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I disagree with the interpretation that it needs to be held physically. Digital ownership is still ownership. I go out of my way to find music on Bandcamp, games on GOG, and rip movies myself using MakeMKV.
Files on a hard disk that you own are still files that you physically own. The only difference between those files and, say, a DVD, is that the encoding is more space-efficient.
My first reaction is that the step to torture was a step backwards, a disregard for what we've learned about the efficacy of torture in getting reliable information, and an embrace of sadistic revenge as an end in itself as state policy.
It's the state policy part that I find the worst. Individual acts of senseless violence you can blame on the individual; state acts that in retrospect are senseless violence you can - in some cases - blame on what was known at the time.
To purposefully do that when you now it's useless is a rare evil; to declare it's useful when you know it's useless is an Orwellian, totalitarian turn.
And it was torture, not 'labelled' 'torture'. Waterboarding, sleep deprivation, high-volume constant music, others I'm glad I don't know about. It was torture.
The OK-ing of torture was a clear step into the totalitarian camp and a clear breach with justice, liberalism, and decency.
Why on earth? Because I love that TV series, and the passage from that TV series is what comes to mind for me.
The passage that comes to mind for me whenever this idea comes up, from the Brett version of the Holmes story "The Dancing Men":
H: So, Watson.
W: Hmm.
H: You do not propose to invest in South African securities?
W: How on earth do you know that?
H: Now, confess, you are utterly taken aback.
W: I am!
H: I should make you sign a paper to that effect.
W: Why?
H: Because in a few minutes you will say it is all so absurdly simple.
W: I should say nothing of the kind!
H: You see, my dear Watson, it is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though possibly a meretricious, effect.
H: I can tell by an inspection of the groove between your left forefinger and thumb, that you have decided not to invest your small capital in the gold fields.
W: I can see no connection.
H: Very likely not; but I can quickly give you a close connection.
H: Here are the missing links in the very simple chain: You had chalk between your forefinger and thumb when you returned from the club last night. You put chalk there when you play billiards, to ease the cue. You never play billiards except with Thurston. Now, Thurston, you told me, four weeks ago, had an option on some South African security which expired in a month, and which he desired you to share with him. Your checkbook is locked in my drawer, and you have not asked for the key. So, you do not propose to invest your money in that manner.
W: How absurdly simple!
H: Quite so. Every problem is absurdly simple when it is explained to you.s/perpetual/permanent
perpetual has pejorative connotations and only started appearing in marketing speak when software rental became the new business model.
Not to be that guy, but 38-53um is 1 order of magnitude smaller than 200um
What types of problems are better solved in F# than C#?
Is having a combination of F# and C# in a single codebase possible? Is it recommended?
He's redirecting requests coming from hn to a photo of a hairy ball in an egg holder with some mildly insulting text, and setting a cookie so the redirect happens outside of hn links as well. The text even comes with a tone of the moral high ground, so you know he's not being an asshole, just "being honest".
It's fair to say he's not interested in having his views known to readers here.
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large portion of the time, the maintainer notices what happened a few hours later.
So add it at the package manager level instead of the user level then?
There's also clearly a voiceover, they must lose points for that too. /s
When the applause fades, my employees, or reports, or "my team" when I'm feeling jolly
was good too
Well at least the spelled 'appendix' correctly
You decide when updates happen, not the other way around.
What's the other way around? "Updates decide when you happen"?
Sounds like part of a Yakov Smirnoff joke.
One neat inflation calculation I stumbled on is that inflation since 1945 to today is ~20x, so, from the film-noir era to today,
5¢ = $1
25¢ = $5
$1 = $20
$5 = $100
I have a mixed opinion of unicode, but it's hard not to love the box-drawing / block-element chars.
"Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something" - Mitch Hedberg
It's hard to escape the tick-tock of time slipping away, even if there's no clock in the room
There's a Far Side cartoon in that
"Oh boy, look at that all that melting ice cream.. I hope he sits on our anthill!"
Related, mapping of OSM infrastructure data:
That's right. You can also introduce or correct information with a point-of-information, at least as I was taught them.
Other types of interjection are point of personal privilege (eg seat is uncomfortable) and point of inquiry (clarification).
I came across them in the debating world. Point of information can be pretty effective if you're able to make a statement of fact contradicting something the other side declared.
See also: https://senate.oregonstate.edu/sites/senate.oregonstate.edu/...
As a point of order: Astral did not, in fact, burn through its VC money.
That's a point of information, not a point of order.
"What fools we are to live in a generation for which war is a computer game for our children and just an interesting little Channel 4 news item"
- Tony Benn, MP, in the UK parliament, speaking against a resolution authorizing bombing of Iraq in 1998
Wildfires have to be a big one as well, the time range and geographic range is growing on a seemingly yearly basis.
Related, home insurance cost increases (and, in places, unavailability) from wildfires & worsening storms hits the pocketbook directly.
RIP, thanks for the memories.
No sci fi effect has ever given me the same sense of wonder that I got from the shot of the camera slowly travelling over the gigantic ship in the Season 1/2 intro.
Btw: @dang : Grant was the co-creator, alongside Doug Naylor, who is still kicking
Related question, unanswerable except maybe as a rough estimate: how much will it cost, in accountant/bookkeeper time, to do all the administrivia required to process all these refunds?
Madoff as well
Can you give a reference for The Guardian blocking IA? I just checked with an article from today - already archived, and a manual re-archive worked.
To be counted as proven reserve, you need to show that the mineral is economically extractable at market prices. Specifically, by starting to extract them.
You don't need to be actually mining the stuff for it to be considered a reserve, at least in the Canadian (CIM) definitions. You do need at least a pre-feasibility study, and details on market prices & contracts.
The general point is right though, "mineral resources" means there's metal in the ground, "mineral reserves" means there's metal in the ground that can be economically mined, with consideration of the mining methods, infrastructure, legal title, environmental impact, metallurgy, market contracts, etc.
Wired is doing pretty well on that front, too