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This is why I avoid AUR, it's too easy to become complacent. If I really want something from AUR I literally just look at the PKGBUILD for compilation instructions and do it manually by myself, but if it's got so many patches or dependencies that I can't go through them all by hand I just find another solution or do without.

This is also why I really dislike a lot of modern languages with automated fetching of dependencies. It really fosters a sloppy attitude toward your supply chain because it's just too damned convenient. With a reasonably sized Go project for instance, you may be pulling in code from dozens of different git repos. It only takes one compromised repo or malicious package to sink the ship.

I forgot to add that development is active:

https://gitlab.com/rpncalculators/c43

It was restocked the other day, SwissMicros had an issue with the button domes and had to wait for replacements to come in from China which took awhile because of Trump/Iran.

Try using a tiling window manager. I generally dislike animation in my UI, but when a window, especially an unexpected one opens up and changes your layout it can take a second or more to reorient and it can really interrupt your flow. Animation would alleviate that.

That said, I still prefer sway over the animated alternatives for other reasons.

This game need a "bah-ram-ewe" cheat code where the sheep dog turns into a well-mannered pig who politely asks the sheep to return to their pen.

IIRC the only way to keep who owns a home truly anonymous (short of a court getting involved) is to create a shell company (not an LLC) and have your attorney sign off on the deed as a representative of the company. Problem is you have to pay a lot more tax if/when you sell (I believe it's considered income, instead of capital gains). LLC's, and I believe, trusts, are fairly easy to sort out the ownership of -- they obscure your name from people finding out where you live, but if somebody is curious who lives at your address, they just have to pull up docs on the legal entity. This probably wouldn't even cause an inconvenience for somebody with access to LexisNexis or whatever.

(Don't quote me on this, if somebody knows better please fill me in)

I read an Economist article a few years ago that mentioned a literature professor at Columbia who said that most his undergrad freshmen students have never read a book cover to cover. Of those that have, their favorites were young adult fiction. Most of his students couldn't even focus on a single sonnet.

Apparently kids nowadays are having difficulty focusing on individual sentences, and a lot of them are just effectively illiterate. This just blows me away. I'm roughly your age and sometimes as a kid, during the summer, I'd do nothing for days but read nonstop, sunrise to sunset if I liked the book, and I knew a bunch of kids who would do the same thing. They weren't even what you'd call huge readers. It's just what you did if you were bored, or had an okay book with nothing else to do.

Jesus after reading this I'm wondering if I want to switch my AMD Framework 13 Pro order to Intel, but the IME runs on Java if memory serves and it's not like they'll be any more secure.

I just hope we can get Libreboot working with Framework sometime.

I wonder if we could mess with NSA-style surveillance by having a good chunk of the population streaming lots of random data over the internet. Essentially, Alice piping her /dev/random to Bob's /dev/null over netcat or something. Make a slick looking app that does it 24/7 in the background using excess bandwidth and tell people it sticks it to the NSA.

Spy agencies would not only have to store it all in case it was something valuable, but at some point they may try to crack it because it's indistinguishable from encrypted data and waste resources on it. If enough people did it, total web surveillance could become impractical.

Fun bit of trivia: Japanese train stations each have their own custom stamp, and if you have a piece of paper or a notebook they'll stamp it for you at the ticket booth (this is a fairly common thing to do there). If you get an A5 notebook, it's a neat way to document a trip -- one stamp for your departure station, one for your arrival.

Crows in country will wait for a newborn deer to be left alone in a field by their mothers shortly after birth to peck the baby's eyes out so it dies and the crow can eat it later. My neighbor had told me about this happening, and maybe a month later I saw a fawn with its eyes pecked out shortly after it had died. The doe just sat at the edge of the field by it all night. So sad, but really smart of the crows.

Crows have also been known to alert predators like wolves to easy prey so they can pick the remains.

I'm glad to hear that, I just ordered their astronomy book the other day! The online/PDF material looked good but I hate diving into something unless it's on paper.

I've heard good things about openstax.

Wow they had the condition that the land be used as a park baked into the deed when they sold it to the city for $10, the city sold it, and when the family went to court their suit was dismissed. Now their home is worthless because nobody wants to live next to a data center.

When are we going to hold local government officials accountable for bullshit like this? Send them to prison.

That's an interesting quote, because Feynman's superpower seemed to be his ability to visualize a difficult problem and make it parsable by mere mortals. I think he only scored ~135 on an IQ test (whatever that's worth).

> I don't know what the 'super' key in GNOME is

Clearly you're not a golfer.

ACLU needs to take his case and sue everything in sight.

Why would they not have a human look at the hit? Flock, San Diego and the SDPD are all liable.

Looks like PDR finally implemented the "buy a giclée print of anything" feature! Previously you could only buy prints of select works.

Darwin awards should give this guy an honorable mention.

It still blows me away that the original HP 15/16 series has reports of a single set of silver oxide batteries lasting over a decade without having to be replaced.

Man Man: the man with the strength of two men.

Firefox added profile switching recently. Works good.

(That said, I still keep separate machines. One for doing "official" things, the other for everything else)

Herodotus did it first, and even speculated that that region must have been covered by water at some point.

This, but we need to prevent as much of this data from being collected in the first place. All our traffic cameras for instance are being coopted into a massive surveillance network with no oversight, but this network doesn't exist if you don't have traffic cameras in the first place.

I propose the J Edgar Hoover heuristic. Would X be something you'd want Hoover to have access to? If not, then don't build it.

Maybe there was some problems before with research funding, but this is the definition of throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

"Silent but deadly"

I don't know if more models will offer a meaningful counter to those in power, who will have not only more resources, but also the military, law enforcement and effectively the law itself.

Probably the most we can hope to do at this point is to dismantle the surveillance architecture. "Starve the beast" so to speak.

This is becoming a mainstream position for a number of reasons but I think the unifying concern across many demographics is the concern about the effects on power it will have. Nobody wants an omnipresent big brother in anybody's hands, and people are waking up to the fact that the infrastructure is already there without any real safeguards, all that's really needed is cheap intelligence to handle all the data.

Nippon packaging

So dressed like a lover

Frigid winter day

Utah Mormons are of a different mindset, they're on home turf in their promised land and they act like it.

There's a Mormon that runs a local business in my area. One day he puts his business up for sale because he wants to move to Utah to get closer to his faith. Ends up moving back and reopening a couple of years later -- turns out he was Mormon, but not Mormon enough. They don't like outsiders, not even the Mormons from out of state, which kind of makes sense with being a historically polygamous group which expels the young men who aren't in the "in" group. Breeds a mindset of exclusivity.