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Is magit much better than tig? I've never used magit.

Non compliance will require the setting of a security flag in the IP header.

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt

You are spot on. New car EV prices are dropping and tech is advancing.

EVs inherently depreciate less; they're simpler, few moving parts. The motor is sealed. Batteries are lasting longer than expected.

So 'depreciate' in the title is misleading. It may be technically true in that they lose resale value, but they are definitely not less road-worthy than a similarly aged combustion vehicle.

I would absolutely buy a second hand Tesla, they're great value. Probably other EVs too.

I'd just like to mention Roy Calne, transplant pioneer, humanist, skeptic. Only died last year, at 93.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Calne

> Sir Roy Yorke Calne FRS FRCS (30 December 1930 – 6 January 2024) was a British surgeon and pioneer in organ transplantation. He was part of the team that performed the first liver transplantation operation in Europe in 1968, the world's first liver, heart and lung transplantation in 1987, the first intestinal transplant in the UK in 1992 and the first successful combined stomach, intestine, pancreas, liver and kidney cluster transplantation in 1994.

It's probably the stopping of other treatments that fixed it. I had bad eczema and psoriasis. It stopped (after weeks) after I stopped treating it with random creams and taking cool showers. I later found out that the culprit was lidocaine.

Also copper is biocidal, so maybe there's something there.

I was thought Barbarian was Vallejo. I was probably thinking of Barbarella!

https://posteritati.com/artist/602/boris-vallejo

I really wonder how much rare earth element deposits are not found for want of looking. Not much reason to source them yourselves if the country (China) uses them for products that you're going to buy.

According to this map, China has vastly more. But is there something special about China/Myanmar geologically? I guess being downstream of the Himalayas is something.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/rare-eart...

It's a bit pathetic that European countries do not have the tech capacity to compete equally without having to do stuff like this.

(Not saying China is playing fair btw, just saying there's a vast amount of underused intellectual resources in Europe.)

Could have been worse --

    Ramazan Çalçoban sent his estranged wife Emine the text message:
    Zaten sen sıkışınca konuyu değiştiriyorsun.
    "Anyhow, whenever you can't answer an argument, you change the subject."

    Unfortunately, what she thought he wrote was:
    Zaten sen sikişınce konuyu değiştiriyorsun.
    "Anyhow, whenever they are fucking you, you change the subject."

This led to a fight in which the woman was stabbed and died and the man committed suicide in prison.

https://gizmodo.com/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two-peopl...

A stone is 1/8th of a long hundredweight. Easy!

If it's offered, choose EN-Australian or EN-international. Then you get sensible dates and measurement units.

You can still use WSL1 if you want. (maybe you know this).

It was an epiphany for me watching a blacksmith at work. After the piece of metal is pulled from the furnace, it can be kept red hot if hit hard and often enough.

If I had bothered to think I would have known this theoretically = being a physics and mecheng guy.

Curse you pianola! If only we knew.

So weird that Marty is using corporate speak to someone who I presume he's been working with for up to ten years.

All of them really, not just Marty H.

Fnord

I wonder if he came up with it when pondering permuted indexes. Which used to be a feature of the man pages system.

I first thought of Jeff Fenech the boxer. Surely more famous.

Yep, a relative of mine, Joseph (Irish last name) became José when he was a Gaucho in Argentina.

What if the vendors or management have organised crime connections? It's not worth your kneecaps.

And even if it's all open source, there can be branding issues like Moodle and SugarCRM.

To some, "Now we can add the two equations together to eliminate y: might need a little explanation.

The (an) answer is that since the LHS and RHS are equal, you can choose to add or subtract them to another equation and preserve equality.

If I remember correctly, substitution (isolating x or y) was introduced before this technique.

Oops. I'm pretty sure I had a much older article but must've fouled up my copy'n'paste.

But while I'm here .. https://retractionwatch.com/2024/03/04/kpmg-government-repor...

"KPMG government report on research integrity makes up reference involving Retraction Watch founders"

An August 2023 report on research integrity by consulting firm KPMG, commissioned by an Australian government agency, contains a made-up reference, Retraction Watch has discovered.

Not unrelated, but the Albanese govt spending way too much on consultants.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/06/deloi...

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/labor-vowed-to-crack...

Oof, 'menses' - never heard that pronunciation but thanks I think.

And AlJazeera is not even biased enough sometimes. They were suspended from operating in Gaza for a while by Gazans/PA.

You're asking for certitude when there can never be certitude.

Just as an example, if a Hamas soldier dons a PRESS vest, is he automatically immune?

More recently, USA gave ('returned') $1.7 billion to Iran. Of course a large chunk of that has gone to Hamas and Hezbollah and numerous other interests that destabilise Israel and Western powers.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-united-states-iran-an...

How could it be irrelevant?

You be aware of this study indicating more diversity of opinion on the right vs left.

https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjso....