tremon

Please have your favourite language fabricator explain to you why democracy and republic are not opposing concepts.

Also don't have a Facebook account, don't shop with Amazon, don't use an Android or Apple phone, don't work for a company that uses Office365. Sounds real easy doesn't it?

"you" being the operative word. The rest of the information will just be supplied by your government instead of yourself.

Your comment presupposes that there can be only one problem; I don't think that's a valid assumption.

I look forward to reading your research article refuting this one. Please let us know the arxiv url when you're ready to publish.

Your tree produces female flowers first and later in the year produces male flowers. This is to prevent self-pollination

How does this work in practice? Do other trees from the same species produce male flowers first, and then female? Logically, if all trees produce female flowers in spring and male flowers in the summer then the species can only survive if the seeds can remain viable unfertilized for months (which is probably not that exceptional for plants, I wouldn't know). But if the female seeds are still viable by the time the plant sprouts its male flowers, exactly how does this prevent self-pollination?

(around day 9)

Typo; should be day 17/18.

The embryo, not the fetus. Pretty sure that's referring to gastrulation, where the cell blob splits into multiple layers to start cell specialization; it does this by curving in on itself, and the cavity formed by this process becomes the intestinal tract: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastrulation#Protostomes_versu...

However, that all happens at the embryonic stage (around day 9). At the point where the embryo has advanced sufficiently to be called a fetus (around week 9), the body has already sufficiently developed so that it's impossible to say where "fetal development" starts: https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php?titl...

That would be a good idea actually, but I'm not sure how viable that is within the current Windows Update instrumentation. Allowing local binaries to fetch random URLs through the Windows Update API is no different from them using the HTTP Service unless there's some kind of whitelisting/validation happening there. The alternative would be that Microsoft uses their own Windows Update cdn to host random firmware files that they're not able to verify themselves. Both cases sound like maintenance overhead for Microsoft without benefit to them.

why Microsoft allows any 'driver utility' to have internet access

Firmware updates for devices are not a thing in your world?

This anti-consumer stuff also applies to physical Blu-rays: each BD can contain a revocation list of player keys and distributor keys, and official players are required to update their keylists from that. Every time you insert a new disc in your player, you're playing russian roulette with your existing library.

Yes, that is what a trademark is for, in general. In this case, the court ruled that the term "open AI" is too generic to qualify for that protection exactly because it is a purely descriptive term that could legitimately refer to any "freely available" model in common parlance.

Don't know about gamescope, but the core of my own wine launch script is basically this:

  if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ]; then
    /usr/bin/startx /usr/bin/dbus-launch "$(readlink -f $0)" "$1" -- -layout singleLayout
  fi
  pw-cli i || (pipewire & sleep .5 ;\
               pipewire-media-session &\
               pipewire-pulse &)
  cd "$DIR"
  exec unshare -rcn $ENGINE "$IMAGE" $ARGS

Only if you use today's standard bitrates. Back when storage and bandwidth constraints were real, mp3s came predominantly in 128kbps, which works out to 1MB per minute. The average pop song would only be 3.5 MB in size.

Why limit yourself to western countries? In fact, why limit it to countries at all? Isn't it the most popular trope of all time to decry the state of today and romanticise yesterday? People have "not been wanting to work anymore" for at least 150 years, things were always better in the olden days, people don't make 'em like they used to, etm.

There's very little value in a statement like yours. It's a truism that has never been correct.

In addition to digits, conventions for phone numbers include the plus sign (international prefix), comma (dial pause), dashes or parentheses (zone/area codes), and spaces (logical separation). I don't see why you'd want to burden yourself with having to regenerate a locally-correct phone number representation each time it needs to be displayed to the user.

It really isn't; the most important aspect is that it enables peaceful transfer of power without the leaving group having to fear for their lives. But your perspective does explain a lot about the current state of the USA.

Yeah, right. That's why the rich were the first to have the city install Flock cameras on their lawns and driveways, right?

Calling the current regime "democratic rule" feels like a stretch. Wouldn't democratic rule first require that the ruler respects other democratic institutions such as the press, the courts, and the Constitution?

People don't pick up pitchforks because they don't understand something; people pick up pitchforks because they're told to pick them up. The issue is bad-faith reporting like what happened with Mamdani and the NYC enclave map, not government transparency.

Profiling visitor traffic to protect against abuse is a legitimate use case, even for GDPR. It's only a violation if that usage is not disclosed in the ToS.

I don't think that's true. Mathematics can model every conceivable universe; you cannot derive the values of c or G in our universe from a purely mathematical model. Even if there were a proof that the current values for cosmological constants are the only possible values, that proof would necessarily have to rely on lemmas from physics.

and less universal

Yes, this is key in my mind. It's not really that the laws and definitions become less strict of themselves, it's that the subjects under study become less uniform. It's fine to study a few atoms in isolation and describe their features, but if you put a lot of them together they'd better be in a uniform lattice or your calculations will take more than a lifetime to complete. If you want to describe the interaction in a drop of water, you don't use the Standard Model to integrate over 3e22 baryon fields.

Yes, physics underlies all other fields. But fundamental physics is also completely untractable to solve problems in those other fields, even if Heisenberg would allow it.

wow... that implies that you can't use journalctl from a rescue environment to access the logs of the host system? Sounds like real genius design.

I don't share your antipathy against libvirt, but I do the same. To configure a qemu vm via libvirt you need to learn two concepts: the qemu internals, and how they're mapped to libvirt properties. And since the qemu internals are mostly documented as command-line switches, you can skip learning the libvirt mappings by just using shell.

Do you mean that you don't run sketchy extensions and therefore this doesn't affect you, or that you're ok with data loss due to extension failures?

The golden mean is only a useful lens if all sides are equally prepared to take up extremist positions. If some people are taking up considerate or even reasonable positions but others take up the absolute, the golden mean will always skew towards the unreasonable.

To me this looks like legal preparation for selling their users' datasets for AI training purposes.

How are you going to look up a jingle in the manual? Should they be sorted by pitch or by tempo?

There's a reason the field's golden age was in the 1940s and 1950s

Yes, that was because of things like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateville_Penitentiary_Malari...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation

I understand that certain people are salivating at the thought of a return to those times; I'm not one of them.