This is a big deal. The emergence of eukaryotes may be more important to our biological story than the emergence of life.

Some have suggested (I saw it on PBS Spacetime) that eukaryotic evolution is the “great filter” that prevents civilizations and explains the Fermi paradox. Perhaps the universe is filled to the lid with slimes and bacteria, with complex cells being vanishingly rare or maybe unique.

The problem is that the US put sanctions on this person. Not that M$ is obeying those sanctions; it’s not optional.

Best practice is to criticize them for genocide profiteering. They chose that.

For those of you not aware of Target’s recent troubles, here is an astrophysicist explaining why they suck. : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPVSj9rcK-E With data!

They also sell Pacific Northwest

I was actually delighted when Windows 11 added tabs to notepad and explorer, and layers make MSPaint worth using.

But all of these things became buggy messes. Explorer showing ads for OneDrive and inexplicable behavior, On more than one occasion, the address bar would become unusable, and I deeply resent having to use the mouse to do simple tasks.

Now I know that this was prelude to Copilot.

So now I daily drive Debian making me a computer user, not a resource for billionaires to mine.

There is more to economics than Milton Friedman. Marx was a pioneer in economics and leftest theory has been robust in the field from the beginning.

Criticizing soft sciences for their estrangement from mathematics is classic antiintellectualism. The same logic would demand the disillusion of psychology, sociology, and all the critical theories that are the foundation of modern leftest thought.

Chris Christie was the prosecutor that put Chuck in prison. This was a great source of friction during the first administration.

This is the most humane idea the administration has had. They could multiply the benefit and still save the taxpayer the price of cruel rendition.

Syphilis in Seattle, starring William Defoe and Helena Bonham Carter.

Great! now the taxpayer is obligated to pay off the women he fucked.

Suck it, Betteridge !

Reddit has banned a community devoted to a nihilistic, anti-life philosophy

This sentence contradicts itself. Devotion to a philosophy or ideology is precisely what nihilism is not.

To the argument “The Earth is valuable and should be protected” the nihilist would point out that earth having value depends on the continued existence of Humans.

Obviously this fit’s the narrative of fossil fuel and xenophobes, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a serious concern.

Honestly, I’m nervous about my TP link network gear.

It’s weird that Linux certification requires rote-memorization of commands. The only people who make any effort to memorize commands are newbies and people studding for exams. You will always have access to bash history, man, and --help, even from an offline machine.

Every command I’ve memorized is simply the natural process of repetition. Is that your experience?

It’s ironic because the tradition in Europe is to aggressively head toward the Polish boarder.

I’m decades younger and I wouldn’t want to be compared to Springsteen.

WTF do you do if it’s overflowing or needs a new ballcock? You’d have to pull the whole thing or disassemble it with a hammer.

A benefit to Tram lines is that building them in under-developed or miss-developed areas of cities and suburbs raises the value of all the adjacent property which creates tax revenue and has the knock-on effect of encouraging (re)development.

Putting one that goes a quarter of a Km Downtown is another choice.

Countdown to Trump saying something deplorable. 10…9…8…

I hate AI as much as the next lemming, but nobody is going to tell me a babble fish for real isn’t cool AF.