I work in a large company that doesn’t let me use Linux, but I haven’t used Windows on my private computers since 1997.
My mother, who was born in 1945, switched to Ubuntu Linux this year because she was fed up with Windows. She’d been using Windows since 3.1, and MS-DOS before then. With a bit of support from me and an IT guy in her area, she’s a happy camper.
I switched to Debian Forky this week from Ubuntu and it’s the bee’s knees. The cat’s whiskers. The zebra’s pyjamas.
I’ve always been doing apt dist-upgrade. What’s the difference between dist-upgrade and full-upgrade?
exams … can be fooled by plausible-sounding bullshit
Maybe in the soft sciences, but try passing organic chem. 3 or chemical reactor design with plausible-sounding bullshit.
And even that doesn’t matter: ChatGPT can pass a university-level physics exam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBtfwa-Fexc
Non scholae sed vitae discimus - a student who does their homework with LLMs has learned nothing.
Non scholae sed vitae discimus!
What kind of VX rig do you have?
By now, I’d be surprised if any OF people ever answer anything by hand. I mean, apart from the environmental impact, why not get a machine to answer the 100th “OMG, you’re so hot!” that you get on any given Sunday?
The Staci files can give us further insight
Autocorrect doing God’s work there.
A 19 year old guy is old enough to make his own decisions.
So for those of you like me who hadn’t heard the news before seeing this, apparently some guy rushed through the metal detector area at the White House correspondents dinner, but was stopped by security staff.
A bit like rushing Area 51 but if someone tried to solo the mission.
Because it’s a mix of sweet and salty, which scratches our instinctual desires.
And fat. Sweet, salty, carbs, fat. Ding, ding, ding!
Lawmakers who are pushing age verification: “Win - win”
That’s the far side of the moon, not the dark side. The dark side is the side that isn’t facing the sun, and that’s changing constantly.
More likely to be called “Professional” than “Extreme” at Microsoft, but, yeah, spot on.
Wait, he’s saying he was Mr nice guy before? When?
No matter how much you cool a glass, it won’t crystallise. You have to go over the glass transition temperature and cool down slowly enough for crystals to form. In the case of silica glass, that’s not going to happen, though, because it’s a “strong glass former” - it doesn’t crystallise unless you do something pretty extreme.
Let’s see whether she died young like so many pilots of that period.
Aha, died in her 30s! Thought so!
Oh. Had a divorce and a plane crash and shot herself. Bummer.
unzip, strip, touch, finger, mount, fsck, more, yes, fsck, fsck, fsck, umount, sleep
On the scale of millions of years, everything flows.
There are Roman glass artifacts that are older than any window panes that haven’t moved a millimetre.
The old windows panes being thicker at the bottom is just a combination of the fact that old glass wasn’t very even, and that when you put a pane into a window, chances are that the thickest side will be at the bottom, because that feels right to a craftsman.
I’d prefer ðose to Þose - although thorn is used for voiced and unvoiced “th”, eth is more specific for the voiced version.