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It's enough money to me to be worth taking.

At some point we're just doing LVT-funded UBI with extra steps.

> You could probably swim on the surface of that reactor pool and be perfectly fine.

Relevant XKCD “What If?” article on this exact topic: https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/

And in video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFRUL7vKdU8

Makes me wonder how long until Framework starts shipping ARM-based motherboards. They already sell a RISC-V-based motherboard for the 13.

This'll be a controversial answer, but this sounds like exactly the sort of thing an LLM should be able to do reasonably well, whether by the human writing the docs and the LLM updating the code accordingly or by the human writing the code and the LLM updating the docs accordingly.

I've been gradually migrating my Git repos to Fossil as I've been touching them. Been quite happy with it.

There are only a couple things that I miss:

- Grouping repos together into a combined project. I'd love to be able to have a single Fossil server/instance with a single set of users, wiki pages, tickets, etc. but multiple independent codebases. Closest I've gotten to that is to simply have multiple independent branches instead of a single trunk (example: https://fsl.yellowapple.us/avorion/home), and it's worked surprisingly well, but it's clear Fossil wasn't designed with this workflow in mind, so there are some rough edges with it (albeit minor and easy to work around).

- Compatibility with things that assume you're using Git. Being able to export to Git helps a lot here, but it's still extra steps. Ideal solution here would be for the Fossil server to be able to double as a Git forge and present repos accordingly, such that I can point things like CI/CD pipelines or Terragrunt module calls or whatever directly to the Fossil repo itself over the Git interface those things expect instead of having to setup a Git forge manually and somehow synchronize everything w.r.t. access controls.

- An equivalent to Git's submodules. This would IMO help address the “grouping repos together into a combined project” case as well.

Yeah, but that would require billionaires to pay taxes, and that's simply unacceptable.

The much easier and more reasonable solution here would be for the RPi Foundation to ignore RMA requests for boards not bought from them or an authorized reseller.

Designers having that artistic taste, and clients lacking it, is exactly why I don't think generative AI is going to do much to replace (skilled) designers anytime soon. Likewise for other creative professions, and indeed for knowledge work in general.

Honestly I prefer that over the overabundance of empty space that's been the norm in “modern” web design for more than a decade now.

I've seen file corruption with FFS on some of my OpenBSD servers, though them being VMs is likely a factor there.

The lack of water is related to the lack of hydrogen; you'd need to find a hydrogen source to synthesize water.

Lots of oxygen in moon rocks, though, so in addition to directly importing icy asteroids, importing hydrocarbon-rich asteroids would also help (with the added bonus of carbon also being something scarce on the Moon).

It's pretty fringe among just about everyone I know in meatspace (the vast majority of whom are not in tech). At worst, people are indifferent to it.

> e.g., an entire forest being tagged as a single tree

If that forest's dominant tree happens to be a quaking aspen then technically speaking it might not have been mistagged.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)

The requirement to use union labor for construction hasn't stopped datacenter buildouts here in Nevada.

Arizona is conducive to abundant solar power, so that'd be a good reason to build there. Similar deal here in Nevada (with the added bonus of Nevada being a giant blob of geothermal heat, further driving renewable energy supply and therefore datacenter attractiveness).

It's interesting that the “Classical Music” sample ended up with a style prompt of “Contemporary Christian”.

It's even more interesting that the “Contemporary Christian” music it generated was specifically Mormon music (specifically about the exile of Lehi and his family from Jerusalem into the wilderness, during which they reach the ocean, build a boat, and sail to the Americas), but in the style of contemporary Christian rock.

A good enough lens would make it straightforward to solve murder mysteries, provided the murder happened outside on a sunny day.

Fair enough, though how common was that belief that Pluto would look like Triton? Before the first photos from New Horizons pretty much every artistic rendition of Pluto I'd seen was a solid ball of rock and/or ice, more like Ceres than Triton.

If tech giants could stop trying to make the telescreens from Nineteen Eighty Four for five fucking seconds, that'd be great.

If a Toyota Prius taxicab fleet were profitable, Toyota wouldn't sell you one.

And the software, if the saga around the constantly-broken ice cream machines is any indication.

> This remarkable transformation in our understanding is the result of just three missions: Voyager, Galileo, and Cassini—along with some computer modeling and hard staring by the Hubble and Webb space telescopes.

Seems odd to neglect to mention New Horizons immediately after mentioning the probable existence of liquid oceans under Pluto's surface, a finding made possible thanks primarily to New Horizons.

It's nice to be able to send/receive photos with more than 13 pixels in them.

As someone who uses and loves Unexpected Keyboard: the higher learning curve compared to other keyboards would be the main reason I can think of. The reliance on swipes in particular is something that's likely alien to a lot of smartphone users.

> In the longer term, we plan to add support for RCS including support for the standard end-to-end encryption (E2EE) via Messaging Layer Security (MLS). Currently, RCS including E2EE is available on GrapheneOS via Google Messages. We want to avoid the need to use Google Messages for RCS eventually.

Hell yeah. Google Messages has worked reasonably well for RCS so far (after a long and frustrating period where it didn't on T-Mobile), but having a non-Google option will be huge.

I did mean non-US lmao

I'm hopeful that SpaceX's success will lead to European companies following in their footsteps and providing some more affordable alternatives to Ariane's current wildly-expensive rockets.

The EU already had quite a bit of non-EU spaceflight capability, both in terms of rockets and launch sites.

Or at some point going nuclear and halting article creation entirely unless it's by existing accounts that have proven themselves to be human.

> They also started posting on Uncyclopedia (a parody wiki modeled after Wikipedia)

Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. A long time…