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My Amiga in the 1990s seemed to do a pretty good job at boot.

Social media is a lesson for all of us that sometimes the cost of something isn't readily apparent. It reminds me of Cowslip's Warren in Watership Down - apparently healthy and safe rabbits welcoming in others, with a mortal danger that isn't obvious and somewhat overlooked.

Thankfully we are at that stage with social (and other) media where Bigwig gets caught in a snare and narrowly escapes, and I can look around me and see my fellow people getting caught in these traps. For some people it is too late, for anyone who knows people who have gone too far down the youtube algorithm (like my mother) will know they aren't easily rescued.

The law in the UK has just changed to explicitly give priority to pedestrians already crossing the road, particularly in the context of a car turning off a main road and finding pedestrians crossing the road.

I'm looking through the responses, and this makes the most sense.

The difference between saying that '12 hours is too much', depends on how it is said and what is open to negotiation to keep both sides happy. The thing is that 12 hours may be too much, but 4 hours, for example, might keep both sides happy. Also saying '12 hours is too much' is also an opening gambit that states what the issue is, and opens the door to how two people might come to an agreement.

Ultimatums tend to come in the form of offering a binary choice, one of which is full acceptance of a proposal made by one person. Ultimatums don't come with a 'or we can negotiate something that works for us' addendum, they are usually all or nothing.

While the first type of communication / boundary may well lead to a divorce if it can't be resolved, it isn't necessarily presented as an ultimatum.

They recruit the best from school early on and their training is intense. It's a very desirable job in a country that has food, electricity and other shortages.

Have a listen to the Lazarus Heist podcast for more information.

> there is evil afoot

> the will of the people is unusually evil

I'm intrigued by this language. What do you mean by it? Do you believe in evil, are you religious? Do you believe people can be evil, or are you talking more about evil acts? I'm just curious because it stood out for me.

A lot of the problem is definitions. I'm not a free speech 'absolutist', do I guess I'm 'restrictionist'. But what defines 'speech'. It can cover the spoken word, the written word, communication in art, photograph, video.

If a King said "off with his head", and someone carried out that order in a country where this was illegal, who did wrong? Is the King simply exercising his rights to free speech? What about paedophiles sharing images?

I suspect that it comes down to power imbalances. And that is something difficult to measure. A dictator and an influencer both have power to cause a lot of harm in what they say, as does an adult who shouldn't be near a child.

I agree with your example of the atheist, and in fact that has been the case for hundreds of years. The 'harm' in that case is something that people disagree on. An atheist and most scientists would disagree in the harm caused in that situation.

Abuse is a good word for my experience using Windows. Every time I need to log in to Word and it tells me it's "getting Office ready" when I know it's checking my subscription. Or whenever an upgrade happens when I thought I was just shutting down the machine for the day. Or starting it up. I didn't consent for you to do that Windows, but there you go again.

I'd love to put on an exhibition of Linux running in a museum. In the centre of the room would be a computer terminal, and then there would hundreds of other screens which shows the internal state of various files and memory registers. That way people can observe parts of it as it's being used.

The podcast seems to be available on Spotify and similar.

You don't expect your health data, financial data and purchase history (does that include anything paid for by Apple pay?) to be shared with Meta just because you are trying out Threads.

Someone of you may enjoy this[0] podcast on the North Korean Lazarus Group.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xtvg9/episodes/downloads

I think UHK (V2) was more like 2 years? But I agree, the product is great and I use it every day.

The usual position of the esc key is terrible ergonomically for vim users, but then vim was not designed for the IBM model M keyboard.

I like to use XMP on linux to listen to folders of MODS. They are easy to get hold of these days!

I've seen him live. Fantastic experience.

EDIT: The last track his him.

So much of modern technology is a trojan horse these days. This is basically the enshittification of cloud services. Just a few years ago people would say you were being a little paranoid if you were worried about your data passing through company's servers unencrypted, but here we are now.

If companies do start training models on what people consider to be private documents, then the issues we already have with AI taking the jobs and purposes of humans is going to become significantly worse.

Scientists working on papers will essentially not be able to trust that their work won't get out before they have published it. A competing research team, asking prompts in the right way, could chance upon a reply that gives them a clue as to what the other team have found or are doing. The same goes for competing companies and engineering teams. Or authors writing the next book in a series. Other people using that trained data could produce a cheap rip-off of that next paper, patent, book using AI.

And that will completely demotivate humans to actually do stuff. Because what's the point? No one will pay you for it, and a poor quality second rate product is obtainable much cheaper.

At that point I think we'll discover what the real limitations of AI are, as we, as a society, have to get used to using it over humans. And I somehow doubt we will be better off.

I just got a Swissmicros DM42 this year, and I love the display.

My dream is a pocket computer running headless linux with a reasonable keyboard, e-ink display, and vim/mutt/git.

And Workbench was there with pre-emptive multi-tasking, resizable overlapping windows with adjustable colours in the same year that Windows 1 was released.

Makes me wonder what went wrong for them.

Fosstodon is a good place to start maybe? Plenty of tech on Mastodon, hopefully other interests will follow.

Disagree. COVID was high mortality at 1% before the vaccine with an especially high contagiousness. Hospitals were overwhelmed in areas that couldn't control the spread, which meant shortages of beds and oxygen for those who could be saved.

D-IX is a methamphetamine-based experimental performance enhancer developed by Nazi Germany in 1944 for military application.

My impression is that they're reasonably priced - is that true? Could a student exist without cooking facilities by eating at ramen joints?

Another aspect is that sons will always inherit the Y chromosome from the father. Other genes on other chromosomes have a 50/50 chance of inheritance, which gives a bit of leeway.

I find these calculators fascinating. I'm not a computer scientist, but I find it really intriguing that their processors naturally handled binary encoded decimal, and also their algorithms for calculating trig and log functions on such limited processing power. I understand the early HPs excelled themselves on returning accurate results, often more accurate than more modern machines.

Day to day I use free42/plus42 on my phone for working out quick calculations. I find the RPN works best when you're trying to solve numerical questions as you go. It also has great time/date functions which help me to plan driving trips etc, and it is programmable, so I have a few useful calculators on it for EV charging etc.

My kids use the Linux bedrock launcher (unofficial). It's often a bit behind the latest release, but it runs much smoother than on Windows IMO.

https://github.com/minecraft-linux/appimage-builder/releases...

Anyone who is child free still has a vested interest in the future generation.

Do you know in what way it was 'acoustic'? I.e. was it listening for sounds, or was it more like sonar?

When I heard Cameron speaking about this recently, I thought he was referring to two different materials being used, rather than the carbon fibre per se.

Ballast tanks don't work at these depths because of the extreme pressure, which is why all these deep sea vehicles are submersibles rather than submarines. In fact I think if a submarine goes below a certain depth then it can't adjust its buoyancy to return to the surface again, but I am also not a sub nerd.