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I love RMS and his work. But I'd love to run Chimera Linux (BSD userland) just so I could "um actually" about it not being "GNU Linux".

This is exactly what Slate Auto[1] say they'll do in the US. Unfortunately for me, their initial models are a truck and an SUV. I'm crossing my fingers they'll succeed, then make an econobox for me.

[1]: https://www.slate.auto/

Yes. It's a wealth tax on homeowners.

If I had billions of dollars of stock it would require a change in the law to tax me on its market value. But you can do exactly this to me if it's a house.

Wow. It's so... accurate.

Prion proteins seem much less animate, so more scary in this particular way.

I sympathize. -- Not Barber

sdf.org is still running.

When I first read this I thought, "Great. Something straightforward. Not meeting getting a bunch of variable estimates." then "What is this pricing model? I have to join a club?"

Thank you. I was looking for a Fuse response. I like her book's name for it, too: "unit origami".

I still host my site there. I sometimes use it as a private git remote. The people you meet there in bboard and com are necessarily very interesting :)

It's a webhost. It's a BBS. It's one of the largest shared unix systems to learn your way around the shell without a computer.

My favorite part of Feynman's magnetism rant about how the question is terrible and can't be answered is that he seemingly accidentally gives a very good explanation: that magnetic repulsion is a highly concentrated version of what repels his hand from the arm of his chair.

Thank you for Ankidroid!

That's why I got my kids $1 inflatable globes. You can see the poles just fine.

The globe here is, in my opinion, the best such visualization because I've personally travelled the distances depicted.

https://www.reddit.com/r/educationalgifs/comments/qq5cw7/coo...

Whoa! You're not kidding. Though the boss does have a hit point meter :)

""" In its current form contains:

    a solar calendar (365 ¼ days) “date pointer”
    position and phase of the moon mapped relative to the ecliptic (zodiac) “moon pointer”
    position of the sun mapped on the ecliptic (zodiac) “true sun pointer”

For V1 I've omitted the entire rear face. The original included the metonic cycle (ancient 19 year/235 lunar month calendar) and the callippic cycle (76 year cycle extending the metonic cycle), the olympiad (4 year games cycle), the Saros cycle (predicts occurance of solar and lunar eclipses in a 223 lunar month repeating cycle) and the Exeligmos cycle to compensate for the 8h offset created by each successive Saros cycle to accurately predict the time and position of potential eclipse occurrences. """

Another excuse is it's a free webhost :)

Red Cross lets me give blood now.

I had the total of more than six months in UK between 199x and 199y deferral for a long time. We're supposed to actually be experiencing symptoms by now.

First, I agree with your comment.

But since you specifically bring up omeprazole: I backed off of pantoprazole by getting a prescription for half-dose pills (since they're time released, you can't just cut them in half), then decreasing frequency (alternating days, then tapering off) and retained the benefits.

There are plenty of confounding factors in my case, but checking occasionally if you can back out of a drug is worthwhile.

Very, very nice!

West Kennet Longbarrow's also appropriately spooky. I've been there with people too scared to stay inside.

Fastmail is fast enough and has rich enough keyboard shortcuts that I stopped using mutt for it. It's very good.

Yes. Someone who masters circular breathing in a weekend should start playing a wind instrument.

Is the idea that you can stick with tmux splitting-resizing keys instead of vim ones?

I ride mine 2 miles a day, sometimes 3 based on a variable commute. Mine doesn't have gears or a spedometer so I can only say I am comfortable at the fastest speed I can pedal -- but it would feel unstable to go much faster, say, on a very steep hill.

I'm not trying to imply it feels like a weirdly shaped mountain bike. I'm saying it does its particular job very well. The seating position and narrow handlebars definitely preclude it doing anything other than getting you from the train station to work on urban streets.

I have a real bicycle, too for, well, actually riding a bicycle.

Exactly this. Even though I don't use git-bug anymore, I'm still a sponsor. I desperately want an issue-tracker-in-.git to become a standard.

Issues and CI are the only lock-in. The latter is legitimate because you're using someone else's CPU, but every developer has the tooling to "git diff" and write comments if we could just agree on a format.

There are Strida's with gears.

It's definitely weird to ride -- I would ride it on a commute of more than a few miles. It's less stable than a real bike, but not completely unstable. e.g. I can fall of curbs but can't jump up them.

Most body parts are specialty, not the brakes system, I believe.

It meets its design goals very well: - Internal brake cables and quick release mean it folds very fast and doesn't get tangled up. - It can be rolled around when folded so you don't have to lug it. - It stands tall and thin so only takes the space of a small standing passenger on transit.

I grew up being told the two biggest names were Morris and Diana Dors.

I have to agree with other threads that I don't believe most of his conjectures, but they're great for stimulating thought.