Malgas

It seems kind of disingenuous to compare enterprise support contracts for Linux to personal Windows licenses. Especially while also ignoring that you do pay for Windows, it’s just hidden in the cost of the device.

Though it is also true that Linux is gratis and Windows is not.

Skin bandits?

Huh. TIL that italic emoji are a thing.

…I don’t know why that’s surprising to me, since they’re just Unicode, but it is.

https://xkcd.com/1138/

I believe the g palatalizes the n, so it’s more like nyok-key.

On the other side [Wayland] is buggy af.

I’ve been having the exact opposite problem since recently coming back to Linux after a long hiatus. For me, Wayland has been flawless, while anything x11 looks like somebody ran the screen through a shredder, discarded half the strips, and smooshed the rest back together.

I don’t know how to troubleshoot that. I don’t even know what to type in a search engine to get relevant results.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of hard drives speeding down the highway.

First OS on a computer I personally owned? Windows 98. First Linux distro was Source Mage.

If not counting ownership, then Apple IIs at school and then slightly later my family got an Amstrad that was primarily a DOS machine, but could also boot (by switching floppies several times) to some sort of GUI.

Go for the eyes, Boo!

This format is especially apropos, as Natalie Portman is one of a handful of actors with an Erdos number.

On the other hand slavery of actual humans is a thing. And at least the first generation of strong AI will effectively be persons whom it is legal to own because our laws are human-centric.

Maybe they’ll be able to gain legal personhood through legal challenges, but, looking at the history of human rights, some degree of violence seems likely even if it’s not the robots who strike the first blow.

I wonder what he actually meant. 1g/kg maybe? That would be 125% of the RDA, which I don’t know if it’s a good idea but it’s certainly more reasonable than…that.

That was actually Unix. Specifically the fsn file manager for IRIX.

There’s a Linux clone called fsv.

He’s pining for the fjords.

One such possibility is that you can only travel to times where the device you’re using to do so exists.

More like a time gate than an H.G. Wells-style machine, but still a workable model.

Tindoodles.

The Poodles of Tindalos.

Best advice I’ve probably gotten on any subject ever was in a modern physics course. The professor said to focus on the math first and then, only when you’ve got a solution, think about what it means. If you try to think about it while working it out, your intuitions about what should happen will get in the way and you’ll make mistakes.

See also: Herodotus is the father of history despite being an absolutely terrible historian by modern standards.