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Denmark ordered more in October. Canada talks a lot, but so far has done nothing concrete about reducing their order. You would think they would urgently cancel and get Gripens and/or Rafales.

Wonder what's going on behind the scenes.

For me this is the superior format, but alas, almost no one uses it. Even Python projects usually go with.md docs. What new projects have you seen using.rst docs?

Blank page with JavaScript disabled says to me: nothing to see here, move along.

Absolutely. The mass bombings of German cities during WW2 would be considered a war crime today.

Not just hardware startups, alas.

Looks like the design lives on. Wonder if it'll get any traction.

https://www.opensourceforu.com/2025/11/ainekko-turns-esperan...

I've not seen it, but am curious to dig deeper, can you post some links please?

There's a few different Skyrim mods that use AI. In particular for adding dialogues using the original voices, basically a more advanced version of line splitting that has been done for a long time.

There are some where the AI is used to add dynamic content, pretty cool actually.

This one in particular is pretty popular: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/98631

I've never heard of anyone complaining about use of AI for mods freely given to the community. Paying mods would likely be different.

I get the joke on OP's typo for is/in, but even then you answered "what" instead of OP's "where".

This is similar to the arrangements of public toilets in ancient Rome, except for them the seats are arrangemed in a circle. Everything old is new again.

My SO and I move and snore, not a bad arrangement. Somehow I don't think that's what they were going for though.

I maintain both commercial and open source libs. This is a non starter in both cases. It would easily double if not triple the workload.

For open source, well these are volunteer projects on my own time, you are always welcome to fork a given version and backport any fixes that land on main/master.

For commercial libs, our users are not willing to pay extra for this service, so we don't provide it. They would rather stay on an old version and update the entire code base at given intervals. Even when we do release patch versions, there is surprisingly little uptake.

> We in the USA choose to stick with ancient technology because we have a sunk cost and an existing political power structure built around it.

Yes, and also vast oil and gas reserves China doesn't have.

Also there is strong public fear and dislike of nuclear power.

In countries where there are no or little fossil fuels it is mainly this public opinion which has crippled the nuclear industry. Germany is a prime example.

Public opinion is obviously much less important in China.

Agreed. It's interesting that the design decisions that make Perl and Go problematic are pretty much at opposites. Both are extremists, in a way.

I remember the Perl art competitions, where you would write Perl code that would run and actually do something, and would be ASCII art at the same time. Obviously, lots of camels ;-)

This matches my experience.

I started programming in the late 90s using Perl as my first "real" language. When I first saw some Python code (2.3 if memory serves), I found it much easier to understand. Not necessarily easier to write, but diving into a Python codebase 6 months later was a lot easier than doing the same than with Perl. Purely subjective, but I was far from the only one, even if quite a few people at the time preferred Perl.

Later, when the Web really took off, running PHP 4 was much easier to get going than either Python or Perl, so a lot of us went with that.

And yeah afterwards JS with node.js in particular. The millions pumped into it by Google certainly helped.

There was also a time a bit later with Ruby getting really popular. Not just for new projects, I heard of some codebases migrating from Perl to Ruby, when the writing was on the wall for Perl 5.

Go, I think when it became popular not many people were still using Perl. Also not really something you would use to bang out a quick script with. Probably more of a competitor to Java.

As for me, back to Python as my bread and butter. Probably haven't touched Perl in 20 years at this point. Looks like gibberish to me now...

Death follows mating for the males and the eggs hatching for the females. Not an uncommon behavior, all sorts of plants (ie agave) and animals (ie salmon) have a similar strategy. Meaning the strategy works very well, and would likely be controlled by very different genes, depending on the species.

Changing this "death gene" via a breeding program is likely to fail, but could perhaps be accomplished via gene editing like CRISPR.

Another approach would be delaying sexual maturity. Doubling the lifespan to something like 4-5 years in the common octopus would have very interesting results. However, doubling the lifespan would effectively halve the number of offspring, meaning these mutants would be less competitive, compared to their wild relatives. This could be seen as the needed safeguard to prevent a race of highly intelligent mollusks from taking our planetary domination crown.

So all in all, delaying sexual maturity seems to be the better way to go for your project.

Do keep us updated on the advancement.

Yes, those are clearly American raccoons, not the Asian "raccoon dogs".

In the video it's mentioned they were unwillingly introduced by the US military, kept as pets by servicemen and escaped.

I fail to see the problem here. Just round the price for every type of transaction.

Yes, that's what I'm thinking of doing, blocking directly on the router.

It was somewhat manageable before with proper education (teaching them what to avoid, time limiting), but now with shorts and AI it's becoming a cesspool.

The main reason I allow it is to show them the dangers of it, of knowing to be careful. Otherwise I feel like as soon as they get access, they'll be completely unprepared... and of course as they get older they will definitely get access.

This would not work for mine, they just wouldn't use it under those conditions. I would rather show them a good time initially and increase complexity if they take a liking to learning about computers. My eldest is much more artistic than technical and has little interest in programming and tech in general. But he took to Krita on Linux with enthusiasm.

BTW didn't downvote you.

Pretty sure that's against the Geneva convention.

I went with LDE Neon for both my kids. It's also what I use, I really like the KDE ecosystem, very polished experience overall.

Also it's similar enough to Windows that they don't feel completely out of touch on the school computers.

Killer app is Krita for the older one, even got him a cheap Wacom later on.

Otherwise school work, native Linux games, and YouTube. That last one with the younger one I have to keep an eye on. Honestly thinking about blocking access, we'll see.

Both like gaming, so I set up wine for them on my machine with separate accounts. Learning about email, downloads, files and folders by installing Skyrim mods (using kid friendly settings on Nexus), also an exercise in managing frustration...

Anyway everyone will be different, just set up something they'll enjoy. Already for a kid to know Linux exists is a head start.

Michael Jackson is a fairly common name though, I went to school with one. Also with a George Washington, he had a harder time...

The Facebook founder's father was a dentist, which is pretty funny given the name.

If they can't be bothered to make a requirements.txt file, I'm not seeing how uv will be of much help...

They don't clear snow from cycle paths in Canada? If not then it's an infrastructure problem, not a weather problem.

The idea I believe is to make a USD-pegged crypto the new reserve currency.

I'm genuinely curious, could you elaborate?

Which European countries would you consider to be socialist? Or perhaps a better question is what makes a country socialist?

Which personal freedoms are different in the US vs Europe?

I've lived in both US and Europe, and have an opinion on this, but really would like your take.

That's not what the term "free and fair" elections means though. To be considered fair, there can be no government interference of the voting process (ex: ballot stuffing, voter suppression) and its results must be accepted.

Media manipulation exists of course, all democracies have this to a certain extent. But France is actually not too bad compared to other countries.