Last I looked, and it's been a while, clones themselves were initially healthy but often suffered early onset of age-related problems, but the offspring of those clones were perfectly normal. As such, the benefits of cloning have been in cases like replicating a prize bull or stud horse in order to keep seeding high-value offspring.

Has there been some change on that front?

1958, the Rosenbergs.

WRT Assange, Mitch McConnell and Steve King have both called for Wikileaks to be designated as a terrorist organization, and in 2010 our current President publicly called for Assange to be executed (before they discovered that they had a common enemy in Sec. Clinton, of course.)

We might not kill him, but I wouldn't want to bet someone's life on it.

I'm quite surprised to learn that. I suppose they simply ignored it when their police handed asylum seekers over to masked CIA agents who whisked them off to Egypt with only a promise to be handled in accordance with Egyptian law.

I'm pleased to now read up on the followup to their case that that there was at least some official blowback, but the bad planes still stopped in their airports thereafter.

You could see where someone might still worry though, yes?

The UK, by law, may not grant an extradition request if the suspect potentially faces execution at the hands of the requestor.

Sweden has no such law.

The US seems to be successfully end-running the UK's no-execution rule by only publically presenting charges of accessory/conspiracy to computer trespass (no death penalty) rather than the espionage (death penalty) case they would rather bring, and could still once they've got him out of the UK.

With the UK seemingly receptive to this useful fiction, the Sweden's part in the play is no longer necessary.

Note: I take no position either way on his guilt or innocence WRT the sexual assault charges in Sweden. While "believe the women" is generally a sound guiding principle in such matters, the fact that this particular accused is also the target of active counter-intelligence operations by multiple state actors, and that setting targets up for a sex-scandal is literally a text-book tactic for intelligence agencies - a cloud of doubt hangs uncomfortably over the situation.

Whatever the facts though: I greatly wish that all he-said-she-said rape cases were prosecuted as ardently as the one against Julian Assange.

There are certain combinations of room/lighting layout and viewing distance:screen size for which a curved screen is ideal.

Then there are all the rest of them.

I wish that I had started replacing all my family's Apple kit as devices turned over the minute I learned I couldn't use print from my iPad to the laser printer my iMac was serving up via IPP on my home network without a paid 3rd party app.

Flash forward a few years, and that trusty old iMac with its laser printer is still chugging along (both have had their RAM maxed out), but having been left behind by OS major versions I now need to hand-edit config files every time there's a minor update so that my wife's newer MacBook can even print to it.

Note: Apple is the maintainer of CUPS.

If maintaining basic functions is going require me to do under-the-hood *nix admin tasks in my limited spare time, I'll be damned if I keep paying the Apple Tax for the privilege of doing so. If they aren't selling Just Works any more, I'm not going to keep paying for it.

The most expensive thing in a remote computing service is outbound transit? Shocking!

Every time I see lauding of Babbage & Lovelace while von Neuman & Hopper are nowhere mentioned, it's time to grind this ax:

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While the Grouchy Royal Society Polymath and Countess of Poetical Science both deserve due credit for their vision and commendation for declining the idleness that their wealth and status offered, their contributions to computing are both ultimately footnotes in its development rather than central works. Babbage's almost-computing is a small corner of his overall work in the evolution of industrial society. Lovelace's Notes, while insightful and worth knowing about, were not republished until 1953.

However, when these lists of foundational computing history luminaries get thrown around and we get these two fancy folk with their lace cuffs who never actually implemented their computing ideas make the list, yet the Weird Hungarian Immigrant who Defined All the Things and the Nerdy Admiral who Invented the Compiler are missing, it sticks in my craw something fierce.

To be clear, I'm happy that Lovelace's Notes came to light and are talked about, and Babbage would be in the history books if nobody ever heard the words "Analytical Engine." However, let us please write our history without elevating the rich and good-looking but ultimately marginal figures at the expense of the plainer folk whose work and accomplishments are actually the bedrock of our discipline.
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You'd be amazed how much of the ad insertion infrastructure still follows the model you helped develop. Once the inserters became able to send back verification data as to whether spots ran successfully or if their breaks were pre-empted or the like, the verification files became something of an in-stone component of the industry ecosystem since the advertisers would be billed based on them. Nobody wants to replace it because it would require getting buy-in from so many outside parties WRT how things get billed.

I'd prefer to work with someone who is brilliant and also not a jerk.

Let the brilliant jerks start their own firms where they can pay people what it takes to put up with their crap, or do freelance work where they only interact with a PM.

If I want someone for the long term, jerk-dom is a deal-breaker. A jerk, no matter how brilliant, brings everyone else down. In contrast, someone who is brilliant and not a jerk can elevate and encourage the merely bright or even just adequate people around them to perform at a higher level.

I use Digital Ocean for DNS, and have a Python script that runs on my home system to update the DNS via their API when the home IP changes.

They would have died in those woods even if they weren't haunted. They were lost and going in circles, without even the good sense to follow a stream.

"That's less than 0.004% of all possible 8 character domain names, for example. There's plenty of room."

The abundant availability of domains like "ds1c8t5y.com" and "nuk98w7j.com" is not really a meaningful metric.

Traditionally, when someone wants to propose to a competing firm that they collude to fix rates they do it over cigars and scotch at the golf club, or perhaps over hookers & cocaine at a trade show after-party (depending on your style).