True. I remember some star wars geek on the defensive explaining the parsec screwup as the millennium falcon having a navigational computer capable of calculating a route shorter than any had managed to calculate before.

I for one really like both star trek and star wars, but I’m able to enjoy them for what they are instead of bending over backwards to defend every minutia of the writing as if it’s some religious text.

Time to get a coffee, I think. As a metric person it took me too many tries trying to parse “8.7 meters years old”

Are you telling me they intentionally avoid playing Van Halen - Jump for anyone put on hold?

I for one prefer demon linux over fish linux. In fact, that’s how I first dipped my toes into the world of unix-ish OSes with FreeBSD 3.3.

No.

First we need a better system for resource allocation. Monetary systems are extremely inefficient, but they’re far better than the “trust me, bro” approach of many of the alternatives.

A global post-scarcity society could in theory take over, similar to how it works in Star Trek, but there are a lot of other hurdles that need to be overcome first.

As long as proper distribution of resources requires an effort, it will also need an incentive to do so. Currently this incentive is provided by allowing for a profit margin, and while this does also provide a mechanism for skimming off the top, at least said skimming can be somewhat controlled by a free market ensuring better circumstances for those willing to skim less.

In my book WSL and VM share the same downside in that you’re only abstracting Linux functionality in relation to the hardware.

Linux really shines when it has full access to the actual hardware as opposed to asking it’s environment nicely if it’s allowed to do something.

For example, I routinely need to change my IP address to talk to specific networks and network hosts, but having to step over the virtualisation or interpretation layer to do so is just another step, thus removing the advantage of running linux in the first place.

Sure, VMs and dual booting have their uses, but the same uses can be serviced by an actual linux install while also being infinitely more powerful.

I played around with WSL for a while, but you notice really quickly that it is not the real thing. I’ve used virtual box for some use cases, but that too feels limiting ad all of the hardware you want to fully control is only abstracted.

I would say that unless he has a really good reason why he wouldn’t want to go for dual boot, then he should do just that.

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Any suggestion for a manufacturer/vendor? I might actually need a few of this at work.

This is why all those women chose the bear

Running any software is inherently unsafe. It’s basically the computer equivalent of eating something given to by a stranger, and you just have to trust them that it’s good for you.

But we do it anyway, simply because we have to - not all of us are software devs with unlimited time on our hands.

It basically comes down to whether you trust the origin or not, as well as check the reviews/comments to gauge the reception of other users. If something fishy is going on, word spreads relatively fast.

Tip: While no means foolproof, if the software in question has a github repo, it adds a layer of trust, because that means anyone can review the source.

Meh, init 6, you coward

Now, imagine this revolutionary improvement: Find a way of putting the energy source outside of the train somehow, and save on weight by not hauling those heavy batteries around.

Christ, the amount of times techbros and tesla fanboys have accidentally “invented” trains and trams these past few years is beyond stupid…

You mount them to /proc for extra spiciness

WTF, for the past 25 years, I thought /usr was short for /user, partially because of FreeBSDs preference for having user homes in /usr/home/*

I remember this too, but in the nerdier channels we used regex notation instead.

s/nerdier/coolest/

Also, fuck /media. All of my (middle aged) homies hate /media

I will not define insanity or who is or isn’t, but hexbear users’ stances and opinions tend to be missing nuance as one often do when one is terminally online and mostly form opinions based on the reverberations of an echo chamber.

They do occasionally have a golden meme, though. But the amount of shit coming from there got too tiresome, and I could only look past so many genocide denials before I ended up blocking the entire instance.

We will never know the full scale, because that’s classified, but there are some details that we do know, and some that are reasonably safe to assume.

• Sensor systems better than anything else fielded (confirmed due to the high cost of one particular part needed for an IR tracker and camera)
• Teaming possibility with other planes where one plane detects and another plane fires
• Exceptional radar
• An unknown quantity of EW capabilities

In addition to this, I’d like to point out a major difference in track record between US arms industry and that of russia: US capabilities are usually understated. Russian ones are usually either overstated, or only possible in the most ideal set of circumstances.

Because right wingers spent the past ten years repackaged the fear mongering about “The Gay Agenda” and call it woke instead.

Game: Day of the Tentacle
Book: Cryptonomicon
TV: BoJack horseman
Movie: The Matrix or The Prestige

Honorable mention: Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog