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I just sidelined Ubuntu 24.04 for Debian stable on new home desktop hardware.

Impressions:

1. Installer a bit rough. Tried both "graphical" and curses modes: Both truncated partition-specific strings from the manufacturer's Windows setup. No contextual help; wiki seemed out-of-date.

2. Good choices for initial packages; good apt speed from default server.

3. Firefox base version is four months old -- but is a ".7", so maybe seven rounds of bug fix backports? Ubuntu FF snap version on old hardware is by contrast a ".0", tracking much more recent upstream. Which mostly seems to get me a lot of annoying confections and semi-weekly demands to restart for the new version -- after each of which I must then manually repopulate GNOME's desktop workspaces.

4. Snap-induced clutter of home dir and filesystem utility output is gone! Loving that part.

What are the usual attack vectors for that?

For an example of the sort of distress that the American unanimity requirement can impose on jurors, read A Trial By Jury, D. Graham Burnett.

> I talked to the owner. She told me how upset she was to have to do it but insurance costs keep going up, and she can’t afford to pay them.

> This is the invisible hand of the market at work. This is the invisible hand giving me the middle finger.

Misdiagnosed. Insurance is a competitive business, and operators who overcharge lose customers.

It's the trial lawyers, and their own state legislators giving them the middle finger. The insurance coverage that's gone up and driven the park to shut down is of course that for accident claims, driven by excessive jury awards to victims .

How long before colleges still using "artificial intelligence" are threatened with defunding?

For those going with the satire, recall the original French: "Système international d'unités".

Scarcity of instructors competent to teach such subjects? Followed by the natural bureaucratic response: Pretend no such need exists.

As others have suggested, photos of previous generations look a lot like strangers, absent a story connecting them across a lifetime, and ideally all the way to the present.

The story furthermore must have enough intrinsic drama to engage readers, and fall into the hands of a writer with the skills to turn the raw facts into a biography.

The biographic text provides a structure to hang the photos on, yielding a "photobiography". Search for the term and you'll find examples.

> But a report by the International Center for Research on Women found that teenage girls who are married are more likely to live in poverty, more likely to drop out of high school and more likely to develop diabetes or cancer.

Such a study needs thorough review for confounders, and direction of causation.

You wouldn't have to, to nevertheless provide great benefit to the grid. Look up "TOU billing".

> short form text

Underestimated. Turn off keyboard customizations that let your phone learn you're a literate adult. Then discover how much it really expects you to be swiping: butt, sup, lol, rofl, bruh ... Interspersed with plenty of emojis.

Absence of land borders simplifies the problem considerably.

But neglects to consider why it won a majority of votes. Why did it? And how does Prop 13 relate to the more recent Prop 19, which substantially weakened it?

The author quotes: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

Then comments:

> I think that “beat” and “borne” lack visual concreteness. Shouldn’t it be “paddle”? “Paddle” sounds a little silly, but that’s the metaphor Fitzgerald is using. (Those boats must be canoes, not steamboats. A steamboat wouldn’t care that much about a current.)

A reminder of the obscurity of Fitzgerald's analogy, which is specific to the technology of sailing: A "beat" is a course that will take the boat upwind -- always a challenge. And if the current of the water is pointed downwind, perhaps impossible.

Somehow none of the New Yorker editors caught this either.

Even more lightweight is a tag -- 'git-log --all' will list these for you.

According to a version I heard, Boeing engineering did say more or less just that, at which point Southwest, the near-monopoly in some regions, said something like, "Oh yeah? Then we'll plan to leave it."

And Boeing upper management overruled the engineers.

The page is a fine exemplar of marketing deception. Banner says:

> Free, secure tunnel for everything you are building.

> Preview and ship ideas globally in seconds with Quick Tunnels. Deploy your local application to the Internet with a single command.

Clicking through Explore Cloudflare Tunnel leads us to:

> Looking to expose public applications? This documentation covers Cloudflare Tunnel use cases for private networking and Zero Trust, like VPN replacement and private network access. For publishing public web applications, APIs, and services to the Internet through Cloudflare refer to ...

Naive question then: Where does Servo stand, relative to Electron?

> have this happen every morning at 5AM by creating a temporary text file containing this line: 0 5 * * * rsync -vax --delete --ignore-errors / /Volumes/Backup/

This leaves you needlessly exposed to this failure mode: Commit some "braino" that wipes out some recent work. Go to bed without noticing the loss. 5am rsync run wipes your backup as well.

The fix is to back up to not just one but to a rotation of images. Use --link-dest to reduce storage overhead to the size of the directory hierarchy only.

This is the link you want: scroll down to "EJECTEE STORIES"

https://martin-baker.com/tie-club/

Material costs changed too. Hardwood slats over a raised perimeter foundation used to be the cheapest way. Nowadays that would be a premium build.

> this backward-seeing picture has run out of road

It's a picture with self-locomotion! But strictly on-road -- must have smooth-tread tires.

VW's term is "near-production" -- an achievement which, of course, can declared arbitrarily.

And, what actions would constitute "switching over"?

A nautical mile is roughly one minute of latitude. Every blue-water sailor has heard "a minute's a mile" -- although that's hardly even half-correct.

2023 post, recounting an incident from 2003.

There's a rather simple reason this is so: A thought is typically most powerfully expressed in a sentence that puts the most surprising or notable word last, immediately before the period. Ideally, without any qualifying adjective/adverb.

And "... a wife." really turns on the ears, no?

So advice to prefer active voice is not wrong -- but the skilled writer adds other values into the balance.

Also this single bit of "anecdata": I was once told that in long storage attraction between the electron orbitals of head and platter could gradually drive out the air gap, leaving them bonded too tightly for the drive motor to overcome.

Title is misspelled -- "ue" for "eu". In a neologism, some nuisance.

To put in human terms, it's roughly three day's labor of every worker in the Netherlands.