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For me it happened on 12/9

Google reader was killed because there was only one guy who knew how to support it

Sadly in many cases no; it's not magic. This nirvana is restricted to cases where there is CPU bandwidth available (e.g. some cores idle) and plenty of free RAM. When either CPU or RAM are less plentiful... hello pauses my old friend.

That's just a circular argument

A lot of sharpshooter/sniper types who have tried it seem to say it's pretty easy. Interestingly they tend to miss the first shot (like Oswald) due to the steeper downward angle.

Or you can play the game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5U5iu85oUM

Recently it was revealed that the car had been modified and the back seat was quite a bit higher than is normal for that model, and the original bullet trajectory analysis was therefore inaccurate.

I remember reading somewhere this was for juvenile chimps only, and they lost the ability as they matured.

A system that in some context has an inheritable genotype that influences its phenotype.

I add the context part so we can say a virus is alive if the context of host cells is present, and otherwise not. Similar to how we are alive in the context of being on the Earth's surface, but not on the Sun.

The name sprint comes from rugby, and just refers to what the team would be doing together to succeed (sprinting to the other end of the field with the ball).

From memory they got their TCP/IP stack via the MIT licence

Some older Java application servers still feature a tiny amount of CORBA underneath the covers

I'm wrong on the work thing, but I don't think we can always regard deceleration as work, since that only works for Newtonian mechanics. Under GR there is an extra term in the equation allowing for acceleration without work.

I had heard that somewhere before, but it looks like I'm wrong

One aspect of gravity waves is that other than being extremely weak, they cannot perform work. So they don't cause mechanical forces.

Java already has that GC, it's called Epsilon https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/post/epsilon-the-jdks-...

Consider just the aspect of randomness alone. How can the universe implement it? It seems like a really awkward problem. [But the Everett interpretation gives it to us for free](https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2014/07/28/quantum...). It really seems like a killer argument to me.

Anybody know anything about the part where SCO actually won? I'm referring to the final event years later where IBM made a settlement payment to them. I assume it didn't make up for the years of effort, but I'd love to know what it was based on.

This is probably the best explanation you're going to find https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/apbcLXz5zB7PXfgg2/an-intuiti...

The Economist estimates about 20m dead https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...

I was on Gabapentin for back/leg pain. The doctor warned that it was very important to ramp up the dose gradually, and ramp down gradually. I followed the advice carefully and had no issues. But it was tempting to think "I'm okay now, I won't need to take more pills".

I remember reading about a serious tournament game where somebody castled twice. Nobody noticed during the game. I wonder how many computer databases allow that game to be entered.

From memory it wasn't so long ago that the laws of chess "allowed" you to play an illegal move to cause a checkmate (e.g. Qd1xf7 mate). Your opponent would say "hey that's an illegal move, take it back". You could then say "according to this rule, taking back illegal moves can only be done during a game, and according to this other rule, checkmate immediately ends the game".

Note that it can be discovered during a game that a move several turns ago was actually illegal, and the board should be returned to that position (and times adjusted). I had this happen to me once.

It still amazes me that in the 21st century no computer can use a couple of extra monitors reliably without sometimes not detecting them, getting in the wrong resolution, or other strange issues.

In Saudi Arabia atheists are terrorists. And they also have the death penalty for terrorism.

THANK YOU! It mystifies me how people manage to ignore this. Interstellar travel is going to be enormously difficult. Maybe just too hard to overcome regardless of technology level.

Hopefully this is on point https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DFxoaWGEh9ndwtZhk/decoherenc...

Also possibly including: install very old OS version, get libs and dependencies to some old version, and maybe update to a slightly newer compatible version, but not the latest. Create mock services of complex back end systems for test cases. Convert https connections to http for testing, or use unsupported TLS versions and protocols for some connections. Then you can get started!

Apparently those random crashes were often caused by hardware memory corruption. I remember one manual basically said something like "if this error happens, don't worry about it, it probably won't happen much". And then you would see it for the third time that day.

I got a laugh from this about tar https://xkcd.com/1168/