It was less about formal privacy and more “here’s a room that licks so people won’t barge in accidentally”

I’d think the bathroom would be anotherboption.

Yiu can take the ham radio license exam over Zoom now, but you need to be in a closed room to imply you’re not being coached. The evaluators said I was far from the first to do it in the loo.

At this point Void feels like Slackware for the 21st century. It’s comprehensive and less full of “modern linux” hairballs than some others, but they seem pretty good on package updates. I like it being non-systemd as a first class thing rather than trying to backport it on an uncooperative parent distro.

Cobalt 60 has a half life of 5.27 years.

If the 7-1-63 is a date stamp of original manufacture, it’s gone through over 11 half-lives. There’s less than .05% of the original flavour.

I don’t know about the decay products, but I’d wonder how far we are from legitimately edible.

The use of it as a mildly lethal control device is underplayed.

So-and-so does XYZ, then dies of general body breakdown at 94"

You see low voltage ones for things like memory backup on hi-fi gear. I have some 3F/5v capacitors in an old Technics tiner.

This is big “if we break your old toys, you’ll HAVE to play with the new ones” energy.

Tell me when they port FVWM. Seriously. FvwmButtons-- a pretty trivial dock except it can swallow other windows-- seems like it would be out-of-bounds on Wayland unless it was owned by the compositor itself to access the other windows. I don’t see any of the new taskbar-tools used with Wayland compositors offering similar functionality (I could be wrong) and that seems an amazing loss of feature parity.

I think it might be stock market floatation. Fiserv and Global Payments are processors, not card networks, for example.

When it was new it had minor charm-- the idea it was cheap and there were trillions of coins in circulation made it so penny-ante that people could have fun with it, and experiment with the tech on a tiny budget.

I played a little with it back in 2014 or so. You could buy some by interacting with a Reddit bot, and I mined a few coins on a GTX 660 (midrange gaming card for the day.

I recall sending 5000 coins to a local dogs-rescue that tried to join on the novelty, and paying for some used RAM in part with it.

By then BTC was basically unplayable without a rack of ASICs and it was already moving past the “currency” phase straight to “speculative asset”.

I tried once as a novelty.

The bus running the same route was 1/5 the price, and probably more direct (at the time, Waymo would not use freeways) but it was an experience for the sake of “nifty optimistic future thing”

You saw how the underlying reference sketch ends, right? So basically in weeks Ukraine will be going “More please” and they’ll be perplexed at the insatiable appetite for weaponry?

If you’re thinking amplifier, just grab your favourite Japanese '70s hi-fi range and go from there. Can hardly go wrong.

A half-scale Harman/Kardon 330c but with an OLED info display in the panel that held a tuning scale might kill it.

The key is to use the right materials. They sold a modern CD-based stereo a few years ago that apes the look of a small Marantz 22xx, but being plastic garbage, sort of fails the mission. Conversely, Yamaha did some new silver-face amps that don’t look like dollar-store tat.

Telling people to “give up hopes” is just a terrible word choice, even if the thing you’re asking them to give up is solidly distasteful.

So many more positively phrased options-- “commit to peaceful nuclear programs”, for example. We got a real wordsmith in here, boys. Better keep Smith AND Corona lubed up and ready.

Israel has done a very effective job of selling “we are the Jewish community” so governments tended to handle them with kid gloves for fear they would be seen as trying to replay tbe Holocaust.

Unfortunately, it went the other way. Decades of blank cheque support let them act with impunity and eventually deliver their own genocide.

I worry this tarnishes the image of Jews elsewhere, who are going to get blowback resentment for the livestreamed horrors. Chuds don’t have the nuance to figure out that their neighbour who has never set foot in Israel but places a menorah by the window probably didn’t personally slaughter infants, and there are surely peiole who will profit from magnifying that unawareness.

It’s actually not the worst name for a srreaming service, considering Philo Farnsworth was a key developer of modern electronic-scan TV.

The worst part is wasted opportunity. You had 5 years on the rest of the US EV market and a perception of having at least the best charging infrastructure. Valuable assets.

You spent 10 of those five years on a wankpanzer, FSD (Full Speed Direct-into-pedestrians), and a lorry nobody’s seen, when you should have focusing for the day you’re competing with the Electric Civic and Escalade coming down the pike.

What you should have done, while you had the tyrant’s ear, was to pull a Dodge Colt/Geo Metro. Precision-craft some legal shell game setup that lets you import competent EVs and sell them as a “domestic brand” to bypass the residual “I don’t want a Chinese car” attitudes and some tarriffs. Then you’d at least have a stream of desirable products goung forward instead of the current quirky-but-not-in-a-fun-way Tesla range.

I sort of wonder if the next generation will still romanticize Japan in quite the same way. We’re past the peak trendy-products era of Weird Sony and the Toyota MR2, anime is no longer a secret exotic thing, and it feels like if you want “15 years ahead of us optimistic techno future”, you could easily slide in Chongqing or Seoul instead of Tokyo.

I think I’ve heard “Prompt fondler”

Y’know what? I don’t care. Maybe it’s happening, even in the dramatic worst-case way it’s portrayed here, but is that the biggest/only story in China? It feels sort of credibility-stretching that a country of 1.4 billion people and a top-two global economy is entirely cantilevered around the idea of oppressing a tiny minority in the rural corner of the country. I’m fairly certain there are at least nine people in China who can go an entire workday without contemplating how to wipe the Uighyurs off the map. Maybe as many as twelve!

The US is no longer in any sort of moral leadership position to point fingers on human rights, if not for the last few decades, then certainly in its El Salvador phase. The only reason Western media remotely give a damn here is because they’re desperate to slap an asterisk next to the growth and real economic advancement of a country that promises to outpace them imminently.

Hamstudy.org is good to cram the license questions, and you can get a basic 2m/70cm band handheld transciever for less than $100 (well, you could pre Random Tarrif Gameshow Time)