Mine go the opposite way: I assume that when I see a dog or a cat or a rat or a ferret or a pig (all with brain and body structure completely analogous to my own) show an emotion or performing an act I can immediately relate to, their internal state is fairly much as my own would be in similar circumstances.
Claiming myself and my kin to be qualitatively entirely different from every other living species, now that is an assumption I wouldn't be comfortable to make.
Yet another anecdotal data point:
I pulled my first all-nighter at age nine. That was July 1969, Armstrong on the Moon, which in Europe was a nighttime event. Stayed up for the rerun next morning and day. Tired, of course, and everything slightly unreal, mostly from all the agitation and the ghostly tv images, I think.
Since then, have not infrequently skipped nights - because of night shifts of physical labor, because of coding and inability to call it a day, because of travelling, because of childbirth, because of sudden insomnia, because of new, exciting girlfriend or - rarely - because of partying.
Generally, once I get a normal night of sleep, I'm fine, no residual effects that I'm aware of. 'A normal night of sleep' means 7 - 8 hours in the dark part of the year, 5 - 6 during summer.
Just entered my sixties, and healthwise doing just fine. Working in a job with a higly varying time schedule and actually enjoying it, whereas regular hours Monday through Friday eventually always push me into torpor and quasi-depression.
I rarely take naps, but will go to bed and fall asleep no problem at five or six in the afternoon if that's what my schedule dictates.
Canada has an ongoing territorial dispute with Denmark, concerning Hans Island way up north.
There is military action. Canadian and Danish forces repeatedly take possession of the island, taking down the enemy flag and planting their own. They are also said to leave a bottle of Canadian whisky or Danish schnaps for the other side.
Prospects of lethal escalation are presumably limited.
Older then that. I remember discussing the word and its opposed interpretations in my student days back in the seventies.
This was in Danish, but same word ('sanktion'), same meanings.
My most breathtaking glimpse of the world: Stopping one night while hitching through the Nullarbor, and walking to the coast very close by. Pitch black, but then not quite, for all over the sky were insanely more and brighter stars than I have ever seen before or since.
And then the crashing waves at the foot of the cliffs, and wind roaring in from the south, with the just the right amount of arctic chill to make it awesome and remind you that across that ocean lies Antarctica.
That's more than thirty years ago, but words about 'the end of the world' still take me back.
Inkscape is still in beta? Yes, I know it is, but I can't quite wrap my mind around it. Have been using this awe-inspiring tool for more than a quarter of my life.
And I was born before the first human spaceflight.
I'm old enough to have written a gif decoder and for my effort receiced a threatening mail from Unisys, demanding protection money USD 10000 up front, which absurdity - after consultation with my national patent office - I laughed off and ignored.
Back then I didn't imagine I would one day come to almost wish the Unishysters had in fact managed killing the damn format off for good.
Your linked article states quite clearly that Elixir does not cross compile, and is best deployed via some deployment tool, seeing as it doesn't produce easily managed, static, standalone executables like Go does.
So it seems like Elixir isn't.
Absolutely concur. And I'm only on a G6, a standard one I picked up some months ago at a clearance sale for ~nothing because Android was getting absurdly cranky about hardware limitations on my old phone. No idea why I would want a heftier model.
For those who might prefer unredacted, here's what Stallman is reported to have said:
"The word “assaulting” presumes that he applied force or violence, in some unspecified way, but the article itself says no such thing.Only that they had sex.
We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates."
Rats are very good at spatial perception, orientation, and manipulation. I have seen them rival really smart dogs in that respect. They certainly also know how to look at the actions of others (humans, rats, whatever) and model their own behavior accordingly.
So this would be right up their alley, and I'm sure everybody's had marvellous fun, another thing of which rats are eminently capable.
This is my homespun solution whenever I need a deterministic, non-repaeting mapping of a sequence. Except I rely - shame on me - on a variable blocksize encryption scheme I've hacked together for just this purpose.
Output - of the mapping as well as of anything I run through the encryption algo - passes all pseudo-random validity testing I throw at it, but obviously I would never, ever consider using the thing where real security was a concern.
You're right, I should elaborate. The site causes a normal KeePassXC-Browser popup, "www.dailymaverick.co.za has requested access to passwords for the following item(s). Please select whether you want to allow access."
Then comes the weird stuff. It may not actually be all my passwords, but it sure is a lot of them, the long list ominously beginning with my bank and a mobile payment solutions.
It's probably a bug of some kind. But sure looks scary.
On my way to work, and on phone only for next many hours, so not able to look further into.
> We have not yet escaped the preponderant use of fiction though we have diminished it since your day. It used to be 75 per cent. Thanks to our training the school children in good ways it has fallen to forty
I bring you jolly tidings. You can put an image of, say, Manjaro Linux on a stick, boot it up, answer a few questions about language and keyboard, and have a fully working install on your ThinkPad inside of ten minutes.
It is my honest, non-facetious opinion that Randall Munroe ought to be in the very serious running for the Nobel Literature Prize. His oeuvre is wide-ranching, deep, consistent, informative, relevant, thought-provoking, stylistically groundbreaking, and extensively quoted by all sorts of highly influential people the world over.
In my far younger days I had the great good fortune to own a Morris Mini - the original doghouse, not the modern pastiche. That car did weigh 600 kg, and I happen to know for a fact that six men could easily pick it up and carry it a distance. I also know that it had a length of very close to 3 meters, and that the basement ramp where those six men put it was 3.10 meters wide.
As they said when they fetched me, "You may wish to grab something to drink".
I have worked at more than one place where I was the only one who had heard of Linux. I skip paraphrasing the 'let alone used' part, for of course everyone was using it in their routers and phones and proverbial toasters.
It is my clear impression that many Windows users would be hard pressed to explain what 'Windows' is and does.
Which was not a bad format. Even as thorough Linux user with no Windows in sight, I have often used .chm files for handy, offline documentation. PHP docs come to mind, back when PHP was something I occasionally did.