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Background agent in the decoy identity that periodically browses the web, retrieves email from a banal account etc.?

"Idunno copper, I'm a journalist not a geek"

Hope she knows she still only has 3million trial days left

In other words "democracy" - people with an agenda tell their version of its benefits. Saying "the vote was invalid because the poor uneducated people were too stupid to realise they were being lied to"

The snowflakes are all flocking together! Can you have a murmuration of snowflakes?

Bloody poor people deciding for themselves what they want. Shouldn't get a vote unless you have a degree and property. If only they'd had the sense to listen to their betters.

That's particularly true of tech books. I want to hang on to my copy of "Tinker Tailor" but "Adobe Air in Action" 2008?

Ditto. It is very very slow but I never hit quota limits but people on Discord are complaining like mad it is slow even on the Pro plans. I tend to use glm-*air a lot for planning before using 4.7

> This is why the common "There's no such thing as talent, it's just hard work" line can't possibly be true.

please stop killing my delusions.

Read his books as a schoolboy, stopped taking him seriously when in one of his books he reproduced an ancient picture of a skeleton and said “this was /centuries/ before x-rays were discovered. How would they know bone structure without [alien advanced tech]” I kinda laughed and threw away his books. Still, he grifted a good living so props.

This always makes me laugh. Comically pretentious & naive. Like schoolboy poetry.

I recently learnt that Douglas Adams wrote code and the ultimate answer was '*' - 42 in ascii

There was a homoerotic element in the fishnet stuff I always thought. And HR would have a fit if you asked women to wear that stuff now, err, I mean in 1999.

Ahhhhh, nzbs

I did the same: tended to use Apple services then when I hit poverty I was able to use my NAS copies of music and videos after cancelling subscriptions. Had a "so why was I paying for years?" moment especially with all the enshitification issues

F# would be awesome but for the dogs*t .Net backend that made the tiniest error insoluble

"illegal fluid" what would that be? And why illegal? And do you submit the recovered data anywhere, for data archaeological purposes? Seems an important thing.

"Boil it down and this means the quantum clock loses only one second every 30 billion years, which, for navigation purposes, means a drift of a mere 1 x 10⁻⁶ degrees per hour. "

What does this mean in terms of metres off a desired position?

This. I still use xnxx but via a VPN now, same for Pornhub users I'd guess

Perhap his punishment will be that he has to walk barefoot over every piece.

I've tried nanonets but it seems very sensitive to the prompt, changing it slightly turned the output to rubbish. When it worked it was pretty good.

I abandoned ocaml just because I couldn't get a stepping debugger to work. Can't remember the exact issues but I tried to install in vscode to no avail & I've no interest in emacs

interestingly the shadows of the tears on the wall didn't get fixed, but a very convincing job otherwise

This makes me so sad. I wrote a number of articles for them when Nick Veitch was editor. They paid well and respected my copy.

I seem to recall stories of stealth vans being uncovered by passing dogs and I'd imagine he'd be similarly vulnerable.

Yes I second this. I use sqlite for local use and also for prototyping data designs, so sqlite support is very useful indeed - not a deal breaker but definitely a tick item.

If you take a photocopy/scan are the dots detectable in the copy? Asking for a friend.

It's stunning to think how well these missions have done and what we've learnt. I'd love to see new missions aimed at much greater longevity with more modern instruments. I wonder how long one could make the mission? 100 years? 200? Would new generators reduce the power loss to less than 4W/year, or would it just need more/much bigger ones?

Great informative reply, thanks.

It wasn't clear to me how this was like a Venus fly trap: the wasp grabbed prey with a rib cage and... what? Hung on to it till it's larvae developed and consumed the victim ... or what? Sorry, can someone ELI5?