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ifconfig is still the standard on *BSD, MacOS and other Unixen. Plus its output is more readable on Linux than ip IMO, because it adds a blank line between interfaces.

In case it can help, you don't need to install Microsoft authenticator. FreeOTP+, Aegis etc will do just as well.

Annoyingly many useful tools like the "Page Assist" browser extension or "Murmure" are plug-and-play only with Ollama...

There is no autocompletion, that's not realist. I never type "apt-get install nginx" I type "apt-g<tab> ins<tab> ngi<tab>"

Being too poor to buy professional software, with Rodney Zack's book in hand I wrote myself a Z80 assembly in MSX BASIC in 1986/87 :) That was my first tough programming stint ever...

I think Slackware would have been a good fit, and much easier to install :)

I have one (ANKER IIRC?) that looks very much like this, but with two-position buttons that actually cut power, and USB3.0 level connection on all ports I tried. Also comes with the proper power supply for the barrel power connector. I suppose this one is a knock-off of mine :D

In the 90s, at SGI (at least in France) they had Macs as workstations for tasks that didn't require or weren't compatible with an expensive SGI computer (like running MS Office or sending faxes). They switched to SGI Indy and O2 (running SoftWindows95 to run MS Office) at some point around 95/96, but that was a pretty expensive option, and Softwindows95 was a dog unless you had a really fast R10000 O2.

In Aliens (the second episode), the automatic cannons are controlled by a pair of Grid Compass.

Actually were a prop in Aliens :)

In Stefan Wul's SF novel "Nyourk", octopi evolve to become the Earth's dominant species, which was quite prescient back in 1957, when almost nobody knew octopi to be intelligent. :)

I miss nntp newsgroups :)

I've already disabled Play Protect ages ago because it kept removing apps I had installed through F-Droid. Actually, I almost only install apps via F-Droid. I wonder if the ADV will install with Play protect disabled ?

The process is as follows :

1° the wasp digs a hole in soft ground

2° it paralyses a caterpillar (some other species use different worms, or beetles, as their victims; but each species of wasp targets one precise species of caterpillar or bug and cannot use any other food source for its larvae than the one it's genetically programmed to catch).

3° it carries the caterpillar into the hole

4° it lays its egg on the caterpillar, far from the head

5° it closes the hole with dirt

6° the egg hatches in the dark, and the larva feasts on the paralysed caterpillar, eating it alive.

If you pull out the caterpillar while the wasp turns around to lay its egg, it doesn't interrupt itself. IIRC even if you take the caterpillar while it's flying to the hole, it still proceeds to the end, without the caterpillar (which makes no sense at all, showing it's a purely reflex activity, without any intelligence).

Se for instance https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3462

(Jean-Henri Fabre was a marvellous writer, and the English translation is very good).

There are many such mysterious mysteries in evolution. Some wasps paralyse a caterpillar of a particular species by stinging it very precisely in its nervous centres, then carries the caterpillar into the nest it previously dug out, lay its egg on the caterpillar then close the hole to never come back.

This is a completely automatic, unintelligent behaviour; if you remove the paralysed caterpillar at any point in the process the wasp simply goes on with its business (it will close its nest without any caterpillar inside, where the larva will die out from lack of food).

In the late 19th century, Jean-Henri Fabre studied these wasps (and many other strange insects) and had a copious correspondence with Charles Darwin on this very matter. His books are absolutely fascinating (ditto the letters Darwin and him exchanged).

Please explain how we run AC to avoid our forests burning, agricultural fields and orchards from drying, and the Mediterranean ecosystem from collapsing.

We must stop using fossil fuels as fast as possible, globally.

For more serious information, in my work PC I have a cache SSD which is a 2009 Intel 32GB, it got more than 46 TB of writes over 67000 hours of uptime, and is still working fine.

81500 for me, but I'm French, and I've often remarked that supposedly "hard words" are just quite ordinary french words.

Hypo is Greek too, not Latin "small" for a latin radical would be "mini" (from "minus") like in miniature, minuscule, etc.

Yep. I removed the last Windows98SE partition from my PC in 2003. Never looked back.

In Europe it's strictly forbidden to wear headphones under the helmet. In case of a fall the in-ear device could cause grave injuries. Wearing a recent helmet and protective gloves with hardened knuckles is of course mandatory. But many helmets are equipped with bluetooth speakers and mike, of course.

My handle and real name give more or less correct results with a 220-243 score (whatever that means). Gemini insists on me working in sound engineering, something I did in the 90s, but at least it's not completely absurd.

The most correct result comes from Opus 4.8, but is amusingly deemed an hallucination:

Claude Opus 4.8 says

A name associated with French IT/systems administration and Linux community discussions, possibly a storage and data systems specialist.

Typical EU corrupt bureaucracy at work.

IIRC, one of the similar old story from Raymond Chen is about SimCity 2000, that did a similar trick (free memory, then start immediately using it) that worked just fine under DOS, but was a big no-no starting with Windows 95. The game was so common that Windows had to include a special rule to make it run...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34661620/

There is a long-lasting study (more than 10 years) on a huge French cohort (more than 100k) that proves exactly the opposite : people who eat mostly organic food have less cancer and several other diseases. This is straight disinformation.

That's beautiful. I hope it will run on a 486DX2 :D

Sometimes data privacy is paramount.

The sort of task you don't expect to end immediately. If extracting data from a bunch of PDFs takes 1 hour or the whole night, that doesn't make much difference to me. It's not fast enough for auto completion and slightly too slow for chat (but bearable IMO).

I've been running various models on a Mac Pro 2013 (8 cores, 32 GB RAM) at about 8 to 10 t/s for months. It's not fast, but it's more than enough for many actual tasks, in particular background tasks. An iMac pro will do just as well I suppose.