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Good thing I decided not to turn into a mollusk!
I think that's a very good insight, you're right.
I'm in agreement with the general point but was big tech well liked in the early 2020s?
Facebook scandals had exploded already, Google had already long abandoned "don't be evil", nobody ever liked Microsoft, and I think sentiment towards Apple is somewhat unchanged.
I thought the title was a wink to people who knew of that episode, without the need to actually discuss it.
Others have said this, but "The Orville", once it goes past the first few "family guy"-esque episodes, is a fantastic Star Trek.
I enjoyed Strange New Worlds, but it has too many "weird" episodes.
This is quite a detailed article, but as an Italian I feel one of the linked articles has a more evocative title: "the wardrobe of a woman who never came back".
As an aside, I got sniped into finding out why this insula is called "insula of the chaste lovers", given Pompei is quite known for sexual imagery. It's apparently because there's a house called ".. of the chaste lovers" because of a fresco where two lovers share an apparently chaste kiss
https://mediterraneoantico.it/articoli/archeologia-classica/...
If that was the case, we wouldn't be using openssh, openssl, perl/python/ruby etc...
I'm a GPL person but that's not why Linux won over the BSDs.
Well, only if that's the bottleneck.
Consider commuting with a friend in the morning: if you get dressed and get out of the door in 5m instead of 10m, but then have to wait for me to come pick you up, and then we both sit in a car for 5m to get to the train, and then we sit on that for 50.. then your speed up doesn't really matter.
I don't know if this is the case for drug development but as GP said, we already have more designs than we can test.
Same here. A part of me wants to get a new MBP but I really can't justify it.
Isn't trading always blocked? Whenever you would allow someone to build a complete Color it's better not to allow it, and whenever you also would it's only advantageous if your color is stronger than the other thus the other party should never agree.
Any other exchange becomes pointless as you won't be completing a color anyways.
Private and anonymous are different but the digital euro proposal is for both things, it is supposed to be equivalent to cash but only for small sums.
I have no idea how that's supposed to work.
To be fair, a monster is scary so it fits. Malice in the middle perhaps would have been less confusing.
If catching "all" security issues becomes feasible then the balance tilts in favor of the projects vs the attackers.
Big malicious entities always had more investments in this than random open source projects.
> we really just need to get rid of beef
you don't even have to get rid of it, even consuming less beef has significant impacts.
> There is not a single KPI where the curve shows even the slightest sign of recovery
ozone, marine fish capture, tropical forest loss, and domesticated land are shown as below peak, aren't they?
plastic straws have been banned for a different reason than fighting climate change: they were the vast majority of trash showing up on shorelines.
I am with you with wanting carbon taxes, but it's not like there's a single issue that can ever be tackled at a time.
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riffraff on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:27AM
from the blog.jim-nielsen.com dept.
Posted by
riffraff on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:17AM
from the blog.joinmastodon.org dept.
You may be surprised and annoyed that NLP is also "Neuro linguistic programming", I've met technical people talking of NLP and meaning that...
in Italy they're a significant issue due to foreign species having been introduced years ago. The new species reproduce faster than they are killed by hunters or predators.
ah the good old C-x M-c M-smelting
> The house called 3 of your 27 scored numbers: 11%.
> Blind guessing would average about 3.0 of them (11%).
Admittedly I gave up before the 30 threshold but I think I did well enough at "beating the house"
Edit: tried again, 14/118, which is 12%. Maybe it's because I'm typing, and that's easier to do that speaking up.
Posted by
riffraff on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @01:57AM
from the collectorsweekly.com dept.
depends on the bath, but they're generally understanding of foreigners with tattoos.
There was a brief period where everyone and their dog implemented mustache[0] as a template system, but it died quickly because cross-language templating is not that useful in the end, you seldom need to switch host language but keep the templates.
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustache_(template_system)
This is awesome and I hope it catches on, but the idea of "may be useful to people who want to conceal tattoos in some situations" seems far fetched, some make-up layer would probably be a simpler solution, wouldn't it?
US seems unlikely given Trump just made a deal to give money to Russia in exchange for diesel and blamed Ukraine for gas prices.
I mean, sure, maybe some random person at the Pentagon could have done it but the US has not acted as a Ukraine ally for years now.