposing it across Canada, even though most other places other than Vancouver and Toronto could actually use some foreign investment.

They've tried something to that effect in Vancouver and Toronto. It is 15% tax for non-residents, in Toronto at least. Was instituted 2017, and it did not change a thing, both cities still among the hottest real estate markets in the world.

As another linguistic point, in Bulgarian 'зар' means dice

Actually CAD is trending up against USD

That sounds a lot like part of the UofT CS program.

Somehow related to the general problem of lack of housing, in Toronto you could build laneway suites [0], and there is a proposal to allow backyard suites.

[0] https://www.toronto.ca/community-people/community-partners/a...

I can't wait for my voltswagen to toll my mobile ohm ;)